Real Men Can Cook

Ta-Dah. Need I say more? After months of planning and dreaming it out in my head, countless hours of sewing and building, and a really handy hubby and his tools, our little manly kitchen for our little men got done...with some felt food to boot.

old entertainment center step aside and welcome

A Little Manly Kitchen

This particular project was my brain child. From the little man kitchen (seen a girl version done on the blogosphere) down to each of these meals (Breakfast of Champions in previous post). If you have any questions, just let me know. I am working on getting patterns and how-tos. I am super happy to share them with you, you just need to ask...and send gummy bears...kidding.

Second round of felt yummies already in the works...

Traditions

This time of year is filled with so many traditions. We, like most families, have some of our very own that are fun and important to us. Here is a photo recap of some of our Christmas Eve Traditions.

We--

wake up to find a maze of string that leads us to a new Christmas book, this year it was The Dinosaurs Night Before Christmas since our boys LOVE dinosaurs

make and frost sugar cookies for Santa

have a dinner of pizza and root beer floats

read the story of Jesus' birth and act it out with our Little Peoples Nativity (no photo...I don't know why)

write letters to Santa

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. To all our family...we sure missed each and everyone of you.

To all you wondering...yes I know you all are...kitchen and food got done. Will post my Christmas accomplishment later this week.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas 2009! We had a great and somewhat eventful year, and if you are regular followers of this little piece of the blogoshpere, then you already know all the juicy details...so in light of not wanting to be repetitive...there will be a lack of year recap in this holiday post.

Our little family would simply like to wish all of our friends and family, and strangers who wander here a very merry Christmas and a wonderful 2010.

                                   

My Own Dose of Holiday Cheer

I've been needing a little TRUE holiday cheer. I have been focusing too much on production of presents and that has been causing me stress. So imagine how happy my heart was when I got these pictures back from Cole's school holiday bazaar. Most of you know my kids DO NOT like to get up close and personal with the man in red. These are my very first pictures of my boys with Santa ( you can see Jack took some bribing candy cane in hand). My three little men are the best dose of holiday cheer. They are who I do all the crazy holiday plans for.

To pass on some further cheer, I also included their letters to Santa. Cole's is pretty clear (although stuffed whale was to tease Aunt Natters who hates whales). Jacks is a drawing of rockets. Have a great holiday rest of the week.

Also, because it is Recipe Thursday and I didn't post one last week...here is a link for a yummy dessert recipe...no picture or retyped recipe included...I know what a slacker! Trust me though it is delightfully awesome.

Gingerbread Pumpkin Bars

Technically challenged

SO I drew the pattern for this food last Thursday...I had this clever idea to make the felt food the "recipe" for recipe Thursday. Alas, nothing worked as planned. I tried just scanning it in and hoping it would print off if you clicked on the picture link in the blog. False. That route cut off a good majority of the pattern. Then I had a genius idea to upload it into google documents and link that. Mostly false, that worked except that it shrunk the pattern. I think I could still get that option to work if I had patience and wanted to split the pattern up and figure out the scale adjustments...see doesn't that already sound like too much work?

Someone graciously emailed me a link to a free pdf converter. It worked like a charm...except now I am not sure how to make that link show on a blog...if you even can. SO here is my solution, it does take some part on your behalf...

Email me if you would like this pattern:

I will then email you back this pattern in pdf format and then attach typed out instructions. This doesn't seem very efficient and I assume there is a better way. I will figure it all out, but my brain was starting to read "blah, blah, blah" as I was trying this morning, so I decided to take a break from the sleuthing.

So, if you want this pattern (giving me some much needed positive reinforcement), my email address is on the side of the blog. I check it all the time.

PS I have been creating some other foods as well and would be willing to make up patterns for those too depending on how the response for this is.