Happy Anniversary and stuff

Wow 16 years. How weird is that? We've only been married for 6 but still 16 YEARS. Seems a lifetime but its a drop in the bucket when you consider some people have been married 50 years.
We are not going to be doing anything though we had our "date" last week. Judd brought me home some Godiva chocolates, however being he got them in Vegas they are a tad worse for wear.


Did my alternate exercise yesterday. Spent the sweat soakinest day of my life on the spin bike. I don't think I have ever been that sweaty. It was crazy. I have some Spinerval DVD's and there was on that was the perfect time - 90 minutes. They are actually meant for using your regular bike on a trainer so you can shift through the proper gear ratios but anyway they also had a output meter at the top so I just adjusted the spin bike so my heartrate matched the output meter. YOWSA! But it was fun. Today I went to my Yoga class. Can I just say again how much I love Shelley? I'm not sure what exactly it is, maybe because she was my first teacher or familiarity but I just love the way she teaches. I get it. She explains it in a way you can get. There are some teacher that get all spiritual and karmaish and say these things that I go WTH are you talking about? I never have that with Shelley. She always explains it so you go "oh I get it". And she always corrects form so you do it correctly. And she is always available for questions and will go over a move with you until you get it. LOVE HER.

Haven't posted many pics lately so here are a couple.

Logan showing his shiny clean teeth. Freshly brushed, too bad he didn't wash his face too!


Last night while I was making dinner I could hear Ronan puttering about as he does and then I hear a strange echoey sound. Hmm I think what the heck is he doing so I go to investigate and find this:




Guess I need to remember to make sure the bathroom door is closed!


I've been trying to find fig and tomato recipes (not necessarily together). I have a subscription service to a local organic farm and this weeks box was full to the brim of heirloom tomatoes and figs. I don't particularly like fresh figs just to eat. They don't taste bad but just don't really like to eat them like fruit. So I found a fresh fig bread recipe that is actually quite good. Unfortunately I still have 1/2 a bag of figs left.....

Currently making a huge batch of spaghetti sauce. I also got fresh basil with my box too. I should have asked my friend Tamala for her salsa recipe. That would have been a good idea but I didn't think of it until I already had the sauce going. Oh well..... I must admit I feel a tad guilty that I'm taking advantage of the poor farmer. The boxes are $25 and they are always STUFFED full. We can never eat it all, I end up giving a bunch of it away. If you were to buy it at the grocery store it be two to three times as much. I'm going to have to ask if he can make up smaller boxes!

And speaking of recipes, for those of you who do not like hazelnut you don't HAVE to use Nutella in the middle you could pretty much use anything you wanted. Thats just the way the original recipe is written. You could use any type of chocolate that would melt into a gooey mess. Kisses, peanut butter cups, caramels, heck you could even put chocolate chips in there. Experiment, have fun with it.

So I think I've blathered on long enough, I have to find some more fig recipes. And how to dry basil.....