holiday

Tomorrow is Mardi Gras. To celebrate, I made these King Cake Cookies with Pecan Praline on top. These cookies are a marriage of two New Orleans delicacies, king cake and pecan pralines. If these are not a celebration, I do not know what is. I originally had these incredible cookies at

Valentine’s Day is next week and to celebrate, the kids and I made some heart cookies yesterday after school. I really like to decorate for Valentine’s, which is kind of funny, because I really don’t decorate much for any other holiday. I think that I just really like pink, red, and hearts. Even...

With Valentine's Day right around the corner (can you believe it?!), some very festive February outfits have been created in my closet.  Although I do not often wear pink, I am realizing that I do have a few items in this hue- and I really should ...

All the photos are here, on Flickr:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/alisontoon/sets/72157632674230688/ Jade and I visited Jamaica, for the first time, in January 2013. This collection of photos is from the area in the north of the country, from...

When Jade and I planned our trip to Jamaica, the first and most-important thing was to decide that we were actually going to do it--and book the time off work, and then the flights. JetBlue made it easy; I could fly to New York from Sacramento, have a ...

(So much to write about Jamaica... it will come little-by-little as I go through the photos and arrange my thoughts. It was a truly wonderful holiday, and I'm so glad to have been able to visit Jamaica with Jade. It was not so much a vacation, as an in...

Penn's 2nd Monthly Photo ...

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Oh Holiday in Red 2012 ...

This months touristy visit was to the National Christmas Tree. We celebrated the beginning of the kid’s Christmas break by taking a very cold walk around the tree and all of the state trees that surround it. The trains that run around the tree are amazing, and made me think of my grandmother that...