Handsome.

Here's some of our recent family pictures :)

Matt Mellor did a GREAT JOB! I'm so happy. :) Look him up if you are in the Lincoln area.

I know you are thinking... what is this porcupine thing by Sam's head? It's Jake's noggin. It took me a bit to figure it out too.. :)


Here's us in all our glory.

I absolutely love this one. This is life. Both of us trying to entertain Sam. And he's just looking at us like we are crazy. :) he he he...

Here he is clapping. It's the new thing. He also says something familiar to "Good Job"

Handsome.

My boys. :)

One of our favorites

Blogger isn't letting me add any of Sam's cute halloween pictures. And they are way cute. :) I'll try to add them later on a school computer. :)

Anyways, here's an awesome recipe. It really tastes like PF Chang's lettuce wraps. Yummo!

Asian Turkey Lettuce Wraps

1 1/4 lb of extra lean ground turkey
1 package (16 oz/of Oriental mixed vegetables, thawed
1/3 cup reduced-sodium teriyaki sauce
1/4 cup hoisin sauce
3 tablespoon creamy peanutbutter
2 tablespoon minced fresh gingerroot
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon sesame oil
4 green onions, chopped
10 Boston lettuce leaves

1. cook turkey in skillet until no longer pink.
2. chop veggies and put in pan.
3. Mix teriyaki sauce, hoisin sauce, peanut butter, gingerroot, garlic, and oil and then put in pan with meat and veggies.
4. Heat through
5. Add onions.
6. EAT with lettuce.

(I didn't add the sesame oil or green onions and I used regular lettuce leaves.) AWESOME. :) Worth it to buy all those ingredients we don't use regularly (hoisin sauce, teriyaki sauce, gingerroot, etc.)

Let me know what you think if you try it.

Oh - and it was enough for us for dinner and we have leftovers. It was more filling than we planned on!

Imagine

Imagine the corner of a small kitchen.

Imagine a small square table butted against the corner to make room for two chairs and a high chair.

Imagine a nice window in that corner.

And a nice cool breeze blowing of your face while you feed your beautiful baby boy.

Then imagine wanting that window closed.

The beloved MAC computer is on the table.

The much needed tall glass of water is also on the table.

Did I mention is it that beautiful boy's first birthday?

Anyways, imagine the breeze getting to warm and wanting to close the window.

I reach for the window.

I close the window.

Birthday boy makes a suspicious sound.

I turn back...

I knock over the water...

the water is seeping into the bottom most parts of the computer...

and filtering in between the keys...

even on the cell phone (new too because Jake just went swimming with the last one!)

I panic....

Grab a towell and wipe everything off.

The computer even gets the fan on it. For days.

Sadly, the computer didn't survive. Luckily, the cell phone did.

Motherboard is fried. Cost of motherboard: around $600. Cost of new Mac: around $850 with a student discount.

Not really worth the $600 since my computer is over 4 years old.

So I may be saving for an Ipad. But I really wish Apple would put a dvd drive and a usb port in the Ipad. Think they will come out with that version by the time I save up enough money?

hhhhmm....

Good luck, Right!

Watering

Did you know computers don't need to be watered? They are not plants. They don't grow.

Anyways, I watered my Mac. It's fried. Now I'm working from my husband's PC. And using the PC's at school...

I went through withdrawal for a bit there. I didn't have a computer attached to me... it was hard.

Now it's kind of liberating. Hard sometimes, but liberating.

So if there are less posts, it's because I don't like PC's very much and I would rather not deal with them. So you get less of me. :( Sorry!

I guess Panasonic makes a waterproof laptop. I wish Mac would. I would buy it.

Bestie

Look at this girl. She is one of the best people I know. She's probably not too happy I put this picture up on my blog. But she also put it on hers.

We were companions on a mission TWO times. That's pretty rare. We walked the town of Brusque together in the hot summer days... then again at Jardim das Acasias.

I haven't seen Courtney in over TWO YEARS! I love her and miss her. She's an amazing friend.

And she can sing so many songs from Saturday's Warrior. I love it!

forgot the picture.

This is Sam.. watching THIS video. We watch it once a day at least. we both love it. :)

Making the Bed

So sometimes Jake and I have hard time making the bed. I hate it when it comes time to go to bed and the bed is all messy. It's kind of gross...

Anyways. We came up with a way to remedy that situation.

The deal: whoever is the last one to get out of bed has ONE HOUR to make the bed. If they don't, they owe the other one a FOOT RUB that night.

Wow! The bed has been made EVERY DAY since we made the deal.

It's great.

p.s. Sam is getting his second tooth in. He's crazy and VOLATILE. Poor baby... I just hold him and hug him... hopefully it breaks through and he feels better. soon.