Mike and I really love fresh squeezed orange juice at home, inspired by Jenny Hobbs who swears that it will keep you from getting sick! I'm all in!
We celebrated Beau's 8th birthday on February 12th at his house with a Harry Potter themed party and hoagies and fruit for dinner. On the 17th, we invited the Dunlap's to join their cousins for a "play date" at our house so that we could wish Elise a happy birthday and have the kids hit the "golden snitch" piñata that Jessica had made for Beau's birthday party (but everyone was too full of sugar and it had got too late).
We also celebrated Elise's 7th birthday on February 20th at our house. She had a unicorn themed party and piñata. The cousins love any excuse to get together, and the birthday kids had fun eating, opening presents, and hitting their piñatas along with their siblings and cousins.
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| The "golden snitch" piñata that Jessica made for Beau |
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| February 17th: Beau's Piñata time on Elise's actual birthday |
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| Little sister Sofie ready with her candy bag |
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| It was cold out! Waiting to start the piñata action |
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Pink cheeked Hannah (without her coat)
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| Beau's up first! Then youngest to oldest |
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| Sofia's turn |
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| Cousin Brandon's turn |
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| Hannah's turn |
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| Love this expression on Tyler's face! |
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| February 17th: Cherry cheesecake for the birthday girl |
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| February 20th: Celebrating Elise's 7th birthday at Grandma's house |
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| Enjoying hotdogs, burgers, beans, and chips together |
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| Cupcake time for Elise and the gang |
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| These photos crack me up! |
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| Our beautiful birthday girl, Elise, is 7 years old |
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| Opening her birthday gifts |
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It's piñata time again--
This time with a pretty unicorn and the birthday girl
Beautiful Sofia is up next
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| Cutie face Brandon was all smiles |
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| Check out the twisty feet on Hannah! |
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| Beau looks like a professional baseball player |
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| Another funny face on our sweet Tyler! |
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| This guy's (Hudson) out for blood! |
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Can't post a blog without food in it!
A giant wok with my yummy ham fried rice--mmm good |
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| February 21st: Seb bought a fancy smoker recently and made this incredible beef brisket for dinner. So glad he and Jess invited us over! |
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It was delicious and tasted as good as it looks
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March 3rd: I made a homemade chicken pot pie with a butter crust and had Jacob's family over to sample it. Paired it with a green salad, and voila'! |
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| March 4th: My attempt at making a Chocolate Mousse Cake for Peggy Dunlap (and the Dunlap and Stoddard gang) to celebrate Peggy's birthday this month started with 3 chocolate cakes from scratch, a chocolate glaze between each layer, and a generous amount of chocolate whipped cream filling between each layer and all over. I didn't actually make any chocolate mousse for the cake, but the chocolate whipped cream was a great substitute. Then I drizzled more chocolate glaze on top and squiggled more chocolate whipped cream on top of the glaze. Mercy! |
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| A happy Peggy with her Chocolate Mousse Cake |
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| Gorgeous Sethrina Stoddard with her son Calvin and niece Hannah |
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| Singing "Happy Birthday" to Peggy |
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| Geoff Dunlap happy to see Peggy so delighted with her cake |
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| Half the cake disappeared so quickly! |
1 comment:
Wow! There was a lot of celebrating these last couple of months! Whew! I've forgotten about all of the birthday parties and piñatas! Fun pictures!
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