Sharing Thanksgiving Recipes

For our family's Thanksgiving Dinner this year, I made two new recipes. I found both on Food Network's website and will share the links to pages with you (just click on the names).

First up, Parmesan Puff Pastry by Paula Deen. Everybody bragged on these a lot! I bought some Pillsbury flaky dough sheets, if you need an idea on what you can use. I really liked these and they were super easy to make!














The second thing I made was Oven Roasted Cauliflower which was shared by Emeril Lagasse. Let me just say that it came out looking NOTHING like the photo *ha, ha* And we were running late to get to my parents' house, so I forgot to add the garlic in at the end.. oops! It tasted kind of funky at first, but then I liked it after a few bites. Not everybody tried it (which I cant say I blame them... funky doesnt always scream delicous!), but those who did seemed to like it.

Corn.

The one food I can always rely on for my two year old to eat, when all else fails ;)





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What is the food for the child(ren) in your life?

Christmas Dress

My husband bought our baby girl her very first Christmas dress the other day. Next up is buying our little boy his Christmas outfit. It's insane how expensive little itty bitty clothes are *ha, ha*

To help my own blog...

I created another blog to post links to interesting sites I have found. That way, I can keep the photography blog clean looking and true to the photography side of things :)

http://interestingsitesforyou.blogspot.com/



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Here's the other gift my hubby bought me for my birthday! It's an MP3 player to match the one he bought for himself about a month ago... I hadnt ever seen one in person or knew how they worked so I was never interested in them, but I liked his and told him I was going to steal it because it matched my cell phone. Now I dont have to take his away from him ;) *ha, ha*

Happy Birthday [to me]! Here's a gift [for you]!

This link was given out on a photography forum I'm on. WONDERFUL video... please watch it - you dont have to be a Christian :)

http://www.adventconspiracy.org/story

And here's another website that I found while on the first page; everything ties together:

http://www.rethinkingchristmas.com/

The big 22!

Tomorrow is my birthday & my husband is the sweetest, most loving husband ever! He got home from work at 4:30 this morning and left to go buy me a present.

I told him he didnt have to buy me anything, but he insisted. He's like "I'm not tired now and I'm afraid I will be tomorrow and wont be able to go, so I'm doing it while I can." He's a boilermaker and has been working ten hours shifts seven days a week (but away from home twelve hours because of the drive).

He returned home at about six thirty and let me have one of my gifts early. He bought me a 4gb card for my camera because he knows I'm always running out of room on my 2gb one. & he also knows that I take a lot of photos and that sometimes I have to switch over to jpg from RAW to have room to fit more. So, he solved my problem. SWEETIE PIE!

Then he turned around and was like "Surprise! Happy birthday!" and had me an adorable cake! Cant wait to eat it tomorrow because it looks yummy! I told him our little boy was going to be excited when he seen it because of the design. It has three balloons and he loves balloons. Sure enough, today when he woke up he went to the fridge wanting orange juice. He's like "MAMA! Surprise birthday cake! DADA, LOOK!!"

Just wanted to share my cute story and a few photos. Hope you all have a wonderful day tomorrow; I know I plan on doing so ;) *ha, ha*



Mm.. icing!



The colorful balloons!



The pretty confetti sprinkles!



Woohoo, more room!



Both of 'em together!



My hubby also bought these HUGE hamburgers ("we're going all out for your birthday!) and cooked for us when he got home. Yum yum ~delicious!