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GrandMa's Sour Cream Pound Cake This is a good one!  Serve with whip cream and Fresh Strawberries! 3 Cups all-purpose Flour 1/2 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp baking soda 1 1/2 Cups butter (3 sticks) 3 Cups sugar 8 eggs, lightly beaten 1 TB Pure Vanilla Extract 8 oz sour cream Preheat oven to 300 , Combine flour, salt and baking soda.. Cream butter and sugar -add eggs and mix well. Add dry ingredients and mix well. Add vanilla and  sour cream, mix well. Pour into a well greased and floured tube pan and bake at 300 degrees for 1.5 hours. Let cool then put on your most gorgeous cake stand and add a sprig of mint.  Invite a few friends over and enjoy!

I could hardly believe my eyes ! Sparky decorated our last tree last night! It truly was a Christmas miracle. .. thank you Sparky and NOW, I am really worried.......

Searching for snow in the Poconos. .

I always love how the fresh greens make everything look so festive....simple and beautiful. Merry Christmas!

Celebrating hannakha.....

We're  baking cookies on Day 3.....

The Christmas greens are up!

Love this boy...

A marshmallow bath...relaxing before all of the mischief  begins....

Otis Ray is helping me out today.....

I always get tickled at myself when taking pictures for the days of Christmas. I must take a million pictures to get the one that I really like so , today I'm sharing with you some of the bloopers. Merry Christmas

Our Elf on the Shelf flew into town last night.....

Just to kick off the fun......Cookies! 1 egg 1/2 C  sugar 1/2 C Corn oil 1 C flour Mix all together by hand. You may add any type of flavoring , pecans, chocolate chips......what ever you like. Spoon onto cookie sheet and bake 350 for 15 mins. Love these Enjoy

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