February Round-Up

Is this thing on?  Hello?
Sorry, I’ve been slacking on the blogging … been busy trying to jump into the world of couponing … but I’ll save that for another post.
I’ve been meaning to do a February Round-up, but geez … I hardly remember what happened in February.  The basic gist was lots of snow, and [...]

Tex Mex Cooking

We had friends to dinner last week (note:  we’ve done more entertaining in February than we’ve done in the last six months, I think!) and I decided on a tex-mex themed menu.   Perhaps a risky choice, considering our guests are from the great state of Texas, but fortunately, everything turned out great.   Since it was [...]

Shapes

This week’s You Capture theme is “Shapes“.  Here’s a few examples from around the house this week:

We made pretzels yesterday, following Sweet Pea’s recipe.

Moments ago, I wondered what could be keeping Asher so suspiciously quiet.  Apparently, he likes rectangles.  And greenbacks.

Lastly, a look at some circles that can always be found in our house.   Often [...]

WFMW: Decreasing Toy Noise

We have one of those fridge farm magnetic sets.  When the kid puts the two pieces of the animal into the set and it sings a little song.   Or if they just push a button it plays a little ditty.  Cute, but annoying.  Especially when the toddler likes to press the button over and over [...]

SWAK

This week’s “You Capture” theme is Kisses.  I wasn’t on the ball and didn’t get any good kissing pictures, so I decided to break protocol and look back over the years and see what kissing pictures I have taken in the past.   You won’t be impressed with my artistic eye, but hopefully the cuteness of [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I hope you had a nice day – we did.  Ours was a low-key kind of day.  We don’t make a big “to do” about Valentine’s – my big thing was having a V-Eve party the night before.  We are trying hard to crunch our budget and reduce spending, so neither of us spent much [...]

Valentine’s Eve Sweetheart Dinner

We hosted a pre-Valentine’s dinner party for some friends on Saturday eve.  It was 4 couples + 9 kids (all six and under) – I wasn’t sure how crazy it would be, but we had a wonderful eve!
The theme was fondue — cheese and chocolate  (not at the same time, of course), rounded out with [...]

Say it ain’t Snow

Here were are, still trying to manage from the weekend storm and they are calling for more tomorrow.   Even worse, they keep UPGRADING the estimates – once upon it a time it was 4 to 6″, now they are forecasting 10 to 20″!!!
Our street is plowed – at least one lane’s worth, but many others [...]

A Snowddendum

Well, around 5pm, the snow stopped.  I think they called for it to last til late evening (maybe?).
Anywho. shortly after my post about how we were all hunky dory, the power went out.   Dang it.   We were out of power for about 2 hours and it just came back on.   Thank you, Jesus!  We would [...]

Snowmageddon 2010

Well the blizzard has arrived, delivered on it’s promise, and hasn’t left yet.  The media is freaking out about it, but we are enjoying the novelty, for now.  (Ask me how I feel to be snowed in on Monday).

Yesterday, school was canceled pre-emptively, so Wesley was invited to a friend’s house for a playdate.  She [...]