Foodie fridays: cinnamon toast crunch doughnuts & a blogiversary!

It can’t be?

No? Really?

Shut-the-front-door.

That’s right friends, this Sunday, Climbing Grier Mountain (CGM) will turn two. Holy bonkers! Have we been blogging for 104 weeks and 730 days? Have we published 584 posts? As we were reading through old posts the other day, especially our first(yikes!), it was hard to imagine that CGM would be here today. We started this ol’ blog as a way to stay connected with family and friends.

Living out of state when 99% of the people you know live in the sunflower state makes staying in touch a little difficult. That first year we spent writing posts about Mr. B’s and our adventures in the crazy Mile High City. Looking back, we're pretty sure we couldn’t even squeeze a fart into our schedule! Goodness gracious we covered a lot ground.

The start of 2011 we introduced y’all to Foodie Fridays. You graciously accepted our less than adequate photos of food and provided us with words of encouragement to continue writing about our passion for food. And for that, we can’t thank you enough. We continued the year still covering our misadventures, taking ridiculous fashion pictures in the bathroom, and honing our photography and writing skills. Needless to say, 2011 was a major growing period.

2012 started off with a bang. After a year of submitting recipes, our celery root soup recipe was featured on Tasty Kitchen in February. We were beyond excited and we're pretty sure we jumped for 72 hours straight when we saw our mug on the tasty food site. It was a favorite feeling in the world to see all our hard work finally recognized. Soon, we were submitting recipes to Food Gawker and Daily Lighter Living Buzz, and participating with other food bloggers in #SaladWeek and #CocktailWeek. Our love for blogging about food was blossoming.

Which brings us to today. We have a secret to tell you.

One that we have been working on behind the scenes for quite some time and have been waiting patiently to tell you about. Climbing Grier Mountain is packing up and moving. Where? You’ve probably guessed, CGM is going . com, baby! Our kind husband bought our domain site as a birthday gift this year and gave it to us while we were lunching in a yurt. Love that guy. We had been toying with the idea of moving away from Blogger for awhile, and that was the final push we needed. Besides moving to . com, we've been working with Purr Design on a new layout for CGM that will be set to launch in a few weeks! We are freaking out a little. But change is good, right?

Along with a new website, we've decided to share more with you about food and entertaining because it is something we have become completely passionate about! Don’t worry, we're still planning on writing about Mr. B’s and our shenanigans.

And with that, you can’t celebrate a birthday without a little something sweet. Last year we made this chocolate-y cake to ring in year one. Well this year, we wanted to play on an old childhood favorite – doughnuts and cereal. We're not entirely sure how we came up with this concept. All we knew was that we wanted the ever so famous Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal on a doughnut. We don’t know how the light bulb came on, but it did! Enter, meringue!

We thought the meringue would be a fun way to bring the cereal and doughnuts together in a fun deconstructed way. Doesn’t it look like cereal and milk?

Anyways, as we celebrate two years of blogging, we want to say thank to each and every one of you who read CGM. We cannot express enough how much we appreciate knowing that you are a part of this journey with us. Thank you from the bottom of our heart. Cheers to the adventures ahead!