Tuesday Fish Tacos
Wednesday Sesame Chicken
Thursday Leftovers
Friday Pizza
Saturday Greg has to work on his birthday so we'll make some kind of special pre-birthday dinner, I'm not sure what it is yet but it will yummy
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Menu Plan Monday Feb. 16 - 21
Monday- BBQ leftovers (we had a big BBQ birthday party on Sunday and ended up with plenty of leftovers, I'll be eating baked beans and potato salad for lunch this week-no complaints though)
Tuesday Fish Tacos
Wednesday Sesame Chicken
Thursday Leftovers
Friday Pizza
Saturday Greg has to work on his birthday so we'll make some kind of special pre-birthday dinner, I'm not sure what it is yet but it will yummy
Tuesday Fish Tacos
Wednesday Sesame Chicken
Thursday Leftovers
Friday Pizza
Saturday Greg has to work on his birthday so we'll make some kind of special pre-birthday dinner, I'm not sure what it is yet but it will yummy
Saturday, February 14, 2009
In the kitchen
Greg and I enjoyed a sweetheart valentine's dinner last night at home with grilled steak and veggie kabobs ending with pineapple and chocolate covered strawberries for dessert (yummy!)Today My hubby's working so later tonight I'm joining my neighbor who's husband is deployed. We are babysitting our other neighbor's kids so that they can go out tonight.
With the house to myself I'm in the kitchen and busy today.
For tonight's valentine's day with the neighbor kids I'm making:
crust and sauce for pizza
heart shaped sugar cookies and frosting for decorating
Tomorrow we are having a big birthday BBQ with our small group bible study friends I'm coordinating the food. To prep for the BBQ I'm making:
hamburger buns
cheese cake
ice cream and toppings
potato salad
coleslaw (I'm just chopping the cabbage today, I'll dress it tomorrow)
I'll finish up the rest of the food after church tomorrow.
busy busy busy (but I totally love it)
With the house to myself I'm in the kitchen and busy today.
For tonight's valentine's day with the neighbor kids I'm making:
crust and sauce for pizza
heart shaped sugar cookies and frosting for decorating
Tomorrow we are having a big birthday BBQ with our small group bible study friends I'm coordinating the food. To prep for the BBQ I'm making:
hamburger buns
cheese cake
ice cream and toppings
potato salad
coleslaw (I'm just chopping the cabbage today, I'll dress it tomorrow)
I'll finish up the rest of the food after church tomorrow.
busy busy busy (but I totally love it)
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Birthday Banner
Greg's birthday is this month! Next weekend we are having a big birthday BBQ bash to celebrate Greg and another friend's birthday with our small group bible study. I've made a banner to help decorate and celebrate the occasion. I think it is so cute. I used some patterned paper and borrowed the die cutting machine from work to make the letters.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Browsing Valentine's ideas online and found the cutest things:
Decorate a lotion/soap bottle a super cute and frugal gift
Valentine Pennie Pockets I wish I knew how to sew-because these are adorable! I might be able to make something less permanent out of paper
Felt Flowers These would be cute as pencil toppers
Valentine Pennie Pockets I wish I knew how to sew-because these are adorable! I might be able to make something less permanent out of paper
Felt Flowers These would be cute as pencil toppers
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Adventures with snakes
About two weeks ago I was in the kitchen/laundry area throwing dirty clothes in the hamper when I felt something skim my foot, I thought it was a gecko (very common in our house) when I looked down I saw a long slithery object, I screamed bloody murder and ran to the other side of the house. Greg came to the rescue and spent the next 20 minutes looking for the snake and found nothing. I began to doubt myself, after all it was dark. Greg sincerely believed that I saw/felt a snake but for the sake of my sanity I really wished that he would have just called me a lunatic and let me think that it was all in my imagination.
Time passed by with out much more thought to my snake encounter. On Monday night about 10 (which is very late for us) I was reading in bed when Greg whispers to me Rachel...Rachel... still whispering There's a snake in the bathroom...Rachel In disbelief I get up out of bed and sure enough there was a snake coiled up right on the bathroom floor by our vanity. My eyes got really big and Greg looks at me and says don't panic get me the flash light and broom. Greg than tries to stun the snake with the light and somehow catch it with the broom to take outside. (as was his previous method that last time we had a snake in the house) The snake was quicker than Greg and slithered behind the vanity and into the wall. I was scared silly and went in the other room to wallow in my fear. Greg continued to stake out the bathroom and would yell at me every time he would see the snake pop it's head out from the vanity/wall gap, asking me to help him catch the snake, I was pretty useless in the effort.
A few minutes pass by and I decided to call the Navy housing office. They sent someone over within 45 minutes. The housing tech and Greg spent the next 15 minutes trying to coax the snake out from behind the vanity. After awhile The housing tech guy told us there was nothing he could do about the snake because it was now somewhere in our walls and we should call back tomorrow. Greg and I than proceeded to duct tape the entire bathroom vanity, to keep the snake from returning or crawling out.
