Recipe Link: Bacon & Cheese Muffins

So...I've mentioned before that I bake a lot of muffins. I used to hate making muffins, because they always turned out terrible. But for some reason, ever since I started using recipes from food bloggers, my muffins have turned out great. Apparently food bloggers know something (or a million things...) that I don't. Anyway, I tried these Bacon & Cheese Muffins last night. Bacon and black pepper in muffins?! Yep. They're savory--no sugar at all--so they're kind of like muffin-shaped biscuits. With bacon and cheese in them! They were delicious, of course. Here's the link (incidentally, this blogger's recipes have never let me down): Bacon and Cheese Muffins, by Stolen Moments Cooking Enjoy!

No New Post Here Today, But...

...I have a new post up at my homeschooling blog: Dominoes!

“The Lord has blessed you with a testimony of the truth. You have felt His influence and witnessed His power. And if you continue to seek Him, He will continue to grant you sacred experiences. With these and other spiritual gifts, you will be able to not only change your own life for the better but also to bless your homes, wards or branches, communities, cities, states, and nations with your goodness.”

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Little Boy's Favorite Christmas Ornament

I know Christmas is over, but I had to post this. It'll be a good one for me to look back on later. And laugh. So we visited Isaac's parents for the Christmas break. Isaac and his family (I was somewhere else that day, don't remember where) watched A Christmas Story while Little Boy was playing in the same room. I'm sure that 99% of the movie went over Little Boy's head, but one part stuck. And, thanks to that one part in A Christmas Story, Little Boy easily decided which ornament on his grandparents' Christmas tree is his favorite:



  Yes, that's an actual Christmas ornament. And for the rest of our vacation, we'd hear Little Boy randomly exclaim, "It's a major award!"

A Colorful Christmas Tradition

Sticky blue fingers and lips...



  ...from a blue candy cane.

O Christmas Tree

I'm pretty sure I didn't post much about Halloween or Easter this year. I was too lazy busy to upload those pictures until waaaay too late.

So I'm trying to not do that with Christmas. This might turn out to be the only Christmas post I do, though. We'll see. If you're the gambling type, you can start making bets now.

Anyway, the Christmas tree. Isaac and I have been married for a bit more than five years, and we've always had a Charlie Brown-size Christmas tree. When we moved from Utah to Washington, we left our first little tree behind. And then when we bought a new tree...we got one that was maybe six inches taller than the old one. It's kind of becoming a tradition.

 
 It's always Isaac's job to unfold the branches and put on the lights.

 
 Pretty beads. We found them at the dollar store a few years ago.

 
 Some of our ornaments--some are Little Boy's, some were given to us, and some were dollar-store finds like the beads.

 
 Little Boy's face cracks me up. How could I not love that kid?

 
 Can we open presents now?

 
 I like it. It's a cheerful little tree.

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"As we commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ two millennia ago, we offer our testimony of the reality of His matchless life and the infinite virtue of His great atoning sacrifice. None other has had so profound an influence upon all who have lived and will yet live upon the earth."

-The Living Christ