Oh my goodness! I got to see Donny for the first time in my life while in Utah at a patriotic concert with his family and the awesome Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He even sang Puppy Love! I've adored Donny since I was a little girl and still love him. This was one of the most memorable highlights of our vacation. My husband and daughter were with me and were cracking up as they watched me get into it.
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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My claim to Mormon fame is that I was good friends with Marie Osmond's ex husband's brother (Mark Blosil)...
Looks like your trip was an amazing adventure, did you sleep while you were there? Because you sure did get in a lot of fun things.