Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Big Mouth

Logan LOVES to eat. Since about 6 weeks ago, this kid has boycotted the bottle and only wants food, food and more food. Consequently, he has gotten a little fatter; but we like it that way. This is a video of his 3rd bowl of oatmeal. He loves this stuff and would eat it at every meal.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Breakfast Calzones

A couple of weeks ago, my brother Tanner had this awesome idea; that we should make some breakfast calzones. He is a master of all things breakfast and I have a pretty awesome pizza dough recipe, so we decided to collaborate and the breakfast calzone was brought to fruition!
What is in a breakfast calzone? Or rather, What do boys like to eat for breakfast?
Bacon, sausage, eggs and hash browns fried in bacon grease and cheese. We pre-cooked all the ingredients and piled them onto mini pizza rounds. Folded and baked. Here is some documentation of the event.
If I was a more dedicated blogger, I would've thought to take a picture of all the ingredients BEFORE they ran out, you only get to see a picture of what was left after we created the masterpiece.
Some extra eggs, not too much sausage and one last thing of dough.
Here we are taking them out of the oven. Nice and large. Andrew was really excited.

Tanner tried the first one. As you can see, it is unusually large. He made a Man-Sized Calzone for himself. It was almost as large as his head, which is quite a feat, he has a large head.
Of course, they tasted more than satisfactory. They were delicious and we were glad we made enough to eat for the next morning. Andrew could barely contain himself; he was so overwhelmed by the delectable deliciousness of the breakfast calzone.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

My new goal

A while ago I decided to make a new goal. I decided to save all of our DI clothes and repurpose them into something else. I don't know why, but I think repurposing is so cool, making something new out of something old. I love the saying, "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without". The fact that we are going to take a little pay cut when Truston goes to school is added incentive to figure out how to "use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without." Don't worry, I'm not going to start making underwear and knitting socks, but it seems easy enough to take our big clothes and cut them down for the boys.
When we moved into the boys house they had a bag of DI clothes that I went through. I found these shorts and pants.

Yes, that is Talmage with a pair of scissors. Seriously, where is his mom? Originally I was going to make some church clothes; cord pants and vests. However, my original plan is ALWAYS more grandiose then what do.
Here is the outcome.
I'm going to try and make some bowties by next Sunday....seriously HOW CUTE IS THAT???!! Wow, these boys kill me. Have you ever seen anything this handsome? If you have, don't tell me about it.
This was one of my favorite pictures. Talmage is working hard, brushing his teeth and Logan has his little lip out, quivering.

What we did...

I know that you have all waited breathlessly for a report from our trip to Houston.
Well, the first leg of the trip I just sat and enjoyed stillness. You can only do that for so long.
So, the second leg of the trip Truston and I did a crossword. Does anybody know, are NY Times crosswords harder than USA Today crosswords? We did a pretty awesome job, almost complete. I could literally feel the Alzheimer's receding from my cobwebbed brain.

In the Southwest magazine there was an article on money origami. Can you tell what this is?
Yes, a squirrel. I made the torso a little to short, so it looks like it's doing a backflip.
After our first day of house hunting we went to one of my FAVORITE restaurants, Pappasitos. It is so delicious. Look at Truston, can you see the drool dripping from his mouth. J/K.
Not thinking, we went to the Pappasitos across from the Astrodome where the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo was. We thought about going, the Rodeo is the BEST, but when we saw the HUGE crowds, we were a little deterred. Keith Urban will have to wait.
We say some good houses, some bad and ate a lot of food. It was an awesome trip and we really enjoyed ourselves. What's a trip without going to the cheesecake factory? This is the Godiva Chocolate cheesecake that I tasted probably 5 years ago and have wanted a piece ever since. After 24 hours this is only as far as I could get. It was delicious. I wish I had some right now.