Lasagna Night at Lake Cavanaugh

My cousin, Travis Lawton, is a professional photographer.

While we were in Washington State to meet his 6 month old daughter Lilah,
he snapped some photos.  

I wanted to impress my family a bit with
some things I learned in culinary school.  I ended up going to 
an old family stand by...my mother's lasagna!
Since we had lots of people, I decided to make 1 by her
exact recipe, and the other one veggie and a bit healthier.















Father fed an even bigger flock!
No complaints, but we had LOTS of veggie
left over!

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