The Many Faces of Sebastian G. Hardy

I meant to do this in December after his 2nd birthday, but time got away from me. I hope you enjoy!

12/7/10 - I'm 30 seconds old!!! 

January 2011 - Newborn photo shoot, thanks to my Aunt Ange

February 2011 - I love my mommy

March 2011 - I discovered my hands

April 2011 - The first time I ate rice cereal

May 2011 - I'm finally able to sit up on my own

June 2011 - I'm 6 months old

July 2012 - I'm crawling

August 2011 - I had two double ear infections and went on my first vacation

September 2011 - I'm a happy baby

October 2011 - I started walking

November 2011 - I love monsters

December 2011 - Happy 1st Birthday to me

January 2012 - I'm eating big boy food all by myself

February 2012 - Happy Valentines Day

March 2012 - I put everything in my mouth

April 2012 - I had my first haircut, don't you think it makes me look older

May 2012 - Can you say teething

June 2012 - Wearing my favorite shirt

July 2012 - At the 4th of July parade

August 2012 - I love to play in the mud

September 2012 - I love playing outside all day

October 2012 - I was Woody for Halloween

November 2012 - I have really blue eyes

December 2012 - Merry Christmas

Almost Five Guys Burger

Like most people I love Five Guys but I can't eat there very often. I feel that a Five Guys burger should only be consumed on a rare occasions and no more then 4 times a year. I know this might sound a tat bit crazy to most people because they do have the BEST burgers. But I'm very weird about certain foods and their burgers give me crazy anxiety. Now don't laugh, I'm being serious, I can't help it. :) 

I'm dedicating this post to my little sister Erin because of her love for burgers. 

 What you'll need: Buns, Beef, Butter and Salt

Roll the ground beef into 1/4 pound balls and place on parchment paper or plastic wrap. Make sure that the ball have plenty of space in between them. Cover with another piece of parchment paper and use a rolling bin to flatten. Don't worry if the burger patties are not perfect circle. Just make sure you flatten them to about 1/2 an inch.

 Sprinkle the patties with salt.

Put the burger, salted side down, in a hot skillet (somewhere between medium to medium-high) you don't want it to be too hot because it will start to smoke, and then your smoke detectors will start to go off and scare your toddler. And then you'll have to open your windows on the coldest day in your town in 4 years and you'll start to freeze. Also, you'll let all those nasty stink bugs in your house...just saying, you know, in case that happens to you!   

Then salt the other side. 

While the burger cooks, you'll need to try to avoid being pelted my magnets, keep your toddler from touching the uncooked meet on the counter and keep him from opening the fridge.  

 Flip the burger after 4 to 5 minutes, you want to make sure the burger is nice and browned. 

While your burgers are cooking, turn you broil on and  butter your buns (hahah)! 

Put your buns, butter side up, in the oven and let them brown up a little. 

Add what every it is that you like and enjoy. 

Recipe
1 lb ground beef
salt
butter
hamburger buns
(anything else you like on your burger)

Instructions
Heat a large cast iron skillet over medium to medium-high heat, if you have a cast iron griddle that would be better, you could cook all the burgers at once. I don't have one so I can only cook 1 or 2 as a time. 

Divide the beef into four equal balls, 1/4 pound each. Place them on parchment paper or plastic wrap making sure the balls have plenty of space in between them. Cover with another piece of parchment paper and use a rolling bin to flatten to about 1/2 an inch. 

Sprinkle with kosher salt and put it in the skillet salt side down. You should hear a nice sizzle, if you don't your skillet isn't hot enough. Salt the other side of the burger. Once you've put the burger on the skillet don't touch it, poke it or anything, just leave it alone and let it do it's thing. After 4 to 5 minutes, flip the burger, again leaving it alone to finish cooking. You can add cheese if you'd like. 

While your burgers are cooking preheat the oven to broil. Butter the buns and place them, butter side up, in the oven for 2 to 3 minutes. You can put them right on the oven rack or on a cookie sheet. Keep a close eye on them, you don't want them to burn. 

Once the burgers and buns are done, create the burger you love the most and enjoy. 

Thanks

Christmas 2012

We had a white Christmas!!!

It snowed Christmas Eve and Sebastian LOVED it!!!

 Dave getting ready to throw a snowball at me!!!

Christmas morning!!!

We always do stockings first, but doesn't everyone!!!

It's our tradition to put a grapefruit in the bottom of the stockings.

Batman PJs

Thomas the Train (aka CHOO-CHOO) flash light!

Sebastian's so excited about his choo-choo.

He got a lot of great presents...he must have been a very good boy. 

After all the presents were opened and a couple of Hershey kisses and Reese peanut butter cups went missing, we had breakfast. Homemade sticky buns (my grandmothers recipe) this is also a family tradition every Christmas morning!

After spending the day lying around the house playing with all the new toys and eating as much as possible, we went over to Andrea and Rickys house to lay around and eat even more food.

Ricky made Prime Rib...everything was delicious. 

 Erin attempting to get a good picture with Ava and Sebastian!

 Joey and Tim...probably watching something on YouTube!!!

We had a great Christmas, I hope you did too.