Banana bread

Banana bread

INGREDIENTS:
2 cups all-purpose whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup organic butter
1/2 cup organic brown sugar
2 Free Range, Hormone free eggs, beaten
1 cup mashed overripe organic bananas
1 cup organic unsweetened applesauce

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.

2. In a large bowl, combine flour and baking soda. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas and applesauce until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.

3. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

1 MONTH

The sheriff served him already, so 30 days starts today.

LOL LOL LOL

2nd Birthday Party Ideas

Okay, Ive lost my mind, we havent even had our 4th of July party and Im already thinking of Kaylee's 2nd birthday! I dont want to do 'princess' or 'Elmo' or anything thats overdone. I want something cute and simple but age appropriate!

So here it is..




The Hungry Caterpillar

Ideas:

Plate, cup, balloon colors - Green and Red

Give each guest a set of antennae made from headbands, pipe cleaners and painted styrofoam balls

read the book to them

Send them on a caterpillar hunt in the yard/house. Print 30 neon colored caterpillars on the computer and hide them in obvious places

Have the kids decorate egg cartons, then add a bent pipe cleaner with curled ends to the front

And/Or

Decorate lunch sacs with potatoes as stamps and craft paint to make caterpillars

Serve 'caterpillar friendly' foods and snacks

Cake: decorate 9 cupcakes with green frosting and string licorice for legs. Decorate one cupcake with red frosting and place gumdrops for the eyes and nose, and red Twizzlers for the antennae.

Gift Bags - include bubbles, color books, playdoh, sticker etc. Use 'lunch sacs'. Possibly include a copy fo the book for the younger kids (check thrift stores or half.com)

Translating Women

Translating Women

(1)Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

(2)Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

(3)Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.

(4)Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

(5)Loud Sigh: This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to 3 for the meaning of nothing.)

(6)That's Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

(7)Thanks:A woman is thanking you, do not question, or faint. Just say you're welcome. (I want to add in a clause here - This is true, unless she says 'Thanks a lot' - that is PURE sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all. DO NOT say 'you're welcome' ... that will bring on a 'whatever').

(8)Whatever: Is a women's way of saying SCREW YOU!

(9)Don't worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking 'What's wrong?' For the woman's response refer to 3.

Goin to Chuck E Cheese

So Kim is on her way and we are taking the girls out for lunch! Ill need to remember to bring the coins we have from last time and tickets as well lol.

Oh yeah - Matt, I tried to call you, but your not in your office so Ill see you when you get home. Have fun and dont be too hard on your guys! If you beat me home, leave the dishes ALONE! Love you!

To Kaylee and Gabe

Bored

Should I go blonde this summer? Not full bleach blonde... but maybe some chunky highlights? ....hhmmm....

Interesting ad for... oh who cares

Yeah, ya know you looked!

Hot Hot Hot

Its 92deg outside!! WTF?! Severe weather alert! Hot till Friday?! I have the baby in a tshirt and diaper with the fan on her in the dark hoping she doesnt bake! SHEESH

Enrolled in classes again!

Okay, three more classes for me this summer. I bought one book and parking pass, Ill have to wait for the other two books, the classes dont start till July anyways.


Funny things to do in class....

COLLEGE!


1. Smoke a pipe and respond to each point the professor makes by waving it and saying, "Quite right, old bean!"

2. Wear X-Ray Specs. Every few minutes, ask the professor to focus the overhead projector.

3. Sit in the front row and spend the lecture filing your teeth into sharp points.

4. Sit in the front and color in your textbook.

5. When the professor calls your name in roll, respond "that's my name, don't wear it out!"

6. Introduce yourself to the class as the "master of the pan flute".

7. Give the professor a copy of The Watchtower. Ask him where his soul would go if he died tomorrow.

8. Wear earmuffs. Every few minutes, ask the professor to speak louder.

9. Leave permanent markers by the dry-erase board.

10. Squint thoughtfully while giving the professor strange looks. In the middle of lecture, tell him he looks familiar and ask whether he was ever in an episode of Starsky and Hutch.

