We have had a whole lot going on around here. In November I threw a baby shower for a close friend of mine (as opposed to the strangers most people throw showers for?). The nursery is styled after the book Where The Wild Things Are so of course the shower was after the same.
Then came November. We hosted my Beloved's family, well a small portion of it. We decided to grill our turkey. I found a good recipe in Martha Stewart Living.
The turkey turned out beautiful and was the moistest (most moist?) bird I have ever had.
We also had Green Bean Casserole, Candied Coconut Sweet Potatoes, Ultimate Macaroni and Cheese with Bacon and a green salad.
And for dessert. . . well okay the jalapeno poppers are an appetizer which baby LOVES. I'm not normally a spicy foods kind of a gal, but this baby is a baby after Daddy's heart er uh stomach.
Okay this was dessert. We actually had three desserts. Pecan Cheesecake Pie, Apple Pie, and Apple Cranberry Crisp. Aunt 'Dall made some DE-lish Spiced Apple Cider and it was perfect with dessert.
After Thanksgiving the girls made cookies with Grammy.
And more than once the men did the dishes. It was wonderful.
Then before November was over Grammy had a birthday which we celebrated with Ballerina's baked apples. I decided that she needed to start learning to cook and I thought these would be simple. While she does do the mixing and pouring, I end up doing the slicing, coring, baking. It's a joint effort.
Meanwhile Ham-Huck found his long lost little sister!
Finally December came and with it The Nutcracker Ballet. Aunt 'Dall and I made a date night of it and I, like a sucker, bought these little crowns for my girls. They love them and now I think they are lost.
Finally Christmas was upon us. We did something new this year and hung the girls stockings from the foot of our bed so that they could come and snuggle up with us as they opened their goodies.
After the stockings it was time for the gifts under the tree.
And breakfast of champions.
Finally we are in January. We got a little snow. A really, little bit of snow.
But the girls insisted on playing in it. Ballerina left her kitchen sink out and it filled with water which then froze. She smashed it on the deck shortly after this picture.
Just after Christmas we all came down with colds. First Ballerina and I and later my Beloved finally admitted to a sore throat. We have been stuck in our house for the past two weeks and desperately needed to go someplace. So we took a drive intending to head up to the Vista House but the road was closed. The kids were antsy to get out of the car so we stopped at this viewpoint. Which is called Portland's Women's Forum. I'm wondering if they decided on this location because the wind is so strong no man or woman can be heard even if they hollered.
If you look directly into the wind, at least on this particular day, you can't even breathe.
On the way home there were ice sickles hanging from a cliff side along the road.
And so that's what we have been up to.
