Whatch Cookin



 Meatloaf Cupcakes.
Found here.

Not too hard to make and tasted pretty good.  L was a little disappointed when it wasn't a "real" cupcake and didn't take one single bite. 

I think it put too much thyme in the potatoes but other than that they tasted great.  Also, the recipe recommended using the sturdier cups but I didn't have those so they were a little sloppy. 

Who knew?

Who knew I would love being a boy mom so much. 
New words every day.
Dinosaur, football, airplane to name a few.

Trucks, tractors, cars ALL DAY LONG. 

Love it!

Hi

So here is my once a month post!

This blog thing is hard! ;)

Well, we're back from a ten day vacation to Ireland. With my hubby's family. 14 in total. 6 kids. Under 6. You can only imagine. We had a great time. It was nice to wear sweaters and build a fire in the evenings.

Downloading 409 pictures takes a long time.

Here is one of the best ones.

(He'll be two in just one month. Tear, tear)

Play That Funky Music

This morning Liam pushed the kitchen chair over towards our 1970s radio. We rarely use it so it was even more funny that this song came on. He started jammin!

Book Nook

Liam is quite the book nerd. I find him all the time reading books without our prompting, which I love. I wish I could understand his baby gibberish as he turns each page.

In the playroom/office we have an entire wall of built in bookshelves and on the bottom are cabinets. 6 sets of this. It mostly holds junk and more junk.

So I decided to take off the cabinets in one corner and make a little book nook for Liam. Love the way it turned out. This room will eventually be all playroom so I think while he's still little I'll take off all the cabinets so he can reach his toys and such.

I had an old frame I didn't like so I spray painted in blue and added this little quote.

Found these old locker baskets at a local antique store. They fit perfectly!

I have leftover fabric from his baby bedding so I am having large pillows made instead of the blue mat.

First Day of Summer!

I've been seeing everyone's posters/boards/calendars for their Summer plans and I felt the urge to make one too! Since Liam is not in school the Summer is just like any other day for us!

Her is our little calendar. We're actually quite busy when I see it all written down!

We've got music, soccer, and playdates. We've been hittin up the library and the free splash pad near our house.

Heading to Sea World soon too!

Happy Summer!

Vegas Baby!

Catching up here!

Okay...way back in MAY my mom, sistah and I went to Vegas for the weekend. It was Mother's Day weekend and the weekend of my Dad's 70th Birthday.

Umm..I know I didn't mention this when it happened or actually really that my Dad had been ill. But he passed away in January so our Vegas trip was also a celebration of him too.

My parents love them some Vegas. They would go all the time. (I didn't get much of the gambling bug from them though!)

My Mom said that every time they would go to Vegas my Dad would walk into the first casino and put $100 on black. So we did just that and WON! Thanks Dad!

We stayed Caesars and hit up the spa and pool. I didn't win NADA! But my Mom sure did!

My sister did pretty good too. I was the Debbie Downer of the group!


One afternoon we went to the "old" section of the strip and we talked my Mom into doing the zip line down Freemont Street!

We saw Penn and Teller too!

And one last group pic!