11. Ask whether the first chapter will be on the test. If the professor says no, rip the pages out of your textbook.

12. Become entranced with your first physics lecture, and declare your intention to pursue a career in measurements and units.

13. Sing your questions.

14. Speak only in rhymes and hum the Underdog theme.

15. When the professor calls roll, after each name scream "THAT'S MEEEEE! Oh, no, sorry."

16. Insist in a Southern drawl that your name really is Wuchen Li. If you actually are Chinese, insist that your name is Vladimir Fernandez O'Reilly.

17. Page through the textbook scratching each picture and sniffing it.

18. Wear your pajamas. Pretend not to notice that you've done so.

19. Hold up a piece of paper that says in large letters "CHECK YOUR FLY".

20. Inform the class that you are Belgian royalty, and have a friend bang cymbals together whenever your name is spoken.

21. Stare continually at your professor. Occasionally lick your lips.

22. Address the professor as "Your Excellency".

23. Sit in the front, sniff suspiciously, and ask the professor if he's been drinking.

24. Shout "WOW!" after every sentence of the lecture. 25. Bring a mirror and spend the lecture writing Bible verses on your face. 26. Ask whether you have to come to class.

27. Present the professor with a large fruit basket.

28. Bring a "seeing eye rooster" to class.

29. Feign an unintelligible accent and repeatedly ask, "Vet ozzle haffen dee henvay?" Become agitated when the professor can't understand you.

30. Relive your Junior High days by leaving chalk stuffed in the chalkboard erasers.

31. Watch the professor through binoculars.

32. Start a "wave" in a large lecture hall.

33. Ask to introduce your "invisible friend" in the empty seat beside you, and ask for one extra copy of each handout.

34. When the professor turns on his laser pointer, scream "AAAGH! MY EYES!"

35. Correct the professor at least ten times on the pronunciation of your name, even it's Smith. Claim that the "i" is silent.

36. Sit in the front row reading the professor's graduate thesis and snickering.

37. As soon as the first bell rings, volunteer to put a problem on the board. Ignore the professor's reply and proceed to do so anyway.

38. Claim that you wrote the class text book.

39. Claim to be the teaching assistant. If the real one objects, jump up and scream "IMPOSTER!"

Out with the girls

So Kim came down and I put the carseat back in her van and we all went out! the girls hadnt really seen eachother much since we were in MS and then I hurt my foot, so it was good to get out and play. We started with Starbucks, of course, and then walked to the thrift store and looked around. Then to lunch where they made a huge mess, and we walked to Babies R Us and I got her more overnight diapers, because seriously they keep her dry all night long. I also got her a tubby for under her bed for crib sheets, blanket and stuff of hers that I dont have room for in my closet.

Oh and two new straw sippy cups, I think she about done with regular sippy cups. Ill start giving her water our of the straw ones, and milk out of the sippy ones, because if the milk get left its a pain in the butt to clean it out of a straw! I need to sort through all her cups and see what is ruined or has part missing etc.

So back home and its time for a nap! I may take one too since I have class tonight and dont want to fall asleep during it lol!

Mickayla's Cookies (version 1)

So Kaylee seem to get such a bad diaper rash when she has juice and oats. She can have Cheerios, but not cereal bars, possibly because shes allergic to the hull and Cheerios are s blended up? Also juice gives her a diaper rash, but whole fruit seems fine, so maybe because more of the fiber in the fruit makes her digest it longer and it doesnt go out of her body so fast that the fruit acids (or stomach acids) are in a high concentrate in her diaper?

So with that problem I cant give her cereal bars, but she LOVES them and so I wanted to find something else she can eat instead. So Ive been working on a recipie she can eat thats healthy and still 'safe' for her!

Heres Version 1, its currently in the oven so we will see how it goes and if it needs to be altered. These are the ingredient I used, it was like 90% organic!

