Holiday Pictures

Thanksgiving 2011:

 

 

 

Christmas 2011

 New Years 2012

 Cutie Kaitlynn at Eight Months :)

Cousin Carson's Baptism

 

 

Kaitlynn Almost Nine Months!!

Love my family!! :)

Baked Coconut Shrimp!

Oh what a delicious night! I had coconut shrimp for the first time ever and it was AMAZING!! I am posting the recipe because I would recommend it to everyone! We took a few different recipes and combined them to make this PHENOMENAL treat.
A note of caution: ONLY make the shrimp you plan on eating, if you make more, you may never be able to stop!!!

• 1 egg
• 2/3 cup chicken (or any other kind of) broth
• 3/4 cup flour
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 2 cups flaky coconut
• 24 shrimp

1 Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. 
2 Mix the egg, broth, 1/2 cup of the flour and baking powder in a bowl. Place the remaining flour and the coconut flakes into a separate bowl.
 3 Dip each of the shrimp in the plain flour. Shake off the excess and dunk the shrimp into the batter mixture. Coat each shrimp with the coconut flakes.
4 Place each coated shrimp onto the lined cookie sheet. Refrigerate them for 30 minutes.

(We placed them on parchment paper later, but the picture on aluminum foil turned out better)

5 Place shrimp on the cookie sheet and bake for 15-17 minutes or until coconut is a golden brown. Make sure to turn it once halfway through (around 8 minutes into cooking time) to make sure both sides brown.  
6 Eat them plain or try with cocktail sauce. We loved both! :)

ENJOY!!

The Introduction of Polly Penguin

Kaitlynn met Polly Penguin for the first time last night.
Polly apparently was telling some good jokes because Kaitlynn couldn't stop laughing.
They will be best friends :)

Adorable.
:)

Halloween Party!!

Jordan, Kaitlynn, and I went to a Halloween Party last night.  I, of course, wanted us to be Harry Potter characters and, with a little bit of prodding, Jordan agreed.


Kaitlynn didn't need much convincing. :)

We needed Harry Potter Glasses:

An owl costume:

 

French braids (I did for the first time!)

 And, of course, lots of hair!! 

...

=D

 Kaitlynn was Hedwig (Harry Potter's Owl):

 I was Hermoine:

 

And, of course, Jordan was Harry Potter!

....
I mean....
HAIRY Potter
...
He likes the play-on-words kind of costumes :)

It was SO fun dressing up! (..and the party that evening was a blast too! :) )
Hooray for Harry (....Hairy....) Potter!!
:)