Christmas is Saved

Last year Hersey's stopped making mint chocolate kisses. These kisses are what I use to make mint fudge at Christmas time. So this year I have been contemplating how to use mint extract to make mint fudge. Well, I was strolling down the baking aisle of my local grocery store and what should happen to catch my eye, but mint chocolate chips. For years I have been looking for mint chocolate chips so I wouldn't have to unwrap each kiss, but to no avail. But Hallelujah, this year Christmas is saved. At least the fudge part :)

A New Dishwasher

A couple of weeks ago, our dishwasher stopped washing dishes.

That's kind of a problem. It wasn't great timing, but luckily we found a great deal, had a coupon and pretty soon, we had a new dishwasher. Watching JJ help his dad and grandpa install it was so cute.
I love our new dishwasher except for one thing. Our old dishwasher held all of one days worth of dishes. Our new dishwasher holds way more, but we don't have enough dishes for more than one day. So we either have to run it partially empty or we don't have enough cups and spoons for the next day. Tough problem to have, huh?!?

Orange Plum Etsy Store

My sister-in-law Lis has an etsy store where she sells no-slip fabric head bands and baby blankets. The fabric she uses is so pretty, you should definitely check it out. The headbands are great because they don't give you a headache. I love them. Use the blinkie on my sidebar to get to her store and learn more.

Happy Birthday, Jeremiah

Thursday was Jer's birthday and since he won't blog about it, I will. I got him iTunes gift cards, lame I know, but it's what he wanted and he bought his Mr. Potato heads at Disneyland (I would have gotten those if he didn't buy them). We went to a yummy dinner at Carver's steakhouse with a gift card we purchased back in February when they were on sale and we had more disposable income. Go us!!! JJ was pretty bummed that there was no happy birthday cake or candles so on Friday we picked up a mini-ice cream cake from Cold Stone. They say it feeds two, but it would easily feed 4 and we cut it into 6 pieces, one for Friday night and one for Sunday. JJ felt better about that, but in the pictures, he looks a little worried. He wasn't, he was actually so excited about the candles that we had to blow them out as soon as Jer walked through the door. There was no waiting until after dinner.

Beautiful Weather

Today was a gorgeous day. Rainy and overcast. The perfect day to curl up in a warm blanket and take a nap (which I did, yay me!!). I thought I would post some pictures of last Wednesday, our first snow day.

It has snowed here before, but nothing that stuck.

JJ watched his day shovel the snow in the morning, so he thought he needed to shovel too.

Complete Sentences

Last Monday, JJ said his first complete sentence. "I want a knife." This said while he was eating his cereal. He has expressed more complicated ideas before, but this was the first time he used a subject, verb and predicate (with the correct article). Why he thought he needed a knife, I don't know. He did follow this up later with "I need a blanket." The English teacher in me is so proud.

Craft Blog is ready

So, my craft blog is ready for anyone who wants to see what I've been up to. For you non-crafty types, I won't be offended if you don't visit. See the link in the side bar, Jenn's Crafts.

New Blog

So this blog is still under construction and it will be a slow process, but I thought I'd let you know about this site I found where I got my blog designs www.simplyfabulousbloggertemplates.com. It had some really great stuff.