Mickayla's Yummy Cookies

* 1/2 cup organic butter, softened
* 1/2 cups organic light brown sugar
* 1 cup fruit compote
* 1 cup organic flour (wheat or white)
* 2 cups organic O's cereal
* 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Mix dry ingredients, in seperate bowl blend wet ingredients. Stir together and drop scoops onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350deg for 12-15min

Fruit Compote- I used organic strawberries, organic blueberries, peaches, nectarines and plums. Dice and boil with a dash of lemon and organic sugar if desired. Omit blueberries if you dont want a greenish cookie color!)

ROFLMAO

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Free Family Films at Edwards Cinema Santa Maria

Free Family Films at Edwards Cinema Santa Maria
June 17, 2008 - June 18, 2008
Regal Entertainment Group, owner of Edwards Santa Maria 10 Cinemas is hosting a nine-week FREE Family Film Festival on Tuesdays and Wednesday mornings at 10 a.m. Seating is limited, so get there early. This week enjoy Charlotte's Web (G) and Bee Movie (PG).
Edwards Santa Maria 10 Cinemas, 1521 South Bradley Road, Santa Maria

Vicoden makes you able to clean.

Vicoden makes you able to clean. Of course it also makes me light headed and dizzy so this is quite fun. The house is trashed, and everyone knows I like things organized and so Goldfish on the floor is NOT a good thing. Katie is comming over after work to help, maybe she will vacuume if I let her use the Dyson =)

Kaylee is with Becky and Pam today, apparently shes having a great day, they stopped by Matts work and she was so excited to see him but when they left she started crying, but was soon distracted and happy again. She and Nalani get along so well and its so cute to see them playing peek-a-boo and such.

We are getting our organic veggie box today when Matt gets home and then maybe to SLO to help Kim, who was already on Vicoden for a slipped disk and I was helping her lol, we are quite a pair now. I cant walk/drive and she cant sit/lift. So then tomorrow the day is unplanned, I think Ill be making some veggie soup to use all the veggies we have, and Sunday is a BBQ for (check this) Matt's Sister's Husband's Step-Brother's graduation from Poly. Matts in charge of the BBQ for the first half then hes all ours!

Possibly my mom will take Kaylee for the week and we will be up next weekend to get her back. If not then Becky and Pam will have her during the day since its hard for me to walk and carry her.

I went through Kaylee's toys in the livingroom and tossed some in the tub, some in the backyard, some set asside for Grandma's house, and then a few to get rid of. She doesnt play with all of them and Id rather she play with the blocks/stacking/sorting type toys than the mindless electronic ones anyways. I moved the books to the lower shelf so she can reach them easier, so we can snuggle and read more.

OMG the goldfish are bothering me so much!

School starts on Monday, I have to late add my classes and so if Kaylee is not here I will have time to study an read ahead. Im looking to take Pol Sc, Film and Hist. One of my classes is on-site T and TH evenings but its only for half the summer so I hope Matt can handle that. Fall it looks like Im going to have to get daycare for her, since Im running out of classes I can take on-line and in the evenings. I am trying to get approved for the college daycare, so lets hope that works out!

4 more hours... its times like these I wish we had cable tv, but honestly if I werent on crutches I wouldnt watch it, there is never time!

How am I supposed to take a shower if I cant stand on my foot? These things they dont ever mention....

Fighting for Last Place

We have several contestants this year...

Here is Bing's opinion on his children
" If we get divorced, I do want to see Char and Gusta, if I stay in the area. If I leave the area, I will try to make an effort to see them at least once a year. "

Cellphones and popcorn

Can Cellphone Pop Popcorn?

I was told not to clean... This is driving me crazy.

I was told not to clean... This is driving me crazy.

Ill back up and start with saying I have 'severely sprained' my foot. Matt got out of work and we dropped off Kaylee with his mom and sister and he took me to the Urgent Care and they did an Xray and its not broken but it hurts like *@$% and Im using crutches (and I WILL figure out how to carry my coffee to the computer from the kitchen using them soon!... I need some kind of a holder with a swivel attachment and maybe a weight at the bottom to keep it level...) and on vicoden thats not working and so bored! Matt's mom and sister said they would keep Kaylee till he gets off work for me... cause its not like I can chase her around I am sitting with my foot propped up!

