White Pizza with Arugula

Happy Thursday! William and I have pizza EVERY Sunday night, homemade crust and all. So, we are very picky pizza eaters. No Domino's here! That being said it says a lot that we liked this one! After a night off - we're back with this fabulous white pizza!

January 26, 2011

White Pizza with Arugula by Ina Garten

Things We Learned:

1. Italian fontina, fresh mozzarella, and creamy goat cheese are better than pre-shredded Publix-brand cheese.

2. You can make a very good pizza without meat.

3. You can put "salad" on top of a pizza and it will still be good.

Night Number Three Dinner Rating:

William - 8.5

Sarah - 8.0

Dinner Spanakopitas & Green Salad

Also known by me as "Dinner Spank-o-potomus"...

At our house we are continuing through the week making vegetarian meals planned for us by my favorite friend Cassie. These are spinach and cheese filled pastries that are a traditional Greek food (thank you Wikipedia - the always factual web encyclopedia).

January 25, 2011

Dinner Spanikopitas by Ina Garten

Things We Learned:

1. You must defrost phyllo dough prior to using (hence we are having this tonight instead of Sunday night, as originally planned).

2. Phyllo dough is not as scary to cook with as it looks - you should try it!

Night Number Two Dinner Rating: (To clarify the rating system it is a scale of 1 to 10. 1 being you would never eat it again and actually couldn't even take more than one bite; 10 being the best meal you've ever eaten - Highlands, Palace Cafe, etc.)

William (Rating based only on vegetarian meals; adding meat for William would clearly catapult the rating!) - 6.5*

Sarah - 7.0

*Too much nutmeg

Vegetarian Cook-Off!

Okay, so one of my new years resolutions is to learn how to cook better, more healthful, whole foods. And to help, one of my favorite friends has prepared a weeks worth of recipes for us while abiding with our new-found semi-vegetarianism. Tonight I made Pad Thai.

January 24, 2011

Yes, I actually made this - this is not a picture from a magazine although it could be!

Things I learned tonight:

1. You can peel fresh ginger with a spoon (thank you You Tube).

2. "Fish Sauce" is not cocktail sauce (thanks for nothing Publix employee)!

3. I am a very messy cook!

Night Number One Dinner Rating: 5.5

Off Broadway

We spend so much time in our house switching from room to room just for a change of scenery so, this week instead of changing rooms, we changed houses, cities, and states! We came to Pensacola on Tuesday and Sydney has been playing with Nan & Pop and Grayson & Harper all week. In fact, I spent all of Wednesday eating out and shopping with Jen. It has been a great break but we are missing William and are heading home on Saturday!

January 18 - 20, 2011

Driving a pirate ship and slideing into the rough seas with a handful of treasure!

Playing with Pop - Ouch! She will grab your nose and hang on tight!

Dad and I decided we would give Mom and Jen a break and bathe all three kids together. What were we thinking!?

Looking Like the Little Old Lady Who Lived in the Shoe?

UA Girls Gather! There are a group of girls that I met while in grad school at UA. Every year since we graduated we have gotten together a couple of times a year to catch up, relax, sip wine, eat, and enjoy being together. While over the years it has gotten a little less relaxing and we sip a little less wine, we always catch up and enjoy being together! This time we met in Jackson, MS - home to three of the six girls that came. Through the years we have slowly added more and more children - always bringing them with us for these weekends. So this weekend we had 6 girls, 8 kids, and 0 husbands. We all stayed in Kim's new house which was beautiful and fit us all perfectly. Here are a few pictures from our night together.

January 16 and 17, 2011

Partial-Group Shot - Take 1

Partial-Group Shot - Take 2 As I said before there was lots of eating...

Hide and Go Seek...

And Attempted Group Baths...

Sydney (9 months)

Kim and Amy

Kate - 4 years old (Kim's 1st)

Jack - 20 months (Kim's 2nd)

Joseph - 3 and 1/2 months (Kim's 3rd)

Jo Alice and Sarah Martin (1 year old)

Elizabeth and Camilla (2 years old)

Madelyn (Almost 3 years old)

Amy (No kids yet, but just drink the water here, that's soon to change!)

Starting the Weekend Off Right!

Gymboree Here We Come! After a week of snow, ice, and very cold weather we were getting a little stir crazy on Broadway! So, Sydney and I met some friends at Gymboree and let the kids go wild. We have a very consistent 6:30 bedtime at our house preceded by a least an hour of whining, clinging to mom, and inevitably Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Therefore, it surprised me that Sydney was as happy as could be from 4:00 to 6:15 when we finally left and headed home. Thanks to our friends for meeting us!

January 14, 2011

Sydney and her friend L

All three girls loving the tunnel

A little side note - Sydney and L traded snacks. Syndey tried goldfish for the first time and loved them while L gobbled Sydney's puff's. So sorry to the clean up staff at Gymboree - we left a few crumbs!

Auburn v. Oregon - National Championship Pre-game!

War Eagle! We are dressed and ready for the game - pom poms and all. We woke up this morning to an icy/snowy mix outside and the Auburn fight song playing inside! All grandparents are at the game cheering on the tigers. We are settling in for pizza, football, and homemade dessert!

January 10, 2010

Oh - and Sydney wears Cam Newton pajamas!