Arroz Con Leche

We had a D and Y favorite today for lunch.  We had some leftover rice from dinner so we made Arroz Con Leche.  Once they knew we were making it, they immediately started in song:

Arroz con leche
Me quiero casar
Con una señorita
de la capital.

below: dancing to party music in the front room

The meal also triggered a memory for Diego.  He told us that he was given arroz con leche after he split his chin.  He told us a little boy was chasing him with water in his mouth and Diego fell on the cement and split his chin.  After the doctor came and gave him a shot he had arroz con leche.  :)

Mike turns 39 +1

We started out the morning with Gretta, Ella and Dayne awake at 4am to make breakfast.  I heard them getting up and decided to join them.  They made Mike an Omlette before he headed off for early work.  So sweet!

  We sent Mike 4 black balloons with 4 candy bars to his work.  He didn’t find it really funny.

We celebrated Mikes bday night at the MooseJaw!  We had the entire basement to ourselves and ordered wings and pizza and pop and played games around the bigscreen.  It was really fun!  We went home and had cake and opened his presents!!!

Cant wait to celebrate both of our bdays in NY with Al and P!!!  

BOYS and Monster Trucks

For Mike’s 40th he really wanted to do Monster Trucks with the Boys.  So he got tickets for the three of them and our brother in law Patrick and nephew Jaxson.  They got Pit Passes and toured the trucks beforehand.  Real Men!!!

1600 HP Hummer with 60 inch tires.

Dayne, Jaxson and Diego

Love Bugs

the super shoppers!!!

Playing Pioneers and Cowboys. Diego loves to dress up!!!!

Just too cute not to snap a picture

Dayne turns 10!!!

Dayne

kind~smiley~strong~sweet~mathematician

whiz~joyfilled~athletic~talkative~generous~

soft heart~

This morning Dayne was so thrilled that everyone came in to sing happy birthday to him in bed with a Nutella Crepe.  Birthdays are a day off of homeschool….so we spent a lazy morning eating crepes, scones and watching Monsters Vs Aliens.   We spent the late afternoon and evening at Christmas Mountain once Olivia and Pop came home!!!  Free lift tickets and most of us have ski’s we have found at vinne’s or ebay…and it was a day!!!  Cheese curds in the chalet, sun and snow….it was a good birthday!  We went home and ordered Pizza Hut and watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs followed by brownies and presents.

Happy Birthday Dayne!!!  We love you!!!

Big Trouble in Little China

  january 27 2010

We had stir fry tonight and the little love bugs were so

impressed to find out that they owned chopsticks.  I

brought them to the table and they immediately said “Oh

Mami…” with a sigh.  Diego dug right in a knew exactly

what to do with them.  HOW do they know these things??

the super-gross-fried-worms 10 yr old boy party-

Dayne turns 10 this week so we roasted him with fried worms….ewww…

We had fun finding all sorts of gross recipes like fried worms

…which were sautéed hot dogs

We made some intestines( pie crust filled with empanada mix and rolled like an intestine with red brushed egg white)…which we forgot to take a picture of, the monster bites(which D and Y sported in the prev. blog,fingers(fries),shaved skin (chips)

The boys were all given a harry potter jelly bean and had to guess their flavor…like cherry, earwax,bacon,vomit,green apple or dirt.

NEXT~They made some horrific worm concoctions. Two boys went to the kitchen and were able to create their worm platter with goodies in the kitchen. ( worms were died spaghetti noodles, ingredients of their choice on the counter…)They drew the names of the lucky soles to eat their creation. This went on til each boy had a turn of course….There were concoctions like barf casserole with horseradish, maple syrup and fish sauce….eww

The worm cake and the worms awaiting….