Memory Lane: Quincy and the Halloween Dessert

Once upon a time I put granola in my breakfast bowl and went to the fridge for milk, only to find that there wasn't any.
So I grabbed a V-8 and headed to work.
On my way home from work I stopped at the grocery store and picked up breadsticks and sour cream for dinner that night and headed home.
The next morning I put granola in my breakfast bowl and went to the fridge for milk, only to find that there still wasn't any.
So I grabbed a V-8 and headed to work.
On my way home from work I stopped at the grocery store and picked up some fresh tomatoes and a jar of pickle stackers for dinner that night and headed home.

When I got home I realized what I'd done.  Again.

Don't worry, the kids got things like pancakes for breakfast. 

But last night, when I got home and realized that, for the second day in a row, I'd stopped at the store and not bought milk, we rounded up and went to Target for odds and ends as a family... and I finally got milk.

Today I decided that I needed to go through that giant binder that has sorted, un-scrapbooked pictures in it and start posting my old fall/Halloween pictures.

The first one I came across is pretty lame, but I didn't have too much time to rummage through the binder since, as always, I'd left this to last minute and I needed to splitsville to work.

So today you get this:

I look so little.

And I'm thinking my cake skills have come along a bit since then...

Any guesses on how old I was in this picture???

This was October of 2002, I was 23 years old, and about 3 months (?) pregnant with my third child.  I was living in Quincy, Washington on the Hodges farm and I remember having this picture taken.  I'm pretty sure I made this dessert for a dinner that we'd invited people over for?  We were always inviting people over for Sunday dinner, and hands down, this picture was taken on a Sunday because I still have that skirt, and believe me, I only wear skirts on Sunday.

I used to be such a social person, but it seems I'm not so much any more. 

Perhaps I'll make that a resolution.  We need to start inviting people over more.  Game night?  Dessert night?  Plain ol' come eat dinner with us night.  I just wonder if anyone would want to :).

I remember being pretty dang pleased with that there dessert, as you can see by the humongous smile on my face. And the fact that I had a picture of it taken, because frankly, there aren't a lot of pictures with me in them from back then.

Alrighty then... who's coming over on Saturday ;).