For Christmas, my Grandma passed on her old rolling pin to me. It’s old and wooden. And broken in. And beautiful. It’s incredibly smooth and I can still taste all the homemade noodles that she rolled out with it for me and my family. (Have you ever made homemade noodles? It’s really not as difficult Read more about A well-floured surface.[…]
Whenever I make these cookies, somebody always requests the recipe. In my opinion (and I have done a lot of research), these are the best chocolate chip cookies around. So good, in fact, that I sorta want to selfishly hoard the recipe for myself so I can continue to get all those compliments! But, alas, Read more about Best chocolate chip cookies ever.[…]
Yesterday was my Lilah’s second birthday and we have spent the weekend celebrating. We started her day with pancakes at iHop, a gigantic Minnie Mouse balloon at Party City, and many hours of playing on her new swingset/playgym that Brady built for her. He just finished it yesterday, so the timing was perfect. She happily Read more about A Mousey Birthday.[…]
Baby Graham turned one month old yesterday. Pretty crazy how time flies when you’re having fun (or when you’re sleep-deprived). He couldn’t say so himself, but I know he’s pretty pumped to be one month old. Life is pretty great for him. Not a care in the world. Here’s some recent shots of him. I Read more about One month. One year.[…]
We celebrated Christmas with my husband’s family this past weekend and Lilah got her first real dose of holiday. She was excited about opening the gifts and even more excited about playing with them! We took her to see Santa and I think she was more into it than he was! And as a bonus, Read more about Christmas 1.0[…]
No sonogram pictures to share 🙁 Brady and I went to the appointment and decided to wait another month for the sono because we couldn’t agree on whether or not to learn the gender of our unborn child. I am dying to know (although I’ve always said I wanted surprises) and Brady is a rock Read more about Babies and chocolate.[…]
Haven’t posted lately cause I’ve been extra busy. Last weekend, we threw my folks a surprise party in honor of my Mom’s 50th birthday and their 30th wedding anniversary. Lots of work to get it all pulled together without them finding out, but in the end, we did it. We had about 100 people show Read more about Whew, that was a long post.[…]
Seems we’ve had so many reasons to celebrate lately. My folks’ 30th wedding anniversary. Lilah’s 1st birthday. Mother’s Day. Celebration = lots of yummy desserts 🙂 We’ve been very busy with work lately, and all the other tasks of life. Preparing for our upcoming vacation to Boston, spring gardening, birthday prep and festivites, etc, etc. Read more about Celebration.[…]
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