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Christina and Sean Visit Florida

These are happy people. On the beach, under shade trees, eating Budweiser /Old Bay shrimp, and other yummy seafood.


The fish swam right out of the Bay into the hedge.


Nice view of the table by the water.

Oh, did I mention we were at Mar Vista on Longboat Key? It was a wonderful lunch.


Come back soon!

Bradi B. Lafleur

Ankle biter renown.
Loves outside.
Has doubled in size.
Goes into crate to nap on her own.
Not a big eater.
Barks to get up in your lap to bite you.
Sharp puppy teeth.

Brady

Named for her birthplace of Bradenton Beach. Yorkiepoo. 8 weeks old.

Christmas at Home

Finally the photos

Christmas Cookies for Honey

Par Par Sonny's Cocoon recipe

1 C Butter
6 TBLS Powdered Sugar
2 teas Vanilla
2 cups ground pecans
2 1/2 cup Flour
Powdered Sugar for Dusting
Cream butter, sugar and flour together thoroughly. Add vanilla and ground nuts. Form into cocoon shape and bake in slow oven 300 degrees until lightly browned and crisp about 45 minutes. When removed from oven roll in powdered sugar. Cool.

Cakes for Wedding

Well, the grooms cake...Christina and I made the three layer rumcake at her house in Northampton, cut a hole in the top layer and inserted a smaller round cake pan that was to hold chocolate beer bottles and clear rock candy for an ice chest look. But...in the car on the way back to Kelly's house, the whole top layer fell apart and crumbled all down the sides of the white buttercream. It had to be ready the next day for dinner so I re-iced the two layers, and Christina decorated it with her fondant lables, bottles and rock candy and it looked fine.



You can believe that on Saturday when we had to drive the wedding cake to the site, we were very careful. I even put the top two tiers on in the back of the SUV and finished decorating with a police officer in a car behind me. (I was in a no parking zone, but he didn't come over when he saw what I was doing.)