Chocolate Pie Success!

Sunday I was brave and attempted the chocolate pie baking again! And this time I had great success. So, on thanksgiving I'm going to attempt the chocolate pie backing again just this time I'm going to make Auntie M's graham cracker crust because that is really what was missing. Thanks for all of your encouragement!

In December, my good friend Marcia and I are taking a living social baking class. Clearly just what I needed it. Backing is not easy but honestly the most rewarding. Yum!

Chocolate Pie Failure #1

We are having friends over for Thanksgiving this year. They are French and I wanted them to experience a traditional American Thanksgiving. Turkey, smashed potatoes, stuffing, Jason's famous green bean casserole, football, the works. Of course we will have pumpkin pie. I will buy one from Whole Foods because they were rated as having the best Pumpkin Pie in the DC area. But, not everyone likes pumpkin pie so I thought I would try to make a chocolate pie à la Auntie M. I don't have Auntie M.'s recipe but I googled "best chocolate pie recipe" and this one was rated 5 starts. Trust me, its not the recipe, its the Baker!

I, smart as I am, thought it might be best that I try to make one before Thanksgiving so I gave it a go today. No beating around the bush...it was a big, fat failure! My home made whip cream, à la Auntie Pam, on the other hand was pretty delish. Of course not as good as Auntie Pams but good nonetheless.

I shall not give up! And my friends and co-workers will love me by the end of it all because they will be fed chocolate pie testers!

Happy (Early) Thanksgiving ya'all (I can't help that i watched Paula Deen today).

Aidan's Karate Belt Exam

Tonight Aidan and his best friend Max are taking their first karate belt exam. Aidan feels good. He's practiced a lot to prepare. He's ready to trade in his white belt for a yellow belt.












Aidan getting his yellow belt! He and Max skipped the orange belt and went right to yellow.

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VOTE

Exercise your right! Get out there and vote. We did! We took the boys with us and they joined us in the polling booth. Fortunately, we didn't have to wait to cast our votes. Now we just sit back, wait and hope for the best.


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Halloween

Hi ya' all. I meant to add Halloween pictures last weekend but the weekend passed me by. At the expense of being late, I'm going to post them any way.

The boys both had Halloween parties at school. They got to dress up and play games. They had a good time.

Aidan looking cool as a storm trooper (kinda Luke Skywalkerish) as he parades throught the school parking lot.

 

Aidan and his best bud Max at school.

 



 

Leo chillin' in his class party. Clearly he is having a rockin' good time (*ahem*)

Leo leading the way through the Halloween parade parking lot walk. Don't ask me why they walked through the school parking lot.

 

Halloween night, I took Aidan, William and Leo out trick-or-treating. We hit up our neighborhood and the neighborhood down the street. They came home with their bags full of candy.  They ran from house to house trick or treating.

 

Doris and Jason stayed home and gave out candy. We always have the best decorated house so I heard from our neighbors that their kids couldn't wait to go to our house. It was really cute!

 

Two ninjas and a Toronto Maple Leaf



The weekend after Halloween we were invited to our friends house for a Halloween party. We all wore costumes and had a super fun time. They had the most awesome spider webs through out the house and the table was decorated fabulously. Our menu consisted of:

Devil drink

Witch fingers

Slug and spider soup

Human arm with mashed toda and mashed slug

Mold

Dirty cup

It was super fun!

 

 Trampire a la Kristen Stewart. My red fangs were my favorite!

 

 

 It's a bird, it's a plane, wait...no it's super Jason!

 

 

Look at these two awesome women and the spider webs!