Abercrombie Family : 2011

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

FAMILY FUN & MEMORIES IN WILLIAMSBURG

We were in Williamsburg enjoying a great fall Saturday morning in December. The weather was nice, crisp enough for a sweater, and yet warm enough to shed the gloves and scarves. We watched the Christmas Parade, then found warm cider to keep me happy and off for a walk we went!

We found so many things of interest. History, history, history! After walking down the main street in Colonial Williamsburg, we take more photos and we came across an old oak tree. It was a beautiful oak tree with its limbs stretching wide, its leaves abundant and its trunk going in many directions.

It was a "perfect" tree! As we walked closer and closer, Logan noticed the tree with a different view than we had! He noticed the tree as a cousin of mine use to look at trees! He saw it as an invitation to climb!

Logan loves to climb and this tree looked like a beautiful climbing tree to a little boy that had never had an opportunity to climb a tree before!

The lesson found in this day... "Take time to enjoy life." Walk, see the world and the marvelous creations that God has blessed each of us with. You see so much more when walking than you ever see while driving...

We did things like this with Tammy, Aaron and Chris when they were little. Tammy and Aaron walked with us in the hills and woods of Massachusetts and Connecticutt, Chris walked with us in the mountains in Virginia, and Logan is enjoying our Williamsburg walks.... Memories made when we take walks, not marathons, with our kids... Tammy would always say, "Daddy, slow down...I can't keep up"!

Slow down, speed up, turn around, back up, go forward... Just keep putting one foot in front of the other and make some family memories for you to share with your family....

Enjoy your day!!!!

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

HANAH BETH

Hanah in June 2000

1 year old...

CHRIS

Can You Believe...

Can you believe that this little one is almost 22, and not 22 months, but 22 years old!!!
Time passes so quickly and these little ones grow up too fast...
This is Christopher "Chris"

Sunday, August 7, 2011

TAMMY & AARON

Tammy & Aaron...

TAMMY MICHELLE

My precious Tammy Michelle... Gosh, time flies by quickly. I think she was 2 and a 1/2 years old. Taken Christmas 1977...

ABERCROMBIE FAMILY

This is the Abercrombie Family, actually, my husband's Grandmother Grace, and the 3 children, Joyce, William "Leon" and Marvin...
This is probably in the early 40's.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

CONSUMERS and SELLERS

Have you ever looked at ads? Well, the adds normally depict what the seller is selling, such as a picture of a dress or someone wearing a dress, you'd then assume the dress is what they are selling, correct?
Well, I have noticed that some well known clothing brands (great clothing may I add) that lack advertising savvy. The picture in their ad is a cute guy with NO shirt (nice chest) would this mean they are selling a guy with a nice chest? NO, they seem to be selling blue jeans...and there isn't even any blue jeans pictured except the top of the zipper and snap...
Now, for the really good one, I went to a popular real estate web page and noticed that people that want to sell their house, I thought, would picture many pictures of their HOUSE!!!
NO, I found people that had pictures of their goats, their horses, their chickens, and their nice furniture or their untidy mess.
First off, if I were buying their house, I want to see pictures of their HOUSE, NOT their pets... I don't want to purchase their pets, I want the house. I DON"T want their messy house! I don't want to see everyone's china cabinet in 14 different pictures. I couldn't care less if it were an antique or your prize possession. Take pictures of THE HOUSE, the rooms and yes, while your furniture is in there, I want the picture of the room with all the furniture, not just a piece of furniture. I am not purchasing that piece of furniture!
For the nursery rooms, they look great especially when it is of the room not just a picture of the crib by itself.
No kidding, even buying a house on acreage, you want the picture of the WHOLE yard, beautifully landscaped, but not of a chicken pen... Come on people... What are you trying to sell? Your pets or your home? No wonder we have so many people that can't sell their homes...
Advertise what you are selling.... Not abstract stuff....
Just a blog of my thought of the day!!!!

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

EASTER 2011

We had an enjoyable Easter! We went to church then over to Larry and Joan's for lunch with my cousins. We visited with Larry, Joan, Dan, Jackie, Carlos, Alex, Vanessa and Natalie. When we returned home, we hid eggs for Logan to hunt. He had fun playing with Natalie and then had fun hunting Easter Eggs.

What a great Day!!!

We wish our older children and the grandkids had been able to share it with us, but maybe next year!!!

Happy Easter 2011.....

EASTER EGG HUNT with Logan

Monday, April 25, 2011

CARRIE UNDERWOOD and STEVEN TYLER ROCK IT LIVE - Undo it / Walk This Way...

I loved this performance! I can hardly wait to hear Steven Tyler perform this with Lauren Alaina, as I think that they sound good together too. Carrie sounds wonderful as always, but Steven and Lauren could really pull this off! Maybe on the finale they will have Lauren perform a song with Scotty, and with Steven...

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

SUBMARINE USS Nebraska

SUBMARINE DOCU : uss virginia 1

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

RECIPE: HELLO DOLLIES

HELLO DOLLIES

2 cups graham cracker crumbs (chop in food processor)
2 TBSP sugar (some recipes call for 1/4 cup sugar, but I find this fine)
1 stick unsalted butter (if unsalted you can use the 1-2 TBSP sugar instead of 1/4 cup)
1 cup chopped pecans (large and roughly chopped)
1 cup chocolate morsels
1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk

Pre-Heat Oven 350

Place parchment paper in an 8 x 8 baking dish...

Melt 1 stick unsalted butter and add 2 cups graham cracker crumbs, and 2 TBSP sugar and mix together.
Place mixture in an 8 x 8 baking dish and press firmly to create a crust...
After the crust portion is complete:
sprinkle 1 cup chopped pecans evenly over top then,
sprinkle 1 cup chocolate morsels evenly over top of pecans then,
sprinkle 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut over top of morsels then,
drizzle evenly with sweetened condensed milk

and bake for 25-35 minutes at 350.....
bake until top is allowing some of the coconut to golden brown especially around the edges...

variations: IF you do not like coconut.... use miniature marshmallows...... wonderful to take to a get together...

VERY GOOD WITH A CUP OF HOT COFFEE..............

RECIPE: PINEAPPLE CASSEROLE

PINEAPPLE CASSEROLE

1 cup sugar

6 TBSP flour

2 cups grated cheese

2 (20oz) pineapple chunks

1 cup Ritz Cracker crumbs

8 TBSP (1 stick) butter

6 TBSP Pineapple Juice

Pre-Heat oven to 350

Drain 2 (20oz cans) pineapple chunks and place in an 8 x 8 baking dish.

Save and set aside the pineapple juice.

Mix 1 cup sugar and 6 TBSP flour together and sprinkle evenly over top of pineapple

Then take the 2 cups grated cheese and sprinkle on top of the previous layer

Place 1 cup Ritz Cracker crumbs on top.... I place 1 sleeve of Ritz crackers in a baggy and hit with or smash with hand....

Then 8 TBSP butter melted and drizzled over the cracker crumbs

Then 6 TBSP Pineapple juice drizzled over the cracker crumbs...

Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes

variations: some people mix together the flour, sugar, pineapple and cheese and place in dish and then add the crackers crumbs....

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

CHRIS, MATT, LOGAN, MARVIN, & WANDA

Taken 12-30-2010
Happy New Year... 2011!!!!
Try to get family photos taken sometime between Christmas
and New Years... We take those that are here and we were
missing many this year... Maybe next year we'll have more of
us together... We enjoyed having Matthew here visiting for a
few days..........not long enough!!!