Fall Baking

I've been in a baking mood.  I'm not sure if it's the change into fall or that Halloween is here, but I've felt like being in my kitchen.  Things I've baked within the last couple of weeks include:

Halloween Sugar Cookies 

(Brad and Aaron did the icing while I did the decorating.  Good job boys!)

Super Apple Pie

(recipe can be found here)

Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

(recipe can be found here)

Yummy!  I think this is my new favorite pumpkin recipe.  It even used whole wheat flour.  Give them a try.

On another note, it's Halloween and we have had zero trick-or-treaters.  We've had awful weather.  Rain + wind + hail + lightning x Halloween = 1 very full bowl of Halloween candy.  After all these treats, I'm feeling very guilty about my lack of running the past few weeks.  I'm going to have to rededicate myself with the holidays coming up.  There's always next week.  Now where is that last slice of pie?

Sophisticated Soirée

Over Conference weekend, the Packers had a big get together at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building to celebrate Grandma Packer's 85th birthday.  We enjoyed seeing all the Packer cousins and their families, watching conference, and looking at Grandma's family picture book. We are very lucky to have this wonderful lady as our grandma and we hope we get to celebrate many more birthdays with her.  Happy Birthday Grandma!

Old News

So, this is a post to catch up on all things I haven't had time to post.  Yes, some are a few months old.  But just to remember what this summer was like, I'm putting them up.

This summer my parents bought a cabin by Silver Lake Flat.  I don't have any pictures of the actual cabin or the lake, but we've had a lot of fun up there.

We celebrated the 4th of July with BBQ and watching the Stadium of Fire fireworks.  This is one of Brad's pictures from the night.

I celebrated my birthday!  The chocolate cake my sisters gave me was ridiculous decadent!  Brad also took me out to a restaurant I've been wanting to try for ages.  Loved it!

Brad and I also celebrated our 2nd anniversary.  We went to Cafe Rio (like our first date), bought fruit tarts at Kneader's (that we had our reception), and had a nice evening together.  The next day we went to Thanksgiving Point gardens.  Little did we know there was a car show going on for that day only.  Just our luck for taking pictures of the gardens with cars parked everywhere.  We did get a few decent ones.  And I saw a Delorian.

Also of note, these last 4 photos are my first attempts at doing HDR.  Brad helped me a lot, but I'm learning how to process HDR images.