Anyways Matt leaves and tells me not to clean, to leave the laundry and everything else where it is and 'just relax'... *shakes head* this is BORING!

So I played bejeweled a bit, I havent done that since I was preggo (and stuck in an apt alone in 90+deg heat and bored then too)... I guess I could read... I hear people put stories and such into these book things... I seem to remember them from before..

The flight home

Ill post the airplane trip first, it seems the funniest now that Im not dealing with it anymore.

We (Nana, Papa, Kaylee and I) get to Gulf Port Airport, which is 2 hrs away from their home, and check in. My bag is EXACTLY 50s, and yes I snapped a photo with my cellphone lol, and we get the tickets and off we go. As we are waiting the monitor displays 'delayed' and my flight goes from a 410 departure to a 510. I only had a 45min layover to begin with so obviously this means Ill miss my plane.

I call Matt, he at first thinks Im kidding, but no its really delayed. I check with the ticket desk and the plane hasnt even left DFW to come to Gulf Port and its a 1hr30min flight plus 25 to clean and refuel, so no time to make my connection. They said the may be able to get me home, so they started checking. Papa had to work the next day, Nana would have to take off, and then there would be the 2hrs of gas there and back to waste, it was just not fair to have a second day Nana was going to have to say good-bye too. I was already packed, already ready to be home and knew Matt was missing us.

So we spent 30min searching other airlines (remind me to call AA and tell them Dimitri was awesome), other connections, other airports and found one leaving in 30 min from another airline. I go to Continnental from American and there is a line, then they cant find me, then a supervisor comes out and finds my new reservation and I can get my tickets. Papa took the second diaper bag of toys and stuffed them down into the pack n play bag so I didnt need to drag around 2 bags, so that was amazing. During this whole time Kaylee is running around the airport with Nana (she got on the baggage scales and weighs 22.5s) and wearing herself and Nana out!

I get to security and we hug and kiss and wave because my flight is boarding and I have only a few min. I get to the Xray and am taking things out and all is about well when Im 'selected' for additional screening! I have to do the puff jets to see if we have chemicals on us and they swab my bags and stroller and car seat for chemicals too. Im standing outside of security waiting for this to happen and seeing my gate, doors open, empty, the flight attendant waiting for me. We make a run for the gate (obviously I passed security) and make it on the plane as the last passengers.

I should add Kaylee has her own tickets, so we have her car seat, and a small hand cart Matts mom picked up the day before we left, its not made for it so it was difficult at times, but came in handly so I didnt have to lug that thing around the airports. I also had the diaper bag that was stuffed so full with everything we may need, and luckily so because it all came in handy. Also I had her stroller and obviously the baby. Im sure this was a sight to see me dragging this all around the airport, pushing her in the stroller with the diaper bag over the handles and dragging the car seat behind me.

So this first flight is an hour to Huston and I have 25 min to make my connection, Im worried my bags wont make the connection, Im worried I wont FIND my connection, but I get there in time, and its a flight to LAX and too many people are confused about the 1st class boarding and the people with special needs (wheelchairs and strollers) getting to board first... *sigh*

