i made up a new recipe last night based on what i was in the mood for. butter, egg noddles, and grilled chicken. i looked online thinking for sure there was a simple recipe for me, but couldn't find exactly what i wanted. so i attempted it myself... because it was so simple.
i filled a pot with water and added a chicken bullion. once it was boiling, i cooked 8ozs of egg noodles.
while all of that was happening, i put a lot of butter in a pan and added one costco freezer pack of salted and peppered chicken tenderloins and cooked that, making sure to scrape up all of the deliciousness on the pan.
then i removed the chicken and melted more butter (making sure not to clean out the pan at all) and added my drained egg noodles. then i just added salt and parsley and stirred it around a bit. i was going to add lemon but totally spaced it and didn't even remember until this morning. i also thought about adding a little sour cream but forgot about that too. turns out, noddles and butter and salt are super delicious on their own! after a bit, i put noodles in a bowl and added my chicken.
so so delicious and simple and both kids and myself (honey is out of town) loved it.
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Thursday, October 30, 2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Wednesday
The kids were so excited when I told them we were going to the pool. I got them lathered up and then decided to let that soak in while I went to my room to get myself lotioned and dressed. Well, Brady freaked out trying to get his diaper off while I was gone. When I came back, he frantically led me to the door, lest I had forgotten our initial pool plan. What a funny little coppertone baby.
The Mormon mom crew was there as usual which was tons of fun. And when that died down after noon, Jodi came and we sat and hung out while the kids played. I keep feeling like I should be watching more kids. But then I remind myself that I only have two. So tht makes things easy. And Abigail has arm floaties so she's happy to play in the baby pool or float in the big pool... Just doing her own thing. And Brady? He never leaves my side. Literally, I sit on the side of the baby pool with my feet in the water and he does the same (although his feet don't quite touch). Occasionally he'll sit in my lap, sometimes snuggling, and sometimes he just walks around me, just never strays more than a foot or two. When I get up to get snacks or a drink or check my phone, he just follows right along. I call him my little duckling. Anyways, it makes the pool really easy. And it's great. When Abigail was 12 and 24 months, I was constantly following her around the pool and on constant guard that she wouldn't crawl face first underwater in the baby pool. With Brady, he just stays right close to me. It's a nice perk.
But this girl? So cute. She keeps telling me that she likes going to the pool so she can practice swimming in the big pool with no floaties. But then when I ask for clarification it's basically that she likes to swim with floaties so that eventually when she's as big as I am, she'll be able to swim by herself.
I think that's the gist of it.
We got home at 2 and the two neighborhood girls came running straight over. "Abigail!!! We've been waiting for you forever! We kept ringing your doorbell like every five minutes!" They played for almost two hours until Elle came to pick baby girl up to play at her house. Then she came home around six. And then the tantrums started. At first I was all "what?! But we've been getting along so well today!" And then the thought popped into my head, "I get along with Abigail so well when she's not around." Ugh, this kid is totally me. Happy and agreeable with friends, rude and defiant at home. Sweet.
I tried a new recipe tonight and I very highly recommend it. It's from allrecipes. I literally typed something wonderfully vague like "tortellini recipe" and clicked the first allrecipes link. It had almost five stars and almost 1000 reviews so I just made it. Didn't even read the reviews or scope alternative recipes. I almost never do that but I was in such a hurry since I'd already gotten Chris's 20 minute text. Anyways, it's some creamy tomato spinach recipe and it was insanely quick and easy. Seriously. I didn't have cream so instead of the 3/4 cup it called for, I used the 4-5 ounces of cream cheese I already had open in the fridge. Everything else was following the recipe. Except that I actually forgot to add the Parmesan cheese. Whoops. I had some fresh spinach that I'd thrown in the freezer several weeks ago. I'd spread it thin before freezing it, so I actually just crumbled it in the bag and didn't even have to chop it or anything. I'm super lazy so I appreciate shortcuts like that more than I should. Also, I kept my sauce separate. Because I prefer that when dishing up dinner.
