Category Archives: Family

Emergency Snacking

By Angela | Published: February 4, 2012
There’s a time of day when the 4 year old should have had a nap, but now if you lay him down he won’t sleep tonight.  It’s the time of day when he sees his sister’s chocolate protein bars that are tucked away in her closet, so her brothers and sisters won’t eat them, and she [...]
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Italian Eggplant Bake Revised

By Angela | Published: January 21, 2012
I’m thrilled that so many of my lovely readers are still here .  Every time I get a comment from you it makes me smile and want to blog again.  I’ll have to admit that I enjoyed my break from the blog, even though sometimes I felt guilty about neglecting it.  I was enjoying my family [...]
Also posted in Fitness and Weight Loss, Recipes | 13 Comments

Happy New Year

By Angela | Published: January 1, 2012
Happy New Year! We spent our first night in our new home last night, and it felt like home. Darren and I made the living room with green carpet our temporary bedroom. 4 of the kids are sharing the striped bedroom until we can paint and carpet 2 of the other rooms. Even with 4 beds [...]
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Ants on a Log

By Angela | Published: December 7, 2011
The boys made these all by themselves while I took a conference call.  There was peanut butter everywhere, but they sure were proud of their snack.  I thought it looked like more than any family could eat–but I managed, somehow .
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Homemade Kettle Corn

By Angela | Published: November 18, 2011
Darren:  “What are you making?” Me:  “Kettle Corn.” “Where did you buy it?” “You don’t buy it, you make it.” “I’m pretty sure you need a special pan for that, that keeps it from burning.” “They didn’t say anything about a special pan.” “Who’s they?” “You know, the blogland people.” “Hmm.” “All the instructions are over there on the blog, and they promise it [...]
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Grant is 6 months

By Angela | Published: November 17, 2011
It took me awhile to take his pictures this time.  I prefer outdoor lighting, but the weather wasn’t very cooperative.  I’llhave to get a new plan for the winter months, lol.  His 12 months onesie now fits him properly.  It will have to streeeeetch to make it to his first birthday. His mood was ever changing [...]
Also posted in Baby/Pregnancy | 7 Comments

Happy Birthday to Brandon

By Angela | Published: October 9, 2011
Life is spinning by like a merry-go-round on hyper speed.  Somtimes it’s so much fun I can hardly contain myself and somtimes I think I might be sick.  This Saturday was one of those sick types of days with 4 soccer games, orchestra and selling cubscout popcorn in between.  But these kids are so amazing, it’s worth a [...]
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Italian Eggplant Bake

By Angela | Published: September 5, 2011
We spent the weekend farm sitting for Darren’s parents.  Two calves were born while we were there–so cute! I’ll  admit that I came “this close” to throwing a tantrum while we were preparing to leave to go there.  I had a lot of things to do at home and I felt like I needed some time [...]
Also posted in Sewing | 2 Comments

Someone’s been borrowing my camera…

By Angela | Published: August 23, 2011
I know because I didn’t do this to Baby.   Hmm.  HEIDI!!!!!
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New Adventures with Gum Paste

By Angela | Published: August 9, 2011
I decided to create my daughter’s birthday cake’s decorations from Gum Paste this year.  I’ve wanted to try it for years and finally dug in.  I made my own red and green gum paste from wilton’s glucose and gum-tex.  I made the white from Marshmallows and gum-tex.  While they both taste okay, the marshmallow gum paste is by [...]
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