I get on the plane, get her seat installed (first plane to MS I tightened it too much and it took three of us to figure out how to uninstall it) and I was sitting and life was good. Nope, some teenage kid comes and says Im in his seat. I tried to explain we are B and C but the A is a window seat and she is in a car seat and there is only 4 inches between her and the seat in front of her and she HAS to be in a window seat in the event of an emergency (or he wants to use the bathroom) because he couldnt get past her. He calls someone, Im thinking his parents, and in another language starts to bitch about me. I can tell its a latin based language because I know some of those words... moron. Anyways he hangs up and asks if she can sit in the middle, and I tell him again, matter-of-factly, that she cannot sit anywhere but in A and they must not have know she was in a car seat when they made the asignments and to take it up with a flight attendant. He spots one and waves her over, shes the young girl about 25 and had already been smiling at Mickayla and helping me so I knew this was going to go easy. He showed her his tickets, I re-explained why I put her in A and she told him I was right and he argued with her that it was HIS seat and kept pointing to his ticket. She was trying to be so polite and said the assignments didnt always have to be followed if there is outstanding reasons (such as someone in the exit rows who is unable to perform the duties and must be switched) and I said "if the window is so important to you, why dont you see if someone will switch with you". And luckily someone did!

I ended up next to a girl, who had just turned 21 and been at her sisters wedding in Alabama and was headed home to LA. We talked and we watched the movie and it was a wonderful flight after that. I get off the plane, find some coffee and wait for my flight to home. Oh but it couldnt be that easy! The flights to SB and SM are being cancelled and re-routed because of fog and Im freaking out that I wont make it home, finally we are told to board, but we may be re-directed to SLO, which is fine I would have gotten a cab to Kims lol and waited for Matt. I get some help boarding from a fellow passenger and we are ready to go!

So Mickayla fell asleep on the third plane as well and I carried her in her seat off the plane. So Im carrying the diaper bag, the stroller and the carseat with the baby and somewhere I have the roller cart looped through my arm as well. I finally see Matt, hand him the baby and wait to see if my luggage appears. And yay something went right and there it was, one of the first things off! Matt gets the car and I sy goodbye to the person who helped me and we go HOME, I get a shower and Kaylee gets put to bed and Im do glad to be home and sleep after that trip!

Kick Back day

So Matt took the day off work to be with us today, so sweet he missed us that much after 5 days! His guys will have to do without his leadership for the day while we get to spend time with him. So we did grocery shopping and some errands I didnt get to before I left and we are home now and have unpacked but havent put everything away. We have decided when Kaylee wakes up to go to Cosco and get a pizza and 'buy some Friends' (the seasons, not people lol) and just hang out for the evening.

I dont know if its being away for 5 days, the lack of sleep or the time zone change but Im just off today. I need to reorganize my fridge and do laundry and Im just not motivated to do any of it. So, for tonight we will relax and do things another day...

Thongs

Okay got your attention!

Anyways there was an issue in Target by the shoes and I am getting so frustrated with my father! Its getting warmer and I wanted Kaylee to have a pair of sandals to wear so she wasnt always in sneakers. Earlier her Nana an Papa had sent some outfits and a pair of sandals but they are the 'thong/flip flop' style with something between the toes and Kaylee keeps curling her toes back and refuses to wear it. So Im looking at Target, and apprently there was a run on sandals for her size because there were almost none there. My dad is there and picks up a pair and I think they are cute but notice the toe strap and say that she wont wear them and continue looking.

He tells me "oh well" and "she will get over it"!!! I respond with "if there are two pairs of shoes and one has a toe strap and one doesnt, Ill get the one without because its not worth the fight. If she doesnt like her carseat straps, THATS something she can 'get over' but a sandal is not worth a fight."

ARGH.

We ended up gertting a white pair for now and a pink pair for later. The sizes for shoes mean nothing, and its frustrating when we try and pick up shoes and they are the right size but dont fit!

Flaky or Over-reacting?

Okay so it may be nothing, but I think Joey is flaking on his daughter for his girlfriend (FIANCE! yeah he proposed to her! He cant afford child support and now hes ENGAGED?! I dont care if he wants to marry her, hell I feel sorry for her, but obviously he can afford a ring!).

I checked her myspace to see when shes leaving, its private, but it says she leaves in 5 days ( for 13wks), and she logged in yesterday and changed it to that. So she leaves Saturday.. We fly in Thurs - Mon and he can ONLY see her on Mon the afternoon we leave! Is he flaking on his daughter so he can say bye to his g/f ?!?!

OMG!!!