feelin' scrappy~

It's raining cats and dogs out there ...
Can't do any yard work ...
I could do some housework ...
But I'd rather play around and do some scrapwork ...

This is my Great Niece, Summer ~ she is also one of my sister Cheryl's Grand Loves:

This is my daughter Sara and her fiancee Don ~ the one's getting married in August in our back yard:

The character peeking out from behind them is my son Sam.  I could have taken him out of the picture; but he's like our "Where's Waldo?" of the family and I just didn't have the heart to cut him out.  Sara will understand ... Don on the other hand???  Welcome to this whacky family!


I baked!  A homemade from scratch Buttermilk Chocolate Cake with a can of cheaters frosting, Betty's coconut pecan ~  sorry the pictures a little blurry...

I was drooling and holding the camera at the same time and taking the picture wasn't an easy task. lol  But I thought you'd enjoy seeing it Jack and Shirley ... especially you Jack.  I even wrote down the recipe as I was making it just in case you want to go out and get the ingredients and surprise Shirley with a cake.








Buttermilk Chocolate Cake
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease up a 9x13 cake pan.
In a pretty good sized bowl mix together: 

2 cups of sugar
3 cups of flour
2 teaspoons of baking soda
1/2 cup of cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
Then add the wet ingredients:
1 cup of buttermilk
1/2 cup of vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Pour it into the cake pan and bake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when poked into the center. COOL>> FROST AND ENJOY!!

Until next time...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel