Baking cookies with Nona

Yes, we still have dogs!

Thanksgiving 2008

Was Thanksgiving really just last week? Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving at my parents house. I will upload some pics with the friends soon. Those pictures are on our other camera. We were responsible for bringing desserts. Please see the lovely "Turkey Dinner" cake we brought. Don't worry, we brought some pies too! Nora with Jody eating the dip off the veggies. God forbid she actually would eat a veggie.

So, we tried... I swear we have the worst luck with family photos!
Pete getting Nora all geared up to eat! She only ate my mom's cranberry salad and mashed potatoes.

Alex, Jody and Izzy

Lissie and Joey

Nora and Izzy

NOTICE: Do not allow Alissa to make Green Bean Casserole.

Lissie offered to make Green Bean Casserole (GBC) for TG. As we were walking out the door to go to my parents Lissie calls and asks me to bring a 3qt casserole dish as somehow my parents after 40 years of marriage do not have one. I grab one and we are off. When we get there we notice a bag of onion rings on the counter. I was like WTF are those for.... Lissie told me to shut up as she didn't understand what type of onion topping she was suppose to buy for the GBC. We laughed... In all honesty onion rings was not a bad idea. So, she places the GBC in the oven and bakes it. She goes to check on it and it is more than runny. She is freaking out. Pete finds the recipe and discovers that she failed to drain the beans from the chicken broth as instructed so they get the beans out and drain them. They also add some sour cream, cheese and whipping cream to thicken it up. When it appeared done someone tasted it and almost puked. She put a 1/2 cup of salt in the GBC. I tried it and nearly had a heart attack on the spot. I spit it out in the sink. It was the nastiest tasting food ever. At least Lissie made a traditional Taco Dip and some Monster Cookies (which she thought no one had ever heard of before) and those items were good. Please see the masterpiece of GBC below.

Does anyone else have the "Spanish" problem on blogger? For some reason everytime I log in, it is in Spanish. When I hit the spell check button it says everything is spelled wrong because it is not in Spanish. Please help!

Nora getting her groove on!

I have been terrible about updating our blog. Sorry! We have been super busy. Nora continues to learn more and more each day. Last week she said her first sentence; "Mama, where are you?" I about fell over when she yelled that. She had her conferences at school the other day and her teacher said she is doing great. She is independent yet social. When she decides to holler or get rowdy she does it and recruits the rest of the class to join in. Jacob and Leslie are in town right now and Nora really digs them. We ask her to tell us what Jacob says and she says "hooty hooty hooty hoo" (in her language). I will update more in depth later this week. All is well in Swarty land! Oh and the update goes to the second page of the blog....

Little Shopper!

Sleepy heads