A Touch Of Tyrell

Because we've been working ridiculous hours our menu has been pretty simple lately. The other night we just had cheese quesadillas, an avocado, and some sweet potato fries (with olive oil, salt, and rosemary). It was mighty delicious.... but was even more delicious when Jake invented the avocado taco. Holy delicious. He cut his quesadilla in half instead of quartering it, put his avocados on top, and then folded it over. Genius!

On the second day of Christmas we made two gingerbread houses. I grew up in a house of practicality. We always had the "Adidas" with two stripes instead of three, we hardly ever went out to eat, and we always snuck our own candy into the movie theater. Sometimes it's more practical to buy the off brand, it's almost always cheaper to grocery shop and cook vs. go out to eat, and $8 for bucket of popcorn is a little outrageous... but sometimes you just have to be impractial! So we made our gingerbread houses from scratch again this year.  Everett helped me mix the dough... I mean watched some cartoons from the stove top while I mixed the dough. Then we rolled out our dough, cut out our house pieces, baked them, and assembled the frames last night.  Tonight we started with our bare houses... ...added a little candy, creativity, and Christmas music... ...and ended up with the best gingerbread houses yet! This little beauty is mine. Complete with a H...

Reason #827: He's funny. He's been asking me what I want for Christmas and I keep telling him that I've gotten enough lately. But he keeps asking. So I came up with a list and texted it to him... LOL! He makes me laugh everyday!

The Saturday before Easter was perhaps the best Saturday of my life... at least of the year anyway. The weather was beyond perfect, something you would only see in the movies. Saturday morning Jake and I decorated eggs... during Everett's beauty rest. Jake's eggs are hilarious, like always. When Beauty Boy woke up Jake took him on a ride to the dump. They got rid of a bunch of fallen branches what wouldn't fit into the compost bin. Apparently they had a great time riding with the windows down, drinking water from a sippy cup, eating handfuls of Cheerios (okay, maybe just Everett) while the Easter Bunny hid their goodies in the yard. The hunt. (He only ended up with pink and blue eggs) After Everett found 5 of the 42 eggs he decided he was done. He just sat in the grass and played with a pink egg for close to an hour. He loved everything about that egg and was so content playing with it and bending it in every direction possible. ...

We made gingerbread houses tonight. Well, I shouldn't say tonight . Monday morning I got the idea and found a recipe online for the gingerbread. I've never made a gingerbread house with actual gingerbread before... so I just picked the first recipe that came up. I made the dough in the morning and we thought about dimensions that night. We made paper patterns, rolled out the dough, and then baked the cut out pieces. The recipe says to let the gingerbread sit out for a day before you make the house... so we finally got to make them tonight. Mine is on the left, Jake's is on the right Although mine does have shingles on the roof and cedar siding (walnuts) on the back, I still think he won. He thinks so too.