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  1. Worst blogger ever

    Tuesday, December 2, 2014

    So...I'm pretty much the worst blogger ever. I have some good excuses and some not so good ones. I took a break from blogging because my little family moved in with my in-laws and we were internet-less for awhile. Then once we got the internet back, it just took me way too long to get back in the swing of things. I blame the new baby (who is now 8 months!)

    I stayed active on Instagram, so if you check me out there (@uncagedfreedom620) you can go through all my photos of food and babies that I didn't blog.

    I'm probably still not going to be very good at posting regularly, but I'm going to try my best! Yell at me on Instagram if I take too long!

    Below are some snipits from Instagram.



  2. Happy 3rd Birthday Aria!

    Tuesday, February 18, 2014

    Aria's 3rd birthday was February 7th! I can't believe she's three years already!
    For breakfast we had Birthday Pancakes, Aria loves helping me out in the kitchen so I let her help me mix the batter - I used this recipe. The pancakes themselves aren't actually that sweet, I didn't want to have "icing" on them though. I diced up some strawberries with a couple tablespoons of sugar and set it aside in a bowl so it could start releasing its juice.









    Aria ate all the strawberries first, then ate her pancakes. No shocker there. She would happily survive on nothing but strawberries and cheese if she could.


    For dinner we had homemade pizza! I made a double batch of homemade dough which came out to 3 large pizzas and 2 small. Above is a feta/goat cheese pizza, half with pesto sauce and half with marinara. We also had pepperoni pizzas and a meatlover's pizza (below).



    For Aria's cake I made a chocolate layer cake with a fresh strawberry filling and pink buttercream frosting. The cake is ad odd rectangle shape because my round cake pans are in storage at the moment, so I used a 9x13 pan and then cut it in half to create the layers.

    I was excited to try out the rose piping design on the outside of the cake and I'm glad it turned out as good as it did. I had some troubles with the buttercream breaking because the kitchen was too hot - so I had to keep re-beating the frosting on high and chilling the cake in the fridge every few minutes.






    Aria was super proud of herself for blowing out all the candles and kept talking about it for several days afterwards.




     ^^After eating Aria played with some of her new toys with her cousin Josie.
    They were making soup. :)

    Happy Birthday Aria!