Without further ado...

...I'm jumping back into blogging!  These last few months have been hectic, and most spare time spent in recovery mode!  But I have a few sewing projects to show ya'll, along with a few pictures from our trip to the beach last week!

(Eady seemed to do a lot to connect with her inner child.  Bubbles?  Check.  Playground?  Check.)

Daddy with his big shovel always attracts other kids at the beach!

I hope to get a few more posts in this week, but we'll see!

New Blog

Just wanted to let everyone here know that my sister and I have started a cooking blog!  Ever since I was very little, cooking and baking have been some of my favorite things to do.  So head over and check it out - we hope to start posting recipes and such soon! 

A Pat of Butter and a Rolling Pin

Dinner Party

Well it's been awhile since I've been on here and I am very sorry!  Life just seems to careen along at a rather quick pace!  When I made this pie yesterday though, I had to share the recipe - it is delicious! 

Cay Lime Pie

(pronounced "key")

Originally from Ship to Shore

Filling:
4 egg yolks
1 can condensed milk
1/2 cup lime juice
4 eggs whites
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
gratings from 1 lime

Beat egg yolks until soft and lemon colored.  Beat in condensed milk and lime juice, and continue to beat with electric mixer for 2-3 minutes.  (if you want to do it by hand, it just says "for a long time" :))  Pour in cooled 9 in pie crust.  Beat egg whites until nearly stiff, then add sugar and vanilla and continue beating for a few seconds.  spread meringue over pic, make peaks with spoon and sprinkle the whole show with grated lime zest.  Voila!

Pie Crust:
1 cup flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup butter, softened
1/4 teaspoon salt
4-5 tablesoppns cold milk

Mix flour, sugar, butter and salt with fork or pastry blender.  Add milk little by little.  Form into ball of dough and chill if possible before rolling out.  Bake at 425 for 10-15 minutes.

With no heed to the more conventional guidelines, I decided that it would be easier to just press the pie crust dough into the pan without having to go to all that trouble of chilling, rolling, etc.  The end result was that it totally stuck to the pie plate and required lots of scraping to get it out.  If you like really un-pie shaped pieces and aren't trying to impress anyone, go for it!  Otherwise, follow the directions.

 After dessert, we played a little game.....

  
Only reputations at stake, I promise!!  

Modest Fashion Week - Day Five

(I'm not really sure about this top yet..... do ya'll like it?)

Gap blouse - yard sale

Old Navy crops - hand-me-down

 Mudd flats - yard sale

antique lace necklace - gift

Photo credits for the whole week go to my sisters!

See ya!

Cape Lookout, Part Two

Dear Readers ~  I'm terribly sorry for the lapse in time!!  But without further ado..... Part Deux!  (hey! That rhymes!)

I think I mentioned the card tournament last year when I posted about our trip.  As usual, I lost horribly.  My grandparents and sister are the "card sharks" of the family.... apparently I did not inherit the gene!

Anyway, Eady will try to get me to play with her as much as possible to get her score up (she knows she can win!) and I comply.

There are several run-down houses left on the island - relics of the days before the park service took over. 

On our last day at the island we decided to hike to the tree you see here in the picture - the highest one.  It was (let me tell you) MUCH easier said than done.  We hiked through dense bushes and dead (scratchy) undergrowth just to get to where this picture was taken.  But the scenery was beautiful around the marsh.

(those dense and scratchy bushes)

Once we got through the marsh, the terrain changed a little.  No more scratchy bushes anymore, just don't step on a cactus.  

This isn't THE tree, that one would not have been easy to climb!

And then we turned around and almost ran into this.....

Golden Orb Spiders - - - Everywhere!

Here is Eady standing in front of the big tree.  See how her pants are wet?  That's how deep we went crossing the marsh.

Right after this picture was taken I got stung by a wasp!

Aaaaaand crossing the marsh again on the way back.  If you could have heard me on the last stretch it sounded somewhat like  "Ooooooo!  Ouch!  *gasp* My poor legs!"
We had so much fun on our trip!  Glad I could share it with all of my readers!
  Now on to more up to date things~
  My sister and I have been doing a ton of knitting recently and I will post the products soon!  Tomorrow begins Bramblewood Fashion's Modest Fasion week so expect a slew of fashion posts this week.
 ~Lillian

Blueberries!!

City by the Sea

There are not many pictures, for seconds after the last one was taken my camera got dropped in the water and refused to work afterwords! However, as it was the third camera of mine that had been dropped, lost, etc., the feeling was pretty numb. The rest of the weekend was fun, though. We went thrifting in the area and swimming too!

Guess who turned three?

"Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!"

Psalm 107:8

Cincinnati : Part Two

At long last! The second (and final) installment of our trip. I never got any pictures at the actual conference, so these are from the other events of the journey. Except Goodwill, but that's a whole nother post! I'll narrate as we go along...

At the Creation Museum

The "Garden of Eden"

It's one of the very few surviving copies of the original Greek Bibles.

Martin Luther posting his 95 Theses.

At lunch

Yours truly

After lunch we walked out on the deck looking over the lake and park. You cant tell in these pictures, but it was snowing very lightly at the time. You probably can tell, however, that it was very windy!

At dinner everyone ate "Cincinnati chili", an event I'm not likely to ever repeat.

One night at the Creation Museum they had a live nativity, which we attended in the freezing cold!

Mary and Joseph

The rest of the outside "park" was decorated with lights. Here the lights are being reflected in the lake, which was partially frozen.

Finally, we headed home. After five days in freezing cold, snowy weather, I was very ready to return to our more temperate climate.

Again, I am not asleep. And Baby definitely isn't.
(Why did we ever give her that?!?!)


Somewhere in the mountains there appeared a sea of cloud.

I had a great time at the conference with old friends and new, and received much knowledge from the speakers presenting. I failed to take pictures at the conference part but it was the reason for the trip! Through the wisdom shared I was able to gain a more Biblical understanding of the Sufficiency of Scripture.

See you later!

The Geegs