We’re about to head over to our friends’ house, and I would like to present, my dessert platter. Everything on here was made by me except for the pretzels. Those were from a tin we got, but I thought I’d throw them on here anyway. My main goal was not to put together the most chocolatey, delicious-o dessert platter ever, but it was to clean out all...

The Baldwins have made it through 2009. It wasn’t the most pleasant of years, but hey, there are ups and downs in everything. It’s also the end of a decade. I’ll be entering my 30s in the next few months, which I’m not really worried about. The Hubs has already survived his 30s, and he keeps telling me that they were better than his 20s....

We’re one day away from Christmas, and I baked up a storm in preparation. I made yummy caramel corn, delicious chocolate chip cookies, tasty oatmeal scotches, sweet and salty turtle bites (left) and then there are the chocolate cookies that were supposed to be dipped in chocolate. I say supposed to be because that didn’t quite happen. The white...

It’s been a long week. I was out of town for work, which I don’t talk about on here for a reason. Let’s just say it was a week of long days in a conference room. Needless to say, I was pretty tired when I got home on Thursday night. I was happy to see the Hubs and the Taiders though. I think they were glad to have me back, too. We were supposed to...

On Friday, we were eating at a little Italian restaurant that offers a pretty darn good buffett for lunch. Sitting there at a table in the middle of the restaurant, we look outside to see a commotion. There happened to be a music video being filmed outside with the one and only Carrie Underwood. As we left the restaurant, I snapped some pictures of the...