Marlee

I haven't written about Marlee in a while! She is almost 17 months!!! Crazy, right?? She is just so much fun to hang out with everyday! Her last Dr.'s appt, she was in the 90th percentile for height and just about the 50th for her weight. She loves playing with her babies and she loves horses. She wants to do "horsie" on anything and everything. She climbs on everything too! She loves to play with friends every chance she gets, and LOVES to be in nursery (That's mine and Alax's calling). She's always "ung-ary" (hungry) This girl is a never-ending pit. She just eats all day!! She can be a stinker sometimes, but that's a toddler for ya, right? I'm loving this age right now, and am trying to soak it all in!!

I gave Marlee these magnetic letters on her first birthday, but she immediately put the 'M' in her mouth and almost choked on it :/ We tried them out again today. She kept them out of her mouth and LOVED them.

Marlee "helping" :) She also doesn't like putting her clothes on. She's naked 80% of the time.

OH, and look at all the hair she has!! I can do braids, and tons of fun things!! I love having a girl :)

Did you know...

that I have a craft blog?? If you didn't then you should head on over and check it outttt!!!! I post fun things I make and yummy recipes I find! You could even follow me while you're at it ;) happy blogging!!

My craft blog!!!

Cookies :)

My mom told me that she had made these lemon crinkle cookies and i was skeptical...I've never been one to indulge in anything lemony....except lemon bars (yes, i realize saying this defeats my point...) But these cookies are UH-mazing!!! I'm actually only writing this post because the whole world needs to know about them, and I'm going to go make some as soon as I'm done with this post.

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Lemon Crinkle Cookies
Makes 2-3 dozen

Ingredients:
½ cups butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
½ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 whole egg
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1 Tablespoon fresh lemon juice
¼ teaspoons salt
¼ teaspoons baking powder
⅛ teaspoons baking soda
1-½ cup all-purpose flour
½ cups powdered sugar

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease light colored baking sheets with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Whip in vanilla, egg, lemon zest, and juice. Scrape sides and mix again. Stir in all dry ingredients slowly until just combined, excluding the powdered sugar. Scrape sides of bowl and mix again briefly. Pour powdered sugar onto a large plate. Roll a heaping teaspoon of dough into a ball and roll in powdered sugar. Place on baking sheet and repeat with remaining dough.
Bake for 9-11 minutes or until bottoms begin to barely brown and cookies look matte {not melty or shiny}. Remove from oven and cool cookies about 3 minutes before transferring to cooling rack.
*If using a non-stick darker baking tray, reduce baking time by about 2 minutes.

ENJOY!! I dare you not to eat the whole first batch as soon as they come out of the oven. I have a...ahem...friend...who may have done it :)

Thanksgiving

I've been awful at updating this blog, but I'm going to start trying harder :) This Thanksgiving was a good one for our little family! Since Alax's parents are on their mission, and my parents are in Virginia, we did our own Thanksgiving just the three of us. It was kinda sad not having our family with us, but at the same time, it was really fun to do it ourselves too! And guess what? Everything turned out great!! I cooked my very first turkey!!! I was, and still am very proud :) It was absolutely disgusting to prepare, but turned out sooooo good. Although....I may or may not have called my dad like 20 times to ask him questions like: what the heck does the neck look like? Where do I find the neck? I may have sent him a picture OF the neck to make sure. Are you wondering if I'm always this needy?? Prettttty much....sad I know. But, other than cooking and eating, we had a really lazy day sitting around and enjoying Alax's day off with him.

After we Ate, Alax and Marlee sat on the couch and watched Gnomeo and Juliet, Marlee's new favorite movie.

I didn't get any pictures of any of our food beforehand, we all know what a cooked turkey, and all the fixings look like right? :) This is all of our leftover turkey. I got an 18 and a half pound turkey. We're all set for turkey sandwiches for about a year....

While I was cooking, Alax had to go to the store, and took Marlee with him. They came back with the groceries, and this lucky little girl had sweet talked daddy into getting her a balloon :) Every time we walk into a store, the very first thing she does is point out any balloon in her line of sight and whines talks about it until we leave. Every once in a while we give in though...

She has kept it by her side since. We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!!