Inauguration Day

Did you watch? What an amazing day!

Foggy sunrise

Last week, this was the foggy early morning view outside my office. Not too bad :)

Mustaches

Karianne is obsessed with facial hair. She and Lisa thought they might look good with mustaches.

-Liz :)

Cookie Day: Truffle Treats

Because of my gluten-free diet, I picked out a couple non-cookie recipes to try with our CE2 students. Today we made truffles, a first for all of us involved.

Between math and English chapters and internship duties, Sue, Dillon, David, Dustin, Doug and Justine helped with various stages of the creation. We think they turned out well... yum!

Truffle Treats

Prep: 10 mins - Ready in: 1 hr 10 mins

1 pkg. (8 squares) BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Extra Creamy Whipped Topping, thawed
Unsweetened cocoa, chopped nuts, multi-colored candies, BAKER'S ANGEL FLAKE Coconut

Microwave chocolate in microwavable bowl on HIGH 2 to 3 minutes or until chocolate is almost melted, stirring halfway through heating time. Stir until chocolate is completely melted.

Mix in peanut butter until smooth. Cool to room temperature. Gently stir in whipped topping. Refrigerate 1 hour.

Roll mixture into 1-inch balls. Coat with cocoa, nuts, multi-colored candies or coconut.

-Liz :)

Birthday fun

For his 33rd birthday, Brad chose dinner at Jamba Juice and Qdoba, followed by Valkyrie at Bridgeport Village. Good movie but kind of a downer.

It was a fun evening, and we decided we should have more date nights :)

Happy Birthday!!

:)

New Year's getaway

Brad had a couple days off last week, so we took a brief but very relaxing trip to the family beach house in Oceanside. A few highlights:

Cozy fire

Old, bad TV

Stormy at the top

Sunny by the time we got down to the beach

The bats came to visit