White Lake Bound!

Well, it's almost time to climb in the car for our last trip of the summer. Usually White Lake is the first trip of the summer, so this is a little unfamiliar feeling. And we're going to a new house. Have I mentioned I am resistant to change? I still cringe every time I go to my home church and see the interior walls painted pale pale lilac, and think of the layout of the old building - the new one still confuses me a little.

But the times they are a changin'

One thing that is the same about White Lake... people I love, fun games, and a big table full of snack foods that will make you feel a little guilty all year.

This year I am making pine bark, with a twist:

35 saltine crackers; 1 cup butter; 1 cup brown sugar; 1/2 tsp almond extract; ~16 oz M&Ms, crushed in food chopper
Boil butter and sugar for 2-3 minutes; remove from heat and add almond extract. Pour over saltines (salt side up) in greased & foil lined pan. Bake for 5 minutes at 400 degrees. Sprinkle chocolate bits over, and spread when chocolate melts. Cool, crack, and cool some more.

Usually I use semi-sweet chocolate bits, but I think this will be fun and delicious. We'll see.

Off to cook some candy!

Welcome! from the Dohls

Welcome to our blog! Many of you had visited our old webpage. We're hoping this will be easier to update, and that means more pictures!

Speaking of pictures, let's start with one. Here is Baby K in her angel wings. She seems shocked by the content of her book!

The summer is winding to a close. Just White Lake, and then it's over. Isn't it funny how an arbitrary date like Labor Day can really make you feel like such an end to a season? We don't have kids going "back to school". We don't have crops to plant or harvest or whatever they used to do at the end of the summer. We have summer Busch Garden's passes that expire September 3, but that's it. It certainly will still feel like summer for a while here!

The picture on the right is Kaitlyn one of her "HKL Design" dresses. She will proudly tell you it has a duck on it. She will tell you the duck says "Quack!". And then she will pull up the dress and say "See?! Elmo!" We have to work on that.

Kaitlyn Tricks

She has really fallen in love with her police car. I am teaching her to take the walkie talkie and go "*kkshk! kkshk!* Roger, roger! Backup, please!"

Speaking of "please" she has really gotten "Thank you!" down pat, but in an interesting twist has learned "You're welcome", too. So when she asks for something "peas! (please!)" and gets it, she responds with "Thank you you're welcome".

Kaitlyn loves meal times. But if you forget something... let's just say she's a little bit set in her ways. "Bib!" Okay, yes, let's get your bib. "A MEN!" That's right, let's say the blessing. Suz and Kris have both forgotten the blessing portion, and been corrected mid-meal by Kaitlyn. There are worse things she could be picky about, I guess!

Well, that's enough for one evening. Goodnight, and God bless!