Fudge Pudding Cake

My sister made the best chocolate I've ever had! It's called Fudge Pudding Cake. I thought I'd share the recipe.
1 (18.25 oz) package devil's food cake mix
1 (3.9 oz) package instant chocolate pudding mix
1 cup sour cream
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup water
4 eggs
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
6 tablespoons butter
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
In a large bowl, combine cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, milk, oil, water and eggs.
Beat for 4 minutes, then mix in 2 cups chocolate chips.

Pour batter into prepared pan. bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. cool 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
to make the glaze: Melt the butter and 1 cup chocolate chips in a double boiler or microwave oven. Stir until smooth and drizzle over cake.

Merry Christmas

Christmas 2009. Let me first tell you that we were so excited to hear that Alicia had little Lane on Christmas day at 1am-ish!! I can't wait to see pictures of him! I bet he's really cute!

Anyways, our Christmas was a lot of fun. We all slept in until around 10-11, had home made donuts (made by my dad & they are super yummy!), then opened up gifts. We all got a lot of cool things but I got what I've wanted to get foreverrr! It's just a little book called "I Am America & So Can You" by Stephen Colbert!!! =) I love it! After gifts we, well, started making drinks..lol. We had dinner around 4 then spent the rest of the evening playing games. It was a lot of fun!

Here are a couple random pictures.. Notice that nobody is wearing anything that is Christmas-y.. We're all wearing bright colors ;)

Grandpa & Grand baby

Me & my love!
Me & my sis

America's next top model? ;)

Silly girls

Our ornament :)

Mommy & Addie

That's the face she does now whenever we say "smile" :)

Addie's First Birthday!!

Addison's first birthday was a success! Her party was in the evening so we spent most of the day cleaning the house and making the food/cakes. A lot of our/her close friends and family were there! It was really strange to see how many babies we have now.. There was Trenten, Addie, Austin, Peyton, Jayden & little Brooklyn (who is still in V's belly) ;) Anyways, it was a lot of fun! Here are some pics! Addison looking silly during breakfast! :)

Addison's boyfriend, Austin ;)

The birthday cake!

Addison's personal cupcake :)

Messy girl ;)

She loved the frosting..

Opening gifts.

First Weekend In Oregon

We're in OREGON! :)

We left Friday around 5pm and got to my parent's house at 7am. It was actually a really easy trip. Loren drove from our house to Sac and I drove the other half. There was no snow or ice over the pass and not really any traffic in the cities. Addison & Sadie slept most of the way. :)

Anyways, we got to my parents house in the morning, hung out with them, took showers & naps, then went to Loren's mom's house for Christmas dinner with his family. It was a lot of fun & the food was sooo good! Addison got a couple of really cute Oregon Ducks' outfits and toys. It was nice seeing all his family that we don't normally get to see :) After we left there, we went to my brother's house and got to hang out with all our friends! So, all together, it was a really fun day! Today we are going over to Rachel's parents house for a BBQ with her family & then Taco Night at the Hulla's! Another busy/fun day!

2009

I can't believe its already December! I feel like I just got used to writing '09 on our checks & soon I'll have to get used to writing '10 (weird). But this year has been a pretty good one. We got to spend a lot of time in Oregon.. Lived there for the first 4 months, visited in June, October, November, & soon December. And so much has changed since this time last year. Addison is a toddler, Rachel had Austin, Kristy had Peyton, V is pregnant, Robby & Jackie got married, Alicia will have Lane any day now, Loren & I celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary, and Addison will have her first birthday :)

Its crazy how a couple years ago, us & all of our friends were just dating each other & now we all have families & are married. We've all grown up so much. Even though we still act like teenagers when we have our parties ;) I can't wait to get back up to Oregon & see everyone.

We should be leaving for Oregon on Friday, get there Saturday morning & go to a Christmas party for the kids at Vonna's that evening. I'll probably be drinking a lot of coffee that day.. Monday is Taco Night with the Hullas, Wednesday is Addison's 1st birthday & Friday is Christmas! This trip is going to be a lot of fun!

Hopefully I'll be feeling better by this weekend.. I have a really bad head cold/sinuses. It sucks. The only good thing is that Addison doesn't seem to be sick or getting sick. So that's good. And Loren says he's too cool to get sick.. yeah whatever. ;)

Addison has a bunch of teeth now. She has her 4 front teeth, 3 on the bottom and 2 molars on the bottom & 2 on the top. I'm not sure but I thought that babies get their teeth in order (front to back) But Addison got her "vampire" teeth first on top and now she has molars coming in before the ones in front of them do. I don't know, she's a strange girl ;). She's also a really speedy crawler! And she can stand and walk while holding onto something. I'm sure she will be walking within a couple weeks. She says "hi" or "hey", "mom", "dad-dad", random baby talk, and she can almost say "Sadie". The first year of her life has been a real joy. She's such a good baby and she has the funniest personality.

Ok, enough with the random stuff, here are some pictures from last weekend. :)

Addison, me & that crazy Christmas hat!

Addie & Nana Jana
Addison wants whats on the tree ;)

This is a picture from the Thanksgiving at my uncle's house. Addie is apparently emo ;)

Dear John

I just finished reading this book. It was really good. Not my favorite, but good. I love the way Nicholas Sparks writes. Its never boring. & it only took me one day to read it. I read it every chance I got today.
The movie doesn't come out until Feb. 5th. I can't wait to go see it.

Book Store Archway

Really creative archway for a book store :)

Just thought this picture was pretty cool.

Before & After

Sadie at 8 weeks old & her at 6 months old :)

Sadie Mae is 6 months old! I can't believe how much she's grown since we got her! I forgot how small she was until I looked at her old pictures..lol. She's still doing good with being house trained. Just a couple problems here & there.. My favorite part about her is how good with Addie she is. She'll let Addison do anything to her. She's going to be a great family dog.

Early B-Day Gift

For Addison's birthday gift, Bill & Jana wanted to get her ears pierced! She only cried while they were doing it but afterwards she was fine. And they look great! Her ears aren't even red or anything.

Poor baby :(

Big smile!

You can sort of see the earring in her left ear (above) and then the earring in her right ear (below) :)

I took these today after her bath :)

This is her new favorite sleeping position..lol

And sleeping like that, causes hair like this ;)

I'll hopefully have more pictures up tomorrow. Loren, Addie & I are going to a friends house tonight to watch the Civil War game! They are Beaver fans.. So it should be fun! :)