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I hate Cooking… September 19, 2010

Filed under: Food — Kelocity @ 8:02 am
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I really do. I hate the grocery shopping, the meal planning, the prepping and the actual COOKING. But I love eating… so I guess I don’t have a choice right?

I seriously spent 2 hours in the grocery store yesterday going around and around waiting to be inspired by something! I swear the guys at the deli counter thought I was homeless or something because for the first two laps around the store, I had NOTHING in my cart except a couple of avocados and a bag of sugar. (I have issues).

But finally, I whipped out my blackberry, hid out in the bread aisle and crafted a week’s worth of meal ideas and the proceeded to go up and down the aisles slinging tomatoes, rice, cilantro and swiss cheese into my cart… by the end, I spent a hundred dollars. (For two people, doesn’t that seem like alot?) But to my credit, there was a $10 bottle of pure canadian maple syrup in there… (I just can’t justify buying syrup where the first ingredient is high fructose corn syrup. EW, right?)

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So now, I present a challenge…. Cook a fresh meal for my family (um, Irving and me) every day for two weeks (and live to blog about it).

This will require lots of this:
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First up… Erika’s enchiladas recipe. I can’t take credit at all for the recipe, so head to her site and ask her for it. 🙂

A full hour later, a tray of DELICIOUS homemade enchiladas came out of the oven:
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And dare I even say it was healthy? Well, healthier than if I ordered it out… and Irving LOVED it.

Challenge #1: Complete.

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While I was in the kitchen, I whipped out a batch of Dark Chocolate Chip cookies!
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MMmm!
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***pats self on back***

 

Moonlight Walk! September 16, 2010

Filed under: Friends — Kelocity @ 9:00 am
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Irving and I went for a walk last night with two of our favorites:

Abby…
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And Ashley (and Spud)!
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I love Fall!!!

 

9-year Anniversary! September 14, 2010

Filed under: Love — Kelocity @ 8:44 am
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Today marks the 9-year anniversary that Irving and I started dating! 9 years!!!

Happy Anniversary, darling!

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Ashley and JR’s Baby Shower! September 12, 2010

Filed under: Food,Friends,Happy — Kelocity @ 8:48 pm
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Today was the big day for the baby shower. I ran all over town yesterday getting all the ingredients of the perfect shower. 🙂

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I was a little stressed out, but good thing I have great friends to bring me candy corn to keep me going. 😉
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We put together our favor bags (which consisted of bags of cookies, bags of chocolate pretzels!
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Your hosts for the afternoon:
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Some Party Details:
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The Bear!
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Ashley calls the baby: Spud. So we decided to make the shower a potato theme!

Even Mr. Potato Head himself was there!
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And for lunch, we served a baked potato bar!
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Complete with all the toppings!
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I think Ashley (And Spud) really liked it!

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We invited all the guests to make a scrapbook page for a baby book. That way, after the baby comes, she has a custom album to put all the pictures in that was made by all her friends!
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The Creation Station!
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Then it was time to cut Mr. Bear. (this was so so so sad!)
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I almost couldn’t watch… RIP bear. You sure were tasty!
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Presents!!!!
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Irving bought this Galaxy Onsie!!  (After all, he is soccer’s biggest fan!) IMG_5969 IMG_5972

JR came to open a few gifts too!

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Her mom made this! Soooo cute!
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Thank you SO much to everyone who came out to celebrate with Ash and JR!
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Steph and Ashley!

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She got so many nice things. So lucky to have so many great friends!
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I think she liked the favors too!
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Congrats guys!
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xoxo
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Prepping for a Baby Shower!

Filed under: Food,Friends — Kelocity @ 8:26 pm
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One of my best friends, Ashley and JR, are having a baby soon, so today, Erika and I threw her a shower to celebrate!

But back up to earlier in the week when we started making the favors and the cake!

First Step: FAVORS!

We made chocolate covered pretzels!
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We melted down some chocolate to decorate inside the molds with:
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We had to paint all the details with a paintbrush:
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And we melted down some chocolate for the base:
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Viola!
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All wrapped up!
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Second Step: Sugar Cookies!

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Then we had to frost them all!
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Third Step: Bear Cake!

Erika found this super cute bear cake in the Wilton Magazine:
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We Erika made the two layers of the bear first. and used frosting to stack it together.
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Then she got to work decorating with frosting!
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(I think my camera ate some of the detail shots of this!)

Erika pretty much made them and I watched (moral support!) And she was nice enough to let me lick the spoon. lol

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The Final Product! So cuuute!!!
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While we baked, the boys were jumping around playing the wii!
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We had a BLAST planning the shower. I was sad Ashley couldn’t be there… but I guess we had to keep it a surprise!