Syracuse Crunch Outdoor Classic

First let me start off by saying...I borrowed some of these photos. My camera died before the pregame events.

Finally it was here, a hockey game played at the state fair grounds.

I did take the above photo! its one of my favorites. Okay back to the game! the final count was 21,508 people attended! It was crazy


I called withing the first hour that the tickets went on sale to the general public. in the below photo you see Heather, Stephanie and Amanda but look up in the red section. See the blue blanket on the left that was our seats!

690 was very backed up but we went around and got in another way just as they opened another lot for parking. Since everyone was stuck on route 690, the lines were empty. We ate a hot dog and had coffee then we went down to the rink to watch warm ups!



This was the view from our seats as the pregame events began. Jesse Jame sang and we booed Governor Patterson.

This guy was crazy, he jumped from a plane in 20 mph winds to deliver the pucks.
It was so great to see Dan Smith back! I walked right past him till i realized that it was him!

This is one of the best photos i ever took! lolThen they dropped the puck!


and at 1:50 into the game, Mirasty dropped the gloves
Heres the link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcarGjWlbzY


Even MacKenzie got a little aggressive!Who wouldn't want a photo opt with the DD cup?
BIG SEXY!! He needs a raise! He did his normal strip down but this time he went even further!

I love the Bingo is watching and laughing!

After this move he ran and jumped into a hot tub! it was great!

Final score:
Crunch 2 Bingo 1
Big win for Crunch

30 dollar tickets..20000 fans booing the gov patterson priceless. i love ny
-Kristen :)

at the outdoor game and loving it

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CWK: Superbowl Sunday!!

Good morning!! My kids were up early, but I didn't get up till 7am! Thanks David!! Its been about 4 hours, and I feel so good about today. I have cooked for the superbowl, fed emma and gave her a bath, and had breakfast and 2 cups of coffee (moms you know how successful that is!)!!!!!!

Miss Emma is getting more adventurous each day. Tyler is not liking Emma getting into his toys!! Here's some photos from this morning:




While all that was happening, I was cooking for the superbowl! Listen i am not a football fan, today will be about 95% of my football viewing for the year, maybe 99.9%! I am a hockey fan, its what it know! By the way the crunch kicked ass last night, i wish I was at sold out game!! I watch the very bad Buffalo game. Really bad - google: Bad goal Buffalo Sabers vs Columbus Blue Jackets.

What i know about football is food!! so i cooked! I felt the need to cook with 5 ingredients or less!! so here you go, let me know how i did!

Kristen's Party Chicken:

Chicken Tenderloins - 4lb bag
Chicken wing sauce - 1 Jar Nancy Wing sauce
Any seasoning you like (i like bearman tummy rub) about 1-2 TBSP

In a bowl mix all the ingredents so that all the chicken is well coated. Let everything blend together in the fridge for 2 hours (but i like over night!)

Place the chicken on a cooking sheet (I love my pampered chef stones for this!) and bake for about 30-45 minutes at 375. They are so good!

Raspberry Clouds

2 cups of Raspberrys - unfrozen and cut up.
2 contains of puff shells
1/4 cup of pineapple juice (or orange juice)
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 contain for Cool whip


in a Medium pan, mix raspberrys, pineapple juice and sugar. I also like to add rum but that would put me over my 5 ingredients! I cooked everything over a low heat pressing the juice out of the berries. it took about 5 minutes.

I poured everything onto my fine metal strainer to allow only the liquid thru and not the seeds. I let the juice (which is slightly thick) cool; Then fold it into some cool whip.
I scooped it into the shells. Now you could grate chocolate over the top, but that too would put you past the 5 items! This is hard for me !!


So what superbowl party is complete without chips?

Homemade Tortilla Chips:

I only used these ingredents (plus 1 Tablespoons of sugar and a splash of water) to make 2 different kinds!

Cut the tortillas into about 12 pieces. Spread them out onto a baking sheet (single layer works best). I lightly rub water onto them with either a brush or damp paper towel.

Then sprinkle with a seasoning you like! I made one batch with the BearMan tummy rub and one batch with cinnamon and sugar! The cinnamon and sugar remind me of fried dough if i only added some powder sugar!

Then i bake them in a 350 over for about 7 minutes. if they are starting to get crunchy i flip them and them bake for another 3-5 minutes. Your cooking time may need to be altered on how crisp you want your chips.


