A fly on the wall:)

Kind of a random post but I was testing out a new camera lense around the house (forgive the horrible pictures still working on figuring some things out) so I thought I would share our home here at Great Lakes...home of the long long winters. I actually kind of just got done putting pictures on the walls and decorating since our move here was pretty rough with Brent having his feeding problems. We also just got Brent a new nursery set so that just got put together thanks to Nick and within 2 days Brent had bite marks like a beaver all over his crib railing!

Brent's Room

Doesn't really show much of our room but I still love looking at Brent's newborn pictures and how small he was and how sweet he was...for maybe 3 days he was sweet:)

Our kitchen...please note several things...dying plant...sailor and nurse statue Karen and Roger gave us for Christmas...Nick's "decorations" he added when I was out of town one weekend...his BUDS helmets:) Added such great variety of color:)

Our Living room

Note...clutter/toy area...luckily he just turned a year old and is just now showing any interest in toys...I think the vaccumm cleaner (Brent's old favorite toy) is being replaced.

Stats

Brent had his one year appt today and weighed in as followed:)

Wt: 24 lbs 2.5 ounces (50-75%)
Lenght: 32 3/4 inches (97%!)

Quite the man now.

He has also somehow accomplished scaring off a 5 year old boy in the waiting room and our 3 year old neighbor is now affaid of him...he is a beast to say the least.

Proofs

Brent's proofs are up on Nellie's website now....

www.nellie-photography.com

under proofing...password brent.

I love her:)

War's End Kiss

So we finished up Brent's one year pictures with Nellie and we just had to do the "famous" uniform shot a year later. We also wanted to get a picture like the famous War's End Kiss between the sailor and the nurse...modern day of course (we also totally forgot to put Nick's sailor hat on though).

You can check them out on her blog....

http://nellie-photography.com/blog/

Yummies

I have been meaning to put up some of the recipes I got from the lodge we stayed at in Wisconsin...the food was amazing! So here are some of their famous recipes...

Cheesy Potatoes

1 stick of melted butter in bottom of 9x13 pan

Spread 2 pounds frozen hash browns on top of butter

Mix 1 can of cream of chicken soup with 1 pint of sour cream.

Mix into potatoes

Mix 1/4 cup oleo and 2 cups crushed corn flakes and sprinkle over top

Bake 350 for 1 hour


Hot Fudge Nut Balls

1-2 quart of beyer real vanilla ice cream

1 bag pecan pieces

dove fudge topping


1. Allow ice cream to soften a bit

2. Scoop out and form ice cream balls

3. Roll in pecan pieces

4. Place on wax paper lined 9 x13 pan

5. Into freezer and ready to serve

6. Pour fudge into small crock and allow guests to ladle topping onto their pecan crusted ice cream ball.



Kristy's apple cake

Cream: 1 3/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup oil

Add: 2 eggs and 2 tsp vanilla

Add: 4 cups peeled, sliced apples

Sift and add to apple mixture:
2 cups flour
1 tsp soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt

Bake at 350 in greased/ floured 9x13 pan for 40-45 min

Topping:

Boil until clear: 1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup cream or milk

Add pecans or walnuts inf you like and then pour over warm cake:)


Wow I can't believe I just typed all this out...I hope somebody is interested in these recipes:)

EBM goes wedding...

Me and my trained assistant had the opportunity to take some fun wedding pictures this weekend...it was such a beautiful wedding and the wedding party was such good sports and up for anything. Congrats Sara & Thad! You can check my picture blog for part one of the sneak peeks:)

www.ebmphotography.blogspot.com

He's one now...and walking!

(ie: no snaggle teeth)

We went down to the beach on base today so I could play around with my camera while Nick and Brent played around outside:)