Wow, I actually get to finish this blog update tonight! We had planned a Starbucks and Trader Joe's outing tonight after swimming and dinner but we tuckered little Soren out and he almost fell asleep in his highchair. Therefore, I'm home with the sleeping baby and Einar and Jared went out to procure the food supplies. Also check out www.pooseandhawk.blogspot.com for some great pictures of the boys when we went down to visit our friends Reeder and Hayes at their new home near the Naval Hospital on base.
A couple of weeks ago Jared remembered that we have a bread machine hiding out in the garage. I guess that remember isn't really the right word since he more "found" it again when he was sorting through the garage and reorganizing our belongings a.k.a. stuff. We've had it since we got married and used it a bunch of times in Gardnerville, but since we were living at 4300 ft above sea level the results were lacking. Now however we decided that Einar might have some fun making bread in the "Breadman." All he has to do is add the ingredients and wait about 3 1/2 hours and out pops the bread. He made a really delicious whole wheat and flax bread on Thursday night that we ate for dinner with garlic spaghetti, salad and a pear-cranberry crisp--delicious things coming out of our kitchen all night! This is him with his first slice of the warm bread straight out of the machine.
Close-up shot of the delicious bread. We ate it in sandwiches last night when we went to California Adventure. I had mine with salmon salad and lettuce, yum!
"Look, Mom! Dad is slicing the bread that I made!"
Track construction is getting mega complicated around here. Jared made this one before I woke up the other morning.
Last Sunday after church we went on an adventure down to LaJolla with the Fenell family. It involved lunch at the Carlsbad In-N-Out and time on the gorgeous beach once we had made it to La Jolla. The boys loved running around on the softest sand I've seen and we all enjoyed the view and the slightly overcast day. We parked by the Scripps Oceanography Institute (sorry we didn't get a picture, Uncle Tor) and just walked down to the beach. Once we had worn the boys out we looked for children's beach where the seals are, but alas parking just wasn't available on Sunday afternoon to check it out. We figured that the upscale shopping boutiques downtown weren't up for our four sandy boys so we headed back north and everyone fell asleep in the car once we were on the freeway. In less than 90 days the Fenells will be moving to Burlingame CA and we're trying to spend as much time with them while they are nearby.
These are the infamous baked donuts, Grandma. See, they don't look too bad and they are really yummy. I didn't take a picture of the spinach pancakes, but those were good too. The pancakes are an actual appetizer recipe from Finland and not some sneaky-get-your-kids-to-eat -veggies pancake recipe. I ate mine with sour cream, Einar chose maple syrup, and Soren likes his pancakes plain.
You can often find Soren in a box of some sort these days. Here he is checking out the inside of the train basket. Like Einar he can entertain himself quite easily with all of the toys that we have in the living room. Whenever Einar is around Soren will of course want to play with what ever Einar is playing with and that causes some noisy situations especially before breakfast. I'm sure that Soren thinks that his name is "NO Soren" according to Einar.
This last picture was taken by Einar of one of his most favorite things in the world, his burpy.
A couple of weeks ago Jared remembered that we have a bread machine hiding out in the garage. I guess that remember isn't really the right word since he more "found" it again when he was sorting through the garage and reorganizing our belongings a.k.a. stuff. We've had it since we got married and used it a bunch of times in Gardnerville, but since we were living at 4300 ft above sea level the results were lacking. Now however we decided that Einar might have some fun making bread in the "Breadman." All he has to do is add the ingredients and wait about 3 1/2 hours and out pops the bread. He made a really delicious whole wheat and flax bread on Thursday night that we ate for dinner with garlic spaghetti, salad and a pear-cranberry crisp--delicious things coming out of our kitchen all night! This is him with his first slice of the warm bread straight out of the machine.
Close-up shot of the delicious bread. We ate it in sandwiches last night when we went to California Adventure. I had mine with salmon salad and lettuce, yum!
"Look, Mom! Dad is slicing the bread that I made!"
Track construction is getting mega complicated around here. Jared made this one before I woke up the other morning.
Last Sunday after church we went on an adventure down to LaJolla with the Fenell family. It involved lunch at the Carlsbad In-N-Out and time on the gorgeous beach once we had made it to La Jolla. The boys loved running around on the softest sand I've seen and we all enjoyed the view and the slightly overcast day. We parked by the Scripps Oceanography Institute (sorry we didn't get a picture, Uncle Tor) and just walked down to the beach. Once we had worn the boys out we looked for children's beach where the seals are, but alas parking just wasn't available on Sunday afternoon to check it out. We figured that the upscale shopping boutiques downtown weren't up for our four sandy boys so we headed back north and everyone fell asleep in the car once we were on the freeway. In less than 90 days the Fenells will be moving to Burlingame CA and we're trying to spend as much time with them while they are nearby.
These are the infamous baked donuts, Grandma. See, they don't look too bad and they are really yummy. I didn't take a picture of the spinach pancakes, but those were good too. The pancakes are an actual appetizer recipe from Finland and not some sneaky-get-your-kids-to-eat -veggies pancake recipe. I ate mine with sour cream, Einar chose maple syrup, and Soren likes his pancakes plain.
You can often find Soren in a box of some sort these days. Here he is checking out the inside of the train basket. Like Einar he can entertain himself quite easily with all of the toys that we have in the living room. Whenever Einar is around Soren will of course want to play with what ever Einar is playing with and that causes some noisy situations especially before breakfast. I'm sure that Soren thinks that his name is "NO Soren" according to Einar.
This last picture was taken by Einar of one of his most favorite things in the world, his burpy.
