aiden and uncle brett kidding around

lemon yogurt cake

Yummy! I had some lemons to use up and have been meaning to try the Lemon Yogurt Cake recipe from my Barefoot Contessa cookbook. It turned out great! Definitely a good use of lemons!

fighting the foo

Brett's Christmas present from Chrissy was a pair of tickets to last night's Foo Fighter concert. Great show as always and I think they actually get funnier each time. In the spirit of the evening I got a new tee shirt. Good times! Myplay.com has their Long Road to Ruin video with lots of "extras" - good stuff.

2007 christmas bake off

We just had to show off the prize antlers for our winning Christmas 2007 Bakeoff entry! We were very glad to receive them. You should have heard our acceptance speech!

work, work, work!

2005 christmas bake off

This is the crew that got together at Grammie Gilbert's on Christmas Day for the 2005 Christmas Chessecake-Off. In 2004 Afton won the Christmas Crab Dip-Off. This year's entries were Afton's White Chocolate Strawberry Cheesecake, Travis's Chocolate Mint Cheesecake and my Chocolate Bailey's Cheesecake. Although mine was clearly the best since it tasted good, was completely baked, and didn't fall apart, it was Travis's that won the prize - a nifty certificate and a great pair of novelty reindeer antlers which will be the yearly "crown" from now on. They will be mine one day ... You hear that Afton & Trav? They will be mine!