Cinnamondee

Halloween

So anyway, its pretty sad when your own daughter tells you that you take Halloween way too seriously and need to spend more time with your kids. Sigh.  Me, scolding my son "Stop bugging me- I need to finish my costume!!!" is possibly a sign that I need to ease up.  Well, here's some Halloween love, I have to admit I spent way too much time setting up for one days worth of festivities, but I will have them for next year when I again neglect my family to decorate, play dress up and watch way too much Addams Family reruns. :p

 

C-boy as something scary that we don't know the name of

C-girl as Jack Skellington, and her two cousins the Woodland Fairy and Birthday Present

Me, as Angry Bird.  Ugh. Cause I enjoy bumping into a dozen different kids in the head as I walk around and have my husband carry my drink and feed me through a straw because my beak is in the way and incidently the beak stuffing was going up my nose.  I definitely won't be going as this next year.

My sister's family did the Domo pumpkin

We did the evil "why is our pumpkin sinking in?" one.

C-boy seemed to enjoy his mask a little too much.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!!!!

Chocolate Werewolves

We made this from C-girls favorite cookbook, "Hello, Cupcake" -Werewolves...

They don't look quite like the book ones but we tried our best.  And they used A LOT of frosting.  Much more than I figured.  And took way more time then I anticipated.  Which is why you only see 5 out of a 24 batch of cupcakes.  Cause that's how we give up around here. 

You run out of M&M eye's so you use Skittles. You run out of Skittles and you call it a day.  I found out that I get very fussy when frosting goes all over my arms.  Wasn't pretty.

So we ate it all anyways. 

Its all G.

Had an extraordinary birthday full of handmade gifts from the kids and W, beautiful flowers and dinner cooked by my talented husband. He even baked a chocolate cake from scratch!!! Not that pretty but extremely delicious.

I am a lucky lucky girl. Kinda old, but lucky.

Chopped!!!

My little brother competed on the Food Network show "Chopped" which aired yesterday (and I think will air again on Friday, on either the regular Food Network channel or the HDTV one not sure which)....

It was an amazing episode!!! So proud of him :)

Awesomest mothers day -ever !! (W cooked for me)
Happy Mothers Day!!

Happy Happy Earth Day

Hope everyone had an excellent Earth Day. We did the usual, school, soccer, dinner...

But you should see my trash for the past week!  Or lack thereof.  Sweeet.

We're going to shoot for 4 weeks and one trash bag, but who knows?  Might be five.  Yes, I hate to have people get all jealous of my exciting life. 

Happy Happy:)

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Breckenridge

We took a little vacation to Breckenridge this past Presidents Day break-

our suite had a fireplace so we roasted marshmallows and had s'mores at night (yes, we Hawaii people get excited over stuff like that)

C-boy and C-girl at ski school-

 

the three of us at the end of the mountain

the Kidtopia snow fort at Keystone resort after we went tubing-

inside the fort...W peeking around the corner

C-boy on a quest for good snowball making material

the pretty Belgian Draft horses that took us on our dinner sleigh ride-
 

A perfect week and our second trip to this great little town, hopefully we'll be back soon!!
 
  
 

New Year

Hope everyone is having a super new year !

Its been a long blog break, so far we've been...

Chasing off the bad spirits, guess who liked that the most?

 

Bubble, bubble, bubble.  My brother in law is the chemist behind AMAZING bubbles-

 
Trying out different cinnamon roll recipes, this one is Alton Brown's Overnite Cinnamon Rolls-

We'll see tonite if it passes the test at Nana's house!   

Right Down Santa Claus Lane

 
How can it be over???? Well, we had a blast this Christmas...

(pattern for the ornament I made above by pimpstitch)

we put up our new (to us) tree (given by our Aunty) our old one that we bought on Craigslist bit the dust and Aunty was getting rid of hers, just in the nick of time.

the kids got a couple of new games, Jenga MAX anyone?  The girl screams everytime it falls, almost louder than I do...

our traditional walk around the neighborhood to look at lights-

 

The best presents from the kids - a wall hanging sewn by C-girl and pinch pot tree by C-boy. Love it!

A belated Merry Christmas to everyone!!!!

“Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.  He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.” 
-Francis Pharcellus Church, 1897