Flight Comics

Here are some more comic books I got from one of our local libraries. We were just browsing and I saw the cover of Volume 3 (the one on the far right) and thought it looked really awesome. So I got out all three volumes. They are collections of short stories, all having to do with flight in some way. You can learn more at the website: www.flightcomics.com.

Video Games!

We played a lot of video games with Andy this weekend. We focused on 4 games: Mario Party 5, Dr. Mario, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Mario Kart Double Dash. It was lots of fun. It's too bad I don't have more time to just hang out and play games.

Indian Feast for Andy

Andy came to visit this weekend so Chad and I put together a little vegetarian Indian feast for him (and for us!!). You see in this photo, naan, rice, sesame yogurt potatoes, mung dal with red split lentils, black eyed peas with mushrooms, curried spinach with eggplant and chick peas, and raita. We had honey-peach lassis for dessert later. It was so hot in the kitchen after cooking for HOURS! But it was totally worth it.

Fetish

This is called a fetish. Fetishes are made by American Indians out west. Deb and Bud brought this one back for us from their trip out to the Grand Canyon. It is so beautiful. The blue matches our living room so well. I especially love the tiny little blue eyes it has in the front.

Moo Cards

A couple days ago I got a small package in the mail and was so thrilled! They were the Moo cards I ordered. If you aren't familiar with Moo cards ... well too bad! Haha, just kidding. It's a digital photo thing. Check it out at www.moo.com

Blackberry Jam

Last Friday we stopped by Chad's grandmother's house for a little while with the rest of Chad's family and picked blackberries from the bushes all along the side of her house. Between Chad, me, and the four sisters, we picked blackberries for about 15 minutes or so until we got all the ripe ones. It amounted to about 3.5 cups (I know, it doesn't seem like a lot but it actually was). I decided to try to make jam with them, so before starting the night's cleaning, I followed a recipe (sort of) from the package of Pectin I bought. It made 5 jars of jam and I think it tastes pretty good although it hasn't completely cooled and solidified yet. It's very sweet, but it definitely tastes like blackberries. I'm so excited and it was really quite easy! We're going to go back and pick more sometime when the other berries ripen. Woohoo.

Beautifying the House

Since it's been a while since we did a thorough house cleaning, and it's been a while since someone has seen the house for the first time, we've been working feverishly this week to prepare for Andy's visit this coming weekend (as I think I've already mentioned). So in addition to just tidying up and organizing things, we went a bit farther and got some small projects done that we've been planning for a while. One of them was putting up the lights on our bed, which I already showed you. Another was hanging a shelf over our bed that we've had for ages. The last big one was hanging this awesome Japanese fan near the top of our stairs. The fan is a pain to hang because you have to match two different hooks on the back simultaneously but the fan gets in the way. Anyway, we finally got it up last night or the night before and I think it looks great. When you see it from the side, you can also see the reflection in the mirror at the top of the stairs.