29 October 2009

Happy Birthday My Loves

I can't believe how fast time has gone by. Our little boys are one year old. Its been an amazing year.





























Waiting for cake!


Ohhh that looks yummy (and dangerous!)






































And so begins another year with our amazing family!

18 October 2009

CAKE TIME!!!!!






Unfortunatley the other video with is much longer, and funnier is having problems uploading because its just a large file.

09 October 2009

Happy Boys!

Seriously, how could you not fall in love with these two charming, adorable boys?!








Its Baaacccckkk!

Remember this post here???

Well, almost 5 months later and its back!

This is what we woke up to this morning!


It was a nice, brisk 23 degrees at 6am. And by 8am it was an even brisker 18 degrees! It is slowly starting to warm up again. Its 20 now.

I have to admit that I was excited to see snow this morning. Its been looking like it was going to snow for the last week. And earlier this week we had sleet for a few minutes. But today, today it FINALLY snowed!

And so begins our long winter.

05 October 2009

Meeaaannnn Mooommmmyyyyy




A Sneak Peek

As many of you know, I am a planner. I love lists. And outlines. And plans.

I believe it was in April shortly after we moved out here when I first started making plans for the boys' birthday. At first it was lists of party theme ideas. And then once the theme was settled, the lists begin expanding. There is the guest list. And the decorations list. And the party favor list. Food, outfits, presents... they all got their own list. And then the lists expanded to shopping lists. Each with its own category. What to buy ahead. What to wait to buy. What to make ahead. What to do right before the party.

I made the vanilla cupcakes a few weeks ago and they've been in our freezer. This weekend after we got home from grocery shopping there was no more room in the freezer for the cupcakes. I intended on bringing them over to a friend's who I've been borrowing freezer space from for the party. But it never happened. And they defrosted. Oh Darn.

This is in addition to the brownies I made for the party. And then ate. To make room for the cupcakes to go in the freezer (anyone see a trend here?!). I made a second batch of brownies yesterday to put in the freezer. And leave there. BUT. I needed 2/3 c. of oil. I ran out of vegetable oil at 1/2c. So I topped it off with olive oil. And we only had extra large eggs. Not just large. The new batch of brownies while DELICIOUS are too moist and perfectly gooey to crumble as I want them to. Oh Darn again.

I decided to do a full trial run of the cupcakes. Originally I planned on making my own chocolate frosting. Today, since I was just doing a trial run, I picked up a can of frosting. And I have changed my mind. Triple Chocolate Fudge Chip Frosting. The thickest, fudge-y-est, creamy-est frosting you could imagine. With miniature melt-in-your-mouth chocolate chips. Oh yes! I don't even feel bad that it isn't homemade!

Here is a sneak peek of G&Z's Big Number One Birthday Party cupcakes!

02 October 2009

Baby Its Gonna Be Cold Outside

Yesterday I got the boys' brand new snowsuits in the mail from Cabela's. Of course I had to try them on the boys. And of course I had to take pictures.

G was not thrilled at all with the suit. He felt it was "constricting" and a invasion of his personal space.






Thank you Nana and Papa!!!

01 October 2009

Saucy Goodness

Garlic-Chicken Linguine gets a thumbs up from the midgetmen!