The next day USDA was at our house with a big truck and dogs to sniff out snakes-however I didn't know they were coming and no one was home, the housing office had called them. When I came home from work I called the housing office to talk about our snake situation (in my mind our walls were probably filled with snakes and we should be moving to another house) The USDA got involved because snakes are a danger to the local environment here on Guam and it was very important to catch the snake and make sure there aren't others. The USDA doesn't have a 24 hour service on our side of the island (the other side does) so they wouldn't come out in the afternoon only the morning. I asked for the day off from work and I made an appointment with USDA who came back to my house with their working dog. The USDA Man came to the bathroom where the snake was sighted, he saw the duct tape and pulled a piece off to find the snake's head stuck to the tape, it was super gross to watch him pull out the snake (which was now dead) The USDA guy said the duct tape was a good solution (Greg will be happy when I tell him that)The working dog than came into the house and sniffed the whole area, it was a really cute dog that looked like wishbone the dog from the PBS kids show (I forget the actual breed name)The dog didn't find anything, which in my mind is a good thing. The USDA Man said that the snake I saw a couple of weeks ago was probably the same snake and if there had been multiple snakes they would have tried to eat the dead snake and we would have seen evidence of that.
We walked around the house and talked about possible entry points for the snake, The most likely entry is our dyer vent. I'll be calling the housing office to request a screen be installed over the vent.
I wish I had taken pictures of the snake sniffing dog but I was to embarrassed to ask. I'm really glad the snake was found and is not wandering around anymore.
Time passed by with out much more thought to my snake encounter. On Monday night about 10 (which is very late for us) I was reading in bed when Greg whispers to me Rachel...Rachel... still whispering There's a snake in the bathroom...Rachel In disbelief I get up out of bed and sure enough there was a snake coiled up right on the bathroom floor by our vanity. My eyes got really big and Greg looks at me and says don't panic get me the flash light and broom. Greg than tries to stun the snake with the light and somehow catch it with the broom to take outside. (as was his previous method that last time we had a snake in the house) The snake was quicker than Greg and slithered behind the vanity and into the wall. I was scared silly and went in the other room to wallow in my fear. Greg continued to stake out the bathroom and would yell at me every time he would see the snake pop it's head out from the vanity/wall gap, asking me to help him catch the snake, I was pretty useless in the effort.
A few minutes pass by and I decided to call the Navy housing office. They sent someone over within 45 minutes. The housing tech and Greg spent the next 15 minutes trying to coax the snake out from behind the vanity. After awhile The housing tech guy told us there was nothing he could do about the snake because it was now somewhere in our walls and we should call back tomorrow. Greg and I than proceeded to duct tape the entire bathroom vanity, to keep the snake from returning or crawling out.
The next day USDA was at our house with a big truck and dogs to sniff out snakes-however I didn't know they were coming and no one was home, the housing office had called them. When I came home from work I called the housing office to talk about our snake situation (in my mind our walls were probably filled with snakes and we should be moving to another house) The USDA got involved because snakes are a danger to the local environment here on Guam and it was very important to catch the snake and make sure there aren't others. The USDA doesn't have a 24 hour service on our side of the island (the other side does) so they wouldn't come out in the afternoon only the morning. I asked for the day off from work and I made an appointment with USDA who came back to my house with their working dog. The USDA Man came to the bathroom where the snake was sighted, he saw the duct tape and pulled a piece off to find the snake's head stuck to the tape, it was super gross to watch him pull out the snake (which was now dead) The USDA guy said the duct tape was a good solution (Greg will be happy when I tell him that)The working dog than came into the house and sniffed the whole area, it was a really cute dog that looked like wishbone the dog from the PBS kids show (I forget the actual breed name)The dog didn't find anything, which in my mind is a good thing. The USDA Man said that the snake I saw a couple of weeks ago was probably the same snake and if there had been multiple snakes they would have tried to eat the dead snake and we would have seen evidence of that.
We walked around the house and talked about possible entry points for the snake, The most likely entry is our dyer vent. I'll be calling the housing office to request a screen be installed over the vent.
I wish I had taken pictures of the snake sniffing dog but I was to embarrassed to ask. I'm really glad the snake was found and is not wandering around anymore.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Sunday Happenings
Greg played a song for our church....and he was really good! (I shouldn't have been so surprised, but when I hear him play his guitar it's at home and he's in his underwear wandering around the house screaming out songs and strumming his guitar wildly to a CD)
He's been playing with the worship team for several months now, but not with them on Sundays, he simply goes to the week night practices to "jam" and play with a band. When Greg came back from from his deployment the praise team was happy to have him at their practices again and asked Greg if he had any good songs up his sleeve. More than happy to oblige Greg introduced the song Jesus Paid it All (he's a HUGE Passion Band fan) The team loved it and asked Greg to introduce it to the church when they had the next Communion Service.
So today he played for the Church and he was good, The pastor came up to Greg as we were leaving church and thanked him for ministering to him. I thought that was nice to say.
Also, today I taught Sunday school for the early service so that I could be in the regular service to see Greg play, I loved teaching for the earlier service instead of 22 3 and 4 year old I had 5! it was so easy and relaxing in comparison, It's not that I don't like teaching Sunday School it was just so nice to have a bit of a break with a smaller crowd.
It was a good Sunday!
He's been playing with the worship team for several months now, but not with them on Sundays, he simply goes to the week night practices to "jam" and play with a band. When Greg came back from from his deployment the praise team was happy to have him at their practices again and asked Greg if he had any good songs up his sleeve. More than happy to oblige Greg introduced the song Jesus Paid it All (he's a HUGE Passion Band fan) The team loved it and asked Greg to introduce it to the church when they had the next Communion Service.
So today he played for the Church and he was good, The pastor came up to Greg as we were leaving church and thanked him for ministering to him. I thought that was nice to say.
Also, today I taught Sunday school for the early service so that I could be in the regular service to see Greg play, I loved teaching for the earlier service instead of 22 3 and 4 year old I had 5! it was so easy and relaxing in comparison, It's not that I don't like teaching Sunday School it was just so nice to have a bit of a break with a smaller crowd.
It was a good Sunday!
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