Ahhhhh

I meant the title in a relaxed sort of Ahhh way. I have never been SO relived the weekend is here!

First off, I tried to see what life would be like as a full-time Mon-Fri. 8am-5pm working mom. Wow. is all I can say. I have to hand it to the mothers who do it. I am in awe. (It was an orientation for a one night a week job)

Everything in our house as of last night was a disaster. I am currently washing the same load of clothes for the 3RD time! Yes, the 3rd time because we kept forgetting to move them to the dryer. The back yard is close to resembling a jungle, and I should just stop there. My stomach also decided in the middle of the week that it needed to violently empty everything from the inside of it to the outside, in anyway possible. And not allow anything else in.

BUT. on the bright side, it is the weekend! AND it is a long one. We are going to do anything that does not involve school/work/illness/babysitting. Happy Memorial Weekend!

faces and photos

I narrowed down to a few...sort of.

He's getting pretty good at facial expressions. A gene he must have inherited from me. (Especially the pouty lip. Definitely me.)

All photos taken by Sue (Jason's mom)

quick visit

We went for a quick trip to surprise Jason's Mom and it was well worth the effort! It felt like we were only there long enough to say hi, spend a day outside, and then bye. I love surprises though..to see the moment click here (the video in the middle of the page). Jason spent some much needed time outdoors away from books and a desk.

Can you tell by their faces this is their favorite thing to do?

Jason


his Dad, Scott

Happenings

I kept meaning to post earlier than this, but it just wasn't happening. So here I am finally, posting about some randomness that we have been up to lately.

Jason has been finishing up his 2nd year and will be moving onto his 3rd year in the middle of May! Wahoo!! He has survived learning IM injections, IV's and injections in THE EYE! Keep in mind they had to practice all of this on each other, that's why I say he survived. I have been trying to survive the outdoors. If I touch anything outside I end up feeling like this:

(taken from here)

Did you know you can actually SEE pollen?? Enough to make a black car look like it's a dark shade of green! But onto something more fun, Javen is as busy as ever and making us laugh every day. We found out he is very ticklish and is loving to see how much he can splash water during his baths. And because most of my posts include him and I think he is a cutie here is a recent photo:

Oh, and one more very important thing has happened. Thanks to a good friend I found out this store just opened up within 20 min. of my house! Yay!

(taken from here)

Spring Break

Last week was Jason's spring break so we got a chance to take off for a little while. Our destination was Florida but I begged for a detor in Savannah, GA so we stayed there for a day. It was such a beautiful and charming place. I couldn't quit taking pictures. So sorry for the overload of photos but I was having way too much fun. All of the awesome parks are in the middle of downtown. We didn't even see most of them because there were so many.

The pic above is still in Savannah. Tybee Beach is about 10 min. away, but clearly it was a little cold. Sadly, where we were in Florida was a little too cool for the beach too but we still got to feel a whole lot more sun than we have in the last three months. Our lovely hosts Wade and Francine let us stay with them and showed us around.

Wade, Francine, and sweet baby Lana

Can you see what is wrong with this pic? Yes, that is a HUGE 10 ft. ALLIGATOR! This pic was taken very quickly because he looked a little hungy to me. All these alligator pics were from a park we went to with NO fences. Crazy people. We had a good time though and it was wonderful to put on shorts and sandals!

Redemption

I don't usually post stories, but this story has come up quite a bit recently and I feel the need to let everyone know that there is hope for me.

When I went to college my cooking skills were VERY limited. Okay, they were pretty much non-existent if 95% of the meal didn't come from a box/can/frozen bag that only required warming. With time thanks to friend/roommate meals I did learn a few things. I felt like I could cook a meal, or at least help cook a meal that didn't involve a box/can/frozen bag.

Then I met Jason.

I realized I was in trouble, or should I say he realized he was in trouble when we had probably only been married a few weeks or so (just long enough to have gotten back from our honeymoon, unpacked, and ready and excited to use our very own kitchen that spanned an entire 7 ft.) and he wanted to make a white sauce for something..I don't remember what. This is how I remember it going:

Me: What's a white sauce??
Jason: What??!! Uh, oh.

Anyway, you get the idea. I realized he obviously had MUCH more experience than I when it came to the kitchen. This motivated me to impress him and learn a few things. A few months later I had a brilliant idea for dinner. Clam chowder. It was cold outside and something warm sounded perfect. (You need to know that for our wedding we got these silver canisters of all different heights that you put flour, sugar, brown sugar, etc... in) While I was making it I couldn't get it to thicken up well after I had already put in the flour so I proceeded to add more flour, but nothing was working. Jason came home and we ate it anyway.

Poor guy.

I told him I couldn't get it to thicken and added a lot more flour. We started to eat and noticed it seemed a little sweet. Sweet clam chowder. Eeew. We were both choking it down when I realized I had grabbed the powdered sugar canister instead of the flour canister. Yes, we ate clam chowder sweetened with powdered sugar. We both spit it out and hadn't even attempted it again until yesterday.

I want you all to know it went well, and I did manage to use flour this time.

{photo credit}

I would like to think that I'm not the only one who had/still has a lot to learn about cooking/sewing and homemaking in general when I got married. What are some of your funny stories from when you were newly married and completely messed something up?

Need a good laugh?

This just might possibly make me laugh every day for the rest of my life: