"Lazy" Weekend

What a fabulous weekend in the Mountains, the sun was shining, weather was great and we had a great time visiting with friends and family we don't get to see often. On Friday night my second parents, Aunt Edith & Uncle Will came to Canmore for a visit and some dinner. We enjoyed a lovely afternoon browsing Main St., taking Petey for walk and a fantastic dinner at the Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co. Even tho we took a photo of us, I simply cannot post it, it's not flattering to anyone, really, it's awful. I do have a photo of the Ocean Wise pizza we ate... 

On Saturday we woke up and went to some garage sales, I just love garage sale season, especially with a baby on the way! Our friend Sarah was in town from Victoria so we had a lovely girls lunch at the Trough Dinning Co., then a short shopping trip in Banff, and a BBQ afterwards. Nothing better than spending the day with good friends.

Sunday I puttered around the house, sorting thru baby clothes, sorting thru piles on my desk, visiting with friends and baking cookies. My most favourite garage sale find of all time is a book called "Magnificent Cookies Cookbook", the name says everything. My favourite recipe from it is for some simple Chocolate Chip Cookies. I'll post the recipe below.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

INGREDIENTS

1 1/4 cup Butter

2 Cups Packed light Brown Sugar

2 large Eggs

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

3 cups All-purpose Flour (I use 1 cup all-purpose white, 2 cups whole-wheat)

1 tsp Baking Soda

1/2 tsp Salt

3 cups Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips

DIRECTIONS

• Preheat oven to 375

• Cream butter

• Add sugar and beat until fluffy

• Add eggs and vanilla extract and beat until blended

• In a large bowl stir together flour, baking soda & salt

• Gradually add to creamed mixture and beat until blended

• Stir in chocolate chips by hand until they are evenly distributed

• Drop dough by teaspoon onto prepared cookie sheets

• Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden

• Cool on racks

Enjoy!