Oh My, Oh My.........

Family, Life and Work are in full blast right know. With my growing belly, knowing another sweet life is going to be joining us soon, I can't help but push myself to work harder and expand my company, Chubby Baby. I want so much for my family and want to contribute to what my husband adds, so I took the plunge and did it. I'm not messing around any more! I have a manufacturer all ready to go, I have all my supplies and the orders are being faxed in like crazy. I'm SO excited about the future and what I love to do! Of course if it wasn't for my Husband and my Mom I'm not sure I'd be able to do it with out them. Their words of encouragement and business lectures have paid off, and everyday I feel stronger! Hers is my Assistant who always keeps me on track, standing in front of 2,400 baby wipe cases that are going to be shipped out to Baby Boutiques all over the country.

Bruschetta with Tomato and Basil

I love Bruschetta since my new cravings have appeared. So I have started exploring my cookbooks and found this great recipe that I'd like to share since I gobbled up the whole thing in one night.

Bruschetta is one of the simplest things in the world to make, and can be very satisfying if you have good extravirgin olive oil. So let's start... you'll need,

• 6 ripe plum Organic tomatoes
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 Tbsp Extra Virgin olive oil
• 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
• 6-8 fresh basil leaves, chopped.
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

• 1 baguette French bread (this is my favorite
• 1/4 cup olive oil

Cut the tomatoes in halves or quarters and remove the seeds and juice from their centers. Also cut out and discard the stem area. Why use plum tomatoes instead of regular tomatoes? The skins are much thicker and there are fewer seeds and less juice.

Chop up the tomatoes finely. Put tomatoes, garlic, 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil, vinegar in a bowl and mix. Add the chopped basil. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Slice the baguette on a diagonal about 1/2 inch thick slices. Coat one side of each slice with olive oil using a pastry brush. Place on a cooking sheet, olive oil side down. You will want to toast them in the top rack in your oven, so you may need to do these in batches depending on the size of your oven. Once the oven has reached 450°F, place a tray of bread slices in the oven on the top rack. Toast for 5-6 minutes, until the bread just begins to turn golden brown.

Place some topping on each slice of bread and enjoy!

Makes 24 small slices. Serves 6-10 as an appetizer. Or 3-4 for lunch (delicious served with cottage cheese on the side.)

How can you not enjoy? Let me know how it works out!

Baby #2 on the Way

Yes we are Pregnant! I'm 3 months along and so happy and excited. I was a little worried that something might happen so I held off on sharring the news, but I'm in the clear and dealing with morning or all day sickness. :( So I will be pregnant in a few weddings that I'm in this summer and I know how much I'll love all those photos! (All bloated) So now I'm just trying to watch what I eat and I started going through all my old maternity clothes, I was pleasantly surprised at a few thing I forgot about. :) Of course I'm dieing to find out what the sex is, I would love to have a little boy but if we have another littler girl that would be great too. I just told my husband that if we have another girl, we'll have to keep trying till we get a boy, I'm not sure what he thought about that, hehe!

It's so funny how I look at my daughter and think of her as my baby but, she is growing up faster every day and has her own little personality, which by the way is very Strong and Loud. She is no push over! Pretty soon she will be a Big Sister and I can't wait to see how she reacts and decides what her roles will be with the new baby. My mom told me that when my brother was born I took on the role as Mother, I wanted to hold him and feed him and be in charge. Of course that cracks me up bc I don't remember it at all. But she said once when he was still very little he had been crying, so at 3 yrs old- me, I went and picked him up, out of the cradle and carried him to my mom. My mom said she almost had a heart attack seeing a 3 yr old carrying a new born. OMG! I would have had a heart attack!

So we will see what awaits us!

New BLING Baby Wipe Cases

Grandma and Grandpa Moore came to party with us for the New Year, so I took them to the slopes to have a few drinks, to get things started.

My Brothers came up too and brought their girlfriends, we all had a blast at the Poker Tournament I hosted on New Years Eve, too bad my Mom won all the money!

Sledding in our front yard

Skiing on New Years Day, what a Beautiful day it was!

My Husband looking extra sexy

My Baby Brother and his girlfriend being crazy like usual.

Happy New Year to all!

2010 is looking good

Christmas Time

Every Christmas all of the Grandkids get a photo with my Grandma bc it's the only time we are all together. I'm the oldest of them all, by about 10 years. So we range from 30 years old to 1 month old. That's what happens from a family of 9. (yikes)

I'm also very lucky and come from a family of very fine seamstresses. My daughter's Great Grandma made the only two little girls Super Hero Capes for dress up in all pink! She has been making them for her little boys for years and she finally got to use pink and loved it. I'm so lucky!

Most little girls would love this dress, but not mine! LOL!! Maybe next year :)

My daughter thought this would be great if the our dog wore the santa hat, i think our dog was depressed.

Little Miss Mackenzie all done up for Church with her matching doll, she was walking around and twirling through the house, like a true princess should!

Our 1st Christmas in Big Bear

Merry Christmas, can't wait till Santa comes to my house!

Here we are Christmas tree shopping in the rain with the Whole family.

Running around the house like a crazy child bc she is so excited about HER Christmas tree, she keeps singing Jingle Bells

This is what she looked like after running around, she just crashed in my arms. These are the moments that I will remember forever.

Next morning we all took turns pulling her on her new sled in the snow, she just had a blast!

This is with my In Laws in the Village in Big Bear, we really had a great early Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

Love,

The Wilsons