Honey had a presidency meeting and basketball at the church. I was lazy and played on my computer forever while the kids wandered and played in the great room with me. We had a crazy lightening and hail storm around 8:30 that actually had me worried for a bit. And I sang to Brady tonight before bed which resulted in him crying when I finally put him in his crib. That boy sure loves to be sung to.
Honey and I watched an episode of impractical jokers on the sofa when he got home. Lately I've been loving that show and loving watching tv in the great room (as opposed to in our bedroom before we go to sleep). Anyways, it was a marvelous day and I even got laundry and dishes and stuff like that done and haven't been feeling my travel anxiety too deeply.
Now I'm just trying to get myself pumped for packing and a road trip and a whole lot of fun in Utah with my parents!!! It's gonna be amazing.
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Sunday, September 22, 2013
it turned out okay
this could also be called "lds exhausted: part 2"
i knew i had a number of things to get done today but didn't think it would be so rushed because... well, i had a whole day to do it and a husband that could watch the kids while i get everything done! it didn't really happen like that. the day started out normal enough but then by noon, christopher was gone to give someone a blessing. went he got home, i started baking the sweet potatoes for my souffle and mowed the lawn and then jumped in the shower. by 2:30, i was driving to the church to decorate our october/november table for the ward birthday party. i was hoping it would be super quick but when i got there, we had two long rectangular tables instead of one single round table and the table cloth provided didn't reach the whole way and the stuff i'd brought to decorate weren't gonna work. luckily, the main party planner brought a ton of her halloween/thanksgiving decorations that i could use but i was still up a creek with the table cloth issue. i ended up scouring the relief society cabinets and found a cabinet full of awesome table cloths... not our ward. thank goodness for lds tools and my friend, andrew, that helped me figure out how to look up directories of other wards in our stake. i left a voicemail for that ward's rs president explaining the whole situation. she called back but my phone was on silent. then i called her back and she gave me the go ahead to help myself but please not get the nice ones stained with food. ummm, so i helped myself to some middle of the road table cloths and even though it took 30 minutes to get that situation all figured out, it was still quicker than running to a store and back to the church... which i didn't have time for. like literally not enough minutes. i didn't get home from decorating til 4 and i still had to make my sweet potato souffle. so i had an hour to make and bake that. and feed abigail dinner, and feed brady and put him down for a nap, and clean our disaster of a kitchen/great room because christopher invited people over for the byu game, and i had to finish getting ready because when i went to set up the church, i had wet hair and no makeup (what does this say about me that i let myself go out like this all. the. time. because holy cow makeup is annoying and completely overrated), and really it was just a bit hectic with abigail wanting to help me cook (and almost knocking all of her teeth out on our counter tops when the chair she was standing on fell over) and brady non stop crying because he's having a rough couple of days and isn't in the mood for me to keep neglecting him. and then our babysitter was 15 minutes late and [sigh] ugh. see how there are no paragraphs? that was my day. my day was a serious case of the "no paragraphs" and it was bad news.
