Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho!!!

Tonight was it!

Five kiddos to see the man in red!

This was the best pic of the lot....

Tricky to get all of them looking at the camera and smiling at the same time...

Santa was  FANTASTIC  and SO was the photographer!!!

He spent some time doing a couple different set ups with the kiddos.

I was smart to go @ 7:30 pm!!!

NOBODY in line!

:)

Consider this your Christmas card pic people!

Merry Christmas!

A DRY Morning...

It's becoming a "thing"...

When it's DRY outside...

We head to a park...

 It POURED this afternoon...

GOOD thing we got outside this morning!

 The 'owl hats' have finally made an appearance this Fall....

Who's who....or should I say... Who's hooooooooooo.... ?

 Almost had a full-blown smile....

NO problem getting this one to giggle today!

OW Park...

It didn't rain today!

We celebrated by going to Oliver Woods Park!

The girlz love to feed the ducks...

 ...and look for frogs...

 One of their favourite pieces of equipment is the "Spider Web"...

 ...plenty of climbing space and it's bouncy too!

 I can always capture 'g2' in her "Rebel Yell" mode.... 

 LOVE her left eyebrow....

 She was easy to snap today....

 ...and having a great hair day too!

[Even with the crumbs on her lips, she's adorable!]

 Gotta move fast to capture these two....

 ...I did ask them to hug again so I could capture the 'other' side...

Good thing we got outside today....

It's been RAINING ever since...

Oh well, you don't have to shovel rain!

Sprinkler Days...

This is what a hot day looks like in my backyard...

 ... these two imps running amock...

 ...hopping over the sprinkle snake...

 ... standing still for just a sec so I can capture their reflection in the water...

... and finally... one sweet hug...

Looks pretty good eh?!

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Happy 10th 'Z' !!!

It was 'z's 10th Birthday today!!!

She chose an ice cream cone cupcake "cake"...

I think it turned out not too bad...

It was SO easy to do too!

Gotta LOVE that!!!

Easy & cute!

:o)

 

 'z' LOVED it!!!

All lit up! 

[kiddo & cake]

 Doesn't it totally look like she's getting ready to chomp into some serious ice cream cone-age???

[pardon my 'Valley' speak...]

Check out the inside!!!

Tie Dye cupcakes!!!

Went with her tie dye dress!!!

Happy 10th Birthday Kiddo!!!

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btw...

I am not a huge super sweet frosting fan...

I used this Buttercream Frosting recipe...
http://www.glorioustreats.com/2011/08/american-buttercream-frosting-recipe.html
With the 1/2 brick of cream cheese option...
LOVE IT!!!!
It's not sickly sweet and the texture is terrific!!!

I added a bit more icing sugar so it piped well & kept it's shape!

I am definitely using this recipe AGAIN!!!

I am a fan of this frosting recipe!!!

That could be a very dangerous thing.....

Summer Fun Chalkboard...

Here's a list of thingz we'd like to do over the next bunch of weeks...

I scrounged a piece of plywood from a friend 

and used some chalkboard spray paint to 'make it happen'.

It's a pretty big chalkboard and sits right by our front door...

Only 2 boxes are crossed off... so far...

we still have seven weeks to have plenty of FUN!!!

:o) 

Caramelized Onion Fiends!!!

So I blogged about making this...

http://whozhungry.blogspot.com/2012/03/perfect-pizzette.html

Which started with making, what I thought was, a HUGE batch of caramelized onions...

I did five VERY LARGE onions...

When I set them out onto the platter to cool...

These two decided it was SUPPER TIME!!!!

 They dug right in!!!

 And kept right on digging so I thought I would just put some on a smaller plate and they could help themselves....

 Well they did help themselves and I reloaded the plate again....

Finally I just said ok...

Snapped a few pics and let them go to town on the BIG platter!

 Here's Miss 'c' double fistin' it!

She could not get them in, chewed and swallowed fast enough! 

Here's Miss 'g2'...YUM!

They ate at least 1/3 of the platter...

I snapped my pics and then walked away!

LOL.....

Yes, we are ALL caramelized onion fans in this house...

But we do have two wee ravenous fiends who would take us all down for just one more bite!