French Cuisine

Last week we had the pleasure of going over to Tangie and Allen Isidro's home for a French cuisine extravaganza.  They are known for their amazing creativity with food and entertaining, and this was no disappointment!

We had a main course of lamb and quail, along with pasta for the kids (and who are we kidding, for Amy too who is has become more and more vegetarian over the years - although she did try a little of each).  The Zs brought mini quiches (easy and yummy!), Deiningers were to thank for the yummy pasta, and Cochrans brought baked brie and an intense French green vegetable concoction.  The Cochrans are our other friends who have cooking skills that lean towards the gourmet (or cooking with flair!) side of food.  It was all delicious, and the kids had fun playing while the adults enjoyed visiting.

The next day, we woke up with a full day planned only to find that our power was out.  So, we packed up and headed over to First Watch to enjoy pancakes in another setting!  The boys were very well behaved, and it was quite enjoyable the entire time.  It used to be that waiting on the food took quite a bit of entertaining to keep everyone happy and contained, but not so much anymore!

We had original plans for getting family pictures taken with Amy's Mom that evening, but the wind did not cooperate and almost blew us away (and in fact blew the photographer's light over!) so we delayed until this week.

Always industrious (how did I get so lucky to marry such an amazing guy!), Karis has started to paint Amy's Mom's house.  It is going from a washed out, threadbare green to a creamy color.  It has been a bit of a drama with the HOA to get an approved color, so we're crossing our fingers that it all ends well with no further ado.

Phrase of the week:  "Zachary, what did you do today?"  "I kissed Calleigh today."  "What!?  What were you doing?" "We were playing "Married"  Kaleb then pipes in "Yeah, and I kissed Calleigh too!  And Evan did, and Blake was supposed to kiss Aubree, but she said No, so Blake kissed Calleigh too!"  Well now, first kiss at 3 and 5!  If this was any older we'd be having some serious conversations but hopefully this was a one time event!  Good for Aubree for protecting her virtue! :)

Learning to play the "limbo" at Adventurers last week.