Hulu it was so cool

Me and Nick have discovered hulu. So far I give it a thumbs up. We missed Hells Kitchen last week, So Nick just logged onto the internet via the awesome PlayStation 3 Searched the web for hulu, downloaded the Hells Kitchen episode me missed and we watched it right through the PlayStation on our Television. It is pretty much as if we are watching it on cable. It didnt lag at all and the picture is very clear. Who knew is was so cool!

The best Lemon drop EVER!!

How to make the best lemon drop EVER!

- make sure you have lots of lemons because you will want more than one.

- In a cocktail shaker Mix:
1 whole lemon squeezed
1 shot of vodka Citron
1 shot simple syrup
1 shot of cold water
1/2 shot of triple sec

Shake, shake, shake, shake, in the shaker with plenty of ice until very very cold, pour into a martini glass, enjoy.

if you like you can rim your glass first with fancy sugar. I don't bother buying that expensive rimming sugar. I just take a bit of regular white granulated sugar and mix it with a few drops of food coloring, any color, and mix it with a fork until evenly disbursed. Then take a small lemon wedge, put a small, shallow slit in it, and rim the glass with it. then dip your glass in the sugar, and give it a little twist. yummmm.

Amazing!

Susan Boyle Rocks! Not much more to say about that, but check her out here

Monster trucks

We went to see a monster truck show last Friday. It was so fun. I having been wanting to go to one for a few years now. Both the Kids loved it.

Four year olds know many things.

My little Cameron has quite interesting things to say these days. A few weeks ago she asked me "mommy will you teach me how to shave my legs" I just love all her silly questions she asks. Her need for information and understanding is intangible. And sometimes she will just pretend she knows all about something she really has no understanding of, for instance sometimes when she sees Rowan signing something to me, see will choose an object or animal off the top of her head and make some strange hand movement and say "momma this is how you sign" whatever it may be. I really need to write some of these things down, I want to remember them when she is all grown.

He's so great

So we are in Santa Cruz spending a little bit of Nicks leave time here. It's vacation although I really just feel like I'm home. I have been having a great time visiting with my friends and family here, then last night I came down with Mastitis again. I guess that probably makes about 6 times in the last year and a half that I have had it, grrrrrrr. I am very sick of it. Its such a good thing I have Nick home because he is the biggest help ever!

It just reminds me again of how great he is. So I'll brag about him a bit.
He gets the girls ready for bed at night and reads them books, he picks out there clothes, does there hair, he lets me sleep in and cooks them breakfast in the mornings. And on days like these that I am feeling pretty sick he basically does it all. I am so grateful for such a loving husband and Daddy to our girls.

Well I should be feeling quite a bit better by tomorrow morning once I have had the antibiotics running through me for 24 hours, just in time for the next leg of our journey. We are heading up to Portland on Thursday to visit with my family, I can't wait!

The story of my life.... continued

I know, I know its been quite a while since I have posted here, but My husband finally came home for good! so I have been a little pre-occupied. It has been so so so great to be a family again. So I am going to try and put every thing in a "nut shell" here so I can catch you up.

I had surgery the morning after Nick got home to fix a umbilicus hernia I had, it was a bit more painful than I expected but I was very grateful to get it over with. I expected Nick to be home a few day earlier so I didn't have to have him taking care of me and the kids directly after her got home but It turned out to be best that way anyhow because he only got three days off then had to go to reintegration classes daily after that for about 2 weeks.

Since Nick has come home, Rowan is over joyed to have him back, I pretty much don't exist anymore unless she wants milky from me, but that's alright with me. I have actually been able to leave her and go run errands.



Cameron had her 4th birthday about 2 weeks after papa got home, and it just so happened to land on super bowl Sunday, so we just went over to a friends house and watched the game, ate some food and sang to The birthday girl.

Me and Nick finally have dirt bike. We have wanted to start riding together for a little while, so when Nick was on leave back in August he bought me the little Suzuki 125 and we just got him the Kawasaki 450 once he got home. so We are very an anxious to be able to go ride them.

Note to reader- If they are not "street legal" bikes, police officers still don't care if you are "just taking a spin around the block" nor do they care if you only have a licence and not a motorcycle license.

Note to self- Leave dirt bike in Garage from now on unless I am in the dirt on private property =)



Grandpa and Milena just came out this last weekend for a visit and to watch the girls while me and Nick went to his squadron ball. We got to stay over night in Austin by ourselves, what a treat that was. It was the first time I had left Rowan over night and It went pretty well. I'm ready to do it again!