HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW ME?

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW ME?

Four jobs I have had in my life
1. Lifeguard
2. Grounds Crew at Eastern New Mexico University (for about 3 weeks)
3. Resident Assistant at ENMU
4. Assistant Dean of Students

Movies I would watch over and over.
1. Remember the Titans
2. Lord of the Rings
3. When Harry Met Sally
4. When a Man Loves a Woman

Four Places I have lived:
1. Sundown, TX
2. Portales, NM
3. Roswell, NM
4. Lubbock, TX

Four TV shows I love to watch
1. CSI: Las Vegas
2. Survivor
3. Seinfeld (reruns and have seasons 1-4 on DVD)
4. Just about anything on TLC (although we don’t have full cable right now, so… L)

Four websites I visit daily:
1. MSN Homepage
2. Charlottemommies.com
3. myspace.com
4. my favorite blogs

Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Cancun, Mexico
2. England
3. Mountains of New Mexico for camping
4. Florida

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Anything Mexican
2. Crab legs with lots of butter
3. my mom’s meatloaf and mashed potatoes
4. my mom’s homemade banana pudding

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Any beach
2. Any pool
3. Boston
4. Anywhere in Europe

Three friends that I have tagged:
1. Lisa M.
2. Erin O.
3. Kelly K. (just copy and paste what you sent me and put it on your blog :) )

You've been tagged so here it goes. Copy on to a new blog post then delete my answers, replace with your own and publish to your blog.

One year ago today....

Jenn Unsell's blog inspired me to post some pictures from last year at this time. Exactly one year ago today, I was doing Orientation Counselor training. This picture is a picture of a scheduled mandatory fun break. :) Do I miss it? Not really! I don't miss the long hours or the really hard work. But I do miss the students and the great sense of accomplishment I always felt on the first day of SOAR. But even missing that is not enough to make me want to go back to work to leave this precious little girl. She's just as much hard work if not more than anything I've ever done. And just one smile or slobbery kiss makes it ALL worth it! I'm also including some pictures of me from one year ago. :) And one picture of Emma about a year ago! :)

Small group celebrations...

We LOVE our small group! Monday was Amanda's birthday, so we surprised her on Wednesday with a cake and other goodies. Albert brought his faorite drink to share - IBC Rootbeer and Nathan brought Krispy Kreme donuts. We didn't think to take a picture of the cake with the candles in it. Oh well! :)

We've been discussing Pastor Coty's sermons from Sunday at our small group. He just finished going through a sermon series on The Tragedy of Weak Desires. He spent five weeks on five different topics: money, sex, success, entertainment and family. I missed two of the sermons due to being in the nursery, but was very glad we were discussing them in our small group. This has been a good sermon series for me to hear. It was all about desiring other things more than God. I will admit that honestly this sermon series was very convicting. I tend to desire almost all of those things more than I desire God. I spend more time thinking about those things than I do spiritual things. My joy must first come from God. "Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." (Psalm 37:4) I KNOW this verse, but do I live it? No, not most of the time. Lord, I pray you will change my heart of stone to a heart of flesh. Give me the desire to follow hard after you. Teach me to love you above everything else, even my husband and my daughter. Show me the joy that only you can give. Father, I pray this in your son Jesus Christ's name. Amen. 

And she crawls...

Well, our little Emma is crawling. She doesn't crawl all over the place just yet, just far enough to reach whatever it is she wants at the moment. It's hard to believe she is big enough to crawl!! She is also almost sitting up on her own and she is trying to pull up. She's a little scaredy cat! But it won't be long. I will try to get some video this afternoon of her crawling and post it on her blog. She's also been waking up at 6:20am the past couple of mornings. This is TOO early for Mommy! I REALLY need to get her curtains up! I think it will help if it isn't so light in her room so early!

KFC Coleslaw...

Our neighbors also grew cabbage and theirs did MUCH better than ours. I think because their garden is where our new one is, but in their back yard. And it gets better sun. Anyway, they gave us a head of cabbage and Jonathan asked me to make coleslaw with it. He is pretty particular about coleslaw and only likes the KFC slaw and the Chick-fil-a slaw. I found the KFC slaw recipe online and made it. It turned out pretty good! Here is the recipe.




