Happy Birthday!

April 7th was aunt Heather's Birthday. We went to her and uncle Mike's house for dinner and cake. Yeah for the big 30! Thanks to Mike we had an awesome dutch oven dinner! Yum! It's never too early for breaking out the dutch oven's. We all had a good time. Happy Birthday Heather!

But WAIT!! It was someone else's birthday too. Happy Happy Birthday to you Mom! We wished we could have all celebrated with you too. We won't mention the number though, right Mom. Ha Ha. Just kidding. Happy Birthday to the youngest, most beautiful mom! We love you!

Hi everyone! This is my newly established blog. Enjoy!

Family Fun!

You would think we were slave drivers in our house! Here's Braden giving Daddy a back massage with the motorized massager. Look how happy he is! He really said he WANTED to. Go figure! And here's Gracie standing by in her Barney pajamas and "balloon" the doctor gave her today. What a fun family!?

Yum-Oh!

This is my Cafe Rio fix. Thanks to my sister-in-law Naja! This recipe is simple and easy and a great substitute for the real thing. Fajita chicken, rice, black beans, lettuce, tomato, cilantro, crushed up lime tostito chips, a slice of lime, and litehouse salsa dressing. Yum!Yum! I recently found an imitation dressing for Rio's cilantro ranch dressing but havn't tried it yet. I can't wait too. Thanks Naja!

Café Rio Dressing
1 buttermilk ranch dressing packet (make as per recipe)
2 tomatillos (tomato like vegetable with a husk around them)
½ bunch of cilantro
1 clove garlic
Juice of 1 lime
1 jalapeño (Use the seeds too if you like it spicy. You could substitute a few drops of green tobasco for the jalapeno.)

Use a food processor to blend all the ingredients well. Refrigerate.

Under Contract!

This is it! We went under contract just barely today. We hope everything works out with our house in Colorado and the purchase of this one. This is a 3 bedroom 2 bath home with a full unfinished basement. (3381 totalsq.ft.) The outside has not been finished with paint and trim yet but will be soon. I'm dying to get in and set up the nursery. Patience! Where can I get some of that?!