oh, hi.

It's amazing how time flies when you have an adorable baby to kiss, hold, take care of, and just stare at all day! Somehow I've managed to let more than a week go by without so much as thinking about looking at the blog! Yikes!

Last weekend we took a really long and way too short trip for my cousin's baby shower. That sounds a little weird, so let me explain... We drove 7 hours, straight to the shower on Saturday morning, visited with a few friends and family on Sunday and drove back home Sunday night! All the driving was exhausting, and we definitely did not get enough visiting time! If we could have I think we would have stayed all week!

It was a lot of fun though, seeing everyone, and seeing my cousins big ol' baby bump! I'm so excited that Sage will have a cousin so close in age! They are going to have so much fun together!

I wish I would've taken some pictures, it was such a cute shower, but, I was busy with Sage. The little stinker was up pretty much the whole drive being cute for me, and was SO tired when we got there. He was NOT a happy camper!

So, besides that busy weekend, my only excuse for not keeping up around here is one handsome little boy. Which is a pretty amazing reason if you ask me!

Insta-Friday time!!!

It's been a long time since I've done an instagram post! So... I'll skip quite a few (mostly pictures of Sage) and just give you a peek at what's been going on around here. If you want to see the immense amount of baby pictures, (they are pretty cute) then you can follow me @amerynmarie.

We like to get some sun time in pretty much every day.

CORN! This has been a staple food lately! and yes, sometimes I eat on the kitchen floor!

and this is why! How else could I almost get my cat to eat corn on the cob?!

Another staple: morning oats!

LOVE these red sunflowers from the garden! They looked almost black in person!

Took a little trip up to Figueroa Mountain, it's so pretty up there.

This is the center of one of our giant sunflowers! Isn't that so neat!

Sage finally met Kule up close, he couldn't keep his eyes off of him!

Look at those eyes! Getting bluer everyday!

Dandelions grow free in our yard!

Took a little family hike.

Matt made this, just to make it, one day. Pretty fun.

Well, I'll leave it at that! Have a great weekend everyone!

Let's make Scones!

Last week I came across a recipe for vegan scones and drooled about them all week long. I wasn't going to make them because we are trying to go pretty much gluten free. Then I thought 'duh! Just make them, but without the gluten!' So, I played around with the recipe and ended up with some delicious and not too bad for you scones! And now I get to share them with you! The recipe that is, you have to make them yourself. The good news is they were pretty quick, and easy too!

Gluten-Free Vegan Scones

Takes about 30 minutes start to finish. Makes 12 good sized scones.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 Cups All Purpose Gluten-Free flour

1/2 Cup Teft Flour

1/2 Cup Ground Almonds or Almond Flour

3/4 tsp. Xanthan Gum*

1/3 Cup Sugar + some for topping

1 Tbs. Baking Powder

1/2 tsp. Sea Salt

1 1/4 Cup Canned Coconut milk (cold) + some for topping

1 tsp. Vanilla Extract

3/4 Cup Chocolate Chips or Carob Chips (vegan) OR fruit

*the Xanthan Gum helps to bind the flours, which is nice, but if you don't have it, you could skip it.

Preheat oven to 425

Mix all your dry ingredients: flour, xanthan gum, baking powder and salt.

Add your wet ingredients: vanilla extract and coconut milk. Stir until combined.

Fold in your chocolate chips or fruit.

On a floured surface, form the dough into a 3/4 inch thick disc. Using a sharp knife cut the dough into wedges, like a pie. I cut mine into 12 pieces, and they were a great size.

Place the wedges on a parchment lined cookie sheet an inch or 2 apart. Brush on coconut milk over each scone and sprinkle a good amount of sugar over that.

Bake at 425 for about 20 minutes, or until golden brown.

Eat. Enjoy. Repeat.

I made a batch of these after dinner, and didn't think they would make it to the morning, they were that good! We did manage to save a few that night. I hope you get to enjoy these yourself this weekend. I am going to make more for sure, but this time maybe with blackberries!

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Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend! We sure are!