Tuesday:
I had my friends Doris, Nancy, and Victoria over for lunch. My independent study food preparation course from BYU required me to cook a meal for 3 people and have them critique my cooking. I made crêpes and we filled one with roasted chicken, butter lettuce, tomato slices, sautéed mushrooms, swiss cheese and Brianna's Rich Poppy Seed dressing. It was marvelous! The second crêpe was filled with the holy and beloved Nutella and sliced bananas. Everyone had a good time and I enjoyed hearing of Doris' adventures. She's in her 80's and moved here from Scotland many years ago. She has the best stories of serving in the Queen's army and all her adventures. I love her to bits.
Thursday:
At noon I hosted my book show/luncheon. For the meal we had a salad that I'm trying to perfect so I can enter it in the Cooking Light Ultimate Recipe Contest. I'd give you more details than that, but an impostor could duplicate my recipe and steal my glory. We wouldn't want that now would we? Along with the mysterious salad, we had spinach artichoke dip and homemade bread. That's right, I made the bread in the picture below and will post the recipe some time or another.
And for dessert we had a lovely lemon poppyseed cake from the Cake Mix Doctor cookbook that Dave and Jo gave us. (Thanks! It was delicious!)
Note: The daffodils in the above picture were grown in my yard. My flowers are blooming!Tammy did an excellent job telling everyone about Usborne books and it was really fun. I'm not a sales party person because I usually think they're selling cheap stuff at expensive prices and I hate feeling pressured. But Tam, and the company, I presume, had a no pressure approach and their books sell themselves. I had 10 friends that came and about 12-14 kids. Needless to say, my little house was rather full. But it was loads of fun and will be a yearly tradition for me from here on out.
Ethan was especially happy because his girlfriend, Arden, came to the book show and he got to wish her a happy first birthday! Thanks to Arden's mommy, Nicole, we have pictures of the book party and the cute little couple.
Thursday night I sang in a ladies' barbershop quartet at the Stake Relief Society Birthday Party. We sang a piece called "The Beauty Shop Quartet" which is a medley of old barbershop songs. It went well and I was happy to be able to sing. I'd gotten a little sore throat on Tuesday night and after the book show my voice left entirely. Travis watched E when he came home and I took a nap. When I woke up a had a little voice back and was really blessed that my voice worked at the R.S. party.
Friday - Saturday:
Friday after I cleaned Mel's the sickness really hit me and I was wiped out till Saturday night. Not very exciting, but at least it happened when I didn't have class or lots of homework.
Sunday:
Ethan got his very first haircut. He has wispy, crazy hair and it was getting long on the top (think: Mohawk) and longer in the back (think: Baby Mullet) . That morning during his bath I trimmed it down and our camera worked for a couple minutes so we got a few pictures.
Sunday night we went to Steve's house and played games with my family that lives in Utah. We're starting a tradition of getting together one Sunday night a month to play games and eat dessert. It was a blast! Our teams tied and "everyone was a winner", though Steve is still suspecting foul play surrounds the final verdict. After all, our team was ahead and our final Pictionary clue was, "Something Rumpelstiltskin might say." for the answer of, "I'm cuter than that Leprechaun!" Right... Suzie was in charge and the judge and Steve says the problem with having a peacemaker be the judge is that they make it so everyone wins. It was a lot of fun and we're looking forward to the next one.
Ethan Update
Here's some things that you may not know that Ethan's doing. Since we want you all to know, we knew we'd better make a list.
- Giving high-fives when you ask for one.
- Saying Da Da when he sees Travis or when he picks up a phone.
- Saying Duhh when he gets in the tub and wants his rubber ducks.
- Saying Lehhh when we call Lexie together.
- Army crawling around and sitting up when he wants to.
- Eating anything and everything, especially trying to intercept any food I'm trying to put into my mouth.
- Putting his toys back into the basket when we get them out.
- Saying Na Na, which I think is the beginning of mama!!!
- Looking through books and squealing.
- Drinking out of a sippy cup by himself.
- Clapping!
