take your jacket off and stay awhile

for me, it is so refreshing and reassuring to turn on the news now and see an update regarding our new president and what's he's doing to make this country better.

He's rolling up his shirt sleeves and getting down to business, I love it! The whole country (or at least in my "world") is full of excitment and hope for a great new change to come our way.

All American Apple Pie

As part of our election night celebration I made individual apple pies; recently Fer and I went to a restaurant here in Atlanta and had an individual apple pie for dessert and I thought what a good idea and wanted make them at home for us, well when I saw on the Daily Show (where I get all my news from) a clip of Barack Obama saying that he likes Pie I decided what could be better for our election night dessert but All American Apple Pie.

They turned out DELICIOUS as you saw from my previous post I think for the first time in my life I mastered the pie crust and after indulging in our apple pies tasting the most delicious and flaky crust I would say I did. (it was just a triumphant night all the way around.)

Here's how they looked:

I rolled out the pie crust on a sheet of parchment paper, got that idea from the Martha Stewart Cooking School Cookbook and what a good idea because then it didn't stick to the counter and I could move it around. Shocking to me it rolled out so nicely.

getting ready to go in the oven

out of the oven

all dressed up and ready to celebrate. :)

Congratulations Barack Obama!

What a night. It was so emotional on so many levels, was he going to win, was he not. Fingers crossed eyes glued to the TV. We saw history made and there is finally HOPE again in the U.S.

A piece from Obama's speech:

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where
all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive
in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your
answer.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.

It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.

OBAMA: We are, and always will be, the United States of America.

{VOTE}

I know I will be glued to the TV tonight with my fingers crossed! Go OBAMA!