We finally got our first real snow of the season.  So much for not having to use the snow blower this year!  It was also the first day back to school for Dane.  He was pretty bummed they didn’t call off school.  I spent my morning trying to get our house back in some order after the holidays.  Cleaning and putting decorations away then I decided I wanted something yummy, warm, comforting and filling for lunch. I decided I would...

Brandon’s favorite cookies are his grandma’s Molasses Cookies.  His grandma would make them each year and he loves them.  When we got married I tried to get the recipes of things he liked to add to my collection of recipes.  A few years ago, Brandon’s mom made me a cookbook for Christmas and gave me a few family recipes – his aunt’s peanut butter cookies, his aunt’s pie crust, his grandma’s...

If you missed my last post, this year I decided that our gingerbread house would be modeled after the Disneyland 2011 Haunted Mansion Gingerbread House.  You can check it out at the Disney Parks Blog. After a lot of hard work and finagling our gingerbread house is completed!  It was a bit nerve wracking after completing the house to see if the electronics and animatronics were going to work with the weight of the gingerbread, icing and...

This year’s gingerbread house design was a no brainer for me.  I fell in love when I saw the Disneyland Haunted Mansion gingerbread house for this year as soon as I saw it on the Disney Parks Blog.  I thought it was awesome and this was what I wanted to build this year! I was so excited when I saw it that I asked Brandon to watch the video to see if he could help me make mine open and close like theirs and he said he could. The...

Brandon’s work Holiday party was held Saturday at Cleveland Browns Stadium.           Each year the holiday party is held at a different interesting venue.  When we arrived we had valet parking which was great considering I have never been to the stadium and had no idea where we were going!  I underestimated the amount of time it would take to get downtown so we were early and waited outside at the gate. ...

Happy December and welcome to my new blog!  It just made sense to change the name of my blog to my own name and Brandon’s blog has been changed too.  It will make it easier for people to remember and find.  I have been busy getting this blog up and running.  Hubby did all the file moving, name registering and all the really technical stuff  (Thank You!!!).  I have been busy finding a theme I like and setting it all up.  I am...

Each Thanksgiving we seem to be surrounded by a theme.  This year’s theme turned out to be “The Search for Brandon’s Grandma’s “Puffball” Recipe”.  It was prompted by Brandon’s cousin posting on her Facebook page that she was looking for the recipe to surprise her dad.  Brandon replied I had a similar recipe and I would send it along to her. Grandma’s recipe has been elusive. ...