During our first year of marriage, we attended a church in Mesquite and worked with the high school youth group. One of the other youth workers often brought her famous Oatmeal Creme Pie cookes to our leader meetings. Dennis fell in love (with the cookies)! Our second year of marriage, Dennis was in his first year as the counselor at Agnew Middle School. He decided to bake Ashley's cookies for everyone on the staff. The problem was he couldn't find Ashley's recipe. We were no longer attending the same church and didn't know how to contact her. We found another Oatmeal Creme Pie recipe online and tried it out but they just weren't the same. Dennis went to the store to get more ingredients and guess who was waiting at the pharmacy for a prescription? It was a Christmas miracle!!!! :) Well, maybe not, but Ashley was gracious to go home and email us the recipe again.
I was working on my Masters classes and couldn't help out much with this daunting endeavor but Dennis strapped on my apron and got to work in our little apartment kitchen making about 400 cookies (200 pies) in order to give two to every person on staff, including the custodians and kitchen ladies.
Those efforts in the kitchen earned him the "Pillsbury Doughboy" award at the end-of-year staff party and his cookies were an expectation every year afterwards. This year, Dennis decided to bring the tradition to McDonald. It took three nights of baking with some packaging help from my parents and these cute little baggies were the result. The cookies themselves aren't that cute but the picture of the little girl stapled to the bags sure is!
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