i probably shouldn't love sauteed veggies as much as i do #notashamed

So thankful for long weekends!!

two days in and what have i done? NOTHING!! besides finishing up the merlin series on netflix...and trying out 3 new paleo recipes! every single one of them was amazing! i loved the pumpkin pancakes and the pumpkin custard. i enjoyed the zucchini/carrot crustless quiche...

so good! i saw this at bmayes' and had to go ahead and make the purchase-totally worth it!

even just looking at it makes my mouth water!

then tonight i did something i probably shouldn't have done. i sauteed vegetables. if eating a plateful of sauteed onions is wrong, then i don't want to be right! yes, a pan full of sauteed veggies is one of my weaknesses. several years ago, while working at kamp, a friend and i went to ruby tuesdays for dinner and i ordered the fajitas because the veggies in the picture looked SO good! then i was sorely disappointed when it came back with a sparse assortment of vegetables with little color. i may have complained to the manager about it due to the fact that my plate paled in comparison to the picture.

the weather has been phenomenal, so i took a walk with the boys yesterday-it's been much too long since we ventured on the back trail leash-less. when we got to the dog park we sat around for awhile because there was no one else there. as we were getting ready to leave, in walks a guy with a very large dog and the famous words: HE'S NOT MEAN. and my common response-NO, BUT CHACO IS.  i just worry that he doesn't realize how big he is and they don't realize how small they are. and just as i said that, the big dog came trouncing up and chaco, my littlest, snarled and snapped (i don't think the big fella even noticed). chaco calmed down as i picked him up and cradled him on his back-then we made our way home.

other than that, i saw some artwork at a friend's house and decided to see if i could do something similar...

it's been fun playing around with that...

tomorrow-last day of this fun little break...i'm sure we can find something fun to do!
julie

what did one carrot say to the other? nothing...carrots can't talk!

hmm. well, well, well...(a very deep, dark hole where fresh water can be drawn for human consumption, yet bad things can happen-cyanide poisoning, children falling in), yesterday was potato day. i took my first class out and we had to harvest some produce to make room for the taters. amongst the produce, were two sassy carrots.

it got awkward when she started to talk about her last kiss...

and tell me if this doesn't remind you of this...

someone sent me this in a text awhile back, and it just made me laugh.

the crazy thing is that i erased that text, and i spent too long today trying to locate this-i was looking for pancakes instead of waffles. but i finally found it here!

here are the rest of the veggies from this batch-the students were excited and i think they'll be even more excited to see the potatoes when they're ready!

i may be making some coleslaw with the ingredients and bringing it in on monday!

and since i was cleaning food, i decided i might as well make more salsa (i'm pretty sure i've mentioned that i don't like to purchase salsa anymore-i like mine better).

i would be remiss not to mention yesterday afternoon. we had our local ALL IN LEARNING rep on campus to show us the ins and outs of this new technology that we have, and i am excited to get started with it. and afterward, we went to a little happy hour. good times- lots of laughter, and a little bit of tranquilizer darts, but we made it through without any major incidents...until lindsey dropped her purse contents all out on the floor and had to retrieve and archive them all...

fortunately it was all there.

and everything was fine until we stepped out onto the sidewalk...this game is overrated...i'm sure that the group across the street clapping was thinking that we'd had one too many. maybe one too many darts....i'm thinking that we're going to have to write some new legislation about dart-control...i'm calling for no more than 5 darts in the 'clip' per day-with low dosage of venom...otherwise, it gets a little ridiculous.


i need to go see if i can snag spock now. (one of my friends sent me a txt with a picture of his cousin up in mckinney! so funny!)

but if a carrot could talk, it would probably 'root' for the cabell chargers, being orange and all...
julie