6
November
2008

My brother passed me a link last nite. This video is 55 minutes. It is long so I am still trying to watch it. Joe and I watched 25 minutes last nite and he started falling asleep! He went to bring the van in and I watched 10 more minutes. It is pretty interesting though.

I have heard it said that the only way to destroy America is from within. I think the muslims now have their man in. God help us all.

How do you feel about the new president elect?

Does anybody plan on moving? grrrrr!!!

Get to know your president!!

If that doesn’t work, try this one: link

Okay now I am mad: They removed the 55 minutes video! The 2nd one is juts a 4 minute video.


23
October
2008

I have lived up here for 7-8 years and it has been a great house for us. It is only about 15 years old and is 4bed/3 bath and rent went from $725 originally and up to $900 a few years ago.

Really a great deal.

BUT. This town is very small, we just barely got a grocery store 1 year ago and a few months ago Denny’s, Carl’s, etc. So we are growing, but still the closest is 6 miles away and you could drive 2 more miles to the next town to do all that.

idk

It’s not just that. It’s the people too. There are alot of non english speakers and that is fine. No problem, but you can’t talk to most your neighbours, ya know?

The speaking ones there are a few nice ones but there seems to be getting more and more hoodlums, etc.

It is just not very community or family oriented here.

He works about 12 miles from here and our church is another 8 miles past that. And I wouldn’t move just to be closer to either. But the city our church is in is alot better. Alot of houses even have 1/2 an acre or so and your more likely to see someone riding a horse than people looking like they are up to no good.

Better established homes and neighborhoods, etc.

So Joey and I are thinking of moving. Originally we just wanted to wait to move til we can buy. That may still be a while though.

Meanwhile, we just want a change of pace.

Maybe by the new year we can move.


17
October
2008

…Costco!!! So anyone who has a Costco card, this is for you. Okay so here is the break down, (before taxes). All figures are approximate. My local…

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4
October
2008

Nine Ways to Avoid Household Toxins

Barely a month goes by without some toxic scare, whether it’s the chemicals in the plastic used for some baby bottles, or lead in lipsticks. You could be forgiven for being a nervous shopper, even if much of the data on what’s toxic is inconclusive. It’s not necessary to become compulsive, but to help cautious consumers navigate all the confusing warnings and advisories, Nena Baker, author of “The Body Toxic” (North Point Press, 2008), offers her tips for reducing your exposure to everyday toxins.

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1
October
2008

Okay so  we did this 2 weeks ago and had planned to do a stacked princess cake but I goofed up a batch of cake batter so all we had left was the smash cake(dinosaur) and a 12″ cake. What to do? We decided to make a cake with cherry pie filling and poured on to the top of the cake. It was delicious!

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1
October
2008

Yippee!! I am really excited about this one!! This is our first stacked cake we have done. I used the vivid setting on the camera so the colors came out darker and more vibrant. I like the darker better and when we make this cake again I am going to tell Joe to make it darker.

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21
September
2008

….we made this for my sons friend who lives across the street for his birthday. He is such a good kid and was so happy to get it. He took it home and my dd asked him later if he liked it. He said it was great! He said he couldn’t stop eating it and his mom and sisters were begging him for some!! hahaaha


17
September
2008

We live in a small town which until last year didn’t even have its own grocery store! Closest one was next city over, about 8 miles. Well now we have that store, plus some fast food places, a bank and even a Denny’s!  Still about 6 miles away.  lol But it is in OUR town!

Well we have a “bakery” about 1 mile down the road. So we stopped in there the other day. It had some mexican cookies and bread. And the deocpac cake book!!

NO CAKES anywhere in sight!!

We tried asking her how much? And she kept acting like she didn’t understand what we were saying. Maybe she just spoke spanish?

There was a tray a little longer than a 1/4 sheet and she like, puts her hand to cut it in half and says thats a 1/4 sheet! Umm, not its not!! LOL

Allegedly $20.00.

No serious baking, caking, decorating going on there.

Wheee for me!! LOL


8
September
2008

Yeah! Okay so I was so proud of myself for thinking this up myself. Joe is usually the one with all the bright ideas. lol  We already knew we were going to be doing a baseball themed cake soon. But when I was thinking about it I thought about the new 12 x 12 square pan I bought and thought, turn it and tada’ it becomes a  baseball diamond!! Hooray!!

Joe decorated.


1
September
2008

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Our BBQ cake is done! I am very happy about that. I think it took Joe like 4 hours to frost it though.

We made a chocolate mousse for the filling and staw/ban. We made “cool whip frosting” out of heavy cream, and gelatin. I need to take pics today. It looked so cool I don’t think I want to eat it.

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