but y'know what? my sweet potato souffle (i used double the sweet potatoes but followed the rest of the recipe exactly. next time i will cut sugar in half) came together great and i pulled it out of the oven as we were leaving (late babysitter means it finished cooking earlier but i turned off the oven and let it stay warm in there) and so when we all sat down at the party to eat our food, it was still gloriously hot. and it was awesome. it was my first time making that recipe but paula deen never disappoints and this time she knocked it out of the park. everyone was raving about it and how amazing it was and how it was perfectly hot still and on and on. i'm totally a words of affirmation person and it made me feel so great to know i had done something to make people happy. sometimes you perform acts of service and never really know if it was truly helpful for or appreciated by the recipient. i like to know when it is. and our october/november haunted thanksgiving table actually turned out looking pretty cute and everyone loved it which was a relief because if it sucked, i was the only person to blame. and they had three categories to vote on and our table actually won one! i didn't vote for our table and i don't think our table deserved to win but it was fun just the same. and everyone sitting at our winning table got a candy bar so that was fun. and they did a family feud game and it was awesome and hilarious. the guy that played the game show host was absolutely perfect. and he had a gigantic microphone that i think someone had to steal from a podium or something. the girls i was sitting with were cracking up the whole time at the responses and really just everything. one of our favorites was the question about what lehi took with him into the wilderness and "yes, liahona is up there. doesn't matter that he didn't actually take that with him, all that matters is that 8 people said he did." ha. and even though i ate way too much and felt sick afterwards, it was soooo worth it. our table had incredible food. the october people brought homemade bread and salad, some sort of chili casserole with crescent rolls on top, hot dog crescent mummies, bottles of martinelli's that hung out in smoking dry ice and the november people brought rotisserie chicken, stuffing (it was the most amazing stuffing i've ever had in my life... golden raisins, apples, and apparently it was made with corn bread... i'll share the recipe here as soon as i get it), sweet potato souffle, and a chocolate silk cream pie. ohmygoodness it was all so delicious. i admit i had a kinda downer attitude about the event because getting people to rsvp is necessary (because of the potluck aspect) and about as easy as climbing kilimanjaro and i wasn't keen on the "pay for a babysitter for a date night where you'll sit at a different table than your husband." but everyone mixed and mingled and chris ditched his group (their theme was duck dynasty... which has nothing to do with june but it was creative and i totally voted for them and they won a category too) to come sit near me while we watched the family feud game.
and the rest of the night was just fine. boys watched the game, i put kids to bed and finished the personal progress board so it'll be ready for church tomorrow. hallelujah. it is shocking the amount of hours that go into something as simple as a poster board to track personal progress. seriously hours and hours. abigail didn't nap this afternoon (we're trying to phase her out... it's going ehhh) so she went to bed with zero resistance. after we prayed, i thought maybe there was a chance i could hold her and she would just fall asleep on me (100% wishful thinking because that is soooo not her style) so i just stood by her crib and held her and told her to put her head down on my shoulder. after a minute of that she put just looked at me and said "will you put me in my crib now?" ha. and then when i did she rolled right to her side and closed her eyes. poor girl... she really still needs a nap during the day but there's just not enough time to have a nap and enough awake time before bed. transitions... they're all transient, right? transient transitions.
who's pumped for sunday tomorrow?!
this girl right here.
tonight for bed, i encouraged abigail to pick a book we haven't read yet but she kept coming back to "tell me about your day today" and since we've only read it once and it was at least two weeks ago, i gave in. well, it describes my day perfectly. it's about a little boy who loves going to bed. and when he's in bed, he asks each of his stuffed animals about their day and then lastly, they ask the boy about his day. the recurring words for each day's explanation are "the who,/ the what,/ the why,/ and the way.../ the whole wild thing.../ turned out okay."
that was my day today. and yesterday. and the day before. and really this whole week. it's been super busy with just tons of random things and even the time i spend with my kids has been stressful because i'm thinking of everything else i need to be doing. well, this entire week, and my crazy long to do list, all got done. and the whole wild thing...
turned out okay.
