E turns Three

Earlier this month I headed over to the Henning house to celebrate

E's birthday!

 A delightful kick back event with food, friends and of course... cake.

Happy Birthday E!

Wine & Cupcakes

Back in February we went to a wine bar in celebration of Ruel's birthday.

It was a fun location with drinks, food, a band and great desserts!

Yum-o

The Hutchins Siblings having some drinks and conversating

Happy Birthday Ruel



And the Oscar goes to.....

This year unlike last we managed to see all of the films nominated for Best Picture. We have each ranked our favorites. Our top choice is not necessarily who we think will win but who we would choose to win.

Paul's Picks

The Social Network

True Grit

Kings Speech

127 Hours

Inception

Black Swan

The Fighter

Toy Story 3

The Kids Are All Right

Winters Bone

Cyndi's Picks

The Social Network

Kings Speech

127 Hours

Inception

Toy Story 3

True Grit

The Fighter

Black Swan

Winters Bone

The Kids Are All Right



Who we think will be crowned at the Oscars

Best Picture - Kings Speech

Actor - Colin Firth

Supporting Actor - Christian Bale

Actress - Natalie Portman

Supporting Actress - Hailee Steinfeld

Day in LA and the OC

A week ago Monday I enjoyed a day out with Morgan. First stop was a taping of the Dr. Phil show up in LA. We had some time to waste so we goofed around on the roof of the parking structure taking photos.

After the taping it was back to the apartment to hang out (take a nap). Then over to The Block for dinner and a movie. We enjoyed both our selections at Dave & Busters. I had the Chicken Parm Sandwich, a new choice for me and it was delicious with some sweet potato on the side. I did take half home for lunch the following day. Of course our movie of choice had to be an Adam Sandler flick. Sadly it was then time to take Morgan back to her place as she had to work the following day.

My Valentine

A First

Yesterday I made my first smoothie at home using my very own blender!

 7oz. OJ, strawberries, apple, banana and pineapple

Epic Sale of 2011

Please read about our most recent Yard Sale in February HERE!

211-210

Last Friday we met up with Ric & Jeri at Camelot for a mini golf throw-down!

 The competition was fierce.

Round 1: P-53, C-44, R-52, J-56

Round 2: P-56, C-57, R-45, J-58

Really it was just a couple of holes that had a certain shot not been missed it would have been a totally different ball game. AND C, R and J all had INSANE, INCREDIBLE, AWESOME shots where we all stood there and thought "did that just happen"!

Nearing the end of our evening we came across a little bunny that R decided he needed to chase, the bunny didn't run away really... just circled the tree with R. Quite amusing from my vantage point.

There shall be a re-match!

Slackers

I am bummed that we haven't posted anything since 2011 began, I will try to give the "Readers Digest" version of what we have been up to the first month of the new year.

Sickness -

Paul got sick before 2010 ended and it has lasted weeks and weeks! He even had antibiotics but it didn't get rid of it. I was able to defend against it for about 2 1/2 weeks before I came down with ick. We are feeling much better although there is a lingering cough.

Family -

My mom continues to mend from her fall and has been cleared to go back to work in a week. She still has to do physical therapy to help the healing process along but so far looks like no surgery!

My grandma took a downward turn and got an infection in her leg, normally the Drs would do surgery to remove the hardware she has but they said she wouldn't survive the surgery. They put her on antibiotics and hoped for the best, she will probably have to be on antibiotics for the rest of her life.

A cousin of mine announced she is having a baby, the first in our part of the family in 20+ years

Family bday dinner for Christie

Friends -

Had dinner out with KJ, Tif and Erin

Hung with BZ a few times

Multiple friends have gotten pregnant

Celebrated Morgans 31st bday with dinner and a movie

Fundraising -

Picked up cans at 2 Monster Jam events

Gathered many, many items for the upcoming Yard Sale (thanks so so much family and friends!)

Outtings -

Saw the Cold War Kids at Jimmy Kimmel

Competed in Trivia Night at Stadium Tavern with the Prices

We went to Dave & Busters just to hang out and play some games together

Certainly we saw a few movies

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I am sure there was much more that we did but this is all I can think of right now. Hopefully we will get back to blogging regularly. Hope the new year is treating all of you wonderfully.

Cookies-a-plenty

For the 2nd year in a row - Gingerbread men, missing an arm or leg, some even lost their head.

 New this year - Peppermint candy canes

 Sugar balls - basically a sugar cookie with a powdered sugar glaze and "sprinkles"

 Also new - Rum Balls, but with imitation Rum instead of the real stuff.

 Oldie but a goodie - Sinckerdoodles

 Traditional cookies added to the mix - Peanut butter, Choc. Chip and Funfetti with green food coloring



2nd Annual Wii Tournament

Tournament of the Wii 

(hopefully becoming bi- or tri-annual)

It is always fun to have people over to our place. Saturday evening the Price's and Agadoni's came over to enjoy some awesome tacos/burritos along with chips and salsa for dinner.

Allowing time for digestion (didn't want anyone to get a cramp) we sat and swapped stories for awhile. Finally it was time. The Price's had to relinquish the trophy that they had been hiding away for a year and it was finally up for grabs again.

The tournament was some fierce competition this year. But The Hutchins were victorious! The trophy is displayed proudly atop their entertainment center.

 While there was not time to play with fondant this year we merely made a 12 story high Christmas Tree out of cookies. Desert was enjoyed by all.

O Christmas Tree

Rain! Rain and Rain!

We braved the rain to go get our beautiful Christmas tree. It almost didn't happen as it began pouring. Paul and I figured we would just get in and out as quick as possible, open up no more than a few trees and just pick one! We walked two feet inside the Home Depot lot and found ourselves ankle deep in puddles. Hummmm, well there was no going back now, we were already soaked.

Quickly as possible we found ourselves a tree to take home, and made a stop at Albertsons for some groceries. Paul hauled the tree inside while I went to find the stand (we were planning on just having the tree lot do it for us but they didn't have any stands).

  Gizmo being part of the family decided he needed to check out the tree so he found himself alone, locked in our room. There was a Christmas miracle when Paul was able to get the tree into its stand and it wasn't leaning or anything. Finally Gizmo was allowed to come out and fully inspect his first full sized Christmas tree.

Musically Talented

 In mid-December we enjoyed an evening at Starbucks listening to 4 Stories. It was great to see "old" friends again and to enjoy some traditional Christmas songs along with their original works.



Cookie Time @ The Hennings

The girls decorating (very serious business), telling stories, eating and having a good time.

The children played.

The men watched fooseball

My cookies.