Thank You.

How awesome it feels to return to my blog and see I have followers. It kind of puts pressure on me to keep putting forth some good blogs but its a good pressure :)
So my past weekend was pretty much super special and amazing. My husband Mitch and I went to my parents farm to visit. Now usually our visits consist of my other siblings and their significant others, children, etc. Don't get me wrong, I love getting to see my whole family but I am glad I had the opportunity for some one on one time with my mom (dad was in the field).
My mission for the weekend was to learn at least one of my mom's special gifts/abilities that she has. My mom is the most gifted and awesome mom out there I swear. She has this ability to sew, quilt, and crochet any project that she sees AND bakes and cooks great food. She has these few very special homemade items that she makes that make people swoon. The item I chose to take on was making homemade apple pies.
I started out thinking well I dont think this will take a while. I mean you cut the apples, roll the dough and freeze. Well we had enough apples to make five pies. Whew! I learned what is so hard about that task alright. The vision of flaky crusts with sweet, yet cinnamony apples helped me push on and with lots of help from my mom together we made 5 folks.
Only one mishap with the apple slicer. Apparently it can't differentiate the difference between apple skin and my skin. Ouch. Regardless, we froze and brought five frozen apple pies back home.
Fast forward past the three hour drive with Mitch, me, my dog and my cat (All of which sit in the front seat). We get home and Mitch keeps mentioning how we should bake up one of the pies. Now we just came home from the farm with pumpkin pies and pumpkin bars so I convince him to wait. Then the next day I cave in to that amazing goodness and bake up an apple pie. I already had intended on starting a blog and thought wow this is one of those things I really am grateful for. No, not apple pie. Well yes maybe but the bigger picture is my mom. She is amazing, gifted, and I hope I turn out just like her. I hope to learn all of her crafty skills.
For the blog I decided to assemble an apple pie slice "shoot" to show off this pie that I am so proud of. Pictures tell the story from here on....

A few minutes later I hear a clink and run to the dining room. This is what I find...

Notice the plate and actually I changed the crime scene. That plate was upside down on the floor below the place mat.
On the other end of the table was this...

Meet Mac. Mac eats anything and everything he finds. This includes all types of food, tissues, packs of gum, and last week cotton balls. When Mac gets caught doing something bad his ears go down. If you need this behavior defined, check the picture above. Too bad he continued to lick his apple pie lips while feeling bad. Isn't he dang cute? I think that's what saves him haha.
So yeah. This blog is extremely long because just like I mentioned in my first blog, things don't always go as planned. Mac tends to take us through some fun adventures.
My joy this blog = Mac, apple pie, and my mom!! Oh yeah and that adorable place mat and plate that the pie slice is on. Did you notice? Check it out. I picked out the plates when Mitch and I got married and my mom being so crafty designed and then figured out how to sew up placemats and a table cloth to match. She is great!