Winner of VIP pack for Pillsbury Orange Sweet Rolls is.....

Susan!
She will get a gift pack for Pillsbury that will include coupons for Pillsbury Orange Sweet Rolls and a photo album especially for keeping pictures of meal time memories.

I've been thinking about this idea and I think Pillsbury is so right. We cook lots of meals and take lots of pictures, but I have very few family pictures of special meals.
I did find a couple and want to share them with you. I hope it will inspire you to take photos of your ordinary meals as well as your big occasion family meals.


this one is a family dinner at my dad's parents home. My mom and dad are the good-looking ones on the front end of the table. Beside my mom, is Aunt Delores, then my grandparents, MiMi and Victor, then Uncle Jesse - I'm not sure who the next 2 men are.

This is my dad standing at the end of the buffet at a big family meal at my Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Jarvis's home. I think the occasion may of been my
grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary. I do know for certain that all the food was delicious because everyone on my moms side cooked like a pro.
I think there are 8 Jello salads at the end of this table - that family all loves Jello salads. Uncle Bill especially loved every Jello salad - it was a family joke that no matter what flavor, every Jello salad was Uncle Bill's favorite.

Today's Chinese Proverb:

Talk doesn't cook rice.

just another way of saying, if you do stuff, stuff gets done.


this guy in the middle of the first photo, stirring the huge pot of rice, reminds me of when I cooked for a fraternity - I seemed to always be cooking huge amounts of stuff surrounded by lots of boys eating like locusts.



photos are from Flickr

Sepia Saturday

Betsy requested I participate in Sepia Saturday, so here goes.....
I hope you like these photos as much as I do


This is Charley and Fay, my grandparents, in 1949, on their anniversary.
Grandma does look really young to of been married for 33 years, the women in our family all got that young-looking gene, and since Grandma got married when she was just 16, she does look great.
Grandpa was 24 when they got married.

This is Tom and Carrie, my great uncle and aunt. Aunt Carrie and my grandma were sisters.
Both families were farmers and lived in Breckinridge Oklahoma most all of their lives.

I think this note from the back of this photo explains the occasion. Is this sweet or what?

Pillsbury Orange Sweet Rolls Giveaway

BlogSpark and Pillsbury have asked me to host a giveaway for them. The winner will receive a VIP pack for Pillsbury Orange Sweet Rolls. Pillsbury says family breakfasts are a great time to make good famiy memories. So, they will also give the winner a photo album to store their photos in, to remind them of happy memories.
Pillsbury is looking for pictures of families enjoying breakfast together, so if you post a family picture on your blog, be sure to tell me about it in the comment so Pillsbury and Blogspark will know too.

I've always served breakfast to my family - they especially liked pancakes, waffles, coffeecake, biscuits with gravy, eggs in a basket and Dutch babies.


Here are some vintage pictures of my children and some children I cared for enjoying breakfast - approximately 1990.



To enter, just leave a comment with your favorite breakfast - I'll draw a winner Monday, Feb. 8.

click here to print a 95 cent coupon on Pillsbury orange cinnamon rolls

USMC humor

unless you know a Marine, you won't get the humor in this - but since I know several Marines really well, it made me laugh out loud