Apple Pie Squares

I found the absolute best recipe for Apple Pie Squares on a blog this week. They are in the oven right now and my house smells heavenly! This said blog is written by a chic named Edie! I have loved that name for a long time and secretly wished I had named my own daughter that! I was so taken by this blog that I read almost the entire thing! And she has been blogging for a while! It was very interesting!

 

The recipe from Life In Grace's blog:

 

{glazed apple bars}

First you combine 4 C. flour, 1/2 t. salt and 2 C. sugar.
Then, cut in 3 sticks of butter. The mixture will be crumbly and Meg recommends you use your hands. I wholeheartedly agree. I first tried my mixer and it didn't work well. Press about 2/3's of this crumbly mixture into a jelly roll pan.

Peel, core and slice 4-5 Granny smith apples and layer over the shortbread mixture.
Combine 1/3 C. sugar and 1 t. cinnamon, sprinkle it over the apples.
Crumble the remaining flour/sugar/butter mixture on top of the apples.
Bake it at 350 degrees for 50 - 60 minutes...until it is crispy on the bottom.

After it bakes, let it cool.
Make a glaze with 1 C. powdered sugar, 1 t. vanilla, 1 T. water.

 

I highly recommend that you try these… just from the smell alone I know I will not be sorry!

 

We are going to be going to a bonfire this afternoon for Haley's softball team. They get to meet their new little sisters today so I hope that will be fun for her! I like this aspect of the softball organization she is with. They do a lot of community service and they are all about family and it really is great! We are blessed to be a part of it, not only because they are a very successful organization but because of their focus on the things that really matter! So, we are going to pack a lunch well dinner I guess and sit around the fire and play games and have fun! What's on the menu?

 

• Haley's new favorite sandwich! Hawaiian Bread (you know the circle shaped one) a layer of ham, white American cheese, and another layer of ham, cut into 8 wedges!
  
• Either chips or cheese popcorn
  
• Apple Juice or sprite
  
• And of course Edie's Glazed Apple Bars!
  

Yummy!

 

Later tonight, I really have to get a good grocery list going, I am almost out of flour… that is insane because a person who bakes as much as I do should never ever run even close to being out of flour!!!

 

Alright off to make the sandwich and get ready for the bonfire!!

 

Ok, so I haven’t blogged in forever again.

You know it is funny… I also want to blog, I want to write… but I just never make time for it. I think facebook has taken over my life. Truth be told, I was going to switch from blogger to word press, even made a blog a few months ago over there. But I never went back. I do that a lot. With a lot of things in my life. I am a starter… I love to start things, new things, old things, all sorts of things. But I am not a strong finisher, I get bored easily and then I slink off to try something new!

Just like today, I am trying something new. I am writing this post from Word. I have wanted to try it for quite some time but I just haven't had the time. So, while the cupcakes are in the oven and I have a few minutes. I thought I would try out a test post. I have to figure out how to post pictures straight from here though and not have to save as a draft and go into blogger and upload the photos… Ha! It kind of defeats the whole purpose.

Since, I last wrote… summer softball ended, summer volleyball began and ended, fall softball started and ends tomorrow, High School Volleyball started and ends on Thursday… That's a lot of stuff… Have you ever noticed how I never really write about myself. Only my daughter really. Nothing that I want to do or accomplish. I just noticed that I now I find that odd and a little boring. Hmmm… Interesting.

So, Here are a few things that I am currently interested in. I will not include anything that Haley is doing as it should be obvious that I would be interested in that.

1. Baking.
   
2. Cake, cupcake and cookie decorating.
   
3. Decorating and home improvement
   
4. Contemplation of going back to school.
   
5. Saving money
   
6. Cleaning my house
   
7. Starting to knit again
   
8. Would love to read the twilight series. I know I know.
   
9. Getting my Christmas shopping done. I really would love a low key Christmas this year.
   
10. Wondering if my job will survive the recession.
    

You know what that was actually quite hard not to include anything that was related to Haley.

Well, the cupcakes are done and I need to get them out of the oven, so lets see if this posts right!

back from a hiatus?

Well, softball is winding down, in fact this is our first weekend off in almost 2 months! We have one more tournament and the championship game of another on Monday and then we are all done and we go back to Volleyball! When is the rest! But, I have to tell you, I love it and I wouldn't have it any other way!

We are still working on paying down our debt and living frugally, well we were until softball that is. All the travel in the summer leads to alot of me

als out and sometimes all three meals in a day out so it really did do a number on our budget. We are back on track now with eating at home at e

very possible time!

We have our garden in 16 tomato plants, 6 jalepeno peppers, over 100 green bean plants and 20 cucumber plants! No onions or potatoes this year... it has been so wet and rainy here that I didn't have time to get it all in! I can't wait until we can start eating garden fresh produce! Yum!

Here are a few pictures from our summer of softball :)

Runner up in state!

Well, now that the excitement of Junior High volleyball is over... we can get back to our regularly scheduled life for 1 week. Yes, you heard me... 1 week. In one week track meets start, club volleyball tournaments start and travel softball is still practicing. Nuts I know.

Here are a couple of pictures from the state championships.

Regional Volleyball Champs!

Softball, Volleyball, not time for me Oh MY!

It is all I have been doing lately. Not that I am complaining because I am not... Just busy is all. This week we start sectionals for volleyball, so that should be exciting. Haley made a club volleyball team last week so just when I thought that volleyball was almost done... this smacks me in the face. I have not been doing well at all with not spending. I haven't done any real grocery shopping in 2 weeks so we have been eating out alot! I need to get it together and pull my head out of my butt!

We had some more cutbacks at work in the last few weeks. I had to let another person who worked for me go. So now we are down to 3 in a department of 5. Things are getting hectic and I am the only one that doesn't get paid overtime, so I have been trying to pitch in and help more by staying later. I don't mind as it is apart of my job to pick up the slack when things like this happen. I am sure I am losing most of the people that have read me over the past few months, but just know that I will be back soon... hopefully very soon! I like to blog, and I really like to read blogs! I really need to be better at commenting more as well.

I have alot going through my head, this is the last year that I am going to be the president of our travel softball league and I have a ton to do and no time to do it in. I really need to get motivating and get the few things left that I have to do for it!

Have you ever felt like your writing is just all over the place... I guess, I use this more as a journal of my daily life then a blog about anything in particular. I went back and was reading a little of it and it is pretty hard to follow. And I noticed that I talk about Haley alot! lol .

Oh well... I might never be one of those super popular blogist's but that's ok... I like this little place to journal my hard to follow thoughts :)

What is with this Snow!

It snowed again last night... not nearly as much as they said we were going to get (6-8 inches) but it is still cold and the wind is blowing like crazy!

We had an exciting week with Haley's volleyball team! They one their conference championship on Thursday and the game was so exciting!! They won in two games and the best part was that they won against their arch rival!