Day 150 Happy Anniversary Mike

Yesterday was my wedding anniversary. What a wonderful day.

This is a blog post I made the day after we got married.

5 days ...
Five days... 5 days can seem like a life time or so very short. You can waste 5 days doing nothing or you could spend 5 days deciding to get married, flying for the first time, landing in a state you have never been in, going to a road side stand in Tijuana and having tacos. In 5 days you could try mahi mahi, you could hold a crab in your hand and worry that it will pinch. You could see your first sea urchin, you could rent your first car, you could learn to speak very broken spanish. In 5 days you could stand on a beach in San Diego, barefoot at sunset holding the man of your dreams hands and saying I do. All without a care in the world, the smell of salt water in your nose. The feeling of having sandy grains under your feet all while waves crash against the rocks behind you.

If you haven't figured it out yet, Thursday night after a long discussion with my mother I realized that I just wanted to marry the man I love, the man also known as my best friend. It didn't matter when, where, or how I just wanted it to happen. Jokingly we talked about eloping, then suddenly light bulbs went off in our heads and we said... ya know that isn't such a bad idea. So Friday Mike frantically searched and called me with the news... we could pull it off, we were going to San Diego to get married.

Today was the day... March 26th at approx. 6:30pm I married Michael James Lyon. I am now Mrs. Lyon.

I could not be happier. He has made all my dreams come true and I am looking forward to a wonderful life with him.

Don't anyone be offended only 3 people knew we were coming here. Mikes parents dont even know. More later...

Thank you, Honey, for a WONDERFUL Anniversary, I love you more today than I did that day. You've forever changed my life for the better.

Isn't he the most handsome man ever? He hates when I take his picture but he's so darn photogenic.



The eyes... I still get lost in them every time I look at him.






Finally a cute picture, the kids wanted to make Mike and I brownies for our anniversary. I bit the bullet and let them do it all by themselves. They were... a very thoughtful gift. :)

Day 109 One of these things is not like the other.

Day 96 Breakfast

Last Friday there was a 2 hour delay. I enjoy those mornings because I usually do something special for breakfast. This morning I made homemade blueberry muffins. They are/were oh so good.



Day 94/ 365 Potatoes

Potatoes were Wednesday's victim. As I mentioned in the previous entry... I was uninspired. As is quite obvious by this picture.

Day 93 Tuesday January 27, 2009

This week I was feeling uninspired, so I decided to take pictures around my kitchen. Enjoy.

Some bananas that are too ripe for me. I like my bananas green. The kids still like them this way though.

Day 86 Mason Thomas turns 10!

Day 79/365 Lunch

Part of my lunch, a plate full of cucumbers.

DAY 65!! Only 300 to go.

I organized my pantry today. Is that boring to my readers... probably, but I am ecstatic!

52/365 Making Peanut Brittle

Peanut Brittle is actually very easy to make just time consuming. You have to be patient enough to get it to the hard crack stage. Here are a couple pictures, one of the cooking process, and one of it having just been poured out.

Day 51 of 365 Caramel Corn

Day 36 of 365 Teething Biscuits

A co-worker of Mike's bought some organic teething biscuits for her granddaughter, that is just a month older than Caide. She accidentally purchased an entire case of them. So she sent some home with us. Caide went.to.town!



Day 30 of 365 Bread?!

I've made bread in the bread maker a million times...

I'm not sure what I did wrong but this bread did NOT turn out.



Day 26 of 365 Baking with the kids.

I thought Friday would be uneventful as I had seemed to come down with an ear infection. I took some silver colloidal and some Motrin, and by evening I was feeling better so we decided to go ahead and go over and bake with my friend Brandi. Originally I was going to take all of our kids over, but since I thought I wouldn't be going I let them go with their dad instead. Mason was spending the night with Layne though so he was there and of course we had Caide.

Enjoy.



I should start here with saying, Mason likes to bake at home, but he was with a friend, and the only reason I think he decided to bake with us tonight was to impress a girl. Which to be honest I find adorable.









Brandi was less than impressed that I was snapping pictures. Well, not impressed that I was snapping pictures of her.



Later the girls wanted to play a prank on the boys, so I helped. I convinced the boys to let us wrap them up in saran wrap, for a "magic trick". Then the girls put make-up on them.



After that the boys decided to channel their inner feminism and let the girls dress them up and powder their noses, and cheeks, and chins, and shirts....







Finally I got them to all settle down for a minute and managed to snap some nicer pictures.

Day 22/365 I got the kids to eat spinach!!

Tonight I made a recipe from another blog that I frequent. It had spinach mixed in, and *drum roll* the kids LOVED it!! Even Peyton loved it and she hates everything I make. This will be a staple dish from now on.

Pictures for you...





After dinner we went up to put the kids to bed, and Mason exclaimed, "MOM LOOK OUT THE WINDOW!!"

SNOW!!! (*disclaimer* Taken in the dark NOT the best pictures)

November 7th 2008, 12/365

Mike made me dinner.



8/365 A rather boring post.

After a run, and supper, and other tasks from today I realized I hadn't taken any pictures.

So.... You get a picture of my supper, and a picture of Mike hanging out with Caide.

Hold onto your seat I'm sure the excitement is more than you can handle.





I promise I'll have something better tomorrow.

Project 365 Day 6.

Today I roasted pumpkin seeds.

The first batch I did was the usual salted pumpkin seeds.



The second batch I did however was a new recipe, at least new to me, sugar and spice pumpkin seeds. Which look like this.



They are delicious. Both versions.

Finally the recipe to the second version if anyone wants it.

* 1 cup raw pumpkin seeds, rinsed and dried
* 6 tablespoons white sugar, divided
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
* 1 tablespoon vegetable oil


DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Spread pumpkin seeds in a single layer on a baking sheet. Toast for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally, until dry and toasted. Larger seeds may take longer.
2. In a large bowl, stir together 2 tablespoons of white sugar, salt, and pumpkin pie spice. Set aside. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the pumpkin seeds and sprinkle the remaining sugar over them. Stir with a wooden spoon until the sugar melts, about 45 seconds. Pour seeds into the bowl with the spiced sugar and stir until coated. Allow to cool before serving. Store in an airtight container at room temperature.