Gardner Family: December 2011

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Hotel Havoc

My cute punk slurping up the hot tub water.

Chase with his Santa beard and Brookie

T.K. kissing Glola

Brookie in the bubbles

Grandpa swinging Addie and Ryker around.

The pilot light on the hot tub had gone out, so it was kinda cold. That is why all the wimps are missing from this picture, (Russ, Rick, Matt & Lynn).

Grandpa and his girls

Ryker and Addie

Ryker giving Grandpa more white hair.

The girls

Teeky had gotten out and put his shirt on and then got back in. :)

Jadey getting thrown in he pool by her dad

Rick with his mommy

Russ and Rick playing pool

We have a tradition with the Gardner's of going up to Park City the day after Thanksgiving and doing our shopping and staying the night in a hotel. Russ always has to work that day so we meet him for lunch. The Pie is one of our favorites. It is fun to try and find stuff we have written on the wall the previous year. We never found, " B.J. loves Kelsey.} But we did find, "Jade loves Austin" and "Russell loves Kenya."

Good food, good times.

Thanksgiving With The Gardner's

We brought rolls from Texas Roadhouse and they were delish!

Russell Smoked the turkey and it was fabulous!

It was kinda quiet without Matt's family but it was a REALLY good meal.

Another Teenager In The House

Alicia's sister made this lime pie at our Enrichment activity and I LOVED it. So instead of a cake for Jade's birthday, she got a lime pie. I ate the whole thing practically by myself. No one else was that interested. She wanted to go to Subway for dinner so we did. We came home and watched a movie that she has been begging us to watch for the better part of 2 years now, (Prom Night). Now that she is finally a teenager, we gave in. Her best friend Kenzie came over and watched it with us.

She got a straightener for her gift.

Closet Chaos

Scott came over to play the other day. I was in my office typing

Christmas card labels. They were just down the hall and I had popped them some popcorn and turned on a movie and I THOUGHT they were quietly playing. Well when I went in to check on them, this is what I found...

They had taken everything out of the closet, everything out of the chest of drawers, everything out of the toy boxes and everything out of the window benches...When I say, "They/" I think it was mostly Teek The Tornado. Ugh...sigh...breathe in...breathe out...clean it up?...not today...In fact it has been two weeks since this happened and I STILL don't have the heart to clean it. Ryker has done his fair share in there to make it presentable, but let's be honest, he didn't do much. My goal is sometime before Christmas.

Lasagna Soup

I found this recipe on Pinterest for lasagna soup. I thought it looked pretty good and figured it had to go over well with my family because they all love lasagna.

The recipe was really complicated so I didn't follow it. I just took the idea.

I sauteed onions and garlic in olive oil. Then added

hamburger and sausage. Combined meat and aromatics to a pot with tomato sauce, tomato paste, Italian seasonings, Hot Shot, salt and noodles.

The topping is called, "cheesy yum" it is a mix of ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese, mozzarella and Italian seasoning.

Rick loved it. He said, "We need to have this once a week". It was nice to take something we make regularly and switch it up a little.

Happy Birthday To Me

My birthday week started great. A friend brought me over a really cute necklace and earrings, my visiting teachers brought me cookies and Alicia, Shaunna and Merisa took me to Mimi's for breakfast followed by Sheeky toes.
Rick took me to Joe's Crab Shack for dinner. He told me we were going to the symphony after dinner. My husband? The symphony? I knew he was full of it...

Last year when we were at the Hale Center, I saw them advertising for My Fair Lady. I told Rick I HAD to go. The whole ride home I was singing My Fair Lady to him and he said, "If that's what it sounds like, we are NOT going." Well, we were back there for Joseph in September and I said, "Have you gotten tickets for My Fair Lady yet?" "They will probably go fast." He told me that he had tried but that they were all sold out. So even though I wasn't expecting to go to My Fair Lady I still knew I wasn't going to the symphony. Well as you can see from the picture below, I am with Eliza Doolittle and Poor Professor Higgins. :) When I told him it was a relief that we didn't end up at the symphony he told me that he had purchased the tickets for My Fair Lady right after I told him I had to go see it almost a year ago. It was really good. They did a great job.

Tollhouse Pie

Another Pinterest idea and another recipe.

I had to take a pie to Enrichment. If you know my husband, you know that dessert does not leave his sight without being tasted first. Knowing I'd either have to smuggle the pie out without him seeing or take a pie with a slice missing, I decided to try this idea I had seen.You just use an old tuna or chicken can to bake in. So I scooped a little of the filling out of my pie and made him his own little individual pie. He love it.