Oh Nuts

Instead of hitting the beaches/pools for Labor Day, like we did (or attempted to do) last year, my family and I went hiking/walking instead. My mom was calling it a romp through the woods. After starting the day off with morning mass at the church that we attend and filling up water bottles and grabbing a snack, we set off to a forest preserve that is a couple minutes north of where we live. taken by me :) When we found a parking spot, there was a lot of people there, we started walking in the direction of the waterfall. *points to picture* Since it had been a number of years since any of us had been in this particular forest preserve we all forgot how far it was from where we had parked to where the waterfall was. By the time we reached the waterfall we had walked 3.5 miles one way. Since we were all rather tired from the long, hot walk we had just done, the cold water felt wonderful. After wading around for a bit my dad and brother ran back to where we had parked and drove t...

--1-- Since it is the 4th of July tomorrow I decided to do this weeks 7 Quick Takes with a different dessert for each take. While I haven't had a chance to try any of the recipes yet I thought that it would be fun to share them.  The first dessert recipe on the list is for Strawberry Blueberry Crumble . It sounds like it would be delicious and really easy to make, though I would personally leave out the almond slices. --2-- Recipe number 2 is Strawberry and Blueberry Cheesecake Icebox Cake . The creator of the recipe said that she made the dessert for Memorial Day, but I think it could be made for the 4th of July as well.  --3-- This one I am sharing simply because it looks rather interesting, and not really something that I would necessarily want to make. The third recipe is Red, White and Blue Truffle . --4-- This particular recipe is another rather vibrant red, white and blue dessert and is aptly named Red, White and Blue Cheeseca...

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!