i knew i had a number of things to get done today but didn't think it would be so rushed because... well, i had a whole day to do it and a husband that could watch the kids while i get everything done! it didn't really happen like that. the day started out normal enough but then by noon, christopher was gone to give someone a blessing. went he got home, i started baking the sweet potatoes for my souffle and mowed the lawn and then jumped in the shower. by 2:30, i was driving to the church to decorate our october/november table for the ward birthday party. i was hoping it would be super quick but when i got there, we had two long rectangular tables instead of one single round table and the table cloth provided didn't reach the whole way and the stuff i'd brought to decorate weren't gonna work. luckily, the main party planner brought a ton of her halloween/thanksgiving decorations that i could use but i was still up a creek with the table cloth issue. i ended up scouring the relief society cabinets and found a cabinet full of awesome table cloths... not our ward. thank goodness for lds tools and my friend, andrew, that helped me figure out how to look up directories of other wards in our stake. i left a voicemail for that ward's rs president explaining the whole situation. she called back but my phone was on silent. then i called her back and she gave me the go ahead to help myself but please not get the nice ones stained with food. ummm, so i helped myself to some middle of the road table cloths and even though it took 30 minutes to get that situation all figured out, it was still quicker than running to a store and back to the church... which i didn't have time for. like literally not enough minutes. i didn't get home from decorating til 4 and i still had to make my sweet potato souffle. so i had an hour to make and bake that. and feed abigail dinner, and feed brady and put him down for a nap, and clean our disaster of a kitchen/great room because christopher invited people over for the byu game, and i had to finish getting ready because when i went to set up the church, i had wet hair and no makeup (what does this say about me that i let myself go out like this all. the. time. because holy cow makeup is annoying and completely overrated), and really it was just a bit hectic with abigail wanting to help me cook (and almost knocking all of her teeth out on our counter tops when the chair she was standing on fell over) and brady non stop crying because he's having a rough couple of days and isn't in the mood for me to keep neglecting him. and then our babysitter was 15 minutes late and [sigh] ugh. see how there are no paragraphs? that was my day. my day was a serious case of the "no paragraphs" and it was bad news.
but y'know what? my sweet potato souffle (i used double the sweet potatoes but followed the rest of the recipe exactly. next time i will cut sugar in half) came together great and i pulled it out of the oven as we were leaving (late babysitter means it finished cooking earlier but i turned off the oven and let it stay warm in there) and so when we all sat down at the party to eat our food, it was still gloriously hot. and it was awesome. it was my first time making that recipe but paula deen never disappoints and this time she knocked it out of the park. everyone was raving about it and how amazing it was and how it was perfectly hot still and on and on. i'm totally a words of affirmation person and it made me feel so great to know i had done something to make people happy. sometimes you perform acts of service and never really know if it was truly helpful for or appreciated by the recipient. i like to know when it is. and our october/november haunted thanksgiving table actually turned out looking pretty cute and everyone loved it which was a relief because if it sucked, i was the only person to blame. and they had three categories to vote on and our table actually won one! i didn't vote for our table and i don't think our table deserved to win but it was fun just the same. and everyone sitting at our winning table got a candy bar so that was fun. and they did a family feud game and it was awesome and hilarious. the guy that played the game show host was absolutely perfect. and he had a gigantic microphone that i think someone had to steal from a podium or something. the girls i was sitting with were cracking up the whole time at the responses and really just everything. one of our favorites was the question about what lehi took with him into the wilderness and "yes, liahona is up there. doesn't matter that he didn't actually take that with him, all that matters is that 8 people said he did." ha. and even though i ate way too much and felt sick afterwards, it was soooo worth it. our table had incredible food. the october people brought homemade bread and salad, some sort of chili casserole with crescent rolls on top, hot dog crescent mummies, bottles of martinelli's that hung out in smoking dry ice and the november people brought rotisserie chicken, stuffing (it was the most amazing stuffing i've ever had in my life... golden raisins, apples, and apparently it was made with corn bread... i'll share the recipe here as soon as i get it), sweet potato souffle, and a chocolate silk cream pie. ohmygoodness it was all so delicious. i admit i had a kinda downer attitude about the event because getting people to rsvp is necessary (because of the potluck aspect) and about as easy as climbing kilimanjaro and i wasn't keen on the "pay for a babysitter for a date night where you'll sit at a different table than your husband." but everyone mixed and mingled and chris ditched his group (their theme was duck dynasty... which has nothing to do with june but it was creative and i totally voted for them and they won a category too) to come sit near me while we watched the family feud game.
