Christmas and New Years

Christmas and New Years was pretty laid back in the Head household.  For Christmas we woke up at 6:40am (unintentionally) and opened our presents to each other.  :o)  I got the whole scrapbooking kit to make my wedding scrapbook.  It is a really nice book (simple slip in for pics/writing) and comes with special papers and stuff to make it pretty.  Don't I sound like a professional scrapbooker?  Nick got a gaming headset/microphone, a gift card for amazon, a barbeque temperature fork, and a new cable for his car so he can play his music in the car.  Yeah... we spoiled each other.  After we opened our gifts, we went to my parents house to hang out and exchanged gifts.  That was fun, and we watched Nacho Libre while we waited to go to my grandma's.  At grandmas we exchanged gifts with extended family and then came back home and played wii with sisters and cousins.  We ended the day with a dinner and hang out time with my family.  It was fun, and though it sounds busy, relaxing.

On New Year's Eve Nick and I took my sisters to the Wild Animal Park.  I have to say that is was one of the most relaxing times ever there.  We made our way throughout the whole park except condor ridge and took LOTS of funny pictures. :o)

That evening, we went to dinner with the Spiekers and the Abeels at Casa de Pico and went to the Spiekers house to play Settlers of Catan.  It is a geeky game that is supposedly like Risk (I have never played) and took over 2 hours. :P  The family lit off a ton of fireworks at the new year countdown.  Soon afterward we left and went home and crashed.  It was pretty laid back. :)

Hope you enjoyed the pics!

~Heather

Amazing contest giveaway going on!

http://sunshineandlemonade.blogspot.com/2009/01/weekend-winners-greatest-hits.html

check out Kat's blog and see the amazing prize giveaway she has going on over there.  Seriously, I would love to win all of these goodies and hope I do! :)

What a wonderful treat that would be. 

~Heather

Disneyland thinks that I am special

How cool is that!?

~Heather

Kitty Cat Fashion

My sister's sent me this picture of my kitty cat (who still lives at my parents because Nick is allergic) on my phone on Saturday.  They found a santa outfit in the Christmas boxes while decorating and decided it would be fun to dress up Molly (the kitty) like Santa Claus.  Please know that Molly didn't mind at all-she is a weird cat who fetches like a dog, drinks out of the bathtub, and acts like a human.  When she got the shirt on she just laid down and relaxed in her warm, comfy outfit.  Looks pretty funny to me!

~Heather

Nick's cake baking attempt :P

A little over a week ago my sisters came over for dinner/hang out time.  After dinner, we decided to play a card game and Nick was craving sweets.  So, he went and got out a cake mix (Angel food) and some frosting (Confetti) and decided to bake a cake.  I gave him the advice to use 2 cake pans, since we didn't have the suggested bunt cake pan that the box called for.  He poured the mixture into both of the cake pans and stuck them in the oven.  

When he went to check on the cake with the oven light about 15 minutes later, we all saw that the cakes were about to overflow all over the oven because they had expanded so much!  Nick used his quick thinking skills to put a cookie sheet under the pans in case any unwanted spills occured (which never happened).  The box said to cook the cake until there were deep, dry cracks in the top of it.  Well, the time came and went and the cracks had not appeared.  We kept checking it every couple of minutes for about 10 minutes past suggested cake time, when I finally told him to pull the pans out because I didn't want it to be dry. 

The box said to immediately remove the cakes from the pans, so logically we tried to do that.  Unfortunately, the cakes were horribly stuck to the sides and we basically massacred them trying to remove them from the hot pans.  I think we should have greased the pans, even though the recipe specifically said not to.   Then, nick took the frosting and used a SPOON to frost the cake.  He put like half a can of frosting on (DEFINITELY OVER FROSTED! :P)  and served it to us as the whole cake on one plate for us to share.  

You know how cake is supposed to be soft and airy?  Yeah... when we went to take a bite it was spongy and rubbery.  I don't know what exactly went wrong or if the box was bad or something but it was really funny trying to eat it and taking pictures with it. :P  Here is a picture of my wonderful, non cake making husband frosting the "cake"

:)

~Heather