Zoey's New Spot

Zoey has a new favorite spot. I tried to fight it at first (shooting her with water), but at 3am when they are at their prime...I just DONT have the energy. Here are pics of her in the morning after she woke up...YES, she was sleeping up there.




I think she's trying to tell us who's boss.

Chicken Parm Baby!

I was inspired by Ethan's cooking posts, and my Mom's joy in seeing my pancake photos. So I was going to cook dinner for Rach and decided to document it.


Setting things up here.

Some egg and bread crumbs.

I like to fry it up a little before I bake it. And i pounded the chicken this time to tenderize it and flatten it a little.

Bake at 350 for about 25 min with some sauce and plenty of cheese.

And Waalaaa! Delicious!

Picture Updates

We had some requests for pic updates of the kitties and stuff. The kitties are no longer potty training as they refused to use the toilet after we took out the last ring of the training device. Chloe peed on Brian and the bed, so we decided to just go to kitty litter. Its not so bad... besides the amazingly foul smelling bowel movements in the closet of our two bedroom condo, getting litter all over our hardwood floors so it sticks to the bottoms of your feet, having to pay for litter, constantly having to clean it out, and the cats not knowing how to cover up a fresh dump because they trained on the toilet. But we still love our kitties and I would personally take a bullet for either one of them.

This is Chloe chillin out kinda giving that "Why don't you get outta my face" look.

The girls, go figure, playing in a box.

Zoey just chillaxin under the papasan chair. (Yes the same one she crapped on 4-5 times)

And lastly, we are kinda biting off Nat, but we got inspired by her post about apple sauce pancakes. Mom would be proud.

Sweet deal!

My new KitchenAid Mixer...

Retail price= a whopping $529.99
I paid...$127 (advertised at $150 **oops** with a $30 rebate I found)

BIG Thank you to LOWES for the misprint in their ad. As the sales associate who rang me up said, "somebody's gettin' fired!"

For those interested this sale is still good until the 26th or 29th, at ALL Lowes stores.
You have to special order it (go to small appliances), but you can get any color you want.

My Birthday Present Has Arrived!

Errr one of my Birthday presents, thanks babe! Here is my new necklace, handmade, and one of a kind, from Lisa Leonard Designs


I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! (I dont think these pics capture how pretty is)

In the big open circle it says "Love With Your Whole Heart", in the smaller open circle it says "Brian" & theres a pearl.. so pretty!

The Great Outdoors

For the culmination of Rachel's birthday month she wanted to go camping. Soooo...we went camping. We went to this state park that is about 40 min from our house up on the windward side of the island. And yes it was windy...the WHOLE time we were there. But atleast it wasn't hot. So here are some pics from our trip. They are pretty much in chronological order.

Me putting up the ol' tent.

The wind made it a challenge, but with Rach's expert help we erected the tent successfully.

This was the beach that was only about a minutes walk from our campsite.

Firewood was scarce, but I was able to find this huge tree limb and drag it to our campsite. I then cut it up using my handy Leatherman.

I sorted and stacked all the firewood. Im not sure why I did that, but it made it easy to build the fire.

Then I cleared out a little fire pit.

Rachel readied the smore supplies. (She was pretty excited about the smores)


And then we enjoyed the smores. I think Rach might have set some type of record for most smores eaten in one sitting.

It was a good time. We had lots of time to sit and read and relax by the beach or in the shade of our campsite. Rach only got freaked out once by "something" outside our tent. Was definetly a worth while trip.