Musical Monday: Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks

heh, heh, heh...

I could listen to this song over and over!!

HEY!

We're Moving!

We finally got our paper work confirming we have officially been transferred!

It sounds so dramatic but I feel as though a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. Up until now we have been in some sort of limbo, knowing that we were likely to move but unable to prepare too much as nothing was "official". But it's all officially official now and life can start to progress.

We can now officially list our house and start entertaining offers or the idea of an offer.

We can start completing checklists and making more checklists.

We can start preparing the boys on another level for the move, knowing it will for sure be happening.

We can start planning where this new little bean will be born as it can't be born in our new location (more on that later).

I am so happy I can not help but randomly jump up and down and clap like a fool!

Company!

My parents arrive today for a week long visit and we are all super excited.

It's always so nice to have family visit. Zac has been counting down the sleeps until Nana and Papa's arrival and has planned all kinds of fun things to show them and do with them.

We are currently traveling to and from St John's hoping to spot a few ice burgs along the way.

Happy Tuesday!

Musical Monday: OK Go - Needing/Getting

Ummmm... in love with this video...

I did it!

I didn't think it could be done, but I've done it.

I've got my mister hooked on the Hunger Games Series. 

In the 10 years we've been together I have never seen this man read anything except Men's Health Magazines and his Bible.

He mentioned last week that he might be interested in seeing what they were all about so I gave him the first one, thinking I'd bring up his progress around Christmas. To my surprise he plowed through it in less then a week and couldn't move on to the second fast enough. In the past two weeks I have not seen him around the house without the book!

muh-ah-ah-ah!! 

Cook Books

I have a love for cook books. 

I read them cover to cover, almost like novels, and have a sizable collection.

I thought I'd share some of my current favourites incase you have been feeling the need to expand your current collection...

... and I totally broke them down into catagories... perhaps this shows how freaky I can be about my books... thaaat or it just makes me look super crazy organized... you can decide...

Bloggy Love

Pioneer Woman (books 1 and 2) and Joy The Baker (blog here) are two of my favourite ladies on the web, the fact that they have both authored books, makes my life a very happy place.

Seasonal Reads

 Nigella Christmas by the lovely Nigella Lawson is so... Christmas-y! I read it at the beginning of every December just to help me get in the spirit. Her mint hot chocolate is everything right with the world.

Twelve by Tessa Kiros is all about cooking using seasonal ingredients, which is something I really need to try and do more of!

For the kiddies

 Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey is a delicious book, when Jill O'Connor wrote another book, by the same title adding Treats for Kids, I could not look the other way. Most, if not all, the recipes in this book are easy enough to be made with little helping hands, and once your kids are older then mine, easily completed with little supervision.

First Meals by Annabel Karmel is a great resource book for what your kids should be enjoying at each stage in life up to preschool, it also provides great recipes and meal plans. Love it.

Baking Goodness

 Chocolate Chocolate by Lisa Yockelson is a yummy book... and oh so pretty.

The Complete Canadian Living Baking Book is alway a go to for me. The recipes are delicious and easy and are always made using ingredients that are easy peasy to find.

Inspirational

Sometimes I like to just look at books to see the pictures and be inspired. It's even better when the books have great recipes, which both of these do.

At Home with Magnolia by Allysa Torey is delicious and beautiful and the same could be said for Apples for Jam by Tessa Kiros. I look at both of these books all the time to be inspired creatively, decoratively and foodly.

Healthy

I will be honest, I do not have a lot of "health" books. I am careful with what I eat, most of the time, but my passion in the kitchen is not usually for anything steamed, green or poached. 

That said both of these books (Now Eat This Diet, by Rocco Dispirito and So Easy by Elle Keiger) have great recipes in them and I have turned to both on many occasions very please with my results.

That's just to name a few of course... 

Bits & Pieces

We had a lovely weekend and my camera was close at hand!

 

1. Pioneer Woman's Iced Coffee and yogurt covered cranberries... heaven!

2. We had such lovely weather, the boys spent hours outside.

3. Move over Mike Holmes!

4. Pioneer Woman's sesame noodles with (first grill of the season) steaks, mmmm... PW was my hero that day!

5. Time to hit the ice! The boys had a birthday party at the ice rink.

6. Zac loved every minute of it.

7. Eli wasn't so sure and refused to put the skates on...

8. Supplies for a new picture project!

9. Bubbles!

10. Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles!