Sunday, March 27, 2011
7 months
Monday, March 21, 2011
Vote for Sienna!
We entered Sienna into a cute baby contest. I'd love it if you could help us out and vote for her! It is a slight pain in that you have to register on their page and then get a confirmation email before you can login to vote. From what I can tell you can vote once per day so you'd only have to register once and then you can vote every day you remember! We would appreciate any votes you can help us with. I mean she is the cutest baby so you really are voting the right way. ;) Thanks!
Click here to vote!
Ariana Kay Hwan Park
I'd like to introduce everyone to my new niece! Ariana was born at 11:05 last night (3/20) She was 6 lbs 10 oz and 19 inches. Mom and I went and saw her over lunch today. She's sooooo tiny and sooo cute. She's perfect looking with lots of dark hair. Congrats to the happy parents! They are smitten already.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Sister Sense
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Smiles
Saw something similar to this today on my walk over lunch. Tulips!! It brought smiles to my face. Love seeing the first glimmers of spring. It can't come soon enough. I am ITCHING to get in my garden. We have a long ways to go, I know. Maybe I should've started some plants indoors this year to get my fix. Think it's too late?
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Pictures Can Be Deceiving
Hamming it up on the plane ride home
Looks like we had a great time doesn’t it?? Too bad those are the only pics I have from our vacation since those were the highlights. I started feeling achy and weak Sunday morning. Sienna had a runny nose the previous week so I figured I was coming down with a cold. I powered through the day and we arrived in FL. Come Monday morning I woke up with a temp of 101. Our plans to Disney were canceled and I didn’t move from the couch all day. By Tuesday Sienna and Justin were both sick as well. Doh!
Sienna spent most of the rest of her vacation like this
The only good part to all of this was Papa Rick got in lots and lots of cuddle time which was really the whole point of the trip. We did enjoy a few moments of sun and nice weather here and there.
Sienna did great on both plane rides, despite not feeling well. She is such a little flirt. Anyone that met her eye was greeted with huge grins. Everyone around her just ate it up. Multiple times she got referred to as “The Gerber Baby”. You’d think those chubby cheeks would start to hurt from smiling so much.
Our house is finally on the way to recovery. I had to take Sienna into the doctor this morning and found out she has a double ear infection. Explains why she wouldn’t let me put her down yesterday! Let’s hope by the end of this weekend we can rejoin the world again.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Hi from FL
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Cooking Club VI
Cocktail
Sangria Tradicional (Traditional Sangria)
First Course
Berenjenas fritas con miel, menta, semillas de
sesamo (Fried Eggplant with Honey, Mint and Sesame Seeds)
These were delish!! Maybe my favorite part of the night. The honey on top made the flavor.
Main Course
Paella Valenciana (Mixed Valencia Paella)
The Paella was also excellent. Everyone agreed they'd make it again but only for a special occasion since it's so big and laborous. We had a hard time determining when the rice was going to be done and when to add the seafood so the calamari got way overcooked. The shrimp, scallops, and mussels were better. This was my first time trying mussels too! I was proud.
Ensalada con garbanzos, pimientos asados, y
alcaparras (Chickpea, Roasted Pepper and Caper Salad)
This dish was alright. Not a lot of flavor besides the chickpeas. We thought it would make a great hummus if you blended it up.
Dessert
Flan de Almendra Leche y Caramelo (Carmel and Almond Milk Flan)
Flan that everyone including our dairy free friends can eat? Perfect! We didn't realize that flan takes a long time to cool and made it at the end of the night. Even after throwing it outside for awhile, we ending up eating it warm. (Hence the melted carmel all over the plate) I love warm puddings so to me it was still wonderful and had a great almondy flavor. It would probably be even better cold.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Gmail is so cool
In breif it's saying that if you take my email address:
kristen.jovle@gmail.com
it's the same as:
kristenjovle@gmail.com or
k.r.i.s.t.e.n.j.o.v.l.e@gmail.com
You can add the periods wherever you want. Also you can use the "+" sign onto your address to help filter your emails. So say I'm on Amazon placing an order. I give them this email address:
kristen.jovle+amazon@gmail.com
Then I can set up a filter in my gmail to always look for that address and do whatever I want to filter it. So cool. I love Google!