Superman

This Superman is such a Mama's boy.

Smitten Kitchen

Perhaps many of you have heard of Smitten Kitchen, but I wanted to share a link to her blog. This girl is funny, creative and all pictures of her food are stunning. She posts recipes that are outside of the box in her teeny NY kitchen. Even with recipes I don't have the ingredients for I still read through them, laughing at her witty humor.

http://smittenkitchen.com/

Our Christmas baby

I haven't updated on Ernie Brooks' months since 5 months. He's in his 7 month now...oops. Well, that will still have to wait. It's been busy busy busy. I will say though, he's a whole different boy than a couple months ago, so just hang tight because that update is coming soon.

In the meantime, feast your eyes on some photos of our little one from Christmas day. 

 

Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

Merry merry merry

2:30 yesterday

Wake up from naptime joy. And perfect spit bubble.

Our trip to the mountains

Last weekend we spent some time with Ernie's family in the fresh mountain air. And rain.
Ernie and I love going there. It's a cute little town that is perfect for family trips. I got to spend some extra time with Ernie's sister which I really enjoyed!
We just so happened to be up there around the time of our anniversary (4 years!), so we spent the afternoon at a really cute cafe and browsed antique shops, our favorite past time up there. We also walked around the beautiful lake up there, our other favorite past time. So here are a billion pictures of our stay up there and our baby. It is his first vacation, so he's basically in all of them.
Thanks to Yvette again who took some of these photos!

What I'm doing

Relaxing in the rain with coffee. And working on a little writing. More pictures to come of our little family adventure.

I'm featured on Delighted Momma! :)

Lisa and Nathan Hang Out

Above is a link to my sweet little babysitting adventure with wonderful baby Nathan. His mommy and daddy (our good friends) got to go on a date and I got to feed him peas and sweet potatoes and play cars!

Onesies

I'm obsessed with looking through baby boy onesies lately. I want to make so many!

 

Earl Grey Chocolate Tea Cake

I'm excited, today I get to have women's small group at my house. Last night I whipped this together, Earl Grey (yummm) chocolate tea Cake! I cut them up into small bites, large squares of cake can be intimidating. It's like biting into an earl grey heaven. I've also made Earl Grey Tea cookies, I should post that sometime too.

Here's the cake recipe:

• 6 Earl Grey tea bags or 2 tablespoons loose Earl Grey
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 4 ounce unsweetened chocolate, melted & cooled
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 cup plain yogurt
• confectioners' sugar

Heat oven to 350° F. Coat an 8-cup fluted tube pan (or whatever you have on hand) with cooking spray.
Brew the tea in the water 3 to 5 minutes. Remove the tea bags or strain the leaves and set the brewed tea aside.
Using a mixer, beat the butter, eggs, and granulated sugar until fluffy. Blend in the chocolate. Beat in the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, yogurt, and brewed tea. Pour into pan.
Bake 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out with a few crumbs attached. Remove from oven and let stand 5 minutes.
Turn out of pan and cool. Dust with confectioners' sugar.
Notes:
Melt the chocolate in the microwave for 2- 1 minute increments

Coffee

I love two things in the morning: walking into a clean kitchen and the smell of coffee.