Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Snow Much Fun :)
Tom and I continue to get to spend quite a bit of time with Kajsa and Greta and love every minute of it! Here are a few pictures we took recently playing on the little hill in their yard. Afterward we headed inside for some hot chocolate. 
Tom and Greta in deep conversation. Greta loves to wear princess/dance dresses and slips one on any chance she can!
Here's a short clip of Greta dancing in the kitchen. She LOVES Sleeping Beauty and sings the theme song daily. I thought this was so cute how she was dancing and then swung over to Tom and had him start dancing with her! Cute. (Sorry the video is sideways!)A Little Christmas
I just realized I didn't even put any pictures from Christmas up!
Tom and I were the only kids home with Mom & Dad over Christmas (we missed the others!). One of the highlights was making lefse! Mom gave Tom and I the recipe and we went through the whole process of making it ourselves. We were pretty proud of ourselves. ;)
We did get to spend a little time with my Mom's side, too! It was fun to have all of my aunts and uncles there, and all my cousins except for four. We had so much fun visiting and playing lots of games! Grandpa was such a good sport too...he stayed up with us until about 1AM and he's 89 years old!
Tom and I were the only kids home with Mom & Dad over Christmas (we missed the others!). One of the highlights was making lefse! Mom gave Tom and I the recipe and we went through the whole process of making it ourselves. We were pretty proud of ourselves. ;)
We did get to spend a little time with my Mom's side, too! It was fun to have all of my aunts and uncles there, and all my cousins except for four. We had so much fun visiting and playing lots of games! Grandpa was such a good sport too...he stayed up with us until about 1AM and he's 89 years old!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Our First Home
I have been wanting to do this for a long time....share pictures of our first Stinar family home!
NOTE: You will probably notice the walls are extremely bare and very white. I know, it really bothers me, too. However, we didn't want to hang too many things or paint, because we have to have it all white, and hole-less again in May.
So, with that in mind, here are the pictures!
Right away you walk into the kitchen. (There's a really nice, huge closet that is to the left of the front door.)
The kitchen flows into the living room. Here's our messy desk/work area.
A straight on view of the living room. We have a nice view out the patio into a courtyard, but it was a little too bright today!
Our "dining room". :)
Our bedroom.
The bathroom...2 views.
A little side note. This blanket that is over the couch was made by my piano teacher and friend, Cathy Coffman. We were so pleased because it kind of tied all the colors of the room together! :) Thanks Cathy!
Although it is a small space, we are truly enjoying our first home...and it takes almost no time at all to clean! :)
NOTE: You will probably notice the walls are extremely bare and very white. I know, it really bothers me, too. However, we didn't want to hang too many things or paint, because we have to have it all white, and hole-less again in May.
So, with that in mind, here are the pictures!
Right away you walk into the kitchen. (There's a really nice, huge closet that is to the left of the front door.)
The kitchen flows into the living room. Here's our messy desk/work area.
A straight on view of the living room. We have a nice view out the patio into a courtyard, but it was a little too bright today!
Our "dining room". :)
Our bedroom.
The bathroom...2 views.
A little side note. This blanket that is over the couch was made by my piano teacher and friend, Cathy Coffman. We were so pleased because it kind of tied all the colors of the room together! :) Thanks Cathy!
Although it is a small space, we are truly enjoying our first home...and it takes almost no time at all to clean! :)
Let's Catch Up!
Whew! We have some catching up to do! Tom and I have been so busy with school and are now so happy to be on Christmas vacation! (I just noticed that I tend to use a lot of exclamation marks....sorry.) So, until January 10, 2011, we're free stylin' it. Actually, we're going to spend 5 days with my family, and then we're going to be with Tom's fam for 5 days on a ski trip to Lutsen, MN. We are pretty pumped.
Now that I have all this time I decided to update my blog. :) First I thought I would share a couple videos from when we babysat Kajsa and Greta. We've had the privilege of spending a couple weekends with them and a few other babysitting times (in fact, we get to play with them tonight!).
As you can see in the above video, Greta loves pizza. By the end of it she actually ate 4 pieces! We were amazed.
Greta loved that Tom would play princess Pollies with her. I think it's just adorable how Greta gets into pretending and making the little dolls talk. I wasn't able to get video of it, but she also sings a TON while she plays. It's so cute.
Kajsa is also a big singer! Both girls just sing away while playing, oblivious to the world around them. :)
Now that I have all this time I decided to update my blog. :) First I thought I would share a couple videos from when we babysat Kajsa and Greta. We've had the privilege of spending a couple weekends with them and a few other babysitting times (in fact, we get to play with them tonight!).
