A Peek at the Poulsens

Everyone always asks, "how was your Christmas?" and I always feel kind of bad because our Christmas was good, but super low-key. We kept it reeeealll casual. To be honest I felt kind of overwhelmed about the holidays this year...I don't think I was full-on Grinch mode, but I didn't feel quite as festive as usual for whatever reason. So, we celebrated with ease and leisure, and it suited us just fine. gpa and gma relaxing with the remnants of the traditional Christmas Eve Chinese food "Santa's" offerings haha the hair of her doll looks like Monster from the muppets Stockton woke up last and Jack was excited to show him his scooter her traditional snow globe from Santa everyone enjoying their spoils reading Jack's new Sesame Street book It was all over by 7am, and then the kids wanted to play in the fresh snow outside. Never mind that it was frigid...we bundled up and enjoyed a little tra...

Finally, the Thanksgiving post! Only a month late : ) preparing the pie! crust for pumpkin chiffon  I had just finished mixing the dough for the rolls and setting them to rise when I realized I forgot the sugar!!! It calls for 3/4 cup of sugar, which was too significant of an amount to try to go without, so I had to throw away the whole chub! 9 cups of flour : ( If it wasn't Thanksgiving, I would totally have tried to make the rolls work anyway, but when it's your responsibility to bring rolls for the feast of the year, you can't mess it up!  round 2....they turned out so buttery and perfect, mmm my mouth is watering!  To keep the kids occupied (Austin was playing football) I gave them their own "ingredients" to make a Thanksgiving masterpiece. They loved it! Play doh, fuzzy balls, wooden dowels galore. Everyone was in town for Thanksgiving! It was the first time we've all been together for Thanksgiving (or any holiday, rea...