Thursday, November 17, 2011

Wake and bake...



My cousin says baby girl doesn't want to come out because the foods too good at the Womb Inn. I might have to agree. Coffee cake and my world famous sea salt chocochoco chip cookies. And these are just what I have photo's of. There's been pumpkin mochi cake (if you haven't tried this or made it and love a really dense cake you must!), a bellewood acres jonagold apple pie, grandma's okanomyaki, gyoza, and chicken spaghetti. Plus! Jesse's off work now so even breakfast has been gourmet! I ran out of flour so I'm hoping without all the baking going on this little one will decide she's done baking too...3 days shy of 41 weeks.
Pumpkin Mochi Cake Recipe (based on the allrecipes.com recipe)
2 1/2 cups mochiko (glutinous rice flour)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
1 (29 ounce) can pumpkin puree (I used a real pie pumpkin that I roasted with just some butter. I scooped out the meat and blended it with a little apple juice to make it smooth like canned pumpkin. Oh, and I added a tsp. of cinnamon!)
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup butter, melted
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish. Sift together the mochiko, baking powder, and white sugar in a large bowl. Mix together the eggs, pumpkin puree, condensed milk, butter, brown sugar and vanilla extract in a separate bowl. Stir the egg mixture into the mochiko mixture. Pour into the prepared dish. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour. Allow to cool before serving.
Jesse will eat an entire cake in one sitting, so if he's near, hide the cake!
xoxo.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Why can't men witch have babies?


...Because they have HOLLOW WEENIES!!!
(groan, I know.)
Despite being 38 weeks pregnant we couldn't pass up my favorite holiday. We love this shit so much we celebrated twice. Which is one less than usual, but one more than last year. We did it so good we even had two sets of costumes. Hallownerds, for sure.
Happy Halloween from our crazy family to yours.
xoxo.

Monday, October 17, 2011

A sneak peek-a-boo

...wondering where I've been? Well, drowning in the fun o' remodeling a room and decorating a nursery for our up and very soon coming baby girl. Not quite done yet...but here is a preview!











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Monday, September 5, 2011

...and to top it off...

The official wedding photo of the official wedding cake topper atop the official wedding cake!

The officially adorable picture of the officially adorable and officially married bride and groom.


I promised a picture of the cake topper on the cake, so here you go sports fans!

xoxo

UPDATED! Joshua Huston is the photographer and all of the photos he did from the day turned out beautiful. You can check out his other stuff at www.joshuahuston.com (thanks wolf lady!)

(These were stolen off their facebook pages and I don't know who did the photography, except that it was a friends boyfriend, I'll give credit when I find out, because they deserve it, these pics are great!)

Friday, August 26, 2011

Saturday, August 6, 2011

I made it!


Woah hey look! More stuff from the past...all hand made by me. Awwwww. I'm so awesome. This was a Kale, Sausage, Potato soup....because this summer has been more of a Wummer, or a Sinter? Either way, it was 55 degrees that day and all I wanted was a hearty soup. It was deliciousness...and good for us! Kale! Lot's of Folic Acid! Good for babies! Speaking of babies, I couldn't actually eat that yummy little tomato salad because of heartburn. yay.

Horrible picture! Remind me to only take pictures of the jewelry I make on a person. On the inside of a shoebox lid just doesn't do it justice. This was a grad gift for a cousin of mine. I think I'll do a jewelry post soon...

Boom! And I'm a plumber. Daaamn. I need to take baths, a lot, because my feet keep swelling (yay preggo!). So when our drain thing broke, as in it was permanently in the plugged position, I came up with this amazing solution! Well, it was amazing until I needed the Cream of Mushroom soup to make dinner one night.

I'm ACTUALLY proud of this little gem. A gift for a friends nursery. It was so much fun to make and I just may have to make one for our little buddy too.


Still cleaning out the photo files...keep finding all these goodies. Goodies? Well, some of them anyways...

Friday, July 29, 2011

Can you tell Baby has been craving berries (any summer fruit really) and pastries? Good thing it's the right season...bad thing is I decided to start baking for the first time in my life. How is this a bad thing? You ask, so innocently. It means we have berry filled pastries around all the time and then...I EAT THEM ALL!!! ahhhh!!! Attack of the giant pregnant fruit loving monster!!!!


Raspberry creamcheese muffins.


Stone fruit pie. Nectarines, peaches, and cherries.


An awkward cherry almond tart. Awkward looking, delicious tasting. It set up and stopped leaking fairly quickly, we just couldn't wait and cut right into it!

Xoxo

Location:Berry, berry, quite contrary...