Thursday, July 30, 2009

Gifts from the Garden

Ted and Judy gave us some green beans and beets from their garden. I can't wait to have our own garden next year! We froze 3 bags of green beans and just cooked up the beets for supper tonight.





Here is Lexi's beet bear and what turned out to be breaded noodles (was supposed to be baked mac & cheese). Now I know that I need more sauce and less breadcrumbs. Whoops!



I also stopped by the Delano Farmer's Market on Wednesday and picked up some fresh black bean and corn salsa. This was good but very mild. Next time I think I am going to buy the jar of medium.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Bridget Gets Baptized!

Bridget's Baptism is tonight at the Marysville - Swedesburg Lutheran Church (part of Zion Lutheran Church). We chose tonight because they have evening services at this church (has no electricity or running water) only during the summer - and Bridget turns 8 months old today! She is really growing up fast! For the Baptism Bridget will be wearing the gown that both Lexi and I wore for Baptism. Hopefully, the church isn't too hot and humid inside. I think Bridget and Lexi will do fairly well as long as we keep them occupied.

On another note, Shane and I have decided to start eating healthier. Coming up you will see posts about our progress (which seems a little slow at this point but we are trying). We'd like to eat more vegetables and fruits and less processed food. So, here goes - today for lunch I had a leftover bakery hot dog bun with cheese and tomatoes and light mayo, some carrots and a handful of cherries.


It was actually a pretty filling lunch. The bigger bakery bun was really yummy (I put the buns in the freezer after a grill-night and thawed some of them out in the microwave last night). I wasn't sure about how they would taste after being thawed out and was surprised that they tasted as fresh as the day we grilled.

Stay tuned for more posts - I have a TON of pictures to upload!