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Just Doing the Crosswords

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Just Doing the Crosswords
Photo-A-Day #1330

Today we took Eva to visit with Allison’s grandparents, both sets. We had a nice morning in and slept late. We needed a little extra sleep. Then we headed up to Fitchburgh, MA. We went to John and Eva’s house where Bob and Jackie met us and the 7 of us enjoyed an afternoon of visiting, pizza and brownies. The Great-Grandparents were thrilled to spent the time with Eva. She was so cute. Eva is walking and talking a bit now and she has a very nice sense of comedic timing. She really has a good understanding of what we ask of her and it just amazes people.

After a wonderful afternoon we headed home and stopped at the Solomon Pond Mall. I am pretty anti-Black Friday because of the huge displays of greed but we were stopping to return something and I can get behind getting money back. The trip turned into a little more than a return though. I had been sitting in the car with Eva because she passed out 2 minutes into the ride home. The kid had been going non stop since 8:30am. Allison texted me that Stride Rite was having a sale of buy one pair get the second at 50% off. Eva is walking now and she needs some actual shoes so I brought her into the mall and we picked out two very cute pairs of shoes. I have two photos of Eva getting shoes, man I am in trouble now. We picked out two very cute pairs that my mom said she would buy for her for Eva’s birthday. When mom comes home with the Christmas Tree tomorrow she’ll see Eva in some very cute footwear.

I’m off to Watch the Psych Christmas Episode. I think they did one last year too. I love that show.

I hope that you remember that I have two contests happening right now. One is to choose the 12 photos from this past year that should be part of the 2009 Photo-A-Day Calendar and the other is for a Digital Photo Frame from Edge Tech Corp. Easy to enter and you have 2 more days.

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Pumpkin Pie, Gingerbread, White Chocolate, Caramel Ice Cream

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Pumpkin Pie Gingerbread White Chocolate Caramel
Photo-A-Day #1328

This past week in the newspaper there was a coupon for a Cold Stone Creamery cake, $3.00 off. With their ice cream cakes starting at $26.00 that doesn’t even begin to make a dent. There was also an ad for an ice cream pumpkin pie. I said I’d pick one up and today on the way home from work I stopped into a Cold Stone to get one. They didn’t have any and the person behind the counter looked like she had never heard of the product. So I asked if they had pumpkin ice cream, they did. Great well I will get a quart of that.

But wait, at Cold Stone Creamery you can mix in other things and the size container I chose allowed for 4 free mix-ins. I am NOT about to forgo a free mix-in. So I started with what I thought would make a good pumpkin pie, graham cracker crumbs. Graham cracker crumbs would make a good pie crust. Then I took the suggestion of my ice cream designer and chose caramel sauce. White chocolate chips are a mix in I generally get in everything, I don’t like them on their own but mixed in with a bunch of other stuff makes them a good addition. The final ingredient were gingerbread cookies. So This basically has a double crust of graham and gingerbread. It looks and smells delicious and just thinking about the ingredients makes my mouth water. But we will have to wait till tomorrow to find out how it tastes.

So, what should I name this concoction?

Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone and remember that I have two contests happening right now. One is to choose the 12 photos from this past year that should be part of the 2009 Photo-A-Day Calendar and the other is for a Digital Photo Frame from Edge Tech Corp. Easy to enter and you have 4 more days.