and the rest of the night was just fine. boys watched the game, i put kids to bed and finished the personal progress board so it'll be ready for church tomorrow. hallelujah. it is shocking the amount of hours that go into something as simple as a poster board to track personal progress. seriously hours and hours. abigail didn't nap this afternoon (we're trying to phase her out... it's going ehhh) so she went to bed with zero resistance. after we prayed, i thought maybe there was a chance i could hold her and she would just fall asleep on me (100% wishful thinking because that is soooo not her style) so i just stood by her crib and held her and told her to put her head down on my shoulder. after a minute of that she put just looked at me and said "will you put me in my crib now?" ha. and then when i did she rolled right to her side and closed her eyes. poor girl... she really still needs a nap during the day but there's just not enough time to have a nap and enough awake time before bed. transitions... they're all transient, right? transient transitions.
who's pumped for sunday tomorrow?!
this girl right here.
tonight for bed, i encouraged abigail to pick a book we haven't read yet but she kept coming back to "tell me about your day today" and since we've only read it once and it was at least two weeks ago, i gave in. well, it describes my day perfectly. it's about a little boy who loves going to bed. and when he's in bed, he asks each of his stuffed animals about their day and then lastly, they ask the boy about his day. the recurring words for each day's explanation are "the who,/ the what,/ the why,/ and the way.../ the whole wild thing.../ turned out okay."
that was my day today. and yesterday. and the day before. and really this whole week. it's been super busy with just tons of random things and even the time i spend with my kids has been stressful because i'm thinking of everything else i need to be doing. well, this entire week, and my crazy long to do list, all got done. and the whole wild thing...
turned out okay.
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Friday, September 13, 2013
what i'm loving tonight
no bake energy bites- while i've eaten these before, this is the first time i've made them myself. quick, super easy, very little mess, and simple enough to include your three year old in every step, these are a win all around. and they taste like no bake cookies but are way healthier. not guilt free but definitely a healthier option. i told myself i was going to stick to the recipe because i never stick to whatever recipe i'm following and i got most of the way down the list but by the end i was pouring tons of honey on top and scooping in spoonfuls of nutella, just for kicks. but i will have you know, they are superb. i rolled them into little balls the size of a rounded tablespoon and got about two dozen. we'll just have to see how long they last... next time i think i'll go ahead and double the recipe.
dad is fat- it's 275 pages of jim gaffigan, almost as funny as the hot pocket segment i fell in love with way back in the day. and as much as it's meant just to make you laugh... he's got some real truthful gems that i find myself wanting to highlight because they're just that good.
and that's our short list because it's bedtime now.
dad is fat- it's 275 pages of jim gaffigan, almost as funny as the hot pocket segment i fell in love with way back in the day. and as much as it's meant just to make you laugh... he's got some real truthful gems that i find myself wanting to highlight because they're just that good.
and that's our short list because it's bedtime now.
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Thursday, September 5, 2013
lemon bars and trains in the dollhouse
what's not to love? she kept her book open the whole time so she could look at lemon meringue's lemon bars while we made our own. |
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Friday, August 30, 2013
recaps
i am so blessed.
wednesday was a fun day. i wish i had written about it when i actually remembered it because at the end, i was all "this has been such an amazing day!" but now i can barely remember what even happened to make it good. we were out of the house by 9:30 for visiting teaching at a playground and then more visiting teaching at another friend's house. we got home at 12:30 and chris (still not sure why, didn't even ask) had stopped by home for a bit for lunch. he took off just a few minutes after we got home but it was fun seeing him.
thursday we went to a splash pad in castle pines. it's awesome because it was really nice (isn't everything in castle pines?!) but much smaller than the splash pad in centennial. and way way way less crowded. sooo i had zero anxiety trying to keep an eye on abigail while keeping brady out of the sun and not running around the whole time. my friend and i just parked ourselves at a little table in the shade and hung out and snacked while we watched the girls run around in the fountains and in the playground area. i so wish i'd known about this a few months ago but i'm already excited to take the kids back next summer when brady is old enough to run in the fountains too! brady fell asleep in the car so when we got home, i had some great one on one time with abigail. we made oatmeal banana cookies* (cookies is a generous term for these things since every ingredient is healthy and they have no added sugar but abigail loves them just the same) together and really, it was just great girl time. kind of a blast from the past of before i had brady and we did that sort of stuff all the time.
