Vacation Home

We are so excited to finally have found our new vacation home to vacation out in the mountains of big bear. It's been a long hunt for the perfect one, about 5 years but we finally found it. Oh the long hours shopping for one are finally over! through the years, we "rented" and we borrowed from friends and family members but finally we have one of our own! So since the weather was beautiful yesterday, we decided to set it up and take a look. Check out the pics:

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yes people, it's a tent, our vacation home....hehe! got you! We got it on clearance at Target and saved $60 off the regular price, Eddie Bower....nice....This is how it looks like all set up:

And this is us trying to set it up, we wanted to make sure all the parts were in the box, afterall, it was on clearance:

This is the inside, three rooms.....nice.....

Valentine's Day Continued

There can't be a romantic date without chocolate, right? so I whipped up some bon bons. They are so easy to make and there is no baking with this recipe. I got this box at Costco and the recipe is on the back.


I got a little impatient and my peanut butter bon bons aren't perfect like the picture on the box but, trust me, they were just as delicious! and isn't the dish lovely? got it at a yard sale.....thank you yard sale lady.

I always have left over chocolate when I make these and today I decided to make hearts with the left over. Place pieces of wax paper on a flat surface. Spoon in all the left over melted chocolate inside a sandwich size zip lock bag.

Cut a small piece of one corner and pipe out the chocolate making a decoration. In this case, a heart.

Place in freezer, make sure they lay flat
Wait just a few minutes later and voila!


You could write a beautiful poem or a love song to tell your valentine how much you love them or, you can bake a heart shaped cake and send the same message. Since I didn't have a heart shaped mold, I used a square mold 9"x 9" and a circle mold 9" and behold! a heart!


Cut the circle in half, these will go on each side of the square to make the top part of the heart.



The template below shows the placement of the blue square and the red circle cut in half.
Decorate with icing and sugar crystals. Nothing says I love you better than a big piece of chocolate cake with ice cream.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's day is one of my favorite holidays and it's finally here. I have my three Valentines, Erik 10years old cutie who made the principal's list

Ely, my 7 year old sweetie, who also made the principal's list:

and my cape-less HERO husband, Oscar.

And of course, the day that started it all; our wedding day, here's a picture of that very romantic day (here's where you say "aaawww"):
My table is just as romantic with a multicolor fabric I found at Joann's, it's bohemian chic. I just cut it to size and sewed a seam all around.

I opted not to place a vase with flowers because the fabric is so busy by itself so I placed some tea lights in a bowl with water instead. I put a few drops of red food coloring in the bowl. The special menu for today: new york steak, vegies, mashed potatoes, shrimp with lemon and garlic and cake and ice cream. Definately red wine, Stella Rosa, my favorite and you can find here. If you don't normally drink wine because it's too bitter (dry) for you, try Stella Rosa, it's a very sweet red wine with bubbles like champagne, perfect for Valentine's day.