Dessert Buffets by Katie and Alicia

After all the baking was done all we wanted were french fries

Strawberry Shortbread Swirls, the first of hundreds of wedding desserts to be made

Sunrise clouds over the pasture

A new cookbook arrangement (of maybe a third of my cookbooks)

Angels food cake batter all fluffy and lemony

A test batch of Strawberry Shortbread Swirls

Champagne grapes from Bountiful Baskets

Moonlight Swimming

Just hangin out in my pool after work

I'm pretty sure I just made the cutest wedding cookies EVER

Swell Season concert (if you sit up on the hill it's free)

Salt City Burger is my new favorite…with bacon ground into the burger cooked so it's still pink inside and fresh guacamole…I was full for 2 days

First tomatoes from the garden

Apple Pie Bites

Taking engagement pictures makes everyone a little crazy in the end

Quinn and Xavier at Silver Lake

I brushed out Simon's hair

Alec turns one

Backyard sunset on some distant rainshowers across town

Surprise guests at my house, Squashy Joshy (and a couple beardy hippy looking kids in the background eating flan)

Storm clouds gathering somewhere over Idaho

The Skagit River in Washington

Oceanside climbing up on The Malamute

Memorial Crack

Jake going up Deidre

Venturing out onto Alice Lake

Slabby! (appropriately named Satellite Dish)

Log stairs at The Smoke Bluffs

First day of climbing in Squamish

On a walk around town after stopping for brunch in Bellingham WA

Lubing the cams

Xavier with some farmer's market watermelon

On top of the library (Dad likes to point to things in pictures)

That real kind of buttercream frosting made with egg whites instead of shortning.

A walk around Silver Lake

Hiking at Alta with the Mannings…all the Mannings

Unexpected surprise

Hall of Self Portraits at the Springville Art Museum

Drive-Ins

Sunset over the white horses in back

Solstice on The Bear

On the North Summit of Mt. Olympus via The West Slabs

The best way I've found to eat lime curd

Sunset at the Challenge Buttress

I have finally mastered how to make Lemon Curd (that comes out thick enough to hold up a wooden spoon even!)

James lighting Alicia's birthday candles

Flavoring the Lavender Lemon Chiffon Cake

7pm clouds over the horse pasture

Escape from work