Christmas Day and the Start of New Traditions

Today I decided I would prepare the menu for our Christmas Day. That way if I was going to use a new recipe I could make a practice batch before hand. Our menu is as follows:

Breakfast
Fruity Swiss Muesli
(this is not set in stone, I'm still on the look out for another good breakfast recipe. I'm not sure Luis will like this dish. I'm going to make it this weekend to find out).
Toast
O.J

Dinner
Leg of Lamb ( I'm still working on the recipe)
Greenbeans & shallots
Sweet Potatoes
Herbed Stuffing (I'm also still working on the recipe)
Green Salad w/ an oil, salt and lemon dressing
Dinner Rolls

Dessert
Cookies

Christmas Craft Gone Awry

For the past month I have been dilligently working on Hailey's Christmas present. I has so excited to finish it. At last it was complete. I tried it on Q'Ori to see how it looked. I made it too small. All that work and it won't even fit. It fits Suri. I'm not sure what I did wrong, besides use different yarn than the pattern called for. Anyways, I thought I display the knitted top that I spent so much time working on. Sadly, now I won't have any time to make her something else. I enjoy knitting, even though I am not very fast at it. Here is the picture of my project gone awry. Hopefully the Christmas stocking and Nightgown I'm working on now will not only fit properly, but look good.

Offer on a House

We have been in the process of looking for a house. It's a lot of work, and I'm amazed at how many horrible houses there are out their. Anyways, we found a beautiful house and we are making an offer. The house is a short sale, so it could be a while before we hear anything, but I think this house is worth it. Here are a couple of pictures of the house. The house has 4 bdrm 2 full bath and 1 half bath and is about 2000 sqft.

Novela - Destilando Amor

At our house we love Novelas (Spanish Soap Operas). Here is a picture of Suri and Luis, watching "Destilando Amor" together.

Here is a youtube link to our favorite novela. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgR5-hffOQw This video is the main actress singing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcX_cx96JWs

hey look everyone my car got wapped in shrink wrap at work

Q'Orianka and the Scissors

I thought i would share a lovely picture of our Q'Orianka, on Sunday, she got a hold of the scissors that Luis left on the counter after he cut his and Papa Beto's hair. Needless to said she wanted to be just like her papa. Yes, she did cut her hair. Lucky for us. She only cut about 2 or 3 inches of the bottom, and not all the way to the scalp. Here are some pictures from hair incident. I couldn't get mad at her since she was just copying her papa.

As you can see the side with the ribbon is distinctly longer than the other side. Here is what she currently looks like after beautiful curls where chopped off. :-(

Visiting the Farm

We went and visited the farm again. This time Corey was able to come. It was great. It reminds me how much i like wide open spaces. Here are the Angus cows. They weigh about 1200 lbs each. There were so many people on the hay ride that you couldn't get out of the cows way when they were sticking their heads on the straw to get some corn. One cow kept licking a little boys jacket trying find food.

Corey Lars and I on the Hay ride

Corey being swallowed up by the dying corn stalks

Luke jumping out of the corn to scare Melanie and Me.

A nice family picture on the farm

Dragon Lars and the burning Peasant

Once upon a time there was a fiercesome Dragon named Lars. Even though he was little for a dragon he could breath fire. He liked to fly around and blow fire on all the lowly peasants. And when he flew he laughed and giggled.

However much fire he blew on these lowly peasants they still couldn't resist the adorable laughing and giggling that happened when he flew and blew fire. And so it was that Lars would catch all the village on fire but he would laugh and giggle and so he was always forgiven.

Halloween/Q'Ori's Birthday

Here are a couple of picures from a Halloween party we went to and from Q'Orianka birthday party. The details of the party are on our blog.

me too, but........................

where is everyone. I know i could be better as well. but i do post things on my other blog as well. I want to see pics of Rae's Room, and bed she is refinishing. pic of progress are good too. Pics of Jen and Kids. What is mom and dad up to. Even a post to say you are alive. We can even talk trading if you all really want to.
Thanks April for posting...................i guess we could be a bit better. but still............where is everyone. and if you don't respond i guess it means you don't even look at this........hmmmmm

what we have been up to

About 1 hour north of where we live is a train station that does different things through the year. We went to the Thomas the Train event. They had all the characters dressed up and a gift shop and some exhibits. It was cute. and then we rode the train (which pulled Thomas) The kids loved it. Luke was very excited to go. It was his reward for using the big boy potty!. mel is in this pic with linnea and like is hidden

here we are riding the train

of course they had professionals taking pics but the pics were expensive and until Lars actually knows what is going on.........this pic will do.

Lars has this thing where he leans his cheek against mine i was able to get a pic. this was right before his bath. gotta love the expression

and this was me trying to be a photographer. it is a cute pic though

All About Vaccinations

I got at the library the other a great video on vaccinations. It really is a good watch and very informative about what we are injecting into our children and the pros and cons of vaccinating.
The video is "Vaccinations? Assessing the Risks and Benefits" by Dr. Jay Gordon. I picked it up at the library.

My Friend posted this on her blog and i got a kick out of it. It is a must watch on the Flu Vaccine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QznfG6oDDM

Enjoy the video. I didnt' know how to embed it into the post........still learning the blog thing.

Luis' Birthday

Saturday was Luis' birthday. We to his families house to celebrate the following pictures were taken during that weekend.

Relaxing on the grass. What a life!!

After singing Happy Birthday, his niece put frosting all over his face.

Papa and is girls.

Happy Birthday Luis!!!

Q'Orianka is learning how to blow up balloons.

Her a Tiffany are watching the balloons fly in the air.

Suri and Ivis just chillin.

Pics of Lars

Lars learning to smile

Lars just looking darn cute

Lars in his Sunday outfit

Safari Lars

Lars and Daddy at the Zoo

Lars's Blessing

We were extremely tickled with Lars's blessing outfit. It was awesome. Thanks to our very talented family and friends his outfit was a major success and even got some chuckles out of the congregation.

Blessing Outfit: made by Aunt Sue
Fedora: made by Chelsea Staples
Vest and Bowtie: Courtesy of Harlem Tuxedos

4th of July

I've been little of a slacker, here are some of the pictures from our 4th of July. We went to Chincoteague Island, Va. It is so beautiful and lots of fun. We should think about having a Sloan Family Vacation there. Anyways, there are the pictures.

Here Q'Orianka is looking at the fireworks.