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jenn pierce, charlotte, nc photographer"a portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week, in 2013."
 
penny: you have no idea how happy it makes your mama to see you walking around taking pictures of the things you love...
linking up with jodi

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jenn pierce, charlotte nc photographer
"a portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week, in 2013."
 
penny: this week it rained... a lot! we pulled out every trick mama had up her sleeve. forts, baking, puddle jumping, and many many nekkid dance parties on the bed. i hope you're always so easily entertained!
linking up with jodi

italy, part IV, the last days

after we returned to torino from our riviera road trip we had a few days of rain in which we didn't do much other then stay around the city and see some local sites. no complaints here though. torino is absolutely gorgeous, and our friends parents made us feel like we were family ourselves.
thankfully the grey skies cleared though for the big gathering at the family vineyard. this place, uhhh i could have sold all my belongings and stayed there forever! the bread, the wine, the view... it stole a little piece of my heart.

i don't think our trip could have been more perfect. staying with family and really getting the true taste of italian living just felt so very right. i don't think we'll ever be able to thank our extended italian family enough for the experience they gave us. i know penny won't remember a lick of it, but thankfully we have a ton of pictures to show her when she's older, and her dad and i will never forget what it was like having her along with us.
if you missed them, here are posts onetwo, and three. and all the pics from our trip can be seen here. hope you have a great weekend, ciao!

 

today, we baked!

it was like a sign from the heavens. this morning i woke up to this post, by sydney, and she had me right at the title. ya see, penny has recently realized that she can have an opinion on the things she eats, and it's making meal times much more interesting. she still eats really well, but it's like some days i'm the greatest chef she's ever known, and then others, well we'll just say that the dogs are getting their fair share of my cooking as well. so when this recipe boasted health AND yumminess i was right on board with it. and my little sous chef, once she saw that she could nibble on chocolate chips while helping, was definitely on board as well!

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we copied the recipe sydney posted, and just made a few little adjustments...
* we didn't have any nuts on hand so we just left them out. kinda sad about that one.
* we kept this recipe vegan by simply leaving out the eggs. since many of the ingredients in the recipe already act as egg replacers it's simply not necessary to add actual eggs.
* we used almond milk instead of cows milk. easy peasy!
i can say that these are indeed a yummy treat. it made 12 regular size muffins, and about 10 mini muffins. i say 'about' because the minis are already gone. yum for sure!