Lego Times

 All right, I did two Spring sets - a fabulous spring wreath and then new sunflowers dropped. 

So dang cute! Definitely gonna have this up for a while.

And of course I added the sunflowers to my shelves.     

A Day of Shenanigans

 Sometimes, you just gotta take a day off and live your best life. We headed over to Downtown Disney to have a nice morning. We went to a new place (We're trying to hit every food place downtown) and had brunch. I got a French toast and it was EXTRA in the best way possible. 

It was absolutely so delicious

Then, after hanging out there for a bit, we headed home for some chilling. I finished up my Lego set that I had been working on recently, this Mario piece. I love it haha. His head attaching to his body was by far the hardest part, it just would not attach! So he's a bit wonky but honestly, I did my best there. 

Epifanio Pics

 I never have stories about the fellas anymore obviously not living near them but every time I get pics, it makes me so happy. 

The way he just folds into himself to watch stuff just makes me giggle its so cute. 

Jack-Jack Num-Nums

 At Disneyland, near the Incredicoaster, there is a little booth that sells the most delicious cookies, the Jack-Jack Num-Nums. I love them. 

A few years ago, I got a copy of the Disneyland parks cookbook and it has a recipe in here for these cookies. 

I had a craving tonight and instead of heading over and getting one, I decided to do a batch of my own. 

I got them made and put into my specially bought containers: 

And of course, when they baked, they overflowed a little. But honestly, super delicious, I love them so much.

Be Like Emily

 Recently, a Facebook post was brought to my attention about my mom and I love it so much, I want to put it here to have it forever. 

She was the most amazing woman. 

Tree Down!

It has been so windy and stormy lately! My family is in town this week for Disney shenanigans and these poor people have been rained on at Disneyland every day haha these poor guys. This morning when I went out for my usual run, I noticed our tree had taken a leave of absence. 

Such a big piece to come off! 

A Plethora of Lego

 Eh I'll just throw into here a bunch of random Lego sets I've done lately. 

So many cute sets, I love when I just get to do a bunch of tiny sets like this. 

Water Pie

 This month, for book club dessert club, we chose Water Pie. Making desserts we have never heard of is a real fun time haha. This is apparently a Depression-era pie that people used with nearly no ingredients. 

Here is the recipe, in case anyone else wants it:

Water Pie

So here's the pie, before baking, but after putting the ingredients in the shell

And I will admit it looks INSANE, and even making it I was like, what the heck is this? 

And then, once it was baked, it actually looked pretty good! And... its delicious! It doesn't really have a flavor, per se, but its just a sweet pie. I would totally recommend this. 

Baby Yoda (still will not call him by his real name)

 Okay it does seem like all I do on here is Lego lately but its really because I don't really leave my house that often lol. Work is just from my own house, I don't really know anyone here (yes after all these years) so I don't really have any outdoor adventures. Lego is always a good time. 

Lego Flowers

There are so many Lego flower sets and I've got them all now, how fun. After finally finishing them all, I put all of them in one location. First, the last few sets to do:

And now it took some time to get everyone situated:

But I love it! 

My Little Goob

 Epifanio is just such a funny little goob, I love every great picture I get of him. 

Lego-Palooza

 I'm just gonna do a blitz of all of the sets I've done in the last few days - I have been trying to get through all of my small sets that I put off. 

Happy Birthday, Betty!

 It's Betty's third birthday today!

By all logic, this means she's finally a 21 year old young lady (1 human years = 7 dog years, so 21)

She of course had to celebrate. 

My Old Fellas

 Apparently, a thing that happens in elementary schools now is kids celebrate the 100th day of school by dressing as 100 year old people, and the fellas did this today. 

Ugh these freaking cuties, I love this.

L O V E Lego

 I love a quick Lego set that just takes a single evening. 

Even More Organizing/Rearranging

 I thought I would keep the reorganization of the house still going this weekend, I get such a great high from all of the organizing. 

I recently bought some more shelves for my bookshelves, because there is so much lost space on the tiny Lego sets, they don't even fill the height of the shelf at all. And I've got a whole bookcase of books that are short and could use more shelves. 

Added in 3 new shelves to this top case.

And two more shelves to this case. 

It looks so good. And you can see this picture was taken before my last bit of organizing, because I then organized my Loungefly backpacks. 

Ah, so lovely. 

The Creel House Lego Set

 Okay I have finished the set that I waited all morning for on New Years Day. And its beautiful of course. 

And it does something fabulous: 

I absolutely love this. 

Ultimate Mud Cake

 All right, I don't remember if I've talked of this before (too lazy to go back and check) but along with my monthly book club, I have started a dessert club, so each month we will be making a new dessert. This month is the Ultimate Chocolate Mud Cake. 

The recipe I used is: 

https://www.askchefdennis.com/chocolate-mud-cake/

And here is my cake: 

lol so what happened with this, is that my shelves were too close to each other, so it rose up above the shelf above it.

But then, I smoothed it out and put the ganache on.

It was a delicious cake, and very good ganache. Unfortunately for all of us, its an ultimate dark chocolate cake, so it was BITTER as heck. If I made this in the future, I think I would make a milk chocolate ganache to offset the dark of the cake. It was good just very bitter haha. 

More Rearranging/Organizing

 I had some time today, and decided to rearrange the house. I moved our kitchen table from its location between the kitchen and front room and moved it to the area next to the kitchen. I put a small couch where the table was, and honestly I was pleased with the results. 

It looks so different, but I'm sure once I'm used to it, it'll feel totally normal. 

Once I got the table in here, I did move some things around the kitchen, and needed a new area for things that were in a bookshelf I got rid of to make room for the couch. 

Absolutely love it.

Snow White Lego

 Apparently this time of year I'm just finishing Lego sets. 

I finished the Snow White one today, how lovely. 

Balrog Lego

 I finished my Balrog bookend Lego today and of course its so cool.

It's so great! 

2026!

 Y'all, we have made it to a new year! Holy cow! 2025 went by so fast, I can't believe it. Here's to a new year. 

Firstly, of course I had to go to the Lego store for the new releases, there were so many good ones today. 

We had a loooooong line to wait in (the new Stranger Things house set is being released and of course its what I want) but I'm still in good spirits waiting in the rain. 

Husband and Betty were partying toooo hard and crashed out mid-day.