Oh my god, oh my god oh my GOD!!!!

Yesterday was MY day man. I mean really really my day. Beautiful 32 I think I'm going to really like you. For 1, my friend Sid came over and watched the girls while I ran off to the DMV of all places. I was in and out of there, the bank and the grocery within 1 hour though. I know....amazing right! I also have one of ( says vain me) one of the best drivers liscence photos ever on the face of the planet. Asia watched the girls all night and get ready for it....the best part of the whole night, my husband.......is a full fledged SUSHI convert! OH YES!!!!!!! He's already waiting, plotting even for the next time we can get it. I so meant to get a picture but I felt like kind of an ass clicking away in this nice resturant we went to. Plus I was too excited at the prospect of having my first expertly rolled sushi in 6 YEARS to remember I even had a camera on me. Though having no photographic evidence of the glutony that insued is kinda a good thing. Anyways heres a picture I stole from someone else.

The rest of the night was almost as fantastic as sharing my love of food with my loving husband.

Tomorrow is New years eve, the begining of 2010 and my big sisters Bday. Sout out to Shawn Hayes aka: Nawny! Love you lady and wish you a bright and beautiful year!

It also has me thinking of course....about cooking, what to make for my little family to ring in the new year????

Its to bad pop rocks wouldn't hold up in cupcakes....or frosting. How much would that kick ass, pop rock cupcakes for new years! What I have on hand though is strawberries and for those of you not in the know I am a strawberry cake fanatic. I used to have my dad bake it for my bdays, well that and fried rice. YUM. So I think tomorrow I'll make strawberry cake. Okay the important question is outta the way so that just leaves dinner......I want something that my little family loves and that reminds me of my BIG Family that is easy delish and won't cause any dinner time melt downs at the kiddy table of my life....

The boat may be gone but the memories are loud and clear,

dun dun DUN!!!!

Pork medalions ala wingsong.

salad

and.....

I'll figure something out I'm sure.

I also think I should make evryone some nifty cardboard crowns,

I let the girls make Sean one so he has to wear it. heheheh yes I am that bad but its sooooo good for him!!

Besides there more cardboard from xmas that needs to be used up.

Anyways....heres to you, Hope your having fun and being as beautiful as I know you are. Happy New years people!!!! Happy birthday Shawn na na!

Love big mama whalen

xmas oh my.

Alright Christmas, you kicked my ass!

I spent weeks on these for the ladies down at Darwin's. I'm just glad I got them done. Whew. So is Sean, I don't think anyone has ever been as glad as he was to see beads get put away. Then my wonderful sister sent me a box full of bead and shells for my bday. I um.....accidently opened them on xmas though. I promptly started beading agin inbetween cooking the cakes and the ham and then I took one look at his face and decided to wait until later this week.

Our Christmas eve was kinda shakey emotionally so I decided to course out my bad vibes by making him some Dolmas which he loves! They are divine. Maybe I'll do a dolmas tutorial later on.

the Ginger bread advent calender from laura's family. The girls absolutely adore it.

Cookies for Santa of course. Maybe their why mama didn't lose any weight this week huh?

In my family we always opened up 1 gift on Christmas eve, I carry that tradition on. Sharel suprised us by making these beautiful dolls for the girls. They LOVED them. They took them to bed with them and still had their hands on them when they woke up xmas morning. So super cute.

After I wrapped everything. WOW

Denali's Barbie glamor camper. She squeeled upon opening it and LOVES it sosoooo much!

Boo Boo proudly handing Sean the gift she picked out fro him from all of them. The most elmer fud hat you've ever seen. I love it. The sight of him wearing it is hilarious and wonderful. Good job Boo!

Elsie's fairy mermaid. I had to sew wings on the mermaid doll I found because I could not find a fairy mermaid anywhere for the life of me, but its what she wanted and its what she got. I think its laying in a corner somewhere. Go figure.

Boo's magic Ariel from Auntie Shawn.

Custom hats from Auntie Julia.

Little budding artist and her paint set.

I should post some photos of her drawings because they really are incredible.

Ah, what would my blog be without another picture of food. So heres my ham. It was to die for! The girls', Sean, Big Sid and I scarffed it.

So, thats that. Today is the day before my 32 bday. Amazing. I will be going to work tonight and then tomorrow the beautiful Asia and Juniper are coming over to babysit so Sean and I can go out. We don't really have any money after this month but we do have 2 free movie tickets! Beside fun with your husband is free right! Love Love love you all.

Sarah

The week in pictures.

As I may or may not have said. Last weekend the girls were alittle sick. Well, we decided to go to Seward to our beloved Sea Life Center. In the winter time the place is great because you normally have the whole thing to yourselves. This time was alittle different. There was another little bunch of 3 girls all about the same ages as ours. They had so much fun running around and looking at everything together.

Woody the Stellar sea lions girlfriend

The girlfriend sat and stared at Elsie for a LONG time.

As You all know (probably) I have been obsessed with thepioneerwomancooks

lately. If she has a recipe that I can adapt using what I've got I'll try it.

So butter rosemary rolls

Heeres that beast of a turkey I cooked. For some reason I didn't get the cooked picture. Probably because we were all to buisy devoring it!

Leftover turkey pot pie. Pre cook

after

Okay...imagine if they were wearing monkey costumes.

This was breakfast yesterday. I don't know why I put pics of food on here, except that its my blog and I love food, so bear with me.

Homemade hashbrowns, as we used to call them, dad's grey browns. They get grey in the cast iron pan.

Anyways its covered in onions, green chiles and a bit of diced ham. Then you put chees on it, cook up a egg anyway you like it and plop it on there and drizzle with salsa. Had we had any sour cream you can bet that would have been on there too!

So there, thats our week. This week is xmas. I wish we could be with more family but I am damn grateful for this little life. Love love love

MamaWhalen

anyone....bueller, bueller.......bueller?

Anyone out there reading this? What should I cook tomorrow? Saturday 12/19/09. Is there something you have always wanted to cook? Tres leches cake is mine. Ever since I heard about it I have been dying to cook it. Anyays send me ideas, even if its past saturday send me ideas of something to cook. If I cook one of the ideas ( More like if anyone even reads this) I'll post a picture of whatever I chose. If no one replies well, I'll come up with something and maybe I'll post that.

Enjoy a picture of tres leches cake, and look it up and tell me if it doesn't make your knees buckle!