Days before New Year's Eve, we kept debating on what to do. With plans finally in place, the next decision was the menu. Finger foods was the plan, so I turned my new favorite resource, Pinterest.
I've made several food items from Pinterest so far. Each time it hasn't been something I would make again, plus the perfectionist in me gets a little mad that it doesn't look like the picture (and I thought the pictures would be a good thing!). Anywho, I ended up making something I haven't made before that Daniel recommended - Texas Caviar. I watched it being made in a cooking class I took once so I tried my hand at it. Easy to make, super easy if you have a food processor. It included fresh jalapeños in the ingredients. I decided to not take the easy route of canned and got fresh. I channeled my inner Rachael Ray and de-seeded, chopped and got with it. I was cleaning up and almost touched my eye to scratch it, but I caught myself. Phew! I narrowly missed that painful moment. I literally hand washed for 5 min to get the hot juices off. Smart girl ( so I thought). I went about my business and got ready. 5 min later guess who scratches their itchy eye (you know you saw it coming)...me! I blindly found my husband and begged him for help. Help, as in pull this contact lens out of my eye before I pull my entire eye out. It only took him a few times to succeed in the lens pulling and then relief.
I tell this story only because it later made me laugh. It felt like an episode of " I Love Lucy".
So went our friends home, with my glasses on, for a night of food, kids playing, and board games. We made it until 11:30pm and realized we had to take our sugar/sleepy high child home. To our huge surprise, he didn't fall asleep on the way home. We 3 made it home just in time to see the fireworks on TV at
midnight and give each other group hugs.
The next day we prepared to be a week out of our home. We had our house leveled in the middle of our home. That requires us to leave, and about 15 workers move in.
We spent the week at my parents house. It was weird waking up in my old bed. One night Grant and I played games in the original Nintendo. We even taught him how to blow in it to get it to work...haha. I'm sooooo glad you don't have to do ThAT anymore! The week actually went by fast and we got to be back in our own beds by the weekend.
Daniel had his birthday on that Sunday. Grant picked out a Smurf cake.
I've made several food items from Pinterest so far. Each time it hasn't been something I would make again, plus the perfectionist in me gets a little mad that it doesn't look like the picture (and I thought the pictures would be a good thing!). Anywho, I ended up making something I haven't made before that Daniel recommended - Texas Caviar. I watched it being made in a cooking class I took once so I tried my hand at it. Easy to make, super easy if you have a food processor. It included fresh jalapeños in the ingredients. I decided to not take the easy route of canned and got fresh. I channeled my inner Rachael Ray and de-seeded, chopped and got with it. I was cleaning up and almost touched my eye to scratch it, but I caught myself. Phew! I narrowly missed that painful moment. I literally hand washed for 5 min to get the hot juices off. Smart girl ( so I thought). I went about my business and got ready. 5 min later guess who scratches their itchy eye (you know you saw it coming)...me! I blindly found my husband and begged him for help. Help, as in pull this contact lens out of my eye before I pull my entire eye out. It only took him a few times to succeed in the lens pulling and then relief.
I tell this story only because it later made me laugh. It felt like an episode of " I Love Lucy".
So went our friends home, with my glasses on, for a night of food, kids playing, and board games. We made it until 11:30pm and realized we had to take our sugar/sleepy high child home. To our huge surprise, he didn't fall asleep on the way home. We 3 made it home just in time to see the fireworks on TV at
midnight and give each other group hugs.
The next day we prepared to be a week out of our home. We had our house leveled in the middle of our home. That requires us to leave, and about 15 workers move in.
We spent the week at my parents house. It was weird waking up in my old bed. One night Grant and I played games in the original Nintendo. We even taught him how to blow in it to get it to work...haha. I'm sooooo glad you don't have to do ThAT anymore! The week actually went by fast and we got to be back in our own beds by the weekend.
Daniel had his birthday on that Sunday. Grant picked out a Smurf cake.
Grant said, "It's actually kind of beautiful!". All I could think about is how we would have blue teeth, but we went ahead anyways.
See, much blue.
This time it was my Mom's birthday.
Grant helped blow out the candles.
Like my husband said, "Maybe we should just have cake and ice cream EVERY Sunday!"
Grant made cookies for Santa with Aunt Erica and GiGi.
Grant also got this McDonald's cash register play set. Its a pretty cute set if you have a little one. For the next few days he would randomly scream, "Donald's is open for business!" So he'd take my order, we'd exchange Ronald McDonald money, and he'd yell, "Donald's is now closed!" (He hasn't gotten the MC part down...sometimes he calls it Old Donald's....as you can see we don't go there much!)
