Thursday, May 19, 2011

Blast from the Past

So we decided that since we are getting new floors in the kitchen we might as well get rid of the nasty pinkish peach tile counter tops too...  I really loved the brown grout and wood trim and all but the new ones will probably be a little more sanitary, ha!
Anyway, the counter people came to rip off the old tile yesterday in preparation for our new ones to be put on today and it was like opening a time capsule!  You know when things disappear out the back of your drawers and are never to be seen again without seriously pulling things apart...  Well that is what we found yesterday behind all of our drawers and surprisingly none of it was our stuff.  There was a serious stash of  all kinds of interesting things, steak knives, forks, chopsticks, a child's artwork & school papers, lots of paper snowflakes, an apron and a Duck Tales Happy Meal box dated 1985!!  Apparently the little boy that lived here was named Ian and based on the dates and types of school papers he is probably about the same age as me, pretty fun!!
Apparently Ian was a serious Matchbox collector :)
I totally remember having this set when I was little!!!

Seriously loved that show and am singing the
song in my head as I am typing this!!!!

Friday, May 13, 2011


One of my favorite pastimes at my parents house is to sit on the back porch and read my mom's cookbooks. She has LOADS of awesome cookbooks and has taken notes on every recipe she has ever made in the cookbooks.  A few weeks ago I came across an oldie but goodie!  Cookies for Kids by Better Homes and Gardens was a cookbook that Dustin and I had when we were little.  It is from 1983 and is seriously the best cookie cookbook ever!  I think we have made almost every cookie in the entire book.  There are so many crazy and fun cookies I could hardly contain my excitement in finding it.  Of course my mom was not going to part with the book so I made it my mission to find my own copy so the boys can have as much cookie fun as Dustin and I had with it over the years!
I finally found a "like new" used copy on Amazon and now have my very own Cookies for Kids book and could not be more excited.  The boys and I have been baking up a storm!
These are our bump on a log cookies we made the other day!
I can't wait to try some more!!!