friday we returned a whole ton of books to the library and picked up a hefty stack of strawberry shortcake books i put on hold online. then we swung by kohls because i had one of those $10 off any purchase cards that i needed to use before tomorrow. i normally shop their kids clearance but the last few times i've been severely disappointed. needing a new swimsuit, i shopped that section instead. i found ONE that i liked alright that was modest and in my size. 70% off and using a $10 off coupon means i just got myself a new $40 swimsuit (welll, the top half) for $1.50 and it didn't even take all day and driving around to tons of stores. which is the best part because swimsuit shopping is the worst. well, maybe not the absolute worst but it's pretty bad. on my way home, i dropped abigail off at her friend's house (okay, maybe they spend more days together than not but it does warm my heart when she randomly starts talking about how much she loves elle) while i headed home to get brady down for a nap and get stuff done. later, my honey got home by 5:00! who even knew that was possible?!?! and we all hung out as a family for a loooong time and enjoyed feeding brady his weight in food. to say he is obsessed with real food would be a major understatement. for dinner tonight he got probably a half cup of mashed up sweet potato, a third of a banana cut in chunks, and an egg yolk mashed up in some jarred food. and i would have kept feeding him except that christopher told me he was worried brady would get a stomach ache. ha. maybe his full belly will mean he'll be an awesome sleeper tonight. his sleep has been uncharacteristically good lately and it's pretty exciting stuff! and he's pretty much weaned from his reflux medicine which is also pretty exciting.
saturday- my parents come in town for the long weekend! so ridiculously excited! let the games begin!
*the blog i got this recipe from adapted it from 3 tablespoons of oil to just 1 tbsp oil and 2 tbsp applesauce. i am apparently fresh out of applesauce but i had a ripe pear. so i peeled it and mashed it up to an applesauce consistency and it worked just great. and brady enjoyed the leftover "pearsauce."
* maybe if i get my act together i'll post pictures from these days. just maybe.
wednesday was a fun day. i wish i had written about it when i actually remembered it because at the end, i was all "this has been such an amazing day!" but now i can barely remember what even happened to make it good. we were out of the house by 9:30 for visiting teaching at a playground and then more visiting teaching at another friend's house. we got home at 12:30 and chris (still not sure why, didn't even ask) had stopped by home for a bit for lunch. he took off just a few minutes after we got home but it was fun seeing him.
thursday we went to a splash pad in castle pines. it's awesome because it was really nice (isn't everything in castle pines?!) but much smaller than the splash pad in centennial. and way way way less crowded. sooo i had zero anxiety trying to keep an eye on abigail while keeping brady out of the sun and not running around the whole time. my friend and i just parked ourselves at a little table in the shade and hung out and snacked while we watched the girls run around in the fountains and in the playground area. i so wish i'd known about this a few months ago but i'm already excited to take the kids back next summer when brady is old enough to run in the fountains too! brady fell asleep in the car so when we got home, i had some great one on one time with abigail. we made oatmeal banana cookies* (cookies is a generous term for these things since every ingredient is healthy and they have no added sugar but abigail loves them just the same) together and really, it was just great girl time. kind of a blast from the past of before i had brady and we did that sort of stuff all the time.
