Life is sooo good...

You can't see me!

June 20, 2009

Penelope signed "eat" today to let me know she was in need of some more sweet potato puffs. She is so funny! Look at her hiding from me because she did not want to go to sleep!

This little girl has quite the personality!

So remember a couple of posts back when I mentioned the website Mix My Granola and how I had won a $15 gift certificate. We received our granola today and Chris and I were both very pleased. It came packaged in a tube and they did not skimp on ingredients. The pomegranate cordials are really good! So again I tell you go order some granola!

Garden update

June 11, 2009

This morning I caught a deer eating the plants in our yard. I didn't mind since we are planning to pull those plants out anyway. So far the deer have not touched my garden, unfortunately I cannot say the same about the bugs! I don't know what it is exactly but some little critter has managed to eat my entire Thai chili pepper and Jalapeno plants. Grrr...I am so mad! It happened while I was in San Diego. Chris bought some bug killer and we have been using it. The Thai and Jalapeno plants are goners the other plants have yet to be munched on. We are thinking of moving the plants to the deck in planters or Chris said he could see about making me a small greenhouse. I hate having to spray something on the plants to keep the bugs away even if it's suppose to be safe. My tomato and lettuce has not started to grow. I am thinking the seeds were bad. Oh well...I have been trying to care for my garden everyday, weeding and watering but it's not looking hopeful. Total bummer too because the remaining pepper plants are starting to bud and I am going to be so angry if something eats them! Look Chris the grass needs to be mowed! ;p

Kirei na niwa

June 08, 2009

Lake Sacajawea is a man made lake and park that runs about 120 acres in the center of Longview, Washington. There is fishing, bike and walking trails, a playground, an arboretum, many picnic areas and benches and a beautiful Japanese garden. Last week Penelope and I had a picnic at the park and she played on the swings. I forgot to take my camera. So today I decided to take her around the Japanese garden with my camera in tow.

Penelope is really angry with buddha here.

Look how sad Penelope is in this pic about people defacing the beautiful building. People have written there names and declared there love to one another in permanent marker all over the bench and wall. Grrrrr... that makes me so mad!

Look even the signs are in Japanese!

Penelope was enjoying talking to the ducks here. Yep, she has started quacking like a duck it is so funny. She is really good at it! I am going to try to get it on video before she moves on to something else.The Japanese garden at Lake Sacajawea is so peaceful and beautiful I wish it was my backyard.

If you want more info on the Lake you can check it out here ............

We just found out today that Chris is going to have to work over another week because a couple of guys got ill. :( He was suppose to be home Wednesday and I am so bummed he is not going to be. So it's just baby girl and me for another week. She has got to be so bored of me already!

I love me some Pasta!

June 01, 2009

Oh my gosh! It has been so hot here this last week. It looks like it is finally going to cool off a bit though. I sure hope so!

A couple of weeks ago I won a giveaway on Mom on a Mission blog. I would post the link but it doesn't seem to be working. :( Anyway, I won a Romanos Macaroni Grill Dinner Kit gift package. Apparently these dinner kits are inspired by the chefs of the Macaroni Grill restaurant chain. When I lived in Dallas I use to eat there all the time, unfortunately we do not have one here in Longview, Washington, so I am really excited about these kits. The kits include everything you need to prepare a yummy chicken pasta dinner minus the chicken and they only take about 20 minutes to make. With a nice salad and crusty bread this makes a really speedy family meal. I am looking forward to trying these when Chris gets home next week. My gift package included the 4 kits in the picture along with a stainless steel colander, stainless serving spoon and a cheese grater. What a great prize! I will write up a review when I try one of the kits sometime next week.

Penelope's first word besides momma and then dadda :p is ball. She thinks everything that is round is a ball. She is also saying bear. Pretty soon she is going to be chatting away non stop. Chris is going to enjoy that...it's going to be harder to ignore 2 female voices! ;p

Weeble Wobble

May 08, 2009

Guess who's walking?! I am so mad because I took video of it and when I was uploading my camera to my computer I accidentally deleted the video. AAAHHHH!!! Fortunately I was able to take a couple of pictures as well. I know it's not the same as video...*cry* It's too funny to watch her she keeps getting up toddling around falling on her butt and getting up again. I am totally bummed about the video!

Tomorrow we leave for San Diego. I am really excited but still nervous about the plane ride. I have everything packed and ready to go and we leave for the airport at 7am but won't depart Portland until 10:25am. I made sure to pack Penelope a variety of snacks, her favorite books and a coloring book and toddler crayons that I know she is going to love. I think that will do for a 2 hour flight, don't you? I will try and blog while we are there but if I can't you will hear from me in 2 weeks.

Oh yeah, one more thing, I won a Wupzey Highchair Food Catcher through a giveaway posted by http://www.feistyfrugalandfabulous.com/ . I hope this works because Pen is messy! Crumbs all over the place! It's too bad this food catcher can't catch the food she throws on the floor too!

Future Architect!

May 02, 2009

Penelope learned how to stack her Mega Bloks today. She spent 45 minutes putting together blocks and taking them apart while I watched. It was really cute. She was concentrating really hard, not making a sound, with her little mouth open the whole time.
(Picture future architect here. :p)

My Garden...

April 23, 2009

A couple of days ago we went to this really neat nursery called Tsugawa. They have really beautiful Japanese Maples, Asian Pear Trees, Weeping Cherries and Bamboo as well as more traditional trees and plants. We want to eventually get some trees for our yard but having nothing to haul them home with we picked out a few vegetables and herbs to start a vegetable and herb garden. Here is a picture of the garden Chris planted for me. It contains a variety of peppers, including Mammoth Jalapenos Poblano's Red Bell Peppers Serrano's Sweet Banana Peppers and Thai Chili Peppers

It also contains Cilantro Green Onions and Chocolate Mint Chris picked the Chocolate Mint of course. I asked him when he thought we would ever use Chocolate Mint and he replied that it's for his Chocolate Mint Mojitos. :p Because we make those all the time...

We also planted lettuce and tomato seeds. Being that I am not a gardener I did not realize that the onions and lettuce do not continue to grow after they are picked so I think once we use these up we will plant something that grows continuously, maybe cucumbers and some basil. I am so excited about my garden, I now have all the ingredients for Guacamole, except for the avocados. It's too bad we can't grow avocado trees in the northwest. My grandma had a huge avocado tree when we were little but she lives in sunny southern California.

(Oh where oh were did my garden go. :p)

Last night I used the cilantro from my garden for the first time. I made some Chicken Chimichangas and Calabacitas. it was really delicious and here is Penelope trying to quickly get her hand on her plate of yummy food.

Newer
Stories

Older
Stories

Pages

You can't see me!

Garden update

Kirei na niwa

I love me some Pasta!

Weeble Wobble

Future Architect!

My Garden...

Welcome...

Find Me Here

Followers

Blog Archive