so I’ll just write about everything.
Watching a food network show about ‘comfort food’ during a snow day is totally unfair. I want to run to the gorcery store and throw together a fantabulous meal. Instead of the leftovers I was planning on serving today. Man, I love cooking. I wish I had more time to. Have you seen this show? I think she’s a little annoying, but I like her general idea….
Watching Food Network makes me want Le Creuset and an awesome stove.
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Today we went outside on an ‘adventure’ and made a snowman. They’re not really sick anymore, so they could finally play in the snow. Sadly, the snow is covered in a layer of ice so its not packing very well. But we had fun anyway, throwing snowballs at the trees and making footprints. See our pathetic snowman?
Me:Okay, we don’t throw snowballs at people, okay? Especially not at peoples’ faces, okay?
Girls: Okay, Mama.
SPLAT. Ellie throws a snowball that lands directly on top of Grace’s head.
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We had two parties this weekend for Ellie. Saturday we took her and two friends to Chuck E. Cheese. (After that, Mama had to restrain herself from bathing them in undiltued Purell. Ugh.) Then Sunday we had family over for her ‘real’ party, with cake and presents. She had a great time and has been singing “Happy Birthday” to herself all weekend. She baked her own cake and was extremely proud. (It was very yummy. We adapted this recipe into a two-layer cake, substituting a white cake mix.)
Here she is playing air hockey and with her cake. I just realized I should probably take the Christmas trees off the fridge…. Now we have to convince her that her birthday is, in fact, over.
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I’m super depressed because we lost power last night and I missed the Oscars! I love watching stuff like that. Now I’m resigned to surfing the ‘net trying to find out what happened. The bright side is that the power came on again around 1am so we were saved from freezing to death ’cause our house got cold really quickly.
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That cake looks hella yummy! And don’t worry. The Oscar’s wasn’t that great this year. I like to see all of the dresses and the stars, but the overall content was pretty boring this year. There weren’t any awesome or over the top acceptance speechs, nobody wore anything scandalous. It was the ‘safe’ and conservative Oscar’s!
Our directv wasn’t working on Sunday night so we missed all of our shows too
That cake looks delicious! I am glad she had a great birthday!
ellen showed lots of the oscars yesterday, but ya gotta like ellen to watch it.
the cake sounds yummy. i might also adapt this into a bday cake for my dad this weekend. i remember seeing this before. i love anything that uses the words buttercream and strawberry in it!
oh and a big ROFL @ your wanting to bathe the kids in purrell after chuckie’s. i can’t even take my kids there, i would have a panic attack i know.