neighborhood

i love our "neighborhood"!  

holiday dutch baby

subbed the milk in the dutch baby for egg nog, it was subtle but a fun holiday take on our sunday breakfast

(3 eggs, 1/2 cup egg nog, 1/2 cup flour, 1 T sugar, 1 t vanilla)

 

kebabs

i love it when we cook together and try out a new recipe that we are both excited for (reminds me of when we first started dating).  we tried making doner kebabs, where you take your well seasoned ground meat and spread it really thin between two layers of parchment paper and roll it up like an accordion and bake.  it worked really well and we made gyro bowls with basmatti rice, greek salad and tzatziki sauce.

dog park

taking advantage of the dry weather and walked through marymoore dog park

thanksgiving 2025

this might be one of my favorite thanksgivings!  it took us many many years to come up with our own holiday traditions for thanksgiving after we moved to washington.  but we are three years in a row of turkey trotting and dinner with our neighbor besties.  

jarad loves to plan all the junk food we snack on during the day and we make ham and scalloped potatoes for dinner with pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting for dessert.  it was a great day! 

new tradition

picked up a almond kringle for post turkey trot run.  everyone loved it, new traditions were started!

puzzle #2

he finished 1000 piece puzzle #2 of the season, just in time to break it down for thanksgiving!

craft table

our dining room table has become a craft table over the last couple of weeks and i am not mad about it.  jarad has his puzzle, bowie is painting her air dry clay ornaments, ryder has legos and i have my watercolor paints.  my favorite is when we all gather around the table and work on our own projects over music and tea.  

i was just thinking that jarad and jim built this table for our first thanksgiving in this home 9 years ago! 

air dry clay part 2

the ornaments dried out nicely in the oven and bowie is experimenting with using water color paints and markers to paint them.  we baked up another batch to decorate with our neighbors on thanksgiving.

air dry clay

testing out a new home made air dry clay recipe for holiday ornaments.  

1 cup baking soda, 1/2 cup corn starch, 1/2 cup water.  combine and cook on low/med heat in a saucepan until dough forms.  knead and roll out to use with your favorite cookie cutters.  then we placed our ornaments in a 200 degree oven and baked for approximately 1.5-2 hours, flipping half way. 

santa 2025

holiday party and santa pics at cheryl's office

toothbrush robot

fun night at cub scouts assembling meal bags for the food bank and making tooth brush robots

banjo???

i couldn't find banjo in the house anywhere!!!  he had burried himself in the fleece blanket pile.  this was the first morning that i had to defrost my car for carpool.  it is significantly colder this week with the chance of snow for next week, eekkkk!

holiday wreath

sunday was a much need lounge and relax day.  bowie wanted to craft and make a new christmas wreath as we take down our eyeball one from halloween.  so we went to the dollar tree and got a bunch of shatter proof ornaments and supplies.  she did the entire wreath herself and is very pleased with how it turned out!  ryder joined us and colored a fall themed poster.

scout hike

twin falls, north bend

hermosa

checking out the old stomping grounds