Little trip to the South

Clint and I celebrated our 10th anniversary in September! We put together a little trip with my parents, who will be celebrating their 41st in November.
We decided we wanted to get in the truck and drive - East. We landed in Mississippi. We spent 2 days visiting Vicksburg and touring the battlefields, cruising down the Mississippi River and just relaxing. One day for lunch we stopped at this little hole in the wall place. It was literally 3 "shacks" in a row. One was the cookshack, one the ?storage? and one was where you ate and paid.
It was so whimsical and quirky. There were fresh produce bins lined on every table. It was a place you could look for hours and see something new all the time! I took some pictures, actually a lot of pics! Everything was so bright.







We drove down the Natchez Trace Parkway and spent the next 2 days in beautiful Natchez! We loved it. We ate, walked, ate, shopped, and ate! Fat Mamas Tamales while watching some SEC football on Saturday, that was fun! We toured several plantations while there. We toured Rosalie, Longwood and Stanton Hall. We had brunch Sunday at Stanton Hall, fried chicken, seafood gumbo, andouille dressing, itty bitty biscuits and jelly, creole cheesecake (to die for!) and sweet tea. Oh, it was SOOO good. We had a wonderful vacation. It was so nice to get away for a few days!

My newest obsession! (new post just for Sherri!)

I always love a new challenge! A few weeks ago I helped host a baby shower for a dear friend. We had decided we wanted those cute little decorated cookies for our guests to take home as favors. I piped up that I would make them! Have I ever made a decorated cookie, you ask? Well, no, but I am sure I can figure it out!!! So, I made a trip to Hobby Lobby, looked at a few blogs on-line and off I go! I invited my bestie over to help. She is my confidence booster! We made up the cookie dough and had to do a little taste test! It was wonderful!!!
As some of the cookies were baking, the icing got started. It posed more of a challenge in the fact that we had to quadruple the recipe and we decided it definately DID NOT have enough liquid in the recipe. So, a little of this and a little of that later, we had a perfect royal icing. LET THE DECORATING BEGIN.........

5 hours later, we had a finished project!!! They turned out so cute and they were delicious!!!

AND.... as for the title of this post, we are decorating Halloween cookies this Sunday afternoon! And I have basketball cookies to do, and Thanksgiving cookies to fix, and Christmas cookies to decorate....well, you get the picture!