I'm patiently waiting for my husband to get ready before we head over to the Dew's house to watch the BYU Cougars football game. I hope it's a good game! Lindsey is playing volleyball at the church this morning. I went out to breakfast to Village Inn this morning to celebrate my friend Jane's birthday with some other friends. Last night when Kelly was working late, I went over to my neighbor's house and sat in the hot tub with her and some friends for a couple of hours. It was fun. Tonight Kelly is deejaying the stake dance and Lindsey is excited about going. So far, it's a fun weekend!
I considered myself to be a decent cook and baker. However, candy making had been unchartered territory until I recently cracked the code of a favorite—chewy Texas Pecan Pralines. This culinary epiphany came only days before I left my home sweet home in Austin, Texas, to return to CU Boulder after an epic hiatus to wrap up my bachelor’s degree in journalism. When I was a little girl, I remember tasting heavenly, creamy homemade pralines, bursting with pecans, handcrafted with love by my mom. She only whipped them up a few times, but I just couldn’t get the memory of those buttery, sugary treats out of my head. They were that good. I asked her if she still had the recipe, but I knew it would be hopeless since my mom wasn’t one for keeping track of her down-home style cooking. I married my college sweetheart, a guy with the same first name as me, and began teaching myself to cook. Becoming “Kelly Times Two” was amazing, and I had ...
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I looove hot tubbing!