In the middle of April, I caught the sewing bug and was dying to use my new machine to make some cute spring skirts for church so that I wouldn't have to wear my black ones anymore. So I followed the directions real careful like and measured my waist and hips to find the right size. Well, lets just say I have no hips (cause I for sure don't have a big waist) Apparently, the medium size is not the right size, at least hip wise.
But I love the fabric and the zipper turned out swell, so I will just size it down. Check out this new fabric below, I am in love with it! Another skirt, but this one is gonna be scrunchy waisted.
On Saturday, my friends Amanda and Angie invited me over to make pork tamales from scratch. It was awesome! We boiled, then shredded the pork. Boiled big dried red peppers and tomatoes. Then skinned them and pureed them with cumin. Then mixed that sauce over the pork.
Next we set out a work station to put the tamales together. We laid out corn husks, then pressed out the masa or dough made of corn meal. Centered some filling on the masa, then rolled it up in the husk and tied it off to be steam cooked!
No pics of me cause I was dealing with a wiggly boy who kept grabbing the camera. But I did get to do each of the steps. It was a lot of work, but when I brought them home, Kent was impressed.
On Monday, Kent really wanted to go hiking for shed antlers, but I kindly reminded him that we have a baby. So he got this bright idea to fix Owen into his backpack.
Of course I nixed that idea immediately, by saying it would hurt his arm pits and might snap open and, and, and. . . Needless to say we didn't hike, we just went for a drive.
Wednesday I finally used up my Mexican ingredients from the basket by making tomatillo ranch dressing!!! Cafe Rio anyone? Such a good salad with fresh salsa and the dressing. You can find the recipe
here. Tomatillos are these green looking tomatoes with husks on them, pretty good flavor (cucumber like).
Today, Thursday morning we woke up to this weather!!! I can't believe it, so yucky. So yucky.
How am I suppose to take my baby out strollin? Huh? And I was doing so good with my exercise! We went to the park yesterday for the first time (camera was on the blitz) and tried out the slide, twisty coaster, and the swings!
In the middle of April, I caught the sewing bug and was dying to use my new machine to make some cute spring skirts for church so that I wouldn't have to wear my black ones anymore. So I followed the directions real careful like and measured my waist and hips to find the right size. Well, lets just say I have no hips (cause I for sure don't have a big waist) Apparently, the medium size is not the right size, at least hip wise.
But I love the fabric and the zipper turned out swell, so I will just size it down. Check out this new fabric below, I am in love with it! Another skirt, but this one is gonna be scrunchy waisted.
On Saturday, my friends Amanda and Angie invited me over to make pork tamales from scratch. It was awesome! We boiled, then shredded the pork. Boiled big dried red peppers and tomatoes. Then skinned them and pureed them with cumin. Then mixed that sauce over the pork.
Next we set out a work station to put the tamales together. We laid out corn husks, then pressed out the masa or dough made of corn meal. Centered some filling on the masa, then rolled it up in the husk and tied it off to be steam cooked!
No pics of me cause I was dealing with a wiggly boy who kept grabbing the camera. But I did get to do each of the steps. It was a lot of work, but when I brought them home, Kent was impressed.
On Monday, Kent really wanted to go hiking for shed antlers, but I kindly reminded him that we have a baby. So he got this bright idea to fix Owen into his backpack.
Of course I nixed that idea immediately, by saying it would hurt his arm pits and might snap open and, and, and. . . Needless to say we didn't hike, we just went for a drive.
Wednesday I finally used up my Mexican ingredients from the basket by making tomatillo ranch dressing!!! Cafe Rio anyone? Such a good salad with fresh salsa and the dressing. You can find the recipe here. Tomatillos are these green looking tomatoes with husks on them, pretty good flavor (cucumber like).
Today, Thursday morning we woke up to this weather!!! I can't believe it, so yucky. So yucky.
How am I suppose to take my baby out strollin? Huh? And I was doing so good with my exercise! We went to the park yesterday for the first time (camera was on the blitz) and tried out the slide, twisty coaster, and the swings!