Today is a gloomy, rainy, BLAH day. So I made some soup for dinner Mexican Corn and Bean Soup. It smells yummy! I also added in some carrots and used homemade canned tomatoes with some peppers in them. Should be a delicious tummy warming soup, full of nutrients!
Soon to be BB (big brother) is sick. He has a pretty bad ear infection, and due to him having tubes his ear is leaking gunk constantly. We thought he was suffering from allergies, runny nose, itchy eyes. He had no cough or fever. But yesterday he came into the living room with his eye shut, and I asked him if it hurt and he said "no my ear" and it was gunky and runny...not pretty. We went straight to the doctor's office and they gave him a strong antibiotic. Thank God they didn't try giving us drops...those wouldn't have gone well. BB has noticed that the medicine in America is "yummy". They definitely help a mommy give her kid the medicines he needs by making them fruit flavored. In Mexico they smell like fruit and bubble gum but taste like pure chemical.
With BB being sick he has passed a little bit of that on to Papa and I. Both of us woke up this morning with a little sore throat. And we are really hoping now that this baby stays in until we are over whatever may be attacking us.
Speaking of baby, we put up the crib on Tuesday and BB bought him or her some gowns. "Gween ones". Baby swing is washed and sheets are on the crib. We also bought a car seat and some baby *infant* wipes...still going to wait on diapers until we see how well the baby takes to certain brands.
Still need to get the camera charged up soon though! I'm procrastinating on that pretty bad!
We are a young family who experience our fair share of surprises throughout our days.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
Beer Pizza?
I know beer and pizza go together, but never heard of Beer Pizza. Well its actually the dough that has beer in it! Here's the link to a great American/Mexican chef La Cocina de Leslie and her beer pizza dough.
We will be enjoying this dough with sausage and green olives more than likely, but I thought it was an interesting concept to try out.
The casserole from the other day, with the ham? Was a HIT!
And the chicken last night was yummy! Soon to be BB (big brother) even ate it! And let me tell you, if my 3 year old eats any meat that isn't a hot dog we are doing something right. He loved the broccoli too.
I have been feeling pretty BLAH these last few days and the only thing that seems to get me up and going is the thought of cooking something new and seeing how it turns out. So far so good :)
Maybe some pictures of our dinners might be nice too huh? Maybe some other night, the charger to my camera is in the basement in a trunk that I just don't have the energy to lift open.
OOOH we have a trunk, my mother-in-law had a wooden trunk in their garage holding tools and dirt. Papa and his brother were cleaning the garage one day and threw the trunk on the floor, nearly breaking it to pieces! I told Papa I wanted that box and he made me ask my mother-in-law. She gave it to me :)
It is beautiful! Old, yes. But beautiful. I am currently debating on touching it up, re-staining it, or just leaving it be. It would be great either way. I'll have to go down to that trunk someday soon and take a picture...oh and get the camera charger out.
We will be enjoying this dough with sausage and green olives more than likely, but I thought it was an interesting concept to try out.
The casserole from the other day, with the ham? Was a HIT!
And the chicken last night was yummy! Soon to be BB (big brother) even ate it! And let me tell you, if my 3 year old eats any meat that isn't a hot dog we are doing something right. He loved the broccoli too.
I have been feeling pretty BLAH these last few days and the only thing that seems to get me up and going is the thought of cooking something new and seeing how it turns out. So far so good :)
Maybe some pictures of our dinners might be nice too huh? Maybe some other night, the charger to my camera is in the basement in a trunk that I just don't have the energy to lift open.
OOOH we have a trunk, my mother-in-law had a wooden trunk in their garage holding tools and dirt. Papa and his brother were cleaning the garage one day and threw the trunk on the floor, nearly breaking it to pieces! I told Papa I wanted that box and he made me ask my mother-in-law. She gave it to me :)
It is beautiful! Old, yes. But beautiful. I am currently debating on touching it up, re-staining it, or just leaving it be. It would be great either way. I'll have to go down to that trunk someday soon and take a picture...oh and get the camera charger out.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
What a day
I have had NO energy all day. I couldn't even read a book to Soon to be BB (big brother) without yawning each page! I blame it on pregnancy hormones.
I decided, after failing miserably to nap, that I needed to get up and do something. Maybe some movement would wake me up. So, I loaded the dishwasher, put clothes in the washer, started preparing dinner, made lunch, went to the store and filled the truck with gas. I'm still tired but at least I got things done!
Here's what is for dinner (mostly from weelicious.com):
No Work Chicken
Crispy Broccoli
And mashed potatoes
It is nice to be able to prepare (marinate in this case) dinner and have it ready to just throw in the oven. I can't wait to see how it turns out it looks amazing in the picture, don't you think?!
Don't you hate it when you have one dinner planned or finished and it seems it is time to start planning or cooking for the next?! I'm going to try to work on more of an organized menu. We are living at my grandparents and they have 1 stand up freezer and 3 normal refrigerator/freezers full of food, I should make a dent in there before we find a house of our own.
Which brings me to the topic of surprise. We are house hunting! We have looked at 10+ houses in the past 2 weeks...nothing promising at all. Papa actually just left to drive by another possible house. How STRESSFUL is house hunting seriously?! But in all of this house hunting we have decided on a little bit more of what we want in a house.
Our wish list:
3+ bedrooms
2+ bathrooms
2 car garage (preferably attached)
Fenced in backyard for the kiddos
Formal dining room
We'll see what the future brings I guess.
I decided, after failing miserably to nap, that I needed to get up and do something. Maybe some movement would wake me up. So, I loaded the dishwasher, put clothes in the washer, started preparing dinner, made lunch, went to the store and filled the truck with gas. I'm still tired but at least I got things done!
Here's what is for dinner (mostly from weelicious.com):
No Work Chicken
Crispy Broccoli
And mashed potatoes
It is nice to be able to prepare (marinate in this case) dinner and have it ready to just throw in the oven. I can't wait to see how it turns out it looks amazing in the picture, don't you think?!
Don't you hate it when you have one dinner planned or finished and it seems it is time to start planning or cooking for the next?! I'm going to try to work on more of an organized menu. We are living at my grandparents and they have 1 stand up freezer and 3 normal refrigerator/freezers full of food, I should make a dent in there before we find a house of our own.
Which brings me to the topic of surprise. We are house hunting! We have looked at 10+ houses in the past 2 weeks...nothing promising at all. Papa actually just left to drive by another possible house. How STRESSFUL is house hunting seriously?! But in all of this house hunting we have decided on a little bit more of what we want in a house.
Our wish list:
3+ bedrooms
2+ bathrooms
2 car garage (preferably attached)
Fenced in backyard for the kiddos
Formal dining room
We'll see what the future brings I guess.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Our last few months
For the last 6 months we have been finalizing my husbands residency in America. Well, really for the past 22 months but we spent from Oct '11 to March '12 in Mexico going to appointments and making it all FINAL!
We left Iowa on Oct 13th EARLY. I want to say like 4:30 in the morning. Our truck was PACKED! Inside and on top was to the brim.
From the border to my mother-in-laws house in Jalisco, MX it took us until 11:40pm...LONG DAY! But it doesn't help when you have to stop every 45 minutes to an hour for a security check. I don't have pictures of the soldiers from our trip, its illegal to have cameras out on the border. But let me tell you they aren't anything to be messed with. Huge machine guns and 6-15 soldiers at each check point, in the middle of nowhere, you have to get out of your vehicle and let them search to their content.
When we finally got to the house we were exhausted, but super excited to be there and see Papa's family. BB went to Mexico understanding but not speaking Spanish so he wasn't clueless but he was tired and just restless and REALLY not wanting anything to do with these tan skinned people. (He's use to Iowa...we aren't all that tanned up here haha)
After a short nights sleep we were officially ready to start our trip. And start it we did. The boys didn't waste anytime getting the horses to the house and for the first 2 weeks I don't think there was a day they didn't ride at least for a little while.
We also spent the first two weeks having picnics and parties in Papa's family's land. Beautiful place to go and hang out and relax or jump rope in this case.
