My Husband the dutch oven master!

For enrichment this week we celebrated the Relief Society's Birthday. Craig was asked to make the dessert, cobbler. I always thought dutch ovens was a Mormon thing, but I think it is more of a western thing, because I have been surprised that people in my ward don't know about dutch oven cooking. Fortunately some of them got a taste of what dutch oven cooking is and like it. Craig had his hands full, cooking three cobblers, peach, chocolate cherry, and a mixed berry with a crumble topping. The mixed berry one Craig tried as an experiment, just made it up as he went along, but it was a success! The man has skills! I thought we would have a tons of leftovers, but I was wrong, very wrong! It was wonderful, as always! One of my friends was debating whether she was going to go, then she found out Craig was making his cobbler, she decided that she would go. (It's that good!)

I have to admit I was proud to be his wife, the women were impressed. I think it is pretty cool that I married someone that likes to cook and does it well!

BUGS!!!

On Wednesday we went to the bug museum on campus for playgroup. Usually it is not difficult to park, usually, but the guy was not convinced I wasn't a student, though I had my friend in the car and three kids in the backseat. I tried to explain to him that the parking pass was my husbands, and he did go to school. Dtill he was not convinced, so while cars are lining up behind me, I had to find my wallet, get my ID out and wait for him to type it into the computer. I know it shouldn't have bugged me, but it did.

Lucas liked the bug museum, it was small and the presentation was short, so it was perfect! They show them some really bugs, Lucas tried to squish the larva, the bug people were a little caught off guard, my little child the bug killer. After that I think he was a little apprehensive to touch the bugs, but at least he was aware that he needed to be careful. He did touch the coach roaches, and liked to look at the insect that looked like a stick, which I have to admit he was pretty neat looking. I don't remember their official name, but they are from Australia, they are camouflaged to look like branches, and they even sway like a tree branch would. Lucas was ready by the end, got into his stroller and said, "go".

Shoes!

Our library has the most awesome activities ever, and today it was shoe day! Every year they pick a children's book to highlight, the author comes reads the book, and each kid gets a copy of the book signed by the author. This year the book was "Whose Shoes?", it's pretty cute. The library had different games set up involving shoes in some form or another. They also had a variety of shoes you could try on, including big clown shoes. Lucas wandered most of the time, tried on a few shoes. Then he saw the cake, he wanted it right then, distracting him was difficult, but we managed and he did surprisingly well while the author presented. At the end he had his book and a piece of cake, what more could you want, besides the fact it was past bedtime!

Happy Day!

Yesterday was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and I think it got up to the mid sixties, it was gorgeous! When you have just survived winter and have been waiting for a day like this for months, you just have to take advantage of it. So we went to the park! Lucas played and played, we were there for a coupled of hours. We even ended up taking our jackets off! It was a wonderful day! This park has ducks and a pond, Lucas loved chasing the ducks. Though he made me a little nervous when he headed for the pond. The swing set, had a bucket swing that I put Lucas in towards the end and he just sat in there swinging back and forth forever, it was great, it gave me an opportunity to socialize.

St. Patrick's Day!

Yes, another holiday with a traditional meal! On St. Patrick's day Lucas wore a green shirt, and after his nap we went on a hunt for gold. I also found a green flute recorder for a dollar, since Lucas likes musical toys. He of course enjoyed it! At first he didn't realize the gold coins were really chocolate, until later when I found him sitting on the couch eating one. Of course for dinner we had corn beef (yes, we bought two, so we would have plenty for Rubens, mmmmmmm Rubens!) and cabbage. I saw this recipe on line where you could saute the cabbage, and we tried it but it didn't work very well so we ended just boiling it. We also had potatoes, but I felt like sauteed potatoes with onions. Our green dessert was a first for me, I made an Oreo mint Ice-cream pie, with mint Oreos on top, dark chocolate and mint chips melted and drizzled on top. Yes, it was a delicious as it sounds. It was an uneventful day, but tasty!

Tupperware

Lately Lucas has been playing in the Tupperware drawer. He will take out two pieces of Tupperware put one on each foot and walk around the kitchen. The other day he had just one container and was putting both his feet in it and then would hold on to something and slide around the kitchen floor. He was not always successful in doing this, at times he had difficulty getting both feet in, or would just crash and burn, yet he would get back up and try it again. Here is a video of this, though he kind of stopped doing it when we pulled out the camera, or maybe he just learned that it wasn't the safest game. In this video you can also hear him talking a little bit, which we thought you might like to hear.

Mardi Gras

Since I like to celebrate, especially if it involves food, we celebrated Mardi Gras. It took awhile, but I finally found a recipe that was not too spicy (since I am not particular fan of spicy stuff). For dinner we had New Orleans Chicken (which kind of reminded me of dirty rice) and hush puppies. I have always wanted to try hush puppies, yes I know they usually go with seafood, but I thought it sounded southern so we made them. They were a little difficult, but tasty really yummy! Of course for dessert we had a homemade King Cake, which looked really festive and also tasty really good. We ate more than half of it. I ran some over to the neighbors so we wouldn't end up eating it all. I couldn't find a little toy baby, but I read somewhere you could use a pecan or a slice of orange. I used an orange, Craig found it and was not too pleased, he thought it tasted bitter.