We were short two pies this year. We only had 6 pies for 7 people. Apparently the tradition is 1 pie/person + 1. After 4 straight days of eating pie, I don’t think I can take it anymore.
from bottom to top: Apple Crumb, Mixed Berry, Chocolate Ganache (tart), Key Lime, Pecan, Pumpkin
We had a Thanksgiving [...]
Until 1 week ago, Rick and I were eating off this cardboard box because we didn’t have a kitchen table. Knowing we were going to host Thanksgiving dinner, we finally bought one. Good-bye cardboard box. You’ve served us well.
(Rick and I making S’mores-a wedding gift-on the box, this was about two [...]
“So this is what you do because you don’t have a TV?”
“Yes. Yes it is”
- Said at the Thanksgiving table while playing the Train Game
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Monopoly
Times played: 5
Rick won: 4
Hillary won: 1 (after looking up tips and strategy)
Scrabble
Times played: 3
Rick won: 0
Hillary won: 3
Trivial Pursuit
Times played: over 10
Rick won: over 10
Hillary won: 0 [...]
We had a wonderful weekend in Maryland to see Rick’s younger sister, Meg, get married to Brandon Barlow. Having just gotten married ourselves, we were so excited to see the two of them get sealed in the same temple we did. I look back on our wedding day and our honeymoon in Costa [...]
Last weekend I was graciously reminded that I haven’t updated the “How we are doing” blog in some time. In fact, I had posted once and never made another post. This is just a continuation of the long tradition I have of starting blogs and then never returning to update them. In [...]
I feel like carving pumpkins is something you’re supposed to do as a newly married couple. So we carved pumpkins. Rick went for the classic, scary spider and I, going for a scary jack-o-lantern face, inadvertently carved the happiest looking pumpkin you’ve ever seen.Whenever I see that smiley pumpkin I hear, shrieking in [...]
