Blogger Party

Kelly, Harper and I had a little luncheon yesterday for some of our blogger friends from Texas who were vacationing in the state.
These sweet girls are Chris,sister to Robin, Robin and her daughter, SWEET Caroline! Caroline and her mom Robin came to Tulsa the first night we were there in the NICU with Harper! They prayed with us, loved on us, visited with us and did a prayer walk around the NICU!! We will never forget their genuine love of Jesus that they showed in our time of great stress! They were God-sent!!

By the way, they are as delightful and sweet as they look!!


Harper was passed around by everyone and she took a shine to our Caroline!
Robin brought her sister, Chris, and I had my sister, Linda, join us for lunch too! Harper loves her Aunt Linda!

I had little gift bags made for them with aprons with their names embroidered on them! Caroline is an art teacher and she wears aprons when she paints! Her mom, Robin, just retired from being a math teacher.

We had a great time and we could have talked on for hours! It is a funny bloggy world!

I wanted to include the recipe for the muffins I made. They were delicious if I say so myself!

BUTTERMILK SPICE MUFFINS

Makes 12 regular or 6 large muffins.

Muffin Batter:

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter

3 eggs

2 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. nutmeg

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

3/4 cup plus 1 tbsp. buttermilk

Nut topping:

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup walnuts/pecans,finely chopped

1/2 teasp. cinnamon

1/2 teasp. nutmeg

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a mixing bowl, cream the sugar and the butter together with an electric mixer. When they are thoroughly mixed, add eggs and beat one more minute.

Sift flour into a separate bowl, together with the baking soda, nutmeg and cinnamon.

Add the flour and the buttermilk to the first mixture, mix at low speed until smooth. To avoid lumps in the batter, add the wet and dry ingredients alternately, in small amounts.

Make the nut topping: Mix all ingredients in a small bowl.

Grease muffin tins with butter/margarine/or spray with oil. You can use paper baking cups. Fill each cup 3/4 full of batter. Add a full, rounded tablespoon of nut topping on top of each muffin cup of batter. BAKE IMMEDIATELY or the topping will sink to the bottom of the muffin.

Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown.

Recipe yields 12 standard-size muffins, or six large-size muffins. If using the jumbo muffin pan, REDUCE the oven temperature by 25 degrees and INCREASE the baking time 5-10 minutes.