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Jul 07 2019
Cooking with Coraline: Stacked Chicken Enchiladas
Sundays at my house are made for cooking and relaxing. Typically, Coraline and I will spend the day in the kitchen making a meal that will provide lots of leftovers to get through the first couple days of the week. As she is only three years old, at this time her favorite thing to do …
Dec 12 2018
Easy & Fun Candyland Christmas Craft Ideas!
This year I decided to be a little bit “crafty” and tackle making a wreath. I have to preface this by saying I have very few creative bones in my body and usually find any sort of crafting or Pinterest-type projects to be overwhelming. However, this year was a little different. My coworkers and I decided to …
Jul 23 2018
Cooking with Coraline: Chicken Pozole Verde
Since we’re heading into August soon, our garden has been blooming with veggie delights. Yesterday, my husband and Coraline went out back to our raised bed and picked some delicious green tomatoes as well as some serrano peppers. The beautiful green bounty, coupled with the fact I had a bowl of tomatillos in the kitchen, …
Jul 02 2018
Cooking with Coraline: Berry Picking Adventures!
Yesterday the family and I headed to Sauvie Island (in Portland, OR) to visit The Pumpkin Patch farm and do some berry picking. Since moving to Oregon this is something we’ve enjoyed every year as a family. Luckily the temperature high this day was only 70 degrees too – perfect for picking! The day we …
Jun 23 2018
Seattle’s Pike Place Market: A Foodie’s Paradise
My husband and I currently live just outside Portland, OR so we’re fortunate enough to be able to make quick drive to Seattle whenever we feel like it. We’ve taken a few weekend trips, my favorite being the one we recently took for my 40th birthday. We were lucky enough to be sans-child (thanks grandparents!) …
Jun 16 2018
The Wonderful World of Dr. Deekay Exhibit by Camille Rose Garcia
This week I had the pleasure of attending my second exhibit of Camille Rose Garcia – The Wonderful World of Dr. Deekay at the Corey Helford gallery in Los Angeles, CA. My first exhibit I attended was Doomcave Daydreams in 2007 when I had the pleasure of meeting CRG in person. My husband and I …
Jun 14 2018
Restaurant Review: Cho Cho San Sushi in Tarzana, CA
I luckily get the pleasure of traveling to Los Angeles about 2-4 times per year to visit beloved family and friends. Having lived here for about five years a decade or so ago, I know my way around LA pretty well. When I first moved to LA, I lived with my sister for about a …
Jun 12 2018
Glowzone LA: Coraline Takes Over Soft City
My husband and I did a quick Yelp search for some family fun on a hot sunny Southern California day and discovered Glowzone LA as our next playfilled destination. It was too hot to go to the playground and we had already gone to DryTown Waterpark, so the kiddie area of Glowzone LA was a …
Jun 11 2018
A Fun-Filled Day at DryTown Waterpark
This week my family and I are on vacation in sunny Southern California. We have quite a bit of family here, so luckily we come often. On this trip we decided to have a fun-filled day at DryTown Waterpark in Palmdale, CA. Let me start by telling you only one day before this trip was …
Jun 03 2018
Introducing ‘Cooking with Coraline’
Today I’m starting a new series – “Cooking with Coraline”. For those of you that don’t know, Coraline is my precious 3 year old daughter. She is spunky, she is witty, she is kind and she loves cooking! Today we decided to start our morning by making a quick – and I mean quick – …