Best date night in awhile

Curtis loves Pearl jam. When we first started dating I liked Pearl Jam ya know Better man, daughter, Alive that kind of stuff. I now LOVE Pearl Jam. When we were dating Curt asked me what my favorite Pearl Jam album was and I started to respond Te....... when he so rudely interupted and said "dont you dare say ten, everyone loves ten." As cliche as it may sound (and I dont really care) Pearl Jam is the soundtrack to my relationship with Curtis. It was so fun to go to last nights show with him. Even more fun when we scored 2nd row tickets! It was awesome, definately the best showI have ever seen. This is how close we were, real close (just like Bear world) Seriously like 6 feet away.

Another view of the band.

The only (and awful) picture of the night. But it still is special to me because I love Going on such a fun date with this beard.

Its a bird its a plane!

It is vintage superman slippers! We inherited these when Curts Grandma Grace passed away. I am so glad we took them because Deacon loves them! So much that he slept all night with them on, pretty cute. Love that little boy.

Our weekend visitor

The almost one year old Will! It was so fun to have Will for a quick overnighter. Can you just see the look of pure joy on Deacons face? Love how cute these cousins are together, first thing Saturday morning Deacon said "See Will?"

I am sorry Will I tried my best to protect you for the monster Deacon, luckily Will just giggled and even laughed again when Deacon did it a second time!

I took Will and Deacon over to Annies for the day sinceI have no idea what to do with two kids, it turned out to be perfect because Will loved following Deacon and Alfie around, and they loved giving him his juice and playing with him. Annie and I could not get enough ofWill throwing his head waaaaaaaay back to drink his juice, so funny!

Will was very intruiged by Alfies curly hair, but aren't we all?

These two rats were all about trying to push poor sweet Will off the couch, priceless. Will is such a sweetie and seriously only cried to let you know he was awake from his nap. We love him!

Apparently....

You really only need two days to use up all your apples, go figure. So I recruited Laura (as I do with most of my baking projects) to come make an apple cake with me.

I recruited Michelle to come eat it, they both gave it a two thumbs up, hurray!

Laura slaving away. A very easy cake to make and so very yummy right out of the oven with vanilla ice cream.

Deacon decided to test most of the apples before I used them to make sure they were okay. i need to go pick some more apples! I still want to make a hommade pie and apple turnovers!

can not go wrong

with a german apple pancake! Such a easy delish way to use up a few of those red delicious.

Here is the easy as (apple) pie recipe. You will need:

3 eggs

3/4 c milk

3/4 c flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 tablespoon butter

Preheat your oven to 450. Place the butter in the dish you will be baking in (I used a glass casserole dish) heat in the 450 degree oven until completely melted. Stir remaining ingredients until smooth, pour in dish over melted butter. Bake for 15 minutes then lower the temp to 350 and cook for 10 more minutes.

Apple delight on top:

Slice about 4-5 apples (peeled)

add to a saucepan of:

1/4 c butter

1/4 c sugar

lots of cinnamon and/nutmeg (i use about a tablespoon of just cinn.)

Stir often and cook just until the apples are tender, usually works out to be just when your pancake is done. This is a Bickmore family favorite and is so very yummy. Please someone make this! It really is that good! Hope you enjoy! I certainly did. Stay tuned for tomorrow apple cake!

A week in apples

I am so happy I got to pick all these shiny red apples off my sister in law Kris' tree. You should be happy too, because...................all week long I will be making delish apple delights! And as if it could not get any better I shall be posting pictures and recipies for your pleasure! Enjoy! I know I will.

The Day Stockton came over and played

Here is a photo recap of all the fun Deacon and Stock had today. Taking a quiet moment to watch toy story. Not quiet for long.

Very serious coloring. Each boy needed their own paper as to not have any meltdowns.

Deacon watched while Stockton flipped through the Ensign looking for pictures of Temples.

Cheesing it up for me during coloring. They were so cute standing next to each other coloring.

Dancing to our Favorite "you got a friend in me" on Toy story in the background.

Sharing some lunch after working up an appetite running down the hallway ten trillion times.

So glad we got to have Stockton over to play while Casi was with Aden in the NICU ( who is getting bigger and stronger everyday!) After Stockton left Deacon took a nap, when he woke up the first thing he said was "Stockton bye bye?" Deacon will be very happy to see Stock next week!