Coconut Pancakes? SOLD.

magic. it's a magic pancake.

If you're asking what that is, it's a pineapple/coconut pancake from The Egg & I in O'Fallon. If you're wondering how much of it I ate: well, I'd love to exaggerate and tell you to just imagine that plate sans pancake, but that sucker was intimidating. I only finished about 3/4 of that thing. Next time, I will either eat faster so as to fool my stomach [and likely pay for that later], or order half of it in a to-go box up front.

Either way, YUM?!
I've never been to this place, even after almost two years of living here. -- Which, btw, almost 2 years? Has time really escaped me so? *Sigh. Rabbit trail...

Fortunately for us, but unfortunately for the purpose of blogging, the rest of our day was consumed with plain old Dills family time. It was great for us, but again, not exhilirating as it goes for an itemized account of the day. I will say that we did find Sydni a Halloween costume. If you've not seen it yet [that's most of you], sorry, but there shall be no spoiling. You'll see that soon enough.

Happy Saturday, lovebugs. Go hang out with your loved ones!

xo | cmd

Pancakes, by Pogi

Who are you, and where is my husband?!



he looks good in the kitchen, yeah?



I'm just joking. What a lot of folks wouldn't guess is that my dear husband is actually a decent cook when he wants to be. He shares the boat with a large chunk of guys everywhere in that the menu of his cooking abilities may be limited, but what he does conjure up in the kitchen is certainly worth commending.

Today was a classic example of him defying my assumptions regarding his chef skills. He really threw me for a loop today when I turned the corner and found him parked at the counter, whisk in hand, stirring away at a bowl of pancake mix. I was so proud! Fast forward to the finished product, a waffle [mixin' it up even more, yeah?], which didn't taste abnormal in the slightest, and was quite delicious.

High five, husband!

Today, pancakes and waffles.
Tomorrow, the next big baking sensation.
He'll make a sous chef out of himself, yet. Haha. :)

Love, love, love!

xo | cmd

Movie Marathon

blueberry pancakes | joe's famous scrambled eggs

We started off the day RIGHT:

Scrambled eggs, by Joe

Blueberry pancakes, by yours truly

Sticky mess of both, by Miss Sydni

.. and then off to church we went.

After the service, we felt like doing a whole lot of absolutely nothing for pretty much the rest of the day. You'd be surprised at just how easy that feat can be when you really put your mind to it. Ha.

Toay we had a family movie marathon, interrupted only by dinner, diaper changes, and occasional phone calls or other miniature distractions.

That's right. Who needs an overpriced theater when you've got a better variety of the own-but-never-seen, love-and-will-watch-over-and-over, and old-b-lister-but-somehow-still-entertaining lining your dvd shelves.

blind side | dear john
perfect score | unkown



This certainly wasn't as entertaining as last weekend, but sometimes it's the lazy one that you need every so often. I'll get back to full throttle mode tomorrow.

xo | cmd