Recipes of the week

This is one of my kids favorite meals!!!

Slow cooked Oriental Chicken 

4 or 5 chicken breasts            

4 TB.  vegetable oil

2/3 c. soy sauce

4 TB. brown sugar

4 TB. water

2 garlic clove minced (1 tsp garlic salt)

2 tsp. ground ginger

Put chicken in slow cooker. combine rest of ing.

pour over chicken. cook on high for at least 6 hrs

shred chicken serve over white rice. ( I serve with tempera vegies)

Tempura

1c. ice water

1 egg

1/4 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

1 c. flour

Stir together with fork be careful and don't over stir

sprinkle 1/3 c. more flour and fold over twice.

Dip vegies and fry in canola oil.

My kids love onions, carrots, & zucchini

you can do any vegi. or even shrimp

Serve with dipping sauce

1 c. beef boullion

1/3 c. soy sauce

1/3 c. yoshidas 

EASTER MORNING

                             Coloring Easter Eggs

I  have loved coloring Easter eggs ever since I was a little girl.   We had Lexie and Ava over to help. We had dye all over....... Ava kept dipping the eggs over and over until they were all blue and brown. She is super funny. Lexie was getting mad, she was trying to make hers so beautiful. 

Polly's Easter Egg Hunt

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          HAPPY  EASTER

I LOVE,  LOVE , LOVE  SPRING!!! 

We have a family easter egg hunt 

at my house every year.... I was sad

this year looking at all the grandkids.

They are all getting so old.  I am glad 

we still have a few little ones!!! I have 

this rule .... If you are a grand kid no

matter how old you are you get to find 

eggs. WELL.. this year we had golden

eggs!!! (with money) some how the 

older kids found out.  It was crazy!!!

It was a race to see how many "GOLDEN"

eggs they could find.  We had brunch, 

crepes and breakfast quiche. We sat

 on the lawn enjoying the sun. It was 

such a nice sunny day.

Tending Dan & Amy's kids

We had a blast tending on Friday!! Court took the day off school to help tend. Courtney convinced me I couldn't do it without her. Lacy thought Court was Samantha the whole day, it was so funny.  We would say" your Lacy and this is Co co", she would laugh and say "noooo... Nada"(Samantha)there was no changing her mind. It was so fun to get to know each of their personalities. We loved it!! We were exhausted when Dan came. I don't know how Amy does it all day. She is AMAZING...

Sam's Birthday "40" years old. March 2, 2008

SAM IS " 40",  he was soooo depressed about it. I tried to convince him that it was fun and cool. It didn't work.... Courtney wanted to suprise him with his favorite breakfast!!!  PANCAKES!!! Not regular pancakes, a huge stack of yellow pancakes with candles (his favorite color). Sam was being sooo stuborn he said " you better not do ANYTHING for my birthday" it was a Sunday, so it was hard to do much of anything. We gave him breakfast in bed, decorated , and had his favorite dinner.  RIBS!!!!  We secretly invited a bunch of people over for dessert. He was a good sport. Hopefully he had a good day. WE LOVE YOU SAM!!!!! Even if you are old. Ha ha 

THINGS I LOVE ABOUT SAM....

1- HE IS SOOO FUNNY!

2- HE IS THOUGHTFUL!

3- HE LOVES HIS GIRLS!

4- HE IS SENSITIVE!

5- HE IS LAID BACK!

6 HE IS A GOOD LISTENER!

7- HE IS HOT!!!

Chinese New Year

We LOVE  Chinese New Year!!!  We look forward to it all year, it is so fun to celebrate with Ava and Lexie.  Katy was a new addition to our party.  We also had the Salters from across the street.  The Salters adopted a little girl from Tawian.  We had a big chinese dinner and we broke out the CHOCOLATE  FOUNTAIN.... it is so fun to watch the girls with chocolate all over their faces.  Ava got real creative with the skewers and making all kinds of creations.  Sam and Ava shared a noodle together, it was so funny!!! She looked at him and put part of her noodle in his mouth. Ava loves Sam.  Ava said out of the blue " I love you Sammy Lamby "  look how darling those girls look...  It was a fun night!!!  

Samantha and Chance

                     

                                           

 

Samantha and Chance are offically going out!! Here are some pics of them. Chance was cutting off his curls so he came up with the bright idea to shave his hair into a mohawk for a few days.

 (I don't think his Dad was very happy!! )

 Samantha and Chance modeling Grandmas old sweaters!!  Samantha and Mandy love to go thru Grandmas old clothes. 

 Samantha found all these crazy sweaters she thought were cool.