I made CANNOLIS!

My favorite dessert ever has got to be cannolis...especially the chocolate chip kind. Well we ended up having a late Father's Day for my grandpa since he was out of town on the actual day and I was in charge of dessert. I found an awesomely easy looking recipe at Hungry Girl and had to try it. I made it exactly as she has it written only mine made 8 not 6.
They ended up being a huge hit, everyone loved them. I can't wait to make them again.
I forgot to take pictures of them, as I was too excited to try them...and they were gone before I knew it! So this photo is from HG.

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Time to actually update this thing!

A few weeks ago my dad fell at the boat launch (shouldn't have been trying to launch the boat by himself, but he's impatient and just couldn't wait for me) and broke a rib. Yep, just 1, but still. He's too old to be doing this silly things by himself.
Anyways, I made him some oatmeal raisin cookies with walnuts (one of his favorites) to make him feel better. I got the recipe from Smitten Kitchen. Basically it's the recipe off the Quaker Oats container but with a few hints and extras. One thing that I found super helpful was the note on refrigerating the dough before baking. I'd had trouble in the past with having my oatmeal raisin cookies turn out super flat. Cooling the dough helped a TON. Not only did they look good, but I liked them (not my fav. usually) and Dad loved them!

Moved in

Well, it is Sunday @ 6:34PM and we are moved into our new house! It only took about 4 hours to load the truck, drive, and then unload the truck due to all of the fantastic help we have.
Now my house is a disaster! There is stuff everywhere. Worse even, is that it is 85+ degrees outside and we don't have A/C. This summer has been beautiful and in the 70's...until this past week. I'm done with 80-90 degrees and humid.

Where I've been

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Homeowners!

We closed on our house last Wednesday...therefore, I am too busy to blog.
No seriously. We spent all day Friday/Saturday/Sunday painting then went out for some more Monday after work. Today we're going out to hopefully finish up the painting and then I'm off work tomorrow to finish packing the townhouse, which has been horribly neglected.
So yeah, no blog time...not until after we move Saturday anyways.