friday we returned a whole ton of books to the library and picked up a hefty stack of strawberry shortcake books i put on hold online. then we swung by kohls because i had one of those $10 off any purchase cards that i needed to use before tomorrow. i normally shop their kids clearance but the last few times i've been severely disappointed. needing a new swimsuit, i shopped that section instead. i found ONE that i liked alright that was modest and in my size. 70% off and using a $10 off coupon means i just got myself a new $40 swimsuit (welll, the top half) for $1.50 and it didn't even take all day and driving around to tons of stores. which is the best part because swimsuit shopping is the worst. well, maybe not the absolute worst but it's pretty bad. on my way home, i dropped abigail off at her friend's house (okay, maybe they spend more days together than not but it does warm my heart when she randomly starts talking about how much she loves elle) while i headed home to get brady down for a nap and get stuff done. later, my honey got home by 5:00! who even knew that was possible?!?! and we all hung out as a family for a loooong time and enjoyed feeding brady his weight in food. to say he is obsessed with real food would be a major understatement. for dinner tonight he got probably a half cup of mashed up sweet potato, a third of a banana cut in chunks, and an egg yolk mashed up in some jarred food. and i would have kept feeding him except that christopher told me he was worried brady would get a stomach ache. ha. maybe his full belly will mean he'll be an awesome sleeper tonight. his sleep has been uncharacteristically good lately and it's pretty exciting stuff! and he's pretty much weaned from his reflux medicine which is also pretty exciting.
saturday- my parents come in town for the long weekend! so ridiculously excited! let the games begin!
*the blog i got this recipe from adapted it from 3 tablespoons of oil to just 1 tbsp oil and 2 tbsp applesauce. i am apparently fresh out of applesauce but i had a ripe pear. so i peeled it and mashed it up to an applesauce consistency and it worked just great. and brady enjoyed the leftover "pearsauce."
* maybe if i get my act together i'll post pictures from these days. just maybe.
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013
it wasn't all terrible
today was really really rough. like by 11am i was shoving fistfuls of chocolate chips in my face as fast as i could. i'm not trying to be dramatic. just accurate. y'know... keepin' it real.
anyways, pictures.
last time elle came over the girls begged to ride in this together but we couldn't because of brady. so today while he took one of his mini naps, i took the girls for a spin. |
obviously. in my lap and on a blanket also were not winners. actually, he just seemed not to like the playroom today. or life in general. |
watching my sweet girl play trains with her bff? that was a bright spot in my day. apparently it was also a bright spot on her head. |
yesterday was my first time ever buying fresh corn. typically the price and idea of shucking corn and cleaning all of the silk out is enough to deter me. well, they were on sale for 20 cents each and i found this awesome method of roasting corn! no pot, no wasting time and energy boiling a ton of water, no prep whatsoever. this is the only way to do corn on the cob. we had a game night* at young womens last night. mark my words... NEVER HAVE I EVER boiled corn on the cob and NEVER WILL I EVER either. |
tonight brady woke up crying less than an hour after i put him to bed. i tried to nurse him and put him back to sleep but he wasn't having it and he was angry about the lack of milk (umm you just cleaned me out less than an hour ago!) so i had to let him cry while i went to brush my teeth. when i came back upstairs i saw he'd rolled over to his belly. i picked him up and took him to the glider where he immediately fell asleep in my arms. it was the most i've loved him all day long. i don't often get the chance to hold a sleeping baby so it's always pretty special. this time i was just extremely grateful too. and while i held him i was texting my long lost friend carolyn, which made my night.
so, good things that happened today:
i showered and bathed both of my kids.
baby girl had an awesome playdate with elle.
sometime this evening there were brief moments that brady smiled and laughed.
roasted corn... easiest food i've ever ever made. and so delicious too.
keeping our windows open all day to enjoy the somewhat overcast crisp 70* weather today.
abigail being a total crack up tonight. also, listening to her say "creme brulee" aka "creme delay."**
* i used to think i was really good at this game (maybe playing with non-mormon people helped?) until i played last night. i was at negative 12 (or 14... i lost track/can't remember) by the time the last person won. what the heck?!
** i'll post a video eventually. she's got a number of things right now that she pronounces great.
*** also, this is totally random but i laugh out loud every time someone asks me about or gives abigail a compliment on her haircut/bangs/layers. really, it's just a self-induced mullet. but thanks anyways, i think she's pretty cute too.
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Today was...
Paying the neighbor girl next door to kill a spider for me.
Abigail showing me how she can take off and put on her shirt.
Matching pink strawberry shortcake scented toenails.
Abigail raising the fruit basket and choosing a plum and a tomato for breakfast.
Puzzles. And lots of me doing puzzles while Abigail documented with pictures.
