Thursday, January 8, 2009

Holiday fun!

Ok, so now that I'm back into the swing of things at work, I have a little bit of time to actually do some blogging! So as you could see from the past blog I got creative and made my first truffles ever... and man were they tasty!

Now, you will get the opportunity to see what we did over the week of Christmas. Karnell and I spent Christmas with my family and it was fun times! We ate more than we should have, and did a whole bunch of nothing... Just the way it should be! The first set of pictures that you will see are how I spent my 29th birthday. Some family and friends went to Jack Stack BBQ on the plaza, boy it was just like I remembered... delicious!


My sister petting the beautiful horse... Monty in the background!


Jodi, Matt and Danny, and Me... baby John wasn't looking at the camera, so I held up is binky so that he would look up! Classic!!!


This is an example of what baby John did before the binky raise!


My beautiful sister Ashley!


My family: Monty, Ashley, Me and Brian... boy we look good!

Now here are my favorites of the many pictures taken over Christmas break! Enjoy!


Brian, Me and my mom... the 3 Musketeers


Taye and her kids Corey, Tyalor and Craig... cuties!


Getting ready for Christmas dinner... couldn't wait!


Monty and Me


Karnell and Me

Monday, January 5, 2009

Happy New Year!!!

Ok, so I have quite a bit that I wanted to post, so just bare with me and enjoy the pictures! This first set of pictures were of my wonderful attempt to make truffles (which were a HUGE success I might add). I made these truffles as Christmas gifts to my family. These truffles along with chocolate chip cookies and chocolate covered pretzels were in this cute little Christmas tin... If you have ever attempted to make truffles it can be a messy experience, but with the help of YouTube, my success rate went through the roof! I made two types of truffles: peanut butter truffles rolled in cocoa powder and/or graham cracker crumbs, and I also made a cookies and cream truffle rolled in oreo cookie crumbs. So the pictures that you are backwards as far as the order that it happened, but I'm too lazy to fix it! Besides, I have a lot more pictures to post, so here is Round 1.


Cookies and Cream truffles


The peanut butter truffles and some cookies and cream


Karnell getting the measurements right... such a helpful guy!


The peanut butter ganache that needed to harden in the fridge


The beginning stages of the peanut butter truffles