Authentic KFC Coleslaw: The Real Thing

4 1/2 teaspoons tarragon vinegar (key ingredient)
6 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil (I used conola)
3/4 cup chopped onions
2 1/2 cups Miracle Whip (I used Helman's lite mayo)
1 cup sugar
2 carrots
2 heads green cabbage

Mix oil, onions and sugar. Add tarragon vinegar. Fold in mayo. Pour over grated carrots and cabbage. Fold in well. Refridgerate in and air-tight covered dish. Best if made the night before serving (I found this to be VERY true. It was SO much better the next day!)

Apparently the tarragon vinegar is the key. Also, you want to make sure the cabbage is chopped to the size of corn kernals and the carrots the same. This recipe make ALOT! You could easily cut it in half. Oh...and your food processor is your FRIEND in chopping the carrots and cabbage!! 

Secondary Garden...

This is where our garden has been the previous two years. We went ahead and planted a spring garden there this year. Our lettuce is almost gone and we aren't sure the cabbage is going to mature. We also just put in our basil and lemon balm. In the corner you can see our rosemary that we have had for three year. In the pot is our oregano. I know...it looks dead, and we thought it was, but it seems to be coming back!! We are excited!
 

Finished Garden...

Here is our garden all fininshed! We got dirt and plants last weekend. You can also see that Jonathan mulched with grass clippings this weekend. We really want some tall trellis for the back, but is is SO expensive. We planted 2 better boy tomatoes, 2 roma tomatoes, 1 stripey tomato, 2 long neck yellow squash, 2 acorn spuash, 2 green peppers, 1 jalapeno and 1 cilantro plant. YUMMY!

Babies in the nursery...

So it took me a little longer to post these pictures than I intended. Sorry for those of you that were waiting! We usually have 5 or 6 babies, but last week, there were only 2. I've also included a picture of Hayley. This picture was WAY too cute not to post!

 

Fun at Church...

I served in the nursery this morning and these are a few pictures that I took. All the toddlers (minus Andrew) decided they wanted Mrs. Gibson to read them a book and they ALL wanted to sit in her lap!

I just realized that I did not get any pictures of the babies! Next week...
 

Fun with friends...

After the guys finished working on the boxes (previous post), we had dinner at the Keller's. Kelly grilled salmon and corn on the cob. I brought lettuce from our spring garden for a salad. We would have had left over baby shower cake for desert, but Kelly dropped it on the floor...yes the whole thing. It was pretty funny, I have to say! :) The kids had a great time playing together. You can see the three oldest Keller boys watching the Ketucky Derby. They were fasinated. Ben wanted the pink horse to win! I guess he wanted the horse whose jockey was wearing pink to win! LOL! After dinner, Emma took a bath with Andrew and Jonathan. (There are a few more pictures on Emma's blog.)

Fresh veggies...well, almost!!

Jonathan and David built garden boxes for Kelly and I yesterday! Here are some pictures. Our box is the free standing one and Kelly's is the one next to the house. I am SOOOO proud of them! I think they did a fantastic job! They still need to put all the rods in and get soil. I can't wait for home grown tomatoes!! There's nothing like 'em!

Moving friends...

Saturday friends from our church moved to Tennessee. Jonathan helped load the truck while Emma and I entertained the troups! We are very sad that Donna and Jody have left us, but we know God is sovereign and has placed them exactly where He needs them right now. We hope they will still come to visit!! Emma and I had to leave before the loading was finished. When we left, I wasn't sure it was all going to fit! But somehow they got it all in there!!

Today, Emma and I are going to lunch with Kelly. :) Her two older boys are at the Wachovia Championship with their daddy, so Kelly has the two younger ones. It makes it easier to run errands and go to lunch with just 2 little ones! Speaking of lunch, I better go finish getting ready and geta few things done before we go!