Peanut Butter Cookies

Just wanted to share our baking experience. This is our second time baking from scratch and I have to say we are getting better.

The first cookies we made last week were sugar cookies inspired by Rosina Sears. After being at her house and Natalie seeing her have her own recipe book and bake her own sugar cookies Natalie jumped on board. She wanted to get started right away.

Sure our sugar cookies where no where nearly as nice looking or soft as hers. But they were still okay, a little hard and burned but okay!

Now our second try was yesterday and we ventured into peanut butter cookies.
Here I am pretending to know what I'm doing! And here's Natalie pretending to help! Hahaha, this was her favorite part!

No seriously, she did help a lot! Ofcourse Jaime just watches us do all the work!

Here are some ready to go into the oven.

And here's our final result. A little bit bigger than regular cookies but you know us, we like our food big! hahahaha! But we did much better. They were less burnt, softer, and really good! I'm excited to try new recipes! We need tasters so if you're interested let us know.

Gymnastic Party

We went to my niece Briahnna's birthday party. It was really cool because it was at the place where she takes gymnastic classes. So all the kids got to experience a gymnastic class. And David and Me being the kiddies that we are joined in too. It was so much fun! But being the clueless person that I am sometimes, I forgot to take pictures of the action. But believe me when I say it was super fun!

But here are some of the after pictures with the cake!


I don't think Jaime liked the cake that much!
But check out my two boys showing off their hello kitty bling bling!

And tell me this isn't the cutest little thing ever! I mean, there can't be another cuter gymnastic girly than her!

Snow days!

Well I really thought that we were going to skip by winter without having any real harsh weather. Well boy was I wrong. This past Wednesday we had what is now being called the third really heavy Blizzard Chicago has had. So you know what that meant! SNOW DAYS! NO SCHOOL AND NO WORK! David didn't go to work Wednesday and Thursday and Natalie had the whole rest of the week off!

I really wanted to go out during the blizzard. We were waiting for the kids to fall asleep but then we got sleepy too! hahaha, we're old!

But we made sure to go out the next day and shovel. There was tons and tons of snow! So fun!

Of course we couldn't pass up rolling around in the snow.

Natalie was enjoying herself so much, Jaimito not as much. I think he didn't know what all this white stuff was and he was surprisingly shy!

The backyard looked like a winter wonderland. I almost didn't want to disturb the white blanket by shoveling!

I don't know who had more fun, my dad or the kids!

Then Thursday we finally ventured out and this is what every parking lot looked like! Mountains and mountains of snow!

I love a good blizzard especially because of the days off!