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Still eating our delicious cake! It was raspberry cream and there were chocolate bits in the cake. The design for the flowers were taken off of our invitations. Each guest had a cupcake with one of the flowers on it.

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Mom's spaghetti and meatballs! YUM!!!

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Wes was cutting the roast chicken and Obie was very interested!

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You can take the girl out of England, but you can't take England out of the girl! These are actually the best ever because that's my mom's homemade strawberry jelly on there!

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Not sure which Dublin discovery made me happier - actually it was probably the cheese - but I took a picture of both. In my excitement I seem to have cut off the 'Pepperidge Farm' part of the cookie bag! My ham sandwich with melted provolone was super tasty!

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I have a lot of oatmeal that I want to use up before I move. Rather than eat it the healthy way, I've decided to make baked goods with it. I'm taking them into work so I don't eat them all myself. Today I made 'Old Fashioned Oatmeal Honey Apple Cake'. It's from Cooking Light, so I'll probably lose weight while eating it!

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I've decided I want to try to incorporate more beets in my diet. They're much more common here than in the US. People keep telling me they're nice, so I wanted to give them a go. I already know I don't like them pickled or Harvard-style (right, Grandma, that's Stephie!). This was a salad recipe from a woman on UK-Yankee. It was spicy and yummy! I think I'll try roasting them next.

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Another Sunday dinner with Myrto and Anna. No, Anna doesn't have Lycra cycling trousers (aka Spandex pants) on!

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More cookies!!! It's not Christmas without these!

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When my sister gave me this sugar cookie (or as they call them, 'fat cookie') recipe she said, 'It makes a huge amount!'. Uh, no kidding! The batter bowl was filled to the top! I thought my hand mixer was going to crap out! I'm determined to bring a Christmas treat into the office that isn't a mince pie.

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This picture is the result of a conversation I had a couple of days ago, but I can't get it out of my mind. A couple of my friends are from Cyprus and I was over at their house the other night. They don't very often ask me things about America, but he asked if we actually have the little white boxes for our Chinese food like they have in the movies. I've never been asked that one before! Chinese food here comes in plastic containers. When I told him yes he thought that was the coolest thing. And you know what, I think he's right!

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Danger! Danger! I gave in to the weakness today. This is bad because these M&Ms are earmarked for some Christmas goodies. I can't afford to eat them all now!

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My new favorite veg!

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Emma's coming for the weekend. I need a list!

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We had Thanksgiving on Saturday since we were leaving on Sunday. Here is the star of the day!!! I don't normally care for turkey, but this one was delish!

223/365 - Happiness

I was caught up with everything today and I forgot to take a picture. The theme of the week was happiness and I was just so happy the whole week I felt overwhelmed to try and put it into one picture. One thing we did today was pick out the cake. We're actually going to have cupcakes which I've wanted from the start, so I"m really happy about that. This is a sample cake from the bakery we're using. I didn't take this picture, it was taken by Amanda Kraft Photography and I took it from the bakery's website. The cakes we tried were YUM!!!

216/365 - Gluttony

The theme of the week this week was the 7 Deadly Sins. I picked 'gluttony' because, well, it was the easiest one for me to do! It's been a busy week so unfortunately I couldn't get too creative. However, I couldn't have picked more perfect subjects for the picture!

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I moonwalked when I saw this at the Tesco by Wes. Buffalo wings!!!! I think I'm going to like living in Dublin!

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A purple Starburst, must be grape right!?? NOPE!!! It's black currant! Blech!!! I miss grape flavored things.

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I made paella tonight the way Wes taught me. It was tasty!