Long time no see.

For some strange reason I haven't had the time or made the time to blog lately. I keep saying I have nothing really to blog about, but that's not completely true becuase since last time my livingroom, hallway, and bathroom has been re-painted, I started seriously training for my half-marathon relay, and all those other everyday things that just happen like waching garage band practices and scoring new bowling records.

I recently discovered my video camera on my regular camra actually doesn't suck so I have been taking more footage than pictures. Truly not sure if that's a good idea or not since pictures are way more timeless and who's gonna wach someone's old videos anyways? But for now I guess I'll share them with all y'all since you're stuck reading my blog :)

It's Anniversary time!

... no, no, not our anniversary. Mark & Sandy's (Jake's uncle and aunt) 25th. I know, I know Jake and I are always acting as if it were OUR anniversary, hence we cellebrate it on the 16th of every month. I keep telling him we can only do that for the first year, after that we gotta wait a whole year.. yikes!

Anyways... we had a good time at the big 25 year bash that Aaron and Samantha (Mark & Sandy's 2 kids) organized. Good job guys, it was a hit.

I was talking to Mark and I said: "Wow, Mark 25 years... tell me would you do it all again?"

"....um, yeah but without the kids!" he says with a twinkle in his eye. I think that was a joke because if it wasn't for them there would be no party to tribute their long and lasting marriage.

Then I asked Sandy the same question, "...um yeah, I definately think so", she answered. I love how they both answered the question with the same tone of answer. (I did ask them seperately).

So again congrats to Mark and Sandy, may there be many more years of happiness comming your way, hopefully the best is yet to come.

Mark and Sandy doing another 1st dance.

...and Matt & Christine.

Work that bartender Aron!

DJ Jake is BACK!!

Wooohoooo, Jake finally set up his Turntable contraption in the basement after beeing in retirement for almost a year. Here's some sneek-peeks:



PS: I'll let you know when he's playing down at First Ave!

Post Suberbowl Party

As always party isn't over just because the game ends. We keep it going with nothing other than American Idol and karaoke our way through the night.

Baby Harrison want's to play too!

Play that Guitarr Peter!

Stop... .and smell the roses Amanda.

Superbowl 2009

Here it is again, our Christmas. This is the time to get together with friends and family and celebrate with good food and football. For me it means we are over the winter hump and spring is just around the corner. At least it felt like it all weekend, I had all the windows open on Saturday while cleaning the house to get rid of the winter stank-oh so nice!

As for football I had no idea what teams made it to the Superbowl. I thought it was Arizona Cardinals vs. Pittsburgh Stranglers, but Jake informed me they are called the Steelers (whatev).

Jake got the big turkey fryer out and made like 90 wings, very delicious.

I don't know who's gonna win the football field guacamole, the chubby team or the skinny team :)

Nothing like putting our guests to work in the kitchen, but Derek won't do anything without goofing around, thanks for the laughter's lemon man!

Isz goood? Hanging with cuz at the pre-party. "Grody Gross" as Dawn so beautifully puts it. Those are chicken wing tips.

Big Holla for the Ladies.

Let's make Sushi

I have been on a Sushi crave for a while now, and finally I tell Jake that I think we can make our own. Mainly because that way I can eat "as much as I want". I guess I always feel like every time we go out to the sushi bar it's like $11.50 for a spicy-tuna roll or $3.50 for a salmon nigiri by the piece, and before soon the bill is $50 not to mention the Sake. That's not very frugal in my recession-time mind.

So I venture out to Byerly's and buy some sashimi grade tuna (my favorite), wasabi powder, sushi-rice, pickled ginger, dried sea-weed, sushi mats, chopsticks, and all other fixin's for like $48.76. I do have to include that they had a 'buy one lbs get one free' deal on the tuna.

Jake steals the show of course. Even though he has never attempted making sushi before, he completely takes the lead showing me how to make my roll as if he's the su-chef of the sushi chef on a daily basis. In his defense I'm weak for men taking the lead in cooking matters so I was admiring his every move, and yet again pinching my arm in disbelief that I'm with a man who is making me sushi.

Quick question for the readers.

Since I bought 2lbs of tuna I put half of it raw in the freezer, is it ok to pull out and make more sushi, or should I just grill/sear it into Ahi Tuna since it's not 'fresh' anymore?

Cross Country Skiing

We try our best to get out in the freezing cold even in the dead of winter. Our friends Kevin and Dawn always come to the rescue when all we wanna do is stay in and be couch potatoes. Dawn has been talking about x-skiing for months now and we finally made a date to go on Sunday afternoon after the meeting.

Jake was so cute. Everyone who knows him is very well aware that he is very good at most sports, but this one not so much. I could tell he was getting frustrated as he kept slipping and sliding on those long skis. It probably didn't help that I kept telling him how adorable he was and that I just wanted to eat him up. I stopped after getting the feeling he might poke me in the butt with the pole. After about 15 minutes we both got the hang of it better and started feeling the groove. Every so often someone really fast would pass us looking really professional and Jake meant to call them a "hurtbulle" in Swedish which is a word for someone really energetic and athletic, but instead he said "kottbulle" which means meatball. I laughed so hard. Can't blame a guy for trying.

We have to admit we felt amazing after doing about 6km of skiing and I we went to bed at 9pm and slept like logs.

Kevin & Dawn

Thanks again guys for a great afternoon, but next time lets not go to Don Pablo's for lunch before going skiing:)