Grandpa Gets A Haircut

My hubby needed a haircut, so we got out the clippers. Our grandson was visiting and wanted to "buzz" Grandpa's hair, so Pepper let him. Nathan is concentrating on getting the clippers through his Grandpa's hair.

He's doing a pretty good job!

He talks to his Grandpa just like a barber would talk to his clients. So cute!

Then he was done and it was time for me to clean it up. He did a super job!

Nathan was next in the chair. He didn't sit as nice as his Gpa did though.

Try These! They Are Delicious!

If you are a bread lover, then you need to try these rolls. They are DELICIOUS!
I made them for our Thanksgiving dinner. They were super simple to make and very good.
There is no kneading involved and you will be enjoying these in no time! I brought the leftover rolls home and ate every-single-one! Ate them plain, ate them with leftover turkey and ate them with butter and jam. Mmmmm. I think I'll whip up a batch tomorrow.
Anyway, here is the recipe--

30 Minute Rolls
1 cup plus 2 Tbsp warm water
1/3 cup oil
2 Tbsp yeast
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
3 1/2 cup flour
Heat oven to 400 degrees.
In your mixer bowl combine the water, oil, yeast and sugar and allow it to rest for 15 minutes. Using your dough hook, mix in the salt, egg and flour. Knead with hook until well incorporated and dough is soft and smooth. (Just a few minutes).
Form dough into 12 balls and then place in a greased 9x13 pan and allow to rest for 10 minutes. Bake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees or until golden brown.

If you give them a try, let me know what you think.
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One Day Until Turkey Day!

One day left until Turkey Day gets here!

Volleyball Banquet

My daughter had her volleyball banquet last night. Usually these can get very long and boring, but knowing all these young ladies and their parents makes it so easy to be there and listen to their coaches talk about their seasons and how mature and responsible these young athletes are.

This is my daughter with her varsity coach. She is a wonderful lady and not only teaches the girls about volleyball, but teaches them to believe in themselves not only in sports but in life as well--couldn't ask for a better role model!
This is my daughter and my daughter-in-law. Love, love, love these two. They are beautiful inside and out!

Our varsity team, with managers and coach. What a great season ladies!

Terra and her BFF, Meghan.

Friends and teammates.

Some photos from the banquet.

Mrs. T giving her speech before she announces the girls and giving out their awards.

Food line. There was so much food there and all so very good!

The varsity was second in the district, but I know they will work harder and go farther next year. And if they don't, we don't care--we love our Copper King ladies!

My Handmade Earrings

One of my hobbies I have is making jewelry. I started by making a necklace, earrings and bracelet for a social gathering I was attending. I couldn't find what I liked in the stores so my sister suggested I make my own.
I love going to the bead store and looking at all the beads! They are all so beautiful. I love all sorts: glass, plastic and semi precious. The first two here I call the "fun"ones. I made the green pair for St. Patrick's Day and the red are for Valentine's Day. I have given many of these away as gifts to teachers and coaches.

I made these two pair for the green lovers.

I thought these beads were super cute for making a casual looking pair of earrings.

I love turquoise with any color. I have made the turquoise beads with a larger red bead and have sold a lot. Wish I had a pair to show you.

Ahhhhh, red is my favorite color!

I don't have very many blue colored earrings. I try to have some on hand for pairing with jeans/casual attire.

I love this pair of earrings and couldn't part with them. There are so many I make and keep.

Hope you enjoyed checking out my earrings. If you are interested in purchasing a pair or would like something made just let me know

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Happy Work Week

It's a three day work week this week! Yay---I'm doing my happy dance!

I love this holiday. I love it more than Christmas!

I love getting together with family and friends and enjoying conversation and of course the food! Oh my gosh--my mom's cooking is the best. Hopefully my sister will bring a wonderful cheesecake and my day will be complete!

We will only be missing my oldest son Michael and his wife Brooke who live in St. Louis, MO. These two kids are super fun to be around--never a dull moment with Michael and his dogs.

