Every year a photographer friend of ours Earl Harper and his wife Doreen, host a Toys for Tots party at their studio. They require everyone to bring a gift to donate and they have a keg of beer, wine, and lots of appetizers and desserts. The US Marines come in full dress blues and they […]
Our resident bombero helped me make Red Velvet whoopie pies and peanut butter rudolph cookies. He loved it- especially working the mixer by himself and licking the batter!
Everyday when I pick Sennet up from school he asks if he can go home and be a bombero (fireman) and if we can go to the park and ride his pedal bike. The rain has been relentless so the answer to the park question has been no most days. At least I let him […]
We had our big Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday this year when our German friends came into town. Sennet helped with many of the preparations including lathering up the bird with butter to get it ready for the deep fryer. If you have never had deep fried turkey- you should. It is really so yummy!
We went over to our neighbors house yesterday for Thanksgiving- which was really nice because we didn’t have plans on actual Thanksgiving day. It is really nice to have great neighbors/friends! Our friends Marla and Gordon are flying in from Germany this weekend so we are doing our big Thanksgiving dinner when they are in […]
This is the first year we took Sennet trick or treating when he could really understand what was going on and say “Trick or Treat” and “Thank you.” He was again dressed up as a fireman, and Mena went with us as a pirate. Stacie dressed up as Carl Fredricksen from the Pixar movie “Up.” […]