2nd Time Around Tuesday-Sweet Little Dress

Thank you Diane for hosting this. How fun to see the Treasures!
I picked up these two little treasures in Fairfield, Ohio one day. This front one is my favorite because of the precious details.

The embroidery is so sweet on this one and I love the scalloped hem.

And the same scallops and embroidery with the tiniest of release pintucks on the top.

Hope you enjoyed this little dress.

Have a Lovely Day~

Alicia

p.s. if you need a laugh,see the post below this one.

"You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!!!"

For the past several years my daughters and I have had a "Girls Day". It started out with scrapbooking and other crafts the 5 of us liked. With the current state of society we decided that something more meaningful was needed and we wanted it in place as their daughters grew up, so it was modeled after missionary "sisters conference". With each person presenting some spiritual or practical message along with the fun. Topics are pre-assigned for the sake of balance, and may be a doctrinal topic, a preparedness topic or some other topic that they felt they especially needed. Girls day always includes food and some chic flick (usually Jane Austin). We greatly appreciate the differing gifts each of us are given and willing to share with the others.

Well, the husbands usually go do something together as well. This time they declared it "guys day" and planned their own activity. Brandon headed it because of his expertise as a mechanical engineer student. We question whether this could be a "meaningful" activity, and think they could use some work in this area still. So if you go to this link:
http://littleaudreyrobbins.blogspot.com/2009/03/guys-day.html
you'll be able to judge for yourself. Let me know what you think!?!LOL.
Have a Lovely (and safe) Day~
Alicia
P.S. It is hard to believe that their ages are 28, 28, 27, 24!

Chrissy's Wedding

This is my favorite picture of her. We had this bridal blown up and displayed it on a beautiful easel that DH and I found at Tai Pan. She designed her dress and our DIL, Tricia's mom made it. Can I just tell you all how grateful I am for all those who helped us do this wedding. We usually like to do everything, but it just wasn't possible this time and there were so many who volunteered to help out.
Here is our cute couple. They are both energetic and passionate about the Gospel. Glenn is attending BUY and anticipate going into law.

Foodie Friday-Lori's Barbeque Beef

Lori's Barbeque Beef

1 large Chuck Roast

1 envelope Onion Soup Mix

14 oz. can Beef Broth

Put all 3 ingredients into a slow cooker. Cook on low setting for 24 hours. Remove meat to a platter and shred with forks.

Add "Montgomery Inn" Barbeque sauce as desired.

Serve on buns or a slice of french bread.

This may not be fancy, but they always come back for more.

Changing Matter

Evidently Matter has changed (see:If You Could Hie To Kolob) and my brain has turned into a colander! Stuff goes in, and leaks right out the holes in the bottom.

I was visiting some blogs a while back and there was one with a piece of lace draped beautifully over a picture in a stairwell. Now it took so long for me to finally get the stuff together and take a picture and post it, that I can't remember how to get back to her again and leave a follow up comment. ahhhhh!

But here is my picture below from 'The Inn At Temple Square'. I bought this picture when they sold all of the furnishings from the inn before they tore it down. We had stayed there several times when Chrissy worked there and I loved this piece, what I love about it is that the children are all cheerfully sharing, and EVERYONE is happy. Hope you enjoy it.
Have a Lovely Day~
Alicia

Why Old Ladies Shouldn't Wear Stiletto Shoes

Last February our Chrissy returned from her mission in Ft. Lauderdale. She came "home" to the Ohio to be with us for a couple of weeks.
One day she left her 'very cute' & 'very high stiletto' shoes in the kitchen. Since we wear the same size shoe (which was bad when she was young, but I thought that it could be good now that SHE has all the cute shoes;-). Well, there we were all alone, just the shoes and I. So I decided to try them on. No sooner had I slipped my feet inside and both calves had terrible charlie horses. So I'm hopping around trying to get my feet out of the shoes, which is harder than it sounds when your calf muscle won't relax. Boy was I ever glad no one was around to see that sorry and undignified display!!!LOL.
Have a Lovely Saturday~
Alicia

FIRE IN THE (W)HOLE darn oven!!!

My foodie Friday is sadly lacking in a picture, but I haven't figured out time travel back to when I was a new wife, 30+ years ago.
Being a brand new wife at the time and wanting to impress my husband I decided to make his favorite cake, pineapple upside down cake. It all went wrong when I got distracted and the cake caught fire in the oven. I promptly went and got the fire extinguisher and sprayed it until it was no longer flaming. I managed to get the "torch in a pan" outside and opened all the windows to air it out.
Here is where the warning comes: DO NOT discharge a fire extinguisher in the house unless you are sure the entire building is going to burn to the ground! It snowed F.E. chemicals for days!!! Everything was coated and had to be cleaned, and I mean every single thing in the apartment.
I have since been more diligent in keeping an eye on what I'm making.

I had an experience to share about cleaning up those "Train Wrecks":

Several months ago I was invited by Elder A. to join them for their district meeting. Before the meeting began, Elder A. was asking me a question. He wanted to know how many times he should run the self cleaning oven, to get the soot at the bottom to leave. (I had done an apartment cleaning training the month before, but forgot to go into detail on that). I explained that it doesn't just go away but you just take a paper towel and wipe up the soot at the end of each cleaning
Then he started the meeting and the opening song he had chosen was "If You Could Hie to Kolob". We got to the verse about "there is no end to matter..." and I just cracked up. I explained that by cleaning the oven he was a witness to a "correct doctrine", there is no end to matter, you can change it but you can't create it or make it cease to exist.

Have a Lovely Day~
Alicia