Aren't they adorable?



JP... there's one in every family


Bear Bread!


My tree climber. Eva's first taste of food (she's only 4 1/2 months, but she watches us intently)


Best French Toast in the world! Whipped cream w/sour cream, almond, and powdered sugar

Adelle and I do nails and make up together. What a girl, I LOVE her!
Eva's hanging out w/Dad while he's programming a home security panel for his next install.

Something interesting when produce shopping:
Here’s what you should look for:

• A four-digit number means the produce is conventionally grown
• A five-digit number beginning with 9 means it's organic
• A five-digit number beginning with 8 means it's Genetically Modified


I now have a Pampered Chef website: http://www.pamperedchef.biz/courtneyholcomb
You can have a catalog show on it, people can order under your host name. Also wedding registry! I will, when I plan a class or open house or something, post that on there, too.

I'll write more interesting and personal stuff later, gonna go love on my kids!
Courtney

Amazing Chocolate Mousse

This was a yummy accident! I opened a can of coconut milk for some soup, and the top 2/3 was cream! So I thought FROSTING! Whipped it w/ 1/3 cup cocoa powder and agave to taste, and it became delicious chocolate coconut MOUSSE! I'm going to go get like 10 cans of coconut milk and sit them on my shelf for awhile :)

So another fave coconut milk recipe is boil ramen noodles (sans the packet, the MSG is terrible for you, use a different boullion instead), add sweet peppers and 1/4 to 1/3 can coconut milk per package of noodles. My kids love this, and it's so easy! Add peas for more nutritional benefit.

Something fun

This is circulating Facebook, 25 random facts, kind of fun!

1. I am a tea freak, go through phases of flavors, glad that tea is relatively inexpensive!
2. I have never dyed my hair. Permed it once in 5th grade, and no, you can't see pictures :)
3. I'd love to decorate my walls but don't know how. This is a rental, kind of takes extra creativity.
4. I'm terrible at the upkeep of my carpet. I need hardwood.
5. I recently got a food processor, and I don't know where it's been all my life!
6. A french guy tried to kiss me in France. I ducked.
7. In labor and delivery w/Eva she nearly fell on the floor. Oops, it's difficult to say something during a pushing contraction!
8. Jen, I love going to the zoo, too! Love to meet you there sometime! And for anyone else, I can get you in 1/2 price!
9. I love to bake. Muffins, bread. I guess I esp. love putting a healthier spin on recipes and finding recipes that jive w/what I agree w/nutritionally.
10. I took tap ballet and jazz for six years as a child.
11. Played the oboe, I was bad. Someone should have told me.
12. I love the colors red and green. I dislike yellow.
13. The best smoothies have spinach in them, and with strawberries they look pretty gross.
14. Taught myself how to can food two summers ago, very proud of myself! This year it was applesauce.
15. Someday I'd like to live on a chunk of land in the mountains. I love the majesty of being surrounded by mountains and dense forest, less people, smaller towns, slower life.
16. On my land I'll have a garden and some animals, and my kids will be old enough to pull their share!
17. JP and I recently quit going to church. Yes, we're still "saved" and loving it!
18. I have a weakness for oreos. Maybe that's why this post pardom pooch hasn't receded as quickly as the other ones...
19. I love soup. Any kind. And salad w/dark greens, olive oil, and soy sauce!
20. Didn't watch Anne of Green Gables until recently, then read the books, funny, and I'd already been to Prince Edward Island!
21. I made us buckwheat pillows, the best pillows we've ever had!
22. I cloth diaper my kiddos and save mucho $$$
23. Breakfast is oatmeal, I like the instant ease, and JP likes the inexpensiveness! We top w/raisins or blueberries!
24. Liam rode his bike w/two wheels yesterday, wow! (okay, I cheated, it's about my son.) He did awesome, then he crashed and has the prize on his face for the next week. JP got the crash on video, but it's heart wrenching because he screams at the end.
25. I usually beat my husby at games (I have noticed we don't play as many together anymore...)