Crockpots and Thanksgiving

I love cooking soups and crockpot meals in the winter. A friend and I went to the cheapie theater to see Julie/Julia today and I came home all inspired to make Beef Bourguignon next weekend. In my search online for a recipe, I came across this website: http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/

Much in the spirit of the movie, a woman decided to use the crockpot every day for a year. There are a lot of interesting and easy recipes so I thought I would recommend checking it out.

Also, a bit delayed, but here are some pics from Thanksgiving.

Remodel

For those of you who don't know, Don and I have been working with a builder on a pretty major remodel of our main living spaces. We have an older ranch home and it had a traditional layout of a large front living room, dining room, small kitchen and small den. All of these spaces were divided by walls so the home always felt very small and claustrophic. Except for a huge front living room that we never used! We decided to bite the bullet and tear down the walls, get a beam put in above the ceiling for support and basically to create one big open room with a larger kitchen. We're still decorating and settling in, but we are very happy with the results.

Party Time

We had some friends over to watch an outdoor movie last weekend and Declan and his friends started an impromptu dance party.

More MN Pics

Checking out the New Gopher Stadium with the Devines

On the Lake

Trains, Planes and Outdoor Movie Night