A red robe, Mickey hat, and finger puppets all found while I was cleaning out our guest room.
Making crock pot Santa Fe chicken, creme brûlée, squash casserole, and the biggest egg white omelette ever... Using ten whole egg whites.
A trip to the mailbox. Of course.
A super sleepy (and consequently, fussy) Brady boy.
Watching America's got talent.
Tag teaming bath time and bed time with honey.
A killer headache.
*pictures to be added later... hopefully.
** look! i actually added pictures!!!
** look! i actually added pictures!!!
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Randoms
Happy six months to my Brady boy! I've been meaning to write a six month post but things have been busy and I haven't yet. Hopefully I can crank something out in the next day or two.
Highlights of today,
we got AC. It's cold enough that we actually haven't used it yet but I feel good that we got it. I won't lie though, part of me is super sad now that I'll no longer be able to tell people our house doesn't have AC. For some reason I really loved that. Maybe I love that we live in Colorado where AC is actually optional.
Brady had OT this morning. He may go back for one more appointment at the end of next month. But I may just email his herbalist... Um therapist (thanks, autocorrect) about his progress and decide it's not necessary. One day I'll finish that post about his arm. But basically, I'm really happy about this.
My honey hates Wells Fargo. And he came home with this funny story about how the people there think he's really poor. Maybe I'll tell that story sometime too. But at least this is enough to jog my memory about it.
Abigail woke up on the wrong side of the crib after nap today and spent the majority of the following hour crying. The first part she was crying so hard she could barely get out the words to try to tell us what she wanted. It was a little sad but maybe honey and I had tears in our eyes from trying not to laugh.
Abigail says the funniest things and it's getting harder and harder to keep track of it all. My favorite from tonight was "Brady has food on his belly!" Maybe he was shirtless and maybe this has a little something to do with nursing and that she calls my chest "Brady's food" (her name, not mine. For the record, she never asked what it was, she just decided it all herself). So Brady's little pudgy belly now has "food" on it. Christopher didn't get it at first until I explained it to him. And I'm being just slightly vague here on purpose. Also, honey told me that tonight Abigail was in a hurry going potty so when she rushed out he asked her if she wiped. Apparently she turned around with a "dangit!" said in exactly my tone of voice. I found it more amusing than my Christopher. That's my daughter for sure.
On our way home from OT, Brady and I stopped to pick up more Zantac and then went by Walmart for a few things. It is absolutely astounding how fast I can go places with just a baby in an infant carseat! Freedom and ease!
I'll be in Atlanta a week from now. Ridiculously excited about that.
I'm a little nervous that I'm going to die running the peachtree. I'm also a little nervous for my pasty skin to be subjected to the powerful beachy sunrays. I have not prepared adequately for those two things.
I made french onion soup tonight! It is something I've wanted to make for a long time... like at least a year... But I was too I intimidated (and I didn't have ramekins) so I never did. I finally decided to suck it up and just try it and that it would be perfect for me to make for my honeys birthday. But we'll be celebrating with his family one night and going out to eat just our family on Friday night so I just made it early. It was delish and I ate til I was nauseous (of course). And since I had already caramelized the onions (I made the our best bites spinach pizza that needed caramelized onions) then it was really quick and easy to throw together. If you're going to take the time and effort for caramelized onions, at least make it worth your while and do a whole ton of them. Anyways, this recipe was from pioneer woman and I'm definitely going to make it again. I won't lie, I feel pretty amazing that now whenever I am in the mood for French onion soup or creme brûlée, I can just make it! And not spending $6-8 each serving at a restaurant is pretty nice too. Makes my day.
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harold the helicopter |
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AC guys! |
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pioneer woman french onion soup! |
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trying out different cheese options because i'm too cheap for gruyere. i forgot to take a picture of it out of the oven... and didn't remember til these were all eaten. |
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our best bites pizza. except i didn't have naan so it's on regular premade pizza crust. |
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"brady's got food on his belly!" |
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