Hoot Owl Sugar Cookies

You've just gotta make these. The Cub Scouts at church last night each got to have two a piece - those little luckies! (I would've sent less with Dallas if I had known there were so many extras!)

World's Best Sugar Cookies

("World's Best because the dough is not dense. It has perfect flavor and just the right texture. If you want to roll it, it needs to be chilled for an hour first. If you're making regular drop cookies, just know that these really spread! And cook for 8 minutes to get the best texture.)

2 and 3/4 c. flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. baking powder

1 c. butter, softened (yes, that's two cubes)

1 and 1/2 c. granulated sugar

1 egg

2 tsp. vanilla

Cream butter and sugar with other wet ingredients. Add the dry ones. Drop on a cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool. Frost. Enjoy!

(Don't eat three in one evening. You'll have crazy dreams about going to the lake full of pinto beans with your dad and your boat capsizing in shallow water, and then jumping back in to set sail to the Ukraine. Kind of disturbing.)

A Happy Halloween (with sad pictures to show for it)

I spent hours and hours working on the girls' Halloween costumes, and these pictures are what we have to show for it.  sad  Something is obviously wrong with our camera.  And I couldn't get the pictures to upload to iPhoto to rotate them either.  Well, I've been wanting a new camera anyway.  sad sad  My mom made Madeline's cute Tinkerbell costume, and I made the wings (with a little help from Dallas), her slippers, wand, and ring.  (I will try to keep working with the pictures so you can see them better, k, Mom?)  I made Raleigh's complete costume, and Kensington's for that matter, and Rikki got Raleigh her cute witch's broom.

Dallas put together his own costume for our Ward party.  I'm not sure if he was a prince or a footman, but  I thought he sure looked good in my jacket!  (I was some kind of princess.) We had a ton of fun, and we're excited for all of the other holidays, too.  Can you tell I'm not in the mood to blog??  Sorry.  Just had to get these so-called pictures on here.

Our sweet puffy butterfly.  (In its second round of use- Madeline wore it when she was little.)

Tinkerbell and the Butterfly

Two Sweethearts

Beautiful Alpine in the Fall

Can you just feel the crisp fall air in Utah?! One of Dionne's four favorite seasons . . .

Our Hee Haw Tailgate Party

Can you tell that our family LOVES Hee Haw Farms?!

The Last of Hee Haw

Raleigh just got right on the pony; it reminded us of her Georgia miniature pony-ride this past summer. Way to go, Raleigh!

Sunset over the barn.

Dionne-the-Goat, Raleigh-the-Sheep, Dallas-the-Horse, Choobs-the-Cow, and that's Madeline down there trying to be the pig.

Kensington decided when it was time for us to finally go home . . .