BB also got his very first piñata of his own. He hit it for a good 7 minutes and gave up and decided to step on it. It was a green Lightning McQueen. Definitely a fun first two weeks.
I say it like that "fun first two weeks" because that's what it was. After that things kind of lost their fun. Between too full of a house, a husband who is too kind to everyone, and just the stress of not knowing what the future would hold...things lost their fun.
More on all of that to come :)
We left Iowa on Oct 13th EARLY. I want to say like 4:30 in the morning. Our truck was PACKED! Inside and on top was to the brim.
Poor Soon to be BB (big brother) only had the space of his car seat to sit in.
So we left early and arrived in Dallas TX around 6 or so. We spent Thursday and Friday night at my aunt's house and left EARLY Saturday morning. We were on the road before 4 that day. We got to the border at Laredo around 11am and sat there for 3 hours until 2pm. And after BB wooed the soldiers who were at the check point, they thought it was amazing he spoke English, we were on our way.From the border to my mother-in-laws house in Jalisco, MX it took us until 11:40pm...LONG DAY! But it doesn't help when you have to stop every 45 minutes to an hour for a security check. I don't have pictures of the soldiers from our trip, its illegal to have cameras out on the border. But let me tell you they aren't anything to be messed with. Huge machine guns and 6-15 soldiers at each check point, in the middle of nowhere, you have to get out of your vehicle and let them search to their content.
When we finally got to the house we were exhausted, but super excited to be there and see Papa's family. BB went to Mexico understanding but not speaking Spanish so he wasn't clueless but he was tired and just restless and REALLY not wanting anything to do with these tan skinned people. (He's use to Iowa...we aren't all that tanned up here haha)
After a short nights sleep we were officially ready to start our trip. And start it we did. The boys didn't waste anytime getting the horses to the house and for the first 2 weeks I don't think there was a day they didn't ride at least for a little while.We also spent the first two weeks having picnics and parties in Papa's family's land. Beautiful place to go and hang out and relax or jump rope in this case.
I say it like that "fun first two weeks" because that's what it was. After that things kind of lost their fun. Between too full of a house, a husband who is too kind to everyone, and just the stress of not knowing what the future would hold...things lost their fun.
More on all of that to come :)
To start
So this is a late started blog, in late I mean "should have been done a LONG time ago". But it is never to late to start right?
So this blog will be random. Some posts from the present, some from the past, some from a mix of both. I have a lot to catch up on and not the best memory of the order they happened in. Bare with me :)
Lets start off with this:
Speaking of BB, it is just about lunch time and we are trying out a new recipe:
Yummy Ham Casserole
So this blog will be random. Some posts from the present, some from the past, some from a mix of both. I have a lot to catch up on and not the best memory of the order they happened in. Bare with me :)
Lets start off with this:
Not that the baby was a surprise, but the gender is! We are due in 4 weeks (May 8th) and haven't the slightest idea what is hanging out inside there!
When we came back from Mexico (too be discussed in another post) we were so far into this pregnancy that we just decided to hold out and have a "SURPRISE" baby. Have to admit it is just about as much fun as finding out...although somewhat scary to know that we could have a daughter and we have NOTHING for a girl.
Either we will have a very well dressed baby boy (clothes from Soon to be BB (big brother)) OR we will have a tomboy dressing daughter...however the case may be we are super excited and can't wait to meet him or her.
Speaking of BB, it is just about lunch time and we are trying out a new recipe:
Yummy Ham Casserole
6oz medium egg noodles,uncooked
2 c ham, chopped
1/2 small green pepper, chopped
1/4 c onion, chopped
10 oz can cream of mushroom soup
8 oz carton sour cream
1c cheddar cheese, shredded
Cook pasta according to package directions; drain. Heat oil in skillet and add ham, green pepper andonion. Heatuntilvegetablesaretender. Remove from heat and stir in soup, sour cream and pasta. Place in a greased baking dish, cover and bake @350 for 25 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese and bake until cheese melts.
Maybe a catch up post will be later today.
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