Meeting Neighbors

Last night was National Night Out for those of you who didn't feel the need to hang out with your neighbors. Will and I took the opportunity to meet our neighbors (well not the ones immediately next door to us, but a block away). See, we live on a "busy" street that wouldn't really work for a block party. But, we were invited to the block party around the corner from us. It was amazing how many people where there who were within 5/10 years of us. AND we weren't even the "newest" neighbors. There was a couple at the block party who just bought a house and are moving in at the end of the month. Everyone was very nice and welcoming. It made us even happier about our move.

I made these amazing brownies too - S'mores brownies. I can't take complete credit for the recipe, it really belongs to Betty Crocker or Duncan Hines. But I did make a slight improvement. I used graham cracker crumbs instead of quartered graham crackers. Anyway, here is the recipe:

- Make 1 box of brownies as normal.
- Bake for 5 minutes less than the recipe calls for
- Take the brownies out of the oven and cover the top with miniature marshmallows
- Sprinkle chocolate chips on top of the minature marshmallows
- Cover the top of the chocolate chip/marshmallow mixture with graham cracker crumbs
put brownies back in the oven for the remaining 5 minutes
- Take out of oven after 5 minutes and let cool COMPLETELY (about 1/2 hour to an hour) uncovered. (This is very important otherwise your knife gets covered in marshmallows and you can't cut the brownies properly).
- Enjoy!!

I only watched part of the Twins game last night, but I heard it was awful. Here are your updates:

Twins walks as of 8/6/08: 338
Cubs home runs as of 8/6/08: 129