You're Never Too Old To Trick 'r Treat!!

I went to pass out candy with the residents where my dad lives in NE Mesa on Saturday night, but they only had a few kids that night stop by. The residents still had fun dressing up and going outside for a while and visiting. Ya shoulda brought your kids by 'cuz they would have scored big time on Saturday! How do you like the spooky special effects on that last pic? Not sure how that happened!

The residents also were treated the Saturday before with a recital by some young music students and their teacher. Some of the children were beginners and some were more advanced, BUT, music is music, and my dad and the other residents very much appreciated the children taking the time to come and play for them. Unfortunately, I don't have pix because I didn't know about it beforehand and didn't have my camera with me.

Delicious Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins!!

BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS

1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
¾ cup sugar
1 teas. baking powder
1 teas. baking soda
½ teas. salt
1 egg
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup vanilla or plain yogurt
1 teas. Vanilla
1 cup mashed ripe bananas
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
chopped nuts (optional)

DIRECTIONS:

In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

In another bowl, combine the egg, oil, vanilla yogurt, and vanilla extract. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in bananas and chocolate chips, nuts (optional).

Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 19-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

Why Didn't I Think Of This??

Car Lashes - how cute are these? They also have crystal eyeliner for your car's headlights, too! I don't think they'd look as cute on my car as they do on this Volkwagen, though. Way cute!!

Have A Coke And A Smile!!

Remember the old Coke machine at the drug store? I wonder how old it is now? I'm sure thousands upon thousands of Cokes were dispensed from this thing over its lifetime.

Thanks Shayla for posting this on your facebook pix page. Hope you don't mind I stole it off of there :)

Messy Baker!

I made oatmeal/raisin cookies for my dad tonight, and when I looked in the sink I couldn't believe how many measuring cups I used!!

Truth be told, any time I make anything that calls for measurements, the sink always ends up full with every measuring cup I own... and a few extra unnecessary utensils.

Pathetic... I. know. Oh, did you count them? There's 5!!!!!!

January 27th

My mom would have been 80 years old today. In honor of her birthday, I will be celebrating later with some form of chocolate for sure!

Caramels Rock!! Rock Hard, That Is.

This is why none of you got delicious caramels from us this year. Because I suck at making caramels. They tasted great, but I didn't want you/us to spend the whole next year at the dentist's office (I'm dental phobic!)

It ticks me off, because I spent a while breaking the nuts, stirring constantly until it reached 250 degrees - just like the recipe says to. As I recall, last year's caramels turned out about the same. What am I doing wrong? I'm open to any hints anyone might have for me for next time. I will not give up until they're edible! HELP!