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My goal is to take a family picture every month. So here is our January family picture. Randy's birthday dinner was the perfect place to start. I hope to use our tripod for most of the pictures. I think it will be great fun to see how we change in the next year, especially seeing Christian become a teenager. :-)

Project Life Tuesday - Week 3

Monday, January 17, 2011

I had seen these cupcakes on http://www.bakerella.com/ and really wanted to tey them out. They turned out very yummy.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Sebastian came home today with a great Star Wars picture that he drew at Debbie's house. He was very excited that I wanted to take a picture of it.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Christian wanted to show off his first bullseye. :-)

Thursday, January 20, 2011

This is a view that I have every Tuesday and Thursday during the school year(everyday during the summer). Christian is happy that even after a few weeks off, he shaved some time off. I think it might be because of his growth spurt. :-)

Friday, January 21, 2011

Time again for the twins to get a haircut. It just grows so fast. It makes me happy that they don't mind it because Christian used to scream at the mention of a haircut.

Saturday, January 21, 2011

We finally made it to Becca's birthday party. It has been years since the last time it worked in our schedule. Even Christian wanted to make a bear.





Sunday, January 23, 2011

It was very foggy both days of our Central Valley trip. I had some fun playing with the different color settings on my camera.

Project Life Tuesday

I am hoping that by joining Project Life Tuesday I will stay currant with my album and remember to blog. This first week, I am missing 2 days of pics. I will have to get better.Monday, January 10, 2011No pictureTuesday, January 11, 2011These are some earrings that I finished making on Tuesday.
Wednesday, January 12,2011A big day for Christian, he got his braces on.
Thursday, January 13, 2011No picture, but I should have taken one at the ortho's office when I had to take Christian back to have his wire clipped after a bracket fell off.Friday, January 14, 2011Our 16th wedding anniversary. We should have taken pictures during our dinner out at O'Sabi. I guess the food as too good. :-) But here is a picture of my cards.



Saturday, January 15, 2011Here Christian is trying out the new bow his grandparents gave him for Christmas. He loves it and practiced the whole time we were in San Diego.
Sunday, January 16, 2011The boys feel asleep on our way home. :-)

Stamped Jewelry

In 2010 I added another hobby. It is a sickness, I know. But a fun one. I started stamping on silver to give as gifts. They are not good enough to sell, but they do make me happy and I am getting a little better. I forgot to take pictures of my most recent ones before I gave them away. I might have to ask those people if I can borrow them for a bit. :-)

Greatest Cupcake Search

This last summer we decided that our family needed to go on a quest to find the best cupcake. I know, as quests go, it is not a hard one. But it is fun and tasty. I had meant to document this quest as we went, but here we are almost 6 months later. Oh well, better late than never.

Our first stop was at Chrushcakes in Santa Barbara. 7/10/2010

http://crushcakes.com/

We took our niece Rebecca with us. If you know Santa Barbara, you know what a trouble parking can be. But we lucked out.

They were good and average sized, but a little dry. The kids really enjoyed them. We plan on going to their new store in Carpenteria when it opens soon. I want to be able to compare them to the recent stops.

Stop #2 was Frosting Ink in Bakersfield. 8/11/2010 http://www.frostingink.net/charming_cupcakes.html

This was an unplanned visit. We were in town to pick up my mom at the Greyhound station on our way to Las Vegas and saw the store across the street. These were very good and a larger size than crushcakes for less money. They made a nice treat while driving through the desert and kept the kids occupied for a bit.

Stop #3 was The Cupcakery at the Monte Carlo Hotel & Casino. 8/14/2010

http://www.thecupcakerycorp.com/index.html

These were good, but I am not sure if they were worth the long walk from our hotel and then the maze we had to navigate to find the place. I think only one of my nephews noticed the scantily clad dancing girl above the poker table. We met some girls that were there for their bachelorette party. They had ordered a tray filled with little cups of the different frostings offered. Looked like fun and tasty. Might need to try that next visit.

Stop #4 was Babycakes in San Diego. 11/25/2010

http://www.babycakessandiego.com/diego.com/

These were the best up to this point. Very, very good! I really want to go back and try some of their other flavors like the blood orange. Actually, I want to go back and eat in their coffee shop. It looked wonderful.

Stop # 5 was The Cupcake Store in Mission Viejo. 11/27/2010
http://www.thecupcakestoreonline.com/

Yes, we went to two cupcake stores in one weekend. But it was so worth it. These were the best by far. They all come topped with a gumball and tasted wonderful!! They had some really cute holiday ones that the kids wanted to try, maybe next time.

Stop #6 was Sugar Bear's Cupcake Shake in Ventura. 12/4/2010

http://sugarbearscupcakeshack.com/

We never even knew about this little store downtown. They were small, but good. These are actually Christian's favorite so far and he keeps asking when we will be going back. Randy and I vote for The Cupcake Store as the best up until this point.

Back on Blogger

After some subtle hints from family members that I needed to post again, I switched to tumblr last summer. I did not like their format, so I am moving back to here. My goal is to give a brief look at what has happened in the 2 years since I stopped posting on this site.
Christian swam a lot, Andrea and I got our Masters, the twins graduated from kindergarten and we went camping.
We went to Las Vegas with all of the cousins, we visited family and we took the kids sledding and snowboarding. That is about it. So I plan on blogging more this year. I have missed it.
Take care!!