Now I just need to get through these three days of work!

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High School Skating Competition

This past weekend our high school skating team competed at the Turkey Trot Competition in Houghton. What a fantastic job our skaters did!! So very proud of this team!

On ice picture of the girls.

We have two levels-Level B and Level C. Our Level B skaters placed 2nd in jumps, 1st in spins and 2nd in moves. The winners of the longest element, which was a sit spin, were Terra in 1st and Maddy in 2nd.

Our Level C skaters placed 1st in jumps, 2nd in spins and 2nd in moves. We had one winner in the longest element, which was a spiral, and that was one of the Darnell girls who placed 2nd.

The next part of this competition happens in Marquette in February of 2012.

Nice job ladies!!

Six Days Away

Only six days until Turkey Day!!! Plans are being made for the when, where and time.

Rolling Right Along

Life is rolling right along. I can't believe it is already past the middle of November!


I had to share this picture of my daughter and her boyfriend. It is my favorite picture of the two of them--they just both look so happy! Calumet must have won their football game that night.

I am so proud of my girl. She works hard in school and she gives her sports 110+%. Just recently she made 1st Team All Conference for volleyball and made the honor roll! Now she is busy with basketball and figure skating. We have an High School Figure Skating Competition this weekend.

This next picture is of me and hubby at my step-son's wedding. It was fun and everyone wished the night could have lasted longer. Not me----my feet were killing me by the end of the night. We then stayed a while longer to clean up so we didn't have a huge task ahead of us the next morning. My daughter with her boyfriend. These two are just the cutest couple.

Terra serving at one of her volleyball games. This picture made the paper! I call her twinkle toes when she serves:)

My hubby looks so relaxed here. It was taken on the front porch of his son's home the night before his wedding.

What can I say about this guy-----He's not perfect, but I love him very much!

I haven't had much time for craft projects, but I am working on a scrapbook as a gift for Chirstmas.

Of course, my daughter always keeps me busy. As a matter of fact, we spent some time together last night dying her hair. Turned out alright and we may do it again.

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Check out this article on Calumet's volleyball game. I was excited to see my daughter's picture!

It's Not Pretty, But It's Cake!

Ok, here's the story:
My hubby has started playing hockey again. I am so happy for him because he really loves to play hockey and he hasn't played for at least 13 years! The first day he pulled a muscle (the body wasn't caught up to what the mind wanted). Then a week later played again. He said he felt great and wowza! he was just HAPPY with everything!
Well, we went shopping this morning and he made a comment about having fun playing hockey again and he sure would love to indulge in some carrot cake. Me, make carrot cake? It did not have chocolate in it, it has raisins in it, but my hubby loves carrot cake. I didn't know that. So, because he has been the easiest guy to be around these last two weeks, I decided to make cake for him.
Now don't go thinking I made all this from scratch! Betty Crocker and I are buds!
Here are the two rounds I baked.....they look alright....even without chocolate in them and it smelled so good in my house. I have them cooling so I can frost them (more Betty Crocker). It's not pretty, but it's cake! My skills as a cake decorator are lacking but I figure it'll be just as good without all the fancy schmancy decorating.

First slice.....gone! He couldn't wait until it was ready to cut.

When asked how it was, the response was....GOOD!

This cake is safe from me in this house. It smelled great while it was baking and I love frosting out of a can, but.....this one is alllllll for the hubbs.

Snackers

It was right around supper time when our "deer alarm" went off (our Shelty: Daisy). We had these two guys in the back yard munching on the grass. I'm sure they had already been under the apple tree as I had put out some carrots and celery for them.
If you look close, you can still see the spots on the first deer. They have been coming into our yard since they were old enough. This is momma, I'm guessing. She was the look-out and when she heard my camera take the picture they all ran into the back yard behind all the trees.

We are so lucky to live where we do. We are on the out skirts of town and close enough that it doesn't take a lot of time to get into town for grocery shopping, etc.

I've seen so many different animals here: bear, wolf, squirrels, chipmunks, coyotes and more.

