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Spring Creek Growers Tree Farm
4 years ago we went to Spring Creek Growers for a Christmas family photoshoot and since then we have been coming back. It has become one of our favorite Christmas traditions in Houston. 2016 Photo by Amanda Walton Photography BEST TIME TO VISIT I highly recommend visiting during weekdays because weekends is crowded. I love visiting the farm around 4pm that way we get the “golden hour” lovely photos plus we enjoy the fire pit at sunset. They usually open the weekend of thanksgiving or a couple of days before and they close a week or two before Christmas. WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO: Reservation is required. It’s “free”. …
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Raspberry Linzer cookies recipe
This Raspberry Linzer cookies recipe have something special, that you will want to bake another batch as soon as you eat your first batch. The combination of almond with raspberry blend so well plus the subtle touch of lemon gives it an interesting twist. I like making big and small cookies. Why? Because as a breakfast I can have a big cookie with my coffee, but for a quick snack the big one is just too much. So that’s why you will see that I used heart shaped cookies ( the big ones) and circle and squared shaped cookies with a small heart. For the big ones I used a…
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Santa Claus Letter in spanish and english
This free printable letter to Santa Claus below is available in Spanish and English. I designed this letter to guide my toddler because obviously she is not able to write yet. I read out loud the letter and just let her answer and wrote for her the blank spaces. I found lots of printables online but I couldn’t find a free one, with the options of writing what good things the kid had achieve this year in order to be in Santa’s Nice list. I also like adding what do they compromise to get better with next year. You just need to download the free letter in spanish or…
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Alfajores Recipe + A Spin to serve them
This are the traditional Argentinian Alfajores recipe. Well I didn’t add any coconut or lime zest, but I accidentally discover a new way of eating alfajores that take this cookies to a whole new level of yumminess. This Alfajor recipe I have been improving it for a long time, changing some measures of the original recipe, until I got the most delicious of all. This is one of my favorite cookies, I love them as much as my Pecan snowball cookies and my lemon shortbread cookies I bought all the ingredients to make alfajores, because I really was craving for one, but couldn’t find time to make them. So my…
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Lemon cookies Recipe
This lemon cookies recipe is full of flavor, refreshing and simply delicious. Crips lemon shortbread cookies covered and topped with lemon icing and peanuts. When I was a little girl, on the first level of the building where we lived there was a bakery. I used to collected all the pennies under the sofas to buy these delicious cookies from the bakery. I tried to look everywhere for the recipe (well, to be honest, I google it ) and I could not find it. The closest one I could find was a Martha Stewart lemon pistachio wreaths. After some tries, I think I finally got something similar, at least…
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Toddler gift guide
Here is a list of out favorite things. Lately We’ve wanting more of the simple and basic toys. I can testified how toddlers are more engage with things that have a reaction with their actions. So you will find most of the things in this list are open ended. “The more ways a child can play with a toy, the more he will learn” 1.Cow Bouncer. Inflatable hopper that will bring hours of joy and will drain some of their energy really fast. About $16 on Amazon. 2. Magna Tiles.We wanted to try these for a while, but I thought they were very expensive. I know you can find cheaper…
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Pecan Snowball cookies recipe
This is the classic Pecan Snowball cookies recipe. I really don´t know the origin from the snowball cookies but I do know EVERYONE loves them. Whether they called them Mexican wedding cookie, Russian tea cake or butterballs, they are basically the same yummy buttery cookie. Although you will find variations that some use almonds or walnuts instead of pecans. This cookies are easy to make because you just need a few ingredients and the directions are quite simple: mix everything and scoop them on a cooking sheet. It´s a great recipe to make with kids during the holidays. Plus the smell of butter and pecans in your house it´s a…
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Cranberry orange muffin recipe
The story behind this Cranberry orange muffin recipe is really funny. We started a diet a few weeks ago ( the keto diet) and Cris wanted to make keto friendly crepes. He decided to make the same recipe he usually makes and just replace regular flour with coconut flour. I knew that it was going to be a totally failure, but he made them and in fact they were a failure lol. They were a mess but it tasted good. He did not gave up, he added more ingredients, pour them in cupcake tins and bake them, we were amazed by the result. It wasn’t a failure after all lol.…
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Easy Marshmallow Snowman for hot chocolate
I really enjoy making crafts, mostly during the holidays and even more for Christmas. With a 2 year old around me, I’m always searching for easy and fast crafts, because if you have one of those tiny persons in your life you totally agree with me that their attention span is really short. I remember that I made this easy Marshmallow Snowman for the first time almost 5 years ago for Sebastian’s school Christmas party. I needed something easy back then because I had to make around 30. This idea at pinterest really inspired me, it looked so easy, that I decided to make my own version. It was a huge…
