Our Little Chefs

They are hard at work cooking dinner :) So fun!!!

Let's Get Cooking

The girls have been VERY interested in cooking with me lately.  They have been flipping through the pages of the cookbooks that Nana Marci gave them & have been requesting to make all kinds of yummy goodies:)  Gracie use to love to watch the Food Network with me when she was a toddler & over Christmas Break she asked if we could watch a cooking show together :)  Perfect timing for me too as I've been looking for some new cooking inspirations for the new year.  So we decided to watch one or our favorite chefs, Giada de Laurentiis.  It just so happened that the show was Giada cooking with kids & the main entree was macaroni & cheese cupcakes.  Perfect as we love macaroni & cheese & cupcakes!!!  The recipe started with the mac & cheese basics & then recommended adding veggies & proteins too.  And the best part, you make them in a muffin pan!!! We decided to make our mac & cheese with 3 different cheeses & 2 of our favorite veggies, peas & corn.  And for our protein, Gracie picked BACON.   And we added some jalapenos for daddy :)  The girls LOVED making them, watching them bake & eating them too.  I have a feeling we'll be making these again soon.

Just Us Cheeseheads :)

We mean football heads :)

Let's Go Packers

Today we are enjoying some more game day fun & we are rooting for Mommy's Team The Packers.  And the girls were very happy that their team colors are also green & gold as it worked out perfectly with our decorations :) Our pre-game fun consisted of playing a few board games & enjoying hot dogs, french fries & a few chips & dips.  At game time it was all football as the girls cheered VERY LOUDLY & really got into the game.  Asking lots & lots of questions too :) Gracie was concerned they were going to lose so thankfully they weren't behind for too long.  We are already planning for another football Saturday family party next week.  Let's Go Packers!!!

Lunch Date

The girls go back to school on Monday so we decided to have a GDO also known as "Girls Day Out!!!" on Friday. They really wanted to go out for lunch & to a movie.  So we enjoyed lunch & hot chocolates at The Edge.  And a post lunch playday with some girlfriends :) Since there wasn't a movie playing in the Theater that they wanted to see, we came home & unwrapped one of the movies we got for Christmas "Brave".  And we snuggled on the couch with some of our favorite movie snacks...popcorn & M&M's.   They loved the movie & we all enjoyed the movie snacks :)  A very fun GDO!!!

Let's Go Ducks!!!

The Oregon Ducks play tonight in The Fiesta Bowl & Daddy is very excited to watch his beloved "Ducks" in action.  So "us girls" decided it would be fun to decorate the basement & SURPRISE him!!!  Mommy handled decorating the bar with green & gold pom poms...Ducks colors, of course, along with a football runner, helmets & napkins.  Gracie & her American Girl Doll, Lanie organized the drinks, a variety of diet coke cocktails as "It's Daddy's favorite drink!!!" And Josie & her baby made cookies for us all to enjoy at game time.  But wait, the girls decided it wasn't complete until we added some ducks to our party so we added them too.  As you can see, Daddy was very SURPRISED :) Let's Go Ducks!!!

Happy New Year!!!

 

New Year, New Adventures, New Dreams, New Memories

 

Happy 2013!!!