Two of My Loves from Sunday

There were many more than two but here are some small joys I found.


Number One:

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, 

wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, 

my hair expertly coiffed, 

and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.

I want to drive up in a station wagon 

that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.

I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter 

on my shirt from making sandwiches for 

a sick neighbors children.

I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails 

from helping to weed someone's garden.

I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks 

and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.

I want the Lord to know I was really here 

and that I really lived."

- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Number Two:

Apple Rhubarb Pie. . . 

Delicious and a half.

Once I spent over an hour chopping delicious the large bag of rhubarb my dear friend the newly Mrs. Quebbeman provided for me I realized just how much that bag contained. 

We made pie, "jam," and syrup, yet still have a TON of rhubarb.

We discovered that it's fine raw, without sugar, if you keep eating it.

Back to the pie though - I loved it so I am sharing it!

Apple Rhubarb Pie

1 1/2 c. rhubarb, diced
1 1/2 c. apples, sliced
1 3oz box of raspberry gelatin
1 c. sugar
1/4 c. flour
1/4 c. melted butter

Extra-sugared Pie Crust (enough for top and bottom)

1 egg

2 TBS sugar

Arrange rhubarb and apples in pie shell, sprinkle with dry gelatin
(we didn't use the whole box but we maybe used 1/3 of it).

Combine remaining ingredients. Sprinkle on top of pie.

Cover with top crust and cover pie with tin foil

and bake for 55 minutes at 350 degrees.

With ~15 minutes left whip egg and remove tin foil 

brush egg over the top and sprinkle sugar.

Let cool and enjoy.

I highly recommend tracking down some rhubarb 

and making friends with your taste buddies!

Delicious Moments Part II

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie . . . and making heart-shaped homemade butter.

Asparagus

Pepperjack Cheese

Rainbow Pancakes - I am waiting for Shayna's editing skills so for now you are stuck with this picture. In real life these were fun to eat and cut into. Yum.

Real Maple Syrup

Old Disney Movie Favorites

Pumelos

Finishing Rumpelstiltskin
(Any suggestions of fun short stories to read with friends)

A fun beautiful fairytale-filled picture

Dorito's Commercial
(watch the one with the two guys in white shirts and the fish bowl- the others aren't nearly as great.)

One makeshift, big, comfy bed.

Finished Projects

Little (yet HUGE) tender mercies

Experimental Life Lesson #1

When you use too large of a measuring spoon and

put WAY too much baking soda and salt in your cookies,

You can fix them by scooping a bunch out. . .

Still too salty?

Add another 1/4-1/2 cup of brown sugar,

And you are good to go.

Mmm!

p.s. this is a lesson I learned in my life. Outcomes of your own experiments with things similar to this experience may not always be the same.