It's Fall here in Winchester!!!

You have read about my friend Heidi before, I'm sure! How she is always doing something for someone or some organization! Well, you always know when it's fall in Winchester because it's time for the Mardi Gras, which by the way Lilli has a great post on it! Back to Heidi, she is with the Women's Business League and they bake and sell cookies for scholarships! The group was having a both at the Mardi Gras and she said she had to bake 16 dozen of 3 different kinds! I said what, I love to bake let me help!!! And that's just what I did with lots of help from Lilli! We took the Snickerdoodles! Yummy!
Here's the dough and....

here they are going in the oven. Would you know I forgot to take a picture of them coming out. Anyway, trust me we baked and baked and in the end they had to have more than they took up which means they sold a lot of cookies! That scholarship fund should be pretty fat!!!

Now that it is fall I am sure I will be getting to cook lots more and bake more than usual! This is a picture of the Chili Pie topped with Hashbrowns and Cheese that I made over the weekend! Yummmmmmy!
The recipe came from .......

this book! I love to read and Debbie Macomber just happens to be one of my favorites! She has a series called Cedar Cove Series! I just finished the latest and learned that she was doing a cookbook to go with it! Of course, I had to have it! It is a wonderful cookbook! The Cauliflower and Potato Cheese soup is great, also!!!!

The leaves in our woods are turning and falling too fast these days! We have lots of rain so we haven't been able to rake them up and play in them yet!! As soon as it dries out, if it does, we will be out there raking those beautiful leaves up and jumping in!

I have to go now! Lots to do! I have to finish up my Angel Swap stuff, I am thinking about baking an apple pie with crumb topping! One of my favorites! And I have 5 pair of flannel sleep pants to make for Lilli! You know my birthday is coming really fast and as always I will be having a giveaway! I am also working on stuff for that!!!

Wherever you are whatever you are doing I hope you are having a wonderfully happy day!!!
Vickie

PS.....Just an update we took Gayle back to the bone specialist and her bones are healing!!!
He was very impressed on how quickly the mega doses of Vitamin D helped her mend! We are now working on her calcium levels!!!! We don't have to go back until March!

Life is ZOOMING by these days!

Can I just say that Life is zooming these days! We are getting ready for the wedding, I had to get my angel swap out, which I am proud to say I made the deadline! Thank goodness! Then we had Halloween on Friday night, then we had Art on Saturday! What a week! There is never a spare moment it seems! But I had to share with you the rest of my birthday goodies!

Gayle, Lilli and John were so sweet! I have all of the Hallmark Snowmen so they got me the newest one! One of us is always pushing the play button every time we walk past! It really does make us smile every time! Oh yes, they got me the two new Debbie Macomber Christmas books! She is one of my favorites! I just can't wait to read them! Then there are these 2 books they gave me! I have been wanting Amy Butler's book IN STITCHES ever since it came out! I love it! Then SEAMS TO ME by Anna Maria Horner! As soon as she started talking about this book, I knew I had to have it! What about that title?! It just says it all! I like them both so much I can't even pick a favorite! Again, I think I received way enough for my birthday, but let's not mention that to Gayle, Lilli, and John they may not get me anything for Christmas!LOL!!!

I am sorry I didn't get over to wish every one a HAPPY HALLOWEEN, so HAPPY HALLOWEEN, late! This is Lilli as a cheerleader! She even wore my little MORTON RED DEVILS beanie! You see when we were in elementary school we had, I think 4 cheerleaders and 3 of us set in the cheering section rooting on our team! Us 3 wore sweaters with a big red M on it and a beanie! The 7 of us girls were just about all of us in our class! We had fun!

The little baby's dress is almost done and the pattern is what I have left to make for Lilli to wear at the wedding! The baby comes today to see if the dress fits and I have to get her measured for the length! I forgot how little baby clothes were! Wow! To get all of the gathers on such a small bodice was a little difficult, but I did it! And then there was a 9 inch zipper in the back! I couldn't imagine a 9 inch zipper in such a little dress, but I got it in there! Thank goodness! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for it fitting!

That's all for me today!
Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, I hope you have a wonderfully happy day!
Vickie