The Wonderly Fam

peppermint hot chocolate

Thursday, November 4, 2010

sis, i made my first cup of peppermint hot chocolate of the season!

for everyone else who is looking for a good hot chocolate recipe.....look no further!
below are the ingredients you need.
1. milk- whole is always the richest, but skim is fine too

2. chocolate chips- dark is my fave
3. peppermint extract
4. mini mallows

i just made one glass for me, although i wish you were enjoying it with me, sis.
it was about 2 cups of milk, handful of chocolate chips and a quick dash of extract.
sorry i'm not exact on measurements. you can't go wrong.
heat it over the stove and pour over top your mallows that are in the bottom of your mug!
YUMMY!

YABBA-DABBA-DOOOOOOOOO!

Monday, November 1, 2010

flintstones! meet the flintstones! they're the modern stone age family!

it was another successful halloween!
we all dressed up and had a fun evening.
(note-through this process i realize i am not a dress maker. i'll stick to the smaller things)

meet the rubbles! they both sported those wigs with pride.

my parents even got into character with the cave men theme.
my dad wore his dads original shriner's hat, just like the mens club on the flintstones show,
he even made his own sundial watch!

our friends little humpty dumpty !

the first house down and they already started eating their treats!

fred and pebbles. so cute!
pebbles showed us each piece that she got

this gorilla made us laugh soooo hard!
i saw him coming but patrick and my dad didn't....he zoomed up next to them and they both jumped and i think they were holding back screams. :)

we trick-or-treated down main street in gtown. lots of the homes are historical and they all decorate very creatively.

pebbles realized she could cut through the yard and get there faster.

the men to the right were the hazmat crew...gross

wilma and pebbles
we had such a fun evening!

hecker family photo shoot

Monday, October 25, 2010

we tried to dodge the rain on saturday for the hecker's family photos.
we went downtown gtown and i had lots of fun snapping pics of this sweet fam!
2.5 year old Eloise and 6 month old duke were fun to capture.

we have a 3 bed/1 bath house

Thursday, October 21, 2010

we ended up building our armoire into our house with the new wall!
this was our office armoire and now it goes to a lucky lady on craigslist.
the moving guy came to pick it up and we couldn't get it out of our house!!!
we had to saw off a railing from our back porch and take it through the backyard. lol!

the wall in stages

everyone pitched in! jord was the most energetic.

look at our new pretty wall!!!!! the top pic will be payton's room(old office/den)
then bottom pic is the kitchen. we were really fortunate to find this wainscoting for the new room. and there are a few new boards in the kitchen that we stained to match. can you tell which ones???? nope, it's not the dark ones, those are original.

we have some exciting plan for our kitchen. i am so excited!
we are going for a robins egg blueish color on the walls. butcher block counters.
new knobs on the cabinets. a new light fixture above the sink and a white fan in the ceiling(circulation is a bit different since the wall went up)
white subway tile with black grout and black and white checkered tile on the flooring.
what do you think?!

THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR FAMILY FOR YOUR HARD WORK! WE LOVE IT!

nana's birthday

Monday, October 18, 2010

we celebrated nana's birthday while they were down.
we went to the walburg beirgarten, we love that place.
(check out paytie's adorable dress nana made her)