In April Philip's sister and kids came for a visit, only for her daughter to come down a few hours later with a terrible flu and had to leave the next day. We were feeling very gipped. So they came back for Memorial weekend. We had lots of windy, warm weather for kites, bubbles, trampoline jumping, barbecuing and our newish tradition of donut making. And not one sickie!! She is also a very talented photographer and I am sharing some of her fantastic pics. It was almost exactly a year ago she came and took these (and I added one so you could see how much our kids have grown up in a year)
This is still my go-to, never fail donut recipe. This is also a good buttermilk old fashioned one I've tried twice fairly successfully. I did make it dairy free with soy buttermilk in exchange for the sour cream. I used the glaze for the old fashioned ones to glaze the raised ones and left the old fashioned plain because the dough is pretty sweet on it's own. Best fresh and warm, but if you have leftovers, freeze them and rewarm in the microwave per my sis-in-law's suggestion and they were YUMMY too!!
And here are some fun action pics.
And a slew of pics of my baby. A birdie told me he didn't like my collages because he wanted full size pics to steal from my blog. So I will try to control myself and just use single shots so be prepared to scroll.
And have I told you that he doesn't say mama.....well at least to me. I figured out why....
He just doesn't believe I am his mama.
He pointed a number of times to his blue eyed, blonde haired AUNT and called her mama, so he can say the word, just not to me.
But I forgive him. He looks like he fits in with her family more.
But that's why I adore him because he is this magical creature to me. He looks nothing like me but he's mine. It's a funny feeling that I can't explain.
And I don't know if I will ever get over it.
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