a crazy dinner bite

last weekend when John was here, Nelson and John were reminiscing about some of their favorite childhood dishes. One that came up is called "sofan" (sp!?!). They were not sure if it was made up or maybe their dad brought it back from Korea. But however it originated, I have to admit, it sounded a little crazy to me (and against my taste bud's "can't eat breakfast foods for dinner" rule). But tonight, I thought I would suprise Nelson and give it a try. I always get nervous making things that Nelson had as a child because nothing ever tastes as good as when your mom makes it. But I think it turned out ok. Basically, it is a bacon-egg-rice bowl. You just cook all three of those things and mix them togehter in a bowl, add some soy sauce and you are good to go. It was actually pretty tasty, but I made sure to have a few chocolate covered pretzels immediately following dinner so that my taste buds would not be confused about the time of day.


sofan!


nelson excited for his sofan

a tasty sweet bite (well i hope it is tasty)

i was emailing with Winsor today and she had mentioned she made some chocolate covered pretzels. i thought that sounded good so i made some! they need to dry for 24 hours which seems like a long time to me, but who i am i to argue with paula dean? here they are drying!


milk chocolate covered ones


white chocolate covered ones (the really ugly one with all the brown on it is one with crushed oreos, it was a good idea in theory, but not in reality)

a baby update :)

for those of you who are interested, i thought i would give a little update on the baby and how he/she is doing! well, i am on my 19th week (starting tomorrow so i am rounding up) and last week I could start to feel some flutters! It is really fun and usually I say "hello" to him/her whenever i feel it (i do say hello outloud sometimes which has caused some confusion at work). According to my book/emails about what I am supposed to be expecting, this week the baby will start to swallow amniotic fluid to keep hydrated. and it says that the fluid tastes like whatever i have been eating so the baby will acquire a taste for what i eat (supposedly). as soon as i learned this, i was quite excited because i decided i will not eat any breakfast foods and eat lots and lots of lunch and dinner foods so that it's taste buds will be set straight. i will also not eat any fruit for dessert so it will not get confused about what dessert is supposed to be. i will also be sure to eat lots of cottage cheese so we can sit down together after a day of work/school and enjoy a snack of cottage cheese and cracked pepper and olive oil triscuits.
besides this new found joy of being able to affect the baby's tastes, i found that this week they are about the size of a large mango! that is fun! here is a link to a mango in case you need a reminder of what it looks like-
http://importfood.com/media/mango1l.jpg
and finally, i feel good these days, no more sickness which is quite nice. i think i am starting to show (my boss, a client and nelson are the only people that have noticed so far), but i am still in that awkward "did you have too much for thanksgiving" phase so i will not take any pics until it is more obvious. but i definitely made the switch to maternity pants a while ago because, as my sister-in-law told me, why wear pants with a real waist band when you can wear pants with an elastic waist band? i couldn't agree more. i think i will be really confused when i go back to having a zipper and buttons, it will really slow me down when i am getting dressed!
also, i will not be taking any pics of my bare stomach, sorry people, but that is just not going to be going public.
ok, i think that is the update for now!
and oh yeah- we find out on the 22nd if it is a girl or boy!! i will let you know! we've had lots of guesses for girl and not as many for boy so we will see who is right!

our weekend

this weekend, nelson's brother john came into town for a visit. it was lots of fun! here are a few pics from the great time!


getting a bite to eat at First Watch (and i got lunch even though it was like 10:00 in the morning, this caused tension the rest of the weekend between john and me :) )


john enjoying his coffee


nelson excited about the fabric store


enjoying some starbucks


happy 21st john!


a new book for him


us!

christmas decorating!

the past few days, well really since the end of last week, Nelson has not been feeling well at all. the past few days have been especially rough with a combination of business at work and complete congestion in the head. so we decided that nothing would make him feel better than some decorating the christmas tree. we thought that we would just use our little fake tree again this year since we will be gone for christmas and a while afterwards. but it was still fun to put out the decorations!! hopefully Nelson will feel better soon too!


some christmas pillows on the couch


our little tree


window and tree


stockings (and stupid stocking holder that fell on my foot and hurt it real bad)


christmas placemats


Nelson enjoying the decorations

do i have anything in my teeth?

i was asking Nelson if i had anything in my teeth but he took a picture instead. and this is what our little one is getting for a mom...

It's starting to sink in....

our new stockings for this year...