It's been interesting watching the deer. They are very cautious. It's getting to that time.....deer season.

Hope my little deer family hang around here and don't venture out into the open fields. We all know what happened to Bambi's mommy!

Having Lunch At The Park

I left work at noon to find something to eat. I wasn't really sure what I was hungry for. I headed for a small grocery store in Hancock for some soup but I really wasn't hankerin' (is that a word?) for soup...so I passed by. Then I remembered another little cafe in the old hospital. What the heck.....I'll give it a try.


I ordered the Hot Oven Roasted Turkey Dijon. This is how it's described on the menu:


Fresh roasted turkey topped with sauteed mushrooms and onions, provolone cheese, a creamy Dijon sauce and served on an Italian Batard, with pickle & chips-$6.95.


Sounded good to me, so I ordered it. I wasn't sure what Italian Batard was but I love bread--any bread--so I wasn't too concerned.
The cafe is called Kangas' Cafe. They also do catering and I have been at several weddings where they have catered and I enjoyed their food. Today was no exception. This is the "to-go" box with their menu and the gentleman at the counter gave me the two candies. PERFECT!

I drove to a small park close to work to eat and noticed this little guy busy with his pine cone. I couldn't eat all the bread or all the chips so I shared with him.

He carried this pine cone all over the park. He'd run with it in his mouth, drop it, run away from it, then come back and get it. Funny!

I watched him for a bit and then had to head back to work.

Turkey in my belly......I'll need a nap break this afternoon. Hope I can hold out for the rest of the day!

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Gettin' My Bakin' ON!

I decided to get a little baking done on Sunday. I love chocolate chip cookies but making them in bar form is so much easier. Your not tied to the oven making batch after batch.
So, I got all the ingredients together (Love, Love, Love my kitchen aid mixer).
Found a GREAT helper! He's always ready to help out.

My grandson helped put all the ingredients in the mixer. Just follow the directions on the back of the chocolate chip bag and you're good to go! We chatted away while we watched the mixer do its job! This little guy is super fun to be around.

Once mixed we dumped it into the jelly roll pan......

and baked 'er up!!

Baking duties are over for the week.

My daughter has a volleyball game on Tuesday and that is the only thing on my agenda for after work this week. AHHHHH!

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Halloween Decorating

I've been decorating for Halloween and am still working on my porch.
I am so proud of myself because I haven't spent any money on this decorating yet. I made this picture on a whim and I think it turned out great! The picture frame was just hanging around in my basement. I spray painted it black and spray painted the matting green. Then I printed out the Halloween saying a put it all together. Cute! My table is still a work in progress. I had some white candles and the candle holder in the basement. I took all those and spray painted them all black. Then I put the spider webbing on the candle holder and the picture. The material on the bottom is something that was in my halloween box so I threw that on there. Now I just need to find some other things to add. I think I'll check out Goodwill and see what I can find to turn into halloween decorating treasure. I do want to find a good size skull (obviously not a real one--don't worry hubby, you can sleep with your eyes closed) to put on one side of the candle holder.
What do you think?

Everything here I had. I changed out the paper in the window for halloween and printed out a couple mice to have hanging out up there.

The last picture is of my table. I never know what to use here. I love table runners and I have one for just about every occasion. This time I put a square tablecloth under a slice of tree. I was lucky to take a few from my step-sons wedding.Then just an autumn string of leaves and a pumpkin faced tin.

I've been having tons of fun doing trash to treasure projects and am quite please at home much money I have saved.

Any suggestions are welcome!

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I Love To Create

More things I would love to make time for to create:

Would love to make this for my hubby's golf friends. I just may do this for next year. Oh how I love Frankenstein! He's one of my favorite Halloween decorations.

This I want to try and paint on canvas for my grandson. He loves big machines and I know he would love this on his wall.

This is a caa-ute Christmas card! I love the little box too.

I am working on some Halloween boxes to put treats in for some special Trick or Treaters. I will put them up on here as soon as I purchase another memory card for my camera.

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