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Jurassic Pumpkin

Posted in Family, and Photography

The housing office in base housing offers kids the opportunity to come to the “pumpkin patch” and pick out a pumpkin.  Usually, we seem to miss out on the best pumpkins, but this year, the pumpkin patch opened the day of D’s surgery.  One of the things that I did to keep Munchkin busy was to take her over to pick out her pumpkin.  She was pretty excited that she was able to get a really nice pumpkin. We have a good bit of fun carving pumpkins around our house.  This year was the first time in an extremely long…

Daddy-Daughter Walk

Posted in Family, and Photography

Can you believe that it’s already the first of November?  It’s been just over a week since Daddy had his second back surgery.  We are extremely pleased that he’s already in less pain that he was in prior to this surgery.  The recovery is already going better than after the first surgery.  Praise the Lord! On Monday, we headed over for the follow-up appointment with the surgeon.  He was pleased to hear that things were going well.  The x-rays look good even though all the metal “bling” that he’s now sporting is crazy.  The doc says that he should make…

Chocolate Cherry Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Posted in Gluten Free, Homemaking, and Photography

I decided that I wanted a slightly different cake for my birthday.  Cheesecake sounded good, but a regular cake also sounded good.  I thought it would be tasty to combine the two. I started off with a gluten free Betty Crocker devil’s food cake mix and baked it as normal in a round cake pan.  While the cake cooled, I made up a modified cream cheese frosting.  Since I wanted it to be more like cheesecake, I did not make it as sweet. “Cheesecake” Frosting 1 stick butter (salted) 1 block cream cheese 1 cup powered sugar 1/2 cup heavy…

Back Surgery: Take Dos

Posted in Family, and Photography

Project 365 – #297 D’s back surgery was scheduled for today.  Originally, it was set up for us to arrive at the hospital at 9:00.  This weekend, we were told that it had been rescheduled for 1:30, and we’d need to be there at noon.  Because D had suffered from migraines for most of the weekend, we had planned on spending some quality family time together the morning of the surgery.  As we were getting ready to do some things together, we receive a call from the hospital saying that we need to head in asap as they’re going to…