First my apologies for being checked out for awhile.
I have no excuse for it other than having a major writing block. My computer has been giving me dirty looks. I avoided even going in the same room with it for the last month. And as far as being in the kitchen is concerned, I didn't even make a single christmas cookie.
No, I take that back. I attempted to make a batch of christmas cookies but for some reason I used 3 sticks of butter instead of 1 1/2, like the recipe called for. Yeah, Yikes. I didn't take any pictures of that.
I traveled to my hometown, Duluth, MN, for Christmas and after a much needed break from reality, I find myself back in the very temperately climated and crowded city of LA.
We've had a bit of a game changer come about in the last 3 weeks. After 10 shorts months of living in LA for me and 2 1/2 years for K we have made the decision to move back to Wisconsin. We're both slightly unsure of what this will bring but we know that it will be nice to be back closer to family and friends and I will have to retire the Toms until summer, which really is heartbreaking, but life goes on.
And with that, I leave you with some snap shots from the last few months of last year:
This is how you should always start thanksgiving day:
and with this too:
And then around mid afternoon rock some of this:
Right after you take these out of the oven:
and start what could possibly be the most ugly and delicious cake roll ever:
and then unleash the grill master on the main dish:
and then sit down and enjoy each-others company over an amazing meal:
Follow that up with definitely the most ugly and delicious cake roll ever:
I found some time to make some gifts:
The frozen tundra for Christmas:
It was actually in the 40's when we were on the lake this day. It was down right balmy.
I've never seen the ice this smooth and clear before:
I got to snuggle with all these cute little babies:
And I got to feast with all these wonderful people:
And when I mean feast, I mean FEAST:
We had to go play on the lake a little more to work all the feasting off:
But don't be fooled, there was a lot of napping too:
There was a visit to the north shore of the Big Lake (Lake Superior)
People were surfing. Only in Northern Minnesota:
I don't think I can do much better than people surfing on Lake Superior in December.
What about triple chocolate chip cookies? I'll be coming back at ya with some of those really soon. I promise.