The bear-man ones are great with old goat salsa. The cinnamon are great with a sweet dip!

I hope everyone enjoys the food and the game!! Go Crunch - oops wrong sport! Go Colts!

Getting caught up!

Hello everyone!! sorry we have been lost .... I have honestly been too lazy to download the photos from my camera to the computer!

Here is a run down...i can not type too much i need to go to bed!
This weekend was full of birthdays. Today was Tylers, but we are not having his party till next Sunday. That is really hard for a 4year old to understand. So we tried to make the day about him. If you scroll down 2 entries from this morning you will see that he first picked to go hunting with daddy...but only stayed out for 5 minutes. I also took him along with Logan to Rough N Tumble! they had lots of fun. Later i picked up tyler a small cake from walmart so he could blow out candles. I am such a bad mom...i didnt know that all my candles were MIA. So he only could blow out 3 instead of 4. Insert guilty mom here.






For his birthday, tyler got his very own digital camera!! i would post the photos he took but i am not allowed to touch his camera!!
Little Ms. Emma has discovered the Jolly jumper! I have a video in the entry below!
Its hunting time in NY! We have seen 3 successful trips this season between dad and David. This was one my dad got. We have more photos on the "BUCKSHOTS" page (See the green bar on the right for the link)
Some where in there time passed by and I turned 30. David took me to Red Lobster and then a crunch game! In the middle of the 2nd my was scared out of my wits when Al the ice gorilla grabbed my shoulder and handed me flowers. My former BFFs that moved to Texas sent them for me. That is the last time i tell them where we are sitting! Did i mention my fear of monkeys? I am still kinda freaked out in this photo 20 mins later.
With all the birthdays we have done a lot of baking and will be doing more soon! These are the cupcakes we made for tylers school. Tyler had to take snack this week on tuesdy he took choc chip cookies. But Thursday he wanted to take cupcakes with sprinkles. I think they came out really cute!
Christmas is near! We have starting crafting for them! can you guess what I was working on at Girls night Tuesday?
Last week David and I's Birthday/Christmas gift arrived! Our new King Size bed that matched our armor. I love it, we painted the room and of course needed new bedding. I need to make curtains...i hope to have more on that this week!
Okay off to bed! I am old now i can not stay up as late!

Week in Review via photos

We have been crazy busy the last week. I have been off of work since Thursday afternoon, I am not going back until the morning of Tuesday the 14th!! Much needed break! I could write a book on all that we have done and seen this week. here is a recap.

We purchased bedding for Emma's room! Its Love bug by Carter, Pink and Choc. brown.

Tyler needed a new dresser to fit all his toys in his room. So we purchased him this one! It's his big boy dresser, his old one he gave to his sister Emma.

I have worked on some craft projects....can you guess where they maybe going?

I have even done some accessorizing!!

Last night we did some decorating!!! I am sure you are getting a good idea of what the room looks like! However, you will wait to see the official room photo for when i feel the room is complete.

On Friday, Tyler had an Easter egg hunt up at the farm. He was one of the first find all 14 of his eggs! He turned them in for his prizes, a basket full of Candy that he wouldn't share with mommy!

A few Saturdays ago Tyler and i planted some random Basil seeds i had left over. Well they have finally started to grown, sorry the photo came out blurry. Tyler is more excited about the big weed in the pot then the actual basil. So i think Mr. Weed will be staying.

Saturday Night was the final Crunch Hockey game until October :( Insert tears here... My sabres didnt make the playoffs either. It is a bad hockey play off season for me!

I finally organized all my pages that i have boxed up. And put them in albums! That was my 9am project today.

We have search for lots and lots of eggs, Friday at the Farm, Saturday at my Moms, Sunday here, Sunday afternoon at Nanas. That bunny was very very busy. Our bunny Max is a cousin to the easter bunny, he helped out the easter bunny in the westmoreland area. Boy was he tired on Sunday, we took him some extra carrots!!

besides the sidewalk chalk, bubbles and tons of candy, Tyler was most excited that the easter bunny remembered his bug vacuum. The only problem we have had is its cold again, and can not find any bugs to test it out on!

Well that is the wrap up from the S-Den! i will try to upload all the photos to webshots later, but a little girl in me is hungry. I also told tyler i would sit on the couch and watch a movie! Guess who is going to fall asleep first!!!