Summer Update.

Hellllo family!

A little information on me and beautiful Madison. Currently, we are living back with my Mom in Manchester. Maddy is communicatin alot more. She uses sign language and english, and I am thinking about teaching her spanish. I feel that later in her life all those languages will be very helpful in her career. & life! Anyway, she can sign: more, eat, drink, and all done. She can say: mama, dada, mamaw, cracker, dog, cat, bird, water, bug, please, more, and yeah. :)

I like to brag about her, obviously. She is almost 15 months, loves to dance, loves to test me, loves to hide. And now she likes water! She has a little baby floaty and once she eases into it she doesnt want to get out!

Me? I now work about 20 hours a week at Albertsons on Sedgwick in Port Orchard. I work at the Pizzaria. It's a good job. I can say way more words than Maddy can, but she's a baby so it's okay.

Here is a picture of me and my favorite girl enjoying the sun at my friends dock. :)

Recipe Time!

If you are like me, you LOVE pumpkin anything... & why not have it all year round. Here is a DELISH pumpkin cookie recipe that will make you want to eat about 50 of them!

Old Fashioned Soft Pumpkin Cookies
Estimated Time: Prep-10 min; Cooking-18 min; Cooling-2 min

Yields- 36 cookies

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp gound nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup pumpkin (canned)
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
glaze (recipe follows)

Directions:
PREHEAT oven to 350. Grease baking sheets (I just use foil & don't grease.. saves you from making a huge mess & most of the time i don't have to wash the cookie sheet)

COMBINE flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in medium bowl. Beat sugar and butter in large mixer bowl until well blended. Beat in pumpkin, egg and vanilla extract until smooth. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Drop by rounded Tablespoon onto baking sheets.

BAKE for 15 to 18 mins. or until edges are firm. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely. Drizzle Glaze over cookies.

FOR GLAZE:
COMBINE 2 cups sifted powdered sugar, 3 T milk, 1 T melted butter and 1 tsp vanilla extract in small bowl until smooth.




THERE YOU GO!!!!

Hope you all enjoy!

If you try it out, let me know how you like them!

Founders of Bremerton YMCA

Wow! What a nice surprise to see Dad & Mom's names on the new building for having supported the YMCA in it's early life in Bremerton. Something for us to all be proud of considering how upscale and state-of-the-art the Y has become.
Patty and I just enrolled in membership this last week and while observing the wall of dedications, we found our parents name posted in bronze. The picture on the bottom is the list of founders which each block has about 20 names.