Jared has a really cute & funny way of looking at the world right now. When we are reading the scriptures as a family, we read a line from the Book of Mormon & then he recites it back. He interprets the words in some really funny ways -- nothing that I can pin down but Chris & I spend reading time smiling at each other about the cute things Jared says.
On Sunday, Jared came & climbed into bed with Scott after his nap. Ryan came downstairs & said, "I got Jared out of bed by telling him a story: 'Come on! Let's get ready for school!'" Jared thought for a second and then said, "That's not telling a story! That's lying!!!" Out of the mouths of babes.
Even better was today's funny. Today was a teacher workday so the kids didn't have school. Chris decided to make Coffee Cake (with butternut squash puree from Deceptively Delicious). He cut the stem off of the squash, put foil on a cookie sheet, & roasted the squash for about 45 minutes. During the entire process Chris had been talking about coffee cake & how great it was going to taste. (Jared was in the other room playing Backyard Baseball on the computer.) When the timer went off, Jared hurriedly ran into the kitchen to see the masterpiece come out of the oven. We put the squash on the counter & Jared exclaimed, "That's not a cake?!!" In the end the kids loved the cake laced with squash much more than the adults.
Oh yea, one more tidbit of fun: We made Mexican pizzas for lunch. Take 1/2 pound of ground turkey breast & 3 T taco seasoning & saute until cooked. Add a can of stewed tomatoes & 1 cup chopped onion & cook until the liquid is gone. Meanwhile, put a stoneware bar pan in the oven at 450 to preheat with four 6-inch tortillas evenly spaced. (I used fresh tortillas from Bloom.) Place 1/2 cup of the turkey mixture on each tortilla, sprinkle with Mexican cheese & olives (very optional at our house), & brown for ? 15 minutes. The tortillas baked up hard like chips & the turkey mixture tasted perfect. I added a spinach salad & an orange to the side & had a happy tummy for hours.
On Sunday, Jared came & climbed into bed with Scott after his nap. Ryan came downstairs & said, "I got Jared out of bed by telling him a story: 'Come on! Let's get ready for school!'" Jared thought for a second and then said, "That's not telling a story! That's lying!!!" Out of the mouths of babes.
Even better was today's funny. Today was a teacher workday so the kids didn't have school. Chris decided to make Coffee Cake (with butternut squash puree from Deceptively Delicious). He cut the stem off of the squash, put foil on a cookie sheet, & roasted the squash for about 45 minutes. During the entire process Chris had been talking about coffee cake & how great it was going to taste. (Jared was in the other room playing Backyard Baseball on the computer.) When the timer went off, Jared hurriedly ran into the kitchen to see the masterpiece come out of the oven. We put the squash on the counter & Jared exclaimed, "That's not a cake?!!" In the end the kids loved the cake laced with squash much more than the adults.
Oh yea, one more tidbit of fun: We made Mexican pizzas for lunch. Take 1/2 pound of ground turkey breast & 3 T taco seasoning & saute until cooked. Add a can of stewed tomatoes & 1 cup chopped onion & cook until the liquid is gone. Meanwhile, put a stoneware bar pan in the oven at 450 to preheat with four 6-inch tortillas evenly spaced. (I used fresh tortillas from Bloom.) Place 1/2 cup of the turkey mixture on each tortilla, sprinkle with Mexican cheese & olives (very optional at our house), & brown for ? 15 minutes. The tortillas baked up hard like chips & the turkey mixture tasted perfect. I added a spinach salad & an orange to the side & had a happy tummy for hours.
Conner, one of our YSAs, is left the MTC for Argentina today. (Update: His visa didn't arrive so he has to wait a while longer!) He will be a great missionary -- he worked really hard before he left with the Spanish-speaking elders in our ward. (Elders Mason & Martin speak Spanish & work in Mauldin. Elders Carlson & Hall work in Simpsonville.) I was thinking last night at the fireside that the YSA look a lot younger than we do, but I remember feeling just about the same grown-up-ness when we were newly married as I do now. I just have lost a little idealism & gained a bunch of life experience (that has too often resembled junior high!).
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