As you can see in the above video, Greta loves pizza. By the end of it she actually ate 4 pieces! We were amazed.
Greta loved that Tom would play princess Pollies with her. I think it's just adorable how Greta gets into pretending and making the little dolls talk. I wasn't able to get video of it, but she also sings a TON while she plays. It's so cute.
Kajsa is also a big singer! Both girls just sing away while playing, oblivious to the world around them. :)
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Quick Note
This is a very quick note to say hi and we are alive! :) Two other notes from us:
1-I am procrastinating for a minute right now.
2- We are so very, extremely, excited to finish school (mostly homework) this year! (We are both in the midst of working on big projects for the end of the semester, and are excited because we can see just a bit of the light at the end of the tunnel!)
Enjoy your day! Even though we are busy, we are so thankful for where we are and what is going on in our lives right now. God has been, and is, so faithful that we can only thank Him and love Him. Also, we are thankful for people like YOU in our lives!
1-I am procrastinating for a minute right now.
2- We are so very, extremely, excited to finish school (mostly homework) this year! (We are both in the midst of working on big projects for the end of the semester, and are excited because we can see just a bit of the light at the end of the tunnel!)
Enjoy your day! Even though we are busy, we are so thankful for where we are and what is going on in our lives right now. God has been, and is, so faithful that we can only thank Him and love Him. Also, we are thankful for people like YOU in our lives!
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Baking Binge
This weekend Tom was harvesting beets while I stayed home (had to work on a group project). In my spare time I went on quite the baking binge. I love to bake and so it was a lot of fun. If I could own a bakery, and not eat everything I made, I would. It is just something I really enjoy doing.
So anyway, I went on this baking binge. It started out that we had a bunch of carrots we needed to use up. So I thought to myself, "Carrots...what can I do with carrots." And as I thought, I came up with carrot bread and carrot cake (a late birthday cake for Tom, since we were out of town over his birthday).
Here is the carrot bread batter (a quick bread, so really easy to make).
Would you like a slice? (It looks kind of dark because of a few adjustments I made. Whole wheat flour instead of white, honey instead of sugar, applesauce instead of oil.)
Oh yes! Something not carrot. You always need something chocolate. Ok, you don't NEED it, but it's nice. These are "Black Bottom Cupcakes" and are SO good. I don't normally really like cupcakes but these are just great. It's a chocolate cupcake batter on the bottom, with a cream cheese mixture on top. Heavenly.
Back to the carrots. They are some what laborious. Definitely worth it though, as it just makes the cake really moist. The cake called for 2 cups shredded carrots, and so I shredded, and shredded carrots.
My set up. I may not have the biggest kitchen (in our nice little apartment, which we are so very thankful for), but I have some great tools that I have been blessed with. Here is my KitchenAid that I use a TON, along with my cook book stand! (This particular cook book is "Taste of Home".)
The recipe. Not intentionally, but I see I cut off the nutrition information. Trust me, it's better that you don't see.
Ahh, yes. The carrots.
Ready to bake.
Cooling. (I'm so impatient during this stage because I just want to frost them.)
The finished product! Happy birthday to my wonderful husband!
So anyway, I went on this baking binge. It started out that we had a bunch of carrots we needed to use up. So I thought to myself, "Carrots...what can I do with carrots." And as I thought, I came up with carrot bread and carrot cake (a late birthday cake for Tom, since we were out of town over his birthday).
Here is the carrot bread batter (a quick bread, so really easy to make).
Would you like a slice? (It looks kind of dark because of a few adjustments I made. Whole wheat flour instead of white, honey instead of sugar, applesauce instead of oil.)
Oh yes! Something not carrot. You always need something chocolate. Ok, you don't NEED it, but it's nice. These are "Black Bottom Cupcakes" and are SO good. I don't normally really like cupcakes but these are just great. It's a chocolate cupcake batter on the bottom, with a cream cheese mixture on top. Heavenly.
Back to the carrots. They are some what laborious. Definitely worth it though, as it just makes the cake really moist. The cake called for 2 cups shredded carrots, and so I shredded, and shredded carrots. 
My set up. I may not have the biggest kitchen (in our nice little apartment, which we are so very thankful for), but I have some great tools that I have been blessed with. Here is my KitchenAid that I use a TON, along with my cook book stand! (This particular cook book is "Taste of Home".)
The recipe. Not intentionally, but I see I cut off the nutrition information. Trust me, it's better that you don't see.
Ahh, yes. The carrots.
Ready to bake.
Cooling. (I'm so impatient during this stage because I just want to frost them.)
The finished product! Happy birthday to my wonderful husband!
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