Here is the Recipe

Jojo wanted the recipe for these cookies and I thought it would be nice for more of you to have it too. They will clog your arteries but they are mighty good! I also thought it would be cute to let you just read the whole email from my dad. He is cute! Here it is:

Ali,

Below is the recipe from grandma's cookbook. The recipe originally came from Aunt Mick in 1955, and they were called Sneakers.

1 cup soft shorteniing 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 eggs
Mix thoughly. Sift and stir in:
2 3/4 cups flour 2 teaspoons cream of tartar 1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Chill for a couple hours. Form cookies into balls about the size of walnuts.

Roll balls in a mixture of:
2 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons cinnamon

Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake in 400 degree oven untill slightly browned.

Mom said to tell you that cream of tartar is a spice, not a dairy product, and can be found in the spice isle. Let us know how they turn out.

Love Dad

Snickerdoodles!

Earlier this week, I got the recipe for what my Great Aunt Mickey called "Sneakers," from my dad. You and I would call them Snickerdoodles. They actually turned out fabulous. I had a little bit of a hard time trying to get the size right, but by the third cookie sheet, I had it down. Enjoy the pictures, while I enjoy the cookies! :)

Saturday IS a special day!

Hi all. I should have amazing pictures of the first Burger Friday of the school year to post but I did not bring my camera or even think to take pictures of the first ever Monthly Guitar Hero Party. Sad. I had about six people over after Red Robin to play and it really was a blast. We even got people who refused to sing at the beginning to eventually serenade us! :)

I really do have great friends, don't I?

Not much else to tell you today. I have been pretty much the laziest person on the planet today. I woke up late and then watched our flag football team (Independence High) get beat in overtime. I then came home and played Guitar Hero and watched some of my DVRed shows from the week. I am about to go and take a walk and then I am going to hit the grocery store. I figure I will go shopping while all the silly people are at the stadium watching the BYU football game. The city is crazy on game day! I may bake some cookies tonight. I was going to for the party last night but never got the motivation or time.

Hope you are having a fabulous weekend.

I think I am going to start writing a social skills blog....

Post #1: Do not spit gum on sidewalks or floors. When in the tragic dilemma of having yucky gum in your mouth look all around. In most places, you will be less than fifty feet from a garbage can. Walk to garbage can and spit your gum out into it.

It does not make anybody happy to have gum on their shoe, even if it smells minty fresh!

There is the social skill that I taught my boys PE class today. I found fresh gum on the floor after the janitor had just washed it about an hour before. It got on my shoe and I was pissed!

I really get to teach such valuable lessons!

Hiking in Rock Canyon

Today was long at school. From a possible broken tailbone(student not me) to an almost fight in Boys' PE to a kid hacking all over the place, it just seemed long. It did go fast in some ways, which is good.

I went hiking with Kirsten (a new teacher at our school). She is pretty darn cool because she is pretty much my twin. We are very similar in personality and have a great time together. We hiked Rock Canyon and then picked up pizza and played Guitar Hero. It was way fun. We even convinced Janette to come and play with us on a school night! Crazy!

That is pretty much it. I truly love hiking in the fall. The colors are starting to change up there. It did make me sad the other day when I thought that winter is just behind fall but I have since reminded myself to live in the moment and enjoy the colors and fall in general.