My odometer

Since I was just talking about how I liked to take pictures of my odometer when it reaches milestones, I thought I would share this picture from the other day. Here's to many more milestones on my odometer!

Q is for Quirky

So my sister-in-law posted 6 things that are quirky about here. She did not tag anyone but she said she is leaving it open to whoever wants to follow suit. So I am following (I really like stealing other people's blog ideas) and here are my 6 quirky things:

1. I really really like cottage cheese and eat it like a dip with about anything. That includes chips, crackers, carrots, cucumber and whatever else sounds good at the time.
2. I hate fluffy pillows. It is very hard for me to sleep at a hotel or anywhere else without my pillow that I have owned since childhood. It is so flat you can fold it in half and it will stay like that.
3. People say I usually do not use contractions when I talk. I think I do sometimes but then there are a lot of times when I do not. Apparently I also have an accent or something else strange about the way I talk, one person once asked if I was from Russia!
4.I do not like breakfast food all that much (many people already know this). I would rather eat lunch or dinner than breakfast.
5. My mom, brother and I all have the same birthday (and my brother and I are not twins). I am not sure if that is quirky, but it sure is cool. And i was born at 6:21 in the a.m. and James was born at 6:21 at night.
6. I like to take pictures of my car odometer when it reaches monumental milages. For instance I have for 50,000 and one for 75,000. I think I have one for 80,000 but I will definitely have one at 100,000. I might even throw my car a party then.

Ok, now I invite anyone to post about their quirky things!

Husband Appreciation Part II

As soon as I saw this recipe for Honey Buns in my Martha Stewart Living magazine, I knew it was time for husband appreciation part two. Nelson would eat breakfast for every meal of the day if he could. Me, on the other hand, would eat lunch or dinner for every meal of the day if I could. So that naturally causes a little bit of a dilemma at times. Usually this is resolved by a visit to First Watch where I can order lunch and he can order breakfast. But today I thought I would surprise him with a breakfast for dinner (it's not like we never have breakfast for dinner but I can probably count on one hand the number of times we have in our three years of marriage). So I did some baking this afternoon and here is how it all went:


Kneading the dough (thank goodness for a stand mixer otherwise I would have been kneading for a long time)


Dough rolled out and filling is spread on


Rolled up


Cut into individual rolls and rising again


Cooked and ready to eat!


Nelson's dinner (complete with Vitamin D milk-his favorite)

Husband Appreciation

So on a friend's blog I was challenged to think of some ways to serve and show my appreciation for my husband. I thought and I thought and today I thought of just the thing to show him my love and devotion. And what is that thing you might ask? Bacon! Yes, the food. See, Nelson loves bacon, and I do not like it so much. The smell, the grease, etc, it is just not my favorite. So tonight I made a pasta dish that included a lot of bacon. After Nelson's first bite he exclaimed "Yumb" (yes pronounce the b, that is how he says it). So Nelson, I hope your bacon dinner let's you know how much I appreciate you :) and maybe I will work on a more serious way of showing you.

It's beginning to seem like fall...

Well today's high was about 65 which makes it a pretty awesome fall type day. Nelson and I enjoyed the weather by going for a run and then had some classic fall food of grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. It was delicious. I did not take these pictures nor did I put a sprig of green on the top of our soup, but other than that, this is just like what we had for dinner :) Then to top off the evening making it more fall-like, we can hear the sound of the highschool football teaming playing a few blocks away. It is just an all around great evening!

Flooding in the Lou!

It rained and rained here in the Lou last night and this morning. It really was a torrential down pour. My grandfather said, according to his rain gauge, that it was over four inches in a not very long period of time. So lots of areas were flooded. This morning on our way to church, we had to take a bunch of different routes to get past where the road was closed due to flooding. We saw lots of stranded vehicles and hit a few spots that were getting pretty full of water (one area we drove through this morning is now closed off because it is too flooded). On our way back, we saw this poor car. Thankfully no one was in it but it really stinks for whoever owned it!

Worlds Longest Receipt

This is what happens when you buy something at Schnucks and pay for it with multiple $1 gift cards- you make a lot of people waiting behind you in line really mad and you get the world's longest receipt.