Monday Monkey

Yep.  Two posts in one day.  How lucky are you?!  LOL  Really, I had to make up for the lack of post on Friday and I had to get out the word for Mamarazzi's Pinktastic Swaptastic.  Now I have a yummy recipe to share.

For as long as I can remember, my mom made this awesome breakfast treat for Christmas and New Years morning.  My boys, on occasion, can be picky eaters, but not with this!!  This is one of my favorite breakfast recipes.

Breakfast Monkey Bread
3 (12 oz) packages refrigerated biscuit dough
1 cup white sugar
2 Tbsp ground cinnamon
1/2 cup (1 cube) butter
1 cup packed brown sugar

Preheat oven to 350*.  Grease one 9- or 10-inch Bundt pan.

Mix the cinnamon and sugar together in a bowl and set aside.  Cut each biscuit in to quarters.  Turn biscuit pieces in the cinnamon and sugar mixture until covered.  Toss biscuit pieces in to the Bundt pan.  Shake the remaining cinnamon and sugar mixture over the biscuits.

In a small saucepan, melt butter and brown sugar over medium-high heat, stirring constantly.  Bring to boil and let boil for a minute or two, stirring constantly.  Pour mixture evenly over biscuits in the Bundt pan. 

Bake at 350* for 30-35 minutes.  Remove from oven and immediately overturn pan on to serving platter. 

NOTES:  I don't know if it's the altitude, but my batches never turn out as good as my Mom's.  There's never as much caramel sauce.  Next time, I think I'm going to increase the brown sugar and butter by half.

When working with the canned biscuits, it's easier to work with one can at a time.  If you take the other out too early, they begin to rise and it makes it harder to cut the dough in to quarters.

Mmmmm!  Cinnamon and sugar goodness!  Normally I would never let my boys have so much sugar for breakfast (or in general, really), but this is too good to pass up.  Besides, we don't have this all that often, so once or twice a year doesn't make me a bad Mom.  Really, it doesn't.

See what I mean about the caramel?  There should be more!!  I'm definitely increasing the brown sugar and butter next time!

YUM!!  I want some of this now!  But I'm being a good girl.  I think this lasted about 2 days in our house.  It's the one breakfast thing that Nate will actually *ask* for.  LOL

One more thing!  Today is a very special day - it's my hubs birthday!!  The stinker is taking the week off and getting some (much deserved) alone time in.  So, happy birthday, my dear hubs.  I hope you enjoy the quiet this week!

Have a great rest of your Monday.  Now I'm hungry.  Hmmm...wonder what the office fridge has to offer...

Baby no more

It makes me a little sad that my little boy, Mason, turned 1 on June 2nd. He's my last baby and every day he gets closer to being a little kid more than a baby. He's not quite walking yet, but I'm sure that's just around the corner. We celebrated his 1st birthday with family and friends at a neighborhood park. We all had a lot of fun and Mason got to dig in to his first piece of cake - which he loved. Here's a quick look at my little mister over the last year. Pic heavy, but who doesn't like to look at pics of little kids? Indulge me a bit...

Mason Gregory was born on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, at 4:13 p.m., 3 days before his due date. I needed just a touch of pitocin to get things going, but once that kicked in, our little one joined us about 4 hours (and no epidural) later.


He weighed in at 7 lbs, 9 oz - the exact same as his older brother - and 21.25" long. He had lots of dark brown hair. He was (and still is) a very easy, mellow baby.



Mason is such a good little boy. He eats everything we give him and crawls like the wind! He has 6 teeth - 2 on the bottom, 4 on the top - the top he got all over the course of a week. Poor little boy!

September 2009, 3 months old

December 2009, 6 months old

March 2010, 9 months old

It took a while for the hair at the top of his head to grow in. My BIL says he looks like Ron Howard's little brother - I think he's much cuter than that. LOL You can kinda see it in the last picture, but he has a cowlick in the very front center of his hair line. We say that it's his unicorn horn.

The birthday gang. Cousins and friends shared in the fun and excitement.

And of course we had cake. It took him a little while to get in to the cake, but once he did...

He ended up looking a little like the Hulk
Awww!! My happy little birthday boy!