Two times now I have had a chance to help a 4th grade girl with math at the school. I found out that her father passed away when she was 3. Her mom works a lot to take care of her two children. Today I am reminded how good I have it. [...]
JR and I just saw the movie Avatar for his birthday. My friend Cecilia watched the kids for us. I have to say, that it may be my all time favorite movie. Of course, I didn’t get all the hype about it, but now I do. If you can, go see [...]
Through my work I get to take an Apologetics class in January. The course work includes reading 3 books and 7 articles, completing 7 two page worksheets and writing a 5 – 9 page paper. Anyone who knows me can attest to the fact that this is not my forte. Don’t get [...]
Sunday marks the first Sunday for Advent. Here’s what we do as a family tradition. I got this idea from Stacey Thacker, a wonderful person.
Happy Thanksgiving!
This has been a weird Fall for me. I’ve had a couple health issues and just decided to not run a marathon this year. I still run. This morning I ran 8 miles. Maybe next year. JR’s trip to Singapore went very well. I actually was able to sleep [...]
I think this article is right when it comes to change in North Korea. It’s not like a know much anyway about the situation, it just seems correct as an outsider.
On Sunday morning I ran eighteen miles. I was very nervous about this run. I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to do it since my last run of 16 miles was a bit rough. We had spaghetti the night before and I was pretty cognizant of drinking plenty of fluids the day before. I [...]
Here’s the what I did tonight and please note that I am not to great at relaying specifics in directions, but I’ll do my best. The fact that I even cook this is a miracle in itself. It really shows how much I like chicken curry. Just like Apple Strudel. I’m going to have to [...]
What a great day. We had Dunkin Donuts for breakfast, had sandwiches and veges for lunch, and pizza for dinner. The kids went swimming and after dinner we went fishing for a couple hours. Eddie got a bass on about his 3rd cast. Rachel and Hannah tried. They had bites, but nothing they were able [...]
So far I’ve been able to participate two years in a row in the IOA Corporate 5K. This year I ran it in 24:28, a bit under an 8 minute pace. Very cool. I was pretty happy about my time. Here’s a couple pics of me in the IOA race last night, there’s two shots, [...]
Recently, the team I work with, GCX, has been promoting a new Help Center. The GCX Help Center has video instruction, wiki pages filled with instruction, screen shots, I mean, it’s loaded with information that we have tried to make accessible and easy to find for all the users of GCX. One of my jobs [...]
One of my favorite things that God has done this year has been allowing me to be a part of 2 women’s Bible study groups. The first one is in our own neighborhood. We have a lot of fun. There are about ten of us and it’s? a “Following Jesus 101″ type [...]
The blueberry sour cream pie is in the oven as we speak. Here’s the recipe I am trying out. I’ll comment on how it turns out. I plan on using a different crumb topping. Yum! Can’t wait to eat it!
JR did a fine job of writing about our first encounter with a florida cotton mouth/water moccasin. Afterwords and on the way home, Rachel said she wanted to go on a hike through the woods for some excitement – yes you read that right, Rachel. It was pretty interesting to watch it from [...]
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Chicken Tortilla Soup
1 can diced tomatoes
1 can chicken broth
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can corn (drained)
1 can beans (pinto or black)
3 chicken breasts, chopped
1 med. onion, diced
2 cloves of garlic (or garlic powder)
1 Tbsp fresh cilantro, chopped
Cumin to taste
Chili powder to taste
Fry chicken and onion [...]
Here are a couple pie recipes I have recently tried. The Chocolate Pudding Pie I made for JR’s birthday. I used powdered sugar and baked a butter pie crust – JR’s request. The Three Berry Pie and link are also in this post after the more tag.
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We had a lot of fun with the kiddos on New Year’s Eve. The kids stayed up to a bit after 9pm. We played UNO with rules, that’s where the winner gets to make a new rule for the next hand and Sorry. We toasted in the New Year with some Welch’s [...]
Today I took the kids to Playalinda Beach. We always have fun when we go there. Despite the lack of running water available and outhouse, which is very clean by the way, it is probably my favorite beach spot. We caught 2 whiting in the pics below. They were very, very [...]