Sister Night With Al

Yesterday was a great day with my baby sister, who as it turns out isn't so baby anymore. Just about a month ago we celebrated her 16th Birthday and I hadn't seen her since our family dinner. Before my crazy busy work schedule starts back up and she starts school again i really wanted to try to get a sister sleep over on the schedule. So we did just that yesterday.

I picked Al up and we went to a local farmers market to pick out some yummies for dinner. We made our way home and started to prep dinner. We baked the potatoes for the twice baked potatoess. Neither of us had ever made them so it sounded like a fun thing to try together. (They came out delish but we may have over stuffed the skin because the potato stuffing ran all over the baking pan, oops. They were still good though).

After we had the baked potatoes prepped we decided we had better make the log cake (also known as a chocolate icebox) if we were going to try to eat it since it takes 4 hours to set. Our goal was to make it look as much like a log as possible. I think we did pretty good. What do you think?

After most of the dinner prep was done. The hubs took us girls to the driving range. In the past the hubs and I have played a lot of golf in the summer but this summer has flown bye. He has a work golf outing coming up so we figured it was time to hit some balls and why not teach my little sister how to.

She was nervous but the hubs helped her out. She took instruction from him and she learned a lot. She had quite the stance and stroke on her first try! She was also the first person i had ever hit balls with that preferred the high number clubs opposed to the big ones. 

Most of her balls went to write about here....

Post golf. We went home and prepped the veggies for the grill while the hubs worked on the chicken. We had a great dinner and we followed it up by a round of Kings Corner (my favorite card game of all time). We also spent some time looking into a weekend to take her on an Indiana College visit.We finished the night with some log cake. It was perfect!