Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam

On Sunday night Dave and I returned from a wonderful trip to Southeast Asia. Thanks to my generous, amazing parents who donated their frequent flier miles to us, we were able to spend 10 day traveling through a few cities in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
We started in Bangkok, Thailand, then flew to Siem Reap, Cambodia, took a bus to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, another bus to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, and night train to Nha Trang, Vietnam. It was a whirl wind and we are exhausted, but it was great. I love to travel!!
Here are a few pictures from our trip. If you care to see all 667 images click on the link below -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14740668@N07/sets/72157622833753686/show/

THAILAND

CAMBODIA

VIETNAM

Halloween Weekend

We had two great days celebrating Halloween! On Friday we went to Bate's Nut Farm and had a trunk or treat at church. On Saturday we went trick or treating and then went to a party at Dave's parents' house. We definitely suffered the consequences of Andrew's candy overdose on Sunday, but hey, it's one day a year....right?

First stop, Bate's Nut Farm.



Aunt Jenn and cousin Henry came too.

























I just think we all look so funny in this picture I had to add it.





We were so excited to have Amberlee with us!







Scott, my brother, and I were the only adults in the family to dress up.






Winners of my own personal costume contest:

The ward bikers.





Ashley's Mary Poppins costume was totally amazing! I wish I had a picture of Matt, my brother in law, who was dressed up at Bert and of their friend, Jeff, who as dressed up as a penguin. So awesome!

Andrew

I haven't posted pictures of our little guy lately so here are a few we've collected over the last few weeks. Amberlee took the first four pictures while she was visiting last weekend.






Andrew loves sunglasses and cellphones. This is not an unusual sight -



I snapped these while we were at the park





He loves his books.

SO Good!

I was in need a kid friendly dessert recipe last weekend for a get together we were going to. I tried searching my trusted fallback www.allrecipes.com, but nothing was appealing to me. So, I decided to go totally old-school and look in a cookbook. I combed my Mom's collection (since I have one) and found Nestle Classic Recipes. Here is what I decided to make -



It was delicious!



These images were taken from Bakerella, an awesome blog I found while searching for images of this amazing sweet.

Here is the recipe for your enjoyment-

Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie
1 unbaked 9-inch (4-cup volume) deep-dish pie shell*
2 large eggs
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter, softened
1 cup (6 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate morsels
1 cup chopped pecans
Serve with ice cream (optional)

* Preheat oven 325 degrees F.
* Beat eggs in large mixer bowl on high until foamy.
* Beat in flour, granulated sugar and brown sugar. Beat in butter.
* Stir in morsels and nuts and spoon into pie shell.
* Bake for 55-60 minutes. Cool on wire rack. Serve warm.

Recipe from Nestle Classic Recipes, 2003
* If using frozen pie shell, use deep dish style and thaw completely. Bake on baking sheet and increase baking time slightly.

Laurie is engaged!!

My baby sister is getting married. It's crazy, but I'm so excited for these two love birds. Congratulations Laurie and Nick!



To see more from their engagement session go to my photography blog.