Egg Drop Soup

We had an awesome RS meeting tonight.  It was all about how to use spices and herbs.  Our committee leader asked a few of us to make soups showcasing some of the spices.  Mine was Egg Drop Soup.  It's showcased spice was ginger.  And it was great!  Derek thought it was delicious, a lot of people at RS liked it, and then I took some leftovers to a friend's book group and they loved it there too!

Here's a link to the recipe on allrecipes.com.  It was really easy and the recipe said that you could freeze it.  I think I'll be making a huge batch tomorrow!

PS:  I failed today at November's goal (see sidebar).  There were clean dishes in the dishwasher and that was just too many dishes to do after RS and a book group! :)  So I'll be cleaning the kitchen up in the morning.

Back by Popular Demand....

Walking

So about three days ago, Cadence decided that walking was on her to do list.  She's been taking steps here and there for a couple months, but this weekend it was the real deal.  And here's a video of the cuteness.

I need your opinion

I don't usually do a fancy edit on my photos.  Usually I don't like the edit to overpower the photo but my ISO was set a little too high on this photo so I wanted to see what I could do to mask that.  Which edit do you like best?

Edit A:  My usual edit.  Just the basic touch-ups

Edit B: A medium edit.

Edit C: The basic edit with an added texture.

Edit D: Not my usual type of edit at all.  I like how her eyes and lips pop.  I think it's too contrasty, but I kind of like the artsy feel of it.

New Photos

Some fun photos edited with free actions!!!

These photos were edited with CoffeeShop's Perfect Portrait 2, and Isabelle LaFrance's 1-2-3 Haze

This second photo is the one I'd like to enter for the Paper Mama's Touch-up Tuesday challenge.

This photo was edited with CoffeeShop's Perfect Portrait 2, and Pamela Topping's Fairy Dust textures

Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake it!

Cadence learned how to shake her head no today.  She has no idea what it means.  She shakes her head in response to any question asked her.  Well, shakes her head or shrugs her shoulders.  Either way, it's the cutest thing I've ever seen!

Couponing at Wal-mart

Here's my loot from my Walmart trip this morning. I had only planned on getting the 6 half gallons of 8th Continent soymilk at Walmart because it's $1.20 cheaper than at Albertsons, but they had all the other stuff I was looking for so I kept shopping.

My savings this trip weren't as great as they have been because I had to do some non-coupon shopping... :( But I still got some pretty good deals. I spent $37.67 and saved $26.00! The 6 soymilks, 4 bottles of juice, and 2 bags of rolls were between .50-.60 each. Derek was especially excited because I came home with TWO packages of Oreos; one of them was free. He gets into couponing when it means free oreos!! :D

Usually I have a lot of trouble checking out with coupons at Walmart but today my checker (I think her name was Gayle) was awesome!