Turkey Day 2010

Hello All,
These are some pictures from Thanksgiving this year. We had a small Thanksgiving dinner this year with just Tami, Jon and I. Also almost our entire meal was made in the toaster oven. Who said you need a full-size oven to make a whole Thanksgiving dinner. Here are some pictures.

My preparations for Thanksgiving dinner started on Tuesday night when I made pumpkin cupcakes with caramel cream cheese frosting. Then I drizzled them with more caramel. They are amazingly wonderful.

Jon spent the night since on Wednesday night we went to see the new Harry Potter movie. This is him trying to sleep in which is very hard when I'm awake.

Tami and I "trying" not to make too much noise but we were excited for Thanksgiving.

Had to start off the morning with Just Dance 2. It is sooooo much fun.

My Thanksgiving decorations.

Jon went and got breakfast, cinnamon rolls. Yeah he went and bought them but I still had to bake them.

Tami breaking up the bread for the stuffing.

Our lunch/snacks minus the bread crumbs.

Watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The corn souffle is the first to be done.

Jon got nominated to help Tami make the stuffing. It was hilarious to watch especially since he wasn't really listening to her directions.

The turkey roasts are seasoned.

The stuffing baking away.

The turkey - rotisserie style. It smelled so good and tasted even better.

The finished product.

I'm cutting it up. You can see the steam...yummy.

The only thing that I got hurt doing was peeling the potatoes for the mashed potatoes. The peeler gave my a blister on my thumb. Oh yes, and with this we had flying potatoes because they were slippery so they would shoot out of my hand and across the room. It was quite funny. After watching the parade we watched all the Thanksgiving episodes of Friends then football.

Our dinner, just the 3 of us. It was perfect for us. Good times with good friends and good food.

Eating Tami's oreo ice cream dessert while decorating the tree.

This is what they did while I decorated. But this is usually what they do all the time while I'm doing other things. Hope you all had a wonderful turkey day. Sending you warm wishes and aloha kisses.

Steaks and Baked Potatoes

Hello All,
I know its been quite some time since I wrote a blog but as many of you know this semester has been keeping me quite busy. Well our Tuesday night ritual is to watch Glee and I make dinner for Jon, Tami and I. Tami and I went and had dinner at our friends, Corey and Kristin, and they made steaks in their toaster oven. Well they were so good and we didn't know that we could cook steaks in the toaster oven. So for this week's Glee viewing party I made steaks and baked potatoes and then cheesecake with strawberries for dessert. Here's some pictures from that night.

Jon and Tami topping their baked potatoes.

My plate........YUMMY!!!!!!!

Jon and Tami eating dinner. You can see in this picture and one further down that I made a paper chain as decorations for Halloween.

Homemade cheesecake with fresh strawberry topping.

They were studying hard for their marine biology exam but there's always time to take a break for dessert.

One last picture...I had to model my cheesecake. Although in this picture there's some weird shadow thing going on so it makes my head look bigger than it actually is. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Sending you warm wishes and aloha kisses.

4th of July Weekend

Hello Everyone,
Tami and I had a pretty eventful 4th of July weekend here in Hawaii. It was our weekend to relax after moving into our new place and after Tami's family left. Here's some pictures from our fun-filled weekend.
I decided to make some sugar cookies for the 4th. This is all my stuff before I started decorating.

This was after I had frosted and put sprinkles on all the cookies.

I got this red and blue sparkle gel stuff to decorate with. I really liked this stuff.

Close up of the cookies.

On Friday night we went to see the fireworks at the Hilton in Waikiki. We got to watch the sunset after the fireworks that night.

On Saturday night we walked a couple blocks to Aloha Tower Marketplace to watch the 4th of July fireworks show there. This is Aloha Tower.

Saturday Night Fireworks

Here's Tami and I before the fireworks started at Ala Moana Center on Sunday.

Sunday Night Fireworks

Smile :-DIts Saturn

The Finale on the 4th.

Tami and I all ready for the parade in Kailua on the 5th.

Let Freedom Ring: 64th Annual Independence Day Parade in Kailua - Its the only 4th of July parade on the island.

The Royal Hawaiian Band

Pearl Harbor Survivor

Our entertainment for the parade. He just could not sit still but he was fun to have next to us that morning.

This picture is just for Mom. Enjoy :)

4th of July brought a little Vegas to Kailua.

A gecko in Hawaii...Never. Actually there are all over the place and there mascot, the Geico Gecko, has to make an appearance at every big event.

One of three groups of horses.

This guy was just funny looking.

A Waikiki Trolley all decked out for Independence Day. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Sending you warm wishes and aloha kisses.