In’s & Out’s of the Thaden Family

or flavored biscuits…. whatever you want to call it. I made some for Darryl to take to work tomorrow for food day.
Recipe:
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
3 tablespoons granulated white sugar
2 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons butter, cold and cut into pieces
3/4 cup raspberry jam or you can use fresh/frozen raspberries
1 1/2 teaspoons [...]

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I love hats!! The first two photos below are hats that I crocheted, the third is one that I bought. I plan on taking the third one apart and try to figure out the pattern. =)
**UPDATED**
Darryl made me feel very self conscious about my huge head so I took the purple hat photo off and [...]

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And we couldn’t be happier!!!
Here are the cards that we made for each other.  Darryl made the one on the left, and I made the one on the right. What Darryl lacks in creativity he makes up for in words. I’m not going to tell you what the inside of the card says, but just [...]

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So today is the day before our anniversary of being married 8 years together and we decided to have a Mexican feast.
Since we currently do not have a grill we had to make do with what we have. So we purchased a cast iron Dutch oven and made our food in that. I went ahead [...]

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This is Allison Marie. She is cute, extremely bratty, moody, and did I mention cute (even when she has dirt on her face)…. I love her to pieces!!!!

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Here are some photos I took before D and I left Rockwood. I don’t know why I’m drawn to trains or train tracks, but I just love how they look so lonely and worn..

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I was up early this morning to bake more bread. I made 2 loafs of pumpkin, 2 loafs of applesauce, & 2 loafs of bannana nut. The turned out pretty good so I’m happy with my efforts. The only thing I was unable to get done today were the apple dumplings. I’m gonna do those [...]

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Thursday was the first time I scrapbooked with a group of ladies, and I have to admit that I really enjoyed myself! I wasn’t ready to leave after the 2 hours so we’re planing another scrapnight hopefully real soon. We’ve decided that the next scrapbooking get together should be more of a full day instead [...]

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My buddy at work said that to me yesterday after I sent him the final tally for the DOW yesterday, which happened to fall 733 points.
And I thought how poignant of a statement. So to the banks, the people on wall street, and the “governmental officials” who fear mongered and said that ‘We the People’ [...]

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It seems like Darryl and I were in the kitchen all weekend long.
We produced two soups (Creamy Chicken Mushroom & Chunky Beef Vegetable), a beef enchilada casserole, and two loafs of Applesauce Bread (which you see pictured here).
All of it was so tasty!!! I’m so glad that by hubby knows how to cook… or I’d [...]

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Yesterday I replaced the emergency parking brake handle for my 91 Chevy S-10. That was an easy job. You figure since we’re poor now, I need to become a ‘jack of all trades’ and repair things that are broken. This even includes cars. Since I got the support I needed to change oil, I have [...]

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Sorry for being so lax in posting lately… we’ve been so busy getting the house in order that we haven’t had time to really set down at the computer and type out a coherent thought. Now with the kitchen and dinning room in order we will be able to relax a little more. I’ll be [...]

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Love this song (even though it’s not about winter)

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Sorry for not posting lately. D & I have been anxiously waiting for the outcome over the new bailout plan. The news is reporting that more of congress is changing their vote to yes because of some tax breaks that have been added. The question I have is will those tax breaks help me??? The [...]

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