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Our annual reindeer pics with the boys.

These were not the easiest this year as we had tears from both boys at one point or another.

This was the excitement of getting Criss, Cross Crash and then realizing there was a car in the box too.

We were pet sitting for my nephew and had his 10 month old puppy with us Christmas morning.  I knew that he couldn't be inside while opening gifts and would be chewing on everything.  As I was sitting on the floor taking pictures of our boys opening gifts I saw Bubba and just had to snap a picture.  Turns out it is one of my favorites from Christmas morning.  I love how the lights from the tree are relecting in the window and the "no peeking!" bag and a little glimpse of our tree.

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This morning my parents left to head back to Maryland. After the boys and I dropped them off at the airport we stopped at Goodwill on the way home. I love thrift shopping just never know what treasures will be found. ;o}

Today's treasures were a pair of Levi's for my son for $0.99 and a serving fork for $0.29.
The serving fork is Oneida.
I decided after hosting 2 dinners this holiday break that I need some serving utensils. I have plastic and wooden spoons for serving and they are bulky. Today I scored my first serving fork! Yea me! :o}


Off to the washing machine for the jeans and dishwasher for the fork.


Have you found any good thrift finds lately?


I am on the lookout for a serving tray that I can alter to my hearts desire. Found some this morning but not what I have in my vision so I will keep searching.

Wordless Wednesday

Birthday

The love of my life turned 40 this past Sunday, yes the day after Christmas.

We celebrated with my parents, my nephew and his fiance, and the boys and I. It was a nice quiet evening.
Eric doesn't like anything being done for his birthday which makes me sad, but it isn't my day so I really shouldn't complain.
Birthdays were a big deal in my family growing up but I guess if you are lucky enough or not lucky {which ever way you want to look at it} to have a birthday so close to Christmas you may not think too much about your birthday.
Our little one was so excited when his dad blew out the candles.

Happy Birthday honey! I hope you enjoyed your little party and the gifts. XOXO

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When coffee grounds are in the bottom of my coffee. All of that is about to change after tomorrow. So excited!!!

Baking cont.

I have made a batch of chocolate chip cookies. Here we have some cooling, some waiting to go in the oven, and then there were some baking. :o)

I attempted to make Cake Pops. These seem to be all the rave over the blogs and they were fun to make. I was looking through one of my summer Better Homes and Gardens magazines and saw how simple they were to make.
I made the cake the night before so it was cool enough to handle.
*Dump the cake into a big bowl and crumple it all up.
*Mix in half a can of frosting more or less depending on how you like it.
*Make the cake and frosting mix into balls.
*Put cake balls onto a waxed cookie sheet and insert a stick.
*Spoon the white chocolate onto the cake balls.
Lessons I learned...
I spooned the white chocolate on because when I tried to roll it around they became to heavy and would fall off the stick.
Sprinkle with sprinkles as soon as you put the white chocolate on because once it dries the sprinkles don't stick.

(For the chocolate I used Wilton candy melts.)

Off for more fun in the kitchen today. :o)

The baking has begun!

Oh my goodness so simple! Wish I would have seen these before! I snuck a few while the Kisses were still warm from the oven and...delish!

Made my cake tonight and going to attempt "Cake Pops" tomorrow. :o) So excited!!!

I also made up the dough for the sugar cookies that will be rolled out tomorrow!

My house is going to smell so wonderful!

P.S. My parents arrived today.  Mom and I went out shopping this afternoon, stopped at Bed, Bath, and Beyond to make some purchases.  Of course I had my handful of coupons so I passed some off to her.  She said to me, "these are expired."  I said, "that is OK they will still take them."  She didn't know that you could use them there even if they were expired.  So just a PSA: You can still use your BB&B coupons that are expired.  Just wanted to make sure that you all know that and don't pitch them like my mom did.  Oh and you can use 1 coupon per item as well!!!