This was lots cheaper than flying anywhere
:o)
I still hope I can meet the real one someday. Not the edible pop-corn kind.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Mickey Mouse!
I have always wanted to meet him.
This was lots cheaper than flying anywhere
:o)
I still hope I can meet the real one someday. Not the edible pop-corn kind.
This was lots cheaper than flying anywhere
:o)
I still hope I can meet the real one someday. Not the edible pop-corn kind.
Yoga Mat
I like doing yoga. It really helps me to feel lots and lots better. Relax. Re-energize. Nap. (oops! did I say that?) It also helps my back from feeling all wierdy.
Anyway, my sister Nani gave me her yoga mat since I used to steal it from her all the time. Thanks Nani! I love it still.
My uses for it have changed a little since coming to Purdue though:
Well, at least I'm still using it, right?
:o)
Anyway, my sister Nani gave me her yoga mat since I used to steal it from her all the time. Thanks Nani! I love it still.
My uses for it have changed a little since coming to Purdue though:
Well, at least I'm still using it, right?
:o)
This crazy Indiana Thing
called...S-N-O-W
It likes to do this in the night. I think Indiana is trying to trap all the cars and keep us here.
But then you look out and see this:
and then you realize that Indiana is only trying to keep you here because here is a beautiful place to be.
Especially if here is with someone you love.
:o)
It likes to do this in the night. I think Indiana is trying to trap all the cars and keep us here.
But then you look out and see this:
and then you realize that Indiana is only trying to keep you here because here is a beautiful place to be.
Especially if here is with someone you love.
:o)
Bubble Ring
Ok. Another blog about food. I know, I know, I'm addicted. But if I didn't eat I would die. So its ok.
The thing is, Mark helped me make this one!! :-D
He's a chef! :o)
Had to let you all know! :-D
The thing is, Mark helped me make this one!! :-D
He's a chef! :o)
Had to let you all know! :-D
Baby Luke Baby Shower :-D
YAY!!
So! We had a baby shower for Amanda Jeanne Baer and her little baby Luke David in her tummy :o) It was so fun! :-D Mark thought I was a little silly though :o) He went to bed when I had only the cheesecakes made, then after he left, somehow I lost track of time, and our appartment got covered in food and paint and paper and fabric...oops! in the morning Mark wondered,"What happend?!" :-D He laughs though :o) I always have a big big time cleaning up after all my fun, but that's ok :o)
First: a run down on the food :-D
Amanda is not a cake fan, but she LOOVES Mary Lou's Doughnuts (its a little doughnut shop that has been around for like, ever. Mark went there with his parents before camping trips when he was little. And it was old then :o) Yeah.) Anyway, they have been around forever because they are the worlds BEST doughnuts :o)
So, we got some of those and I made little fondant handles so they look like...
...little baby rattles!! :-D
and then I made these little cheese cake bites (cherry and blueberry sauce so they look like...flowers!) and chocolate covered cheese cake bites, and brownies. DELICIOUS brownies, with symphony bars in the middle. ooooh. my mommy taught me about these. they are dangerous.
we also had chicken salad sandwiches and savory bacon bread sticks and spinach and sausage stuffed pastry...things. They were yummy!
and then I made this diaper cake for her to put as a centerpiece since we didn't have a cake that was made of, well, cake.
And then we played games! and opened gifts! and talked! and visited!!
Amanda is such a wonderful girl, and EVERYONE loves her. It was so fun to listen to people RSVP :o) See, I didn't know anyone but Amanda, and they all told me how much they loved her and how happy they were to come :o) and it was nice that even though we didn't know each other, we could all have fun together since we were all there to help amanda know how loved she is and share in this special time for her :o)
Love you amanda! :-D
So! We had a baby shower for Amanda Jeanne Baer and her little baby Luke David in her tummy :o) It was so fun! :-D Mark thought I was a little silly though :o) He went to bed when I had only the cheesecakes made, then after he left, somehow I lost track of time, and our appartment got covered in food and paint and paper and fabric...oops! in the morning Mark wondered,"What happend?!" :-D He laughs though :o) I always have a big big time cleaning up after all my fun, but that's ok :o)
First: a run down on the food :-D
Amanda is not a cake fan, but she LOOVES Mary Lou's Doughnuts (its a little doughnut shop that has been around for like, ever. Mark went there with his parents before camping trips when he was little. And it was old then :o) Yeah.) Anyway, they have been around forever because they are the worlds BEST doughnuts :o)
So, we got some of those and I made little fondant handles so they look like...
...little baby rattles!! :-D
and then I made these little cheese cake bites (cherry and blueberry sauce so they look like...flowers!) and chocolate covered cheese cake bites, and brownies. DELICIOUS brownies, with symphony bars in the middle. ooooh. my mommy taught me about these. they are dangerous.
we also had chicken salad sandwiches and savory bacon bread sticks and spinach and sausage stuffed pastry...things. They were yummy!
and then I made this diaper cake for her to put as a centerpiece since we didn't have a cake that was made of, well, cake.
And then we played games! and opened gifts! and talked! and visited!!
Amanda is such a wonderful girl, and EVERYONE loves her. It was so fun to listen to people RSVP :o) See, I didn't know anyone but Amanda, and they all told me how much they loved her and how happy they were to come :o) and it was nice that even though we didn't know each other, we could all have fun together since we were all there to help amanda know how loved she is and share in this special time for her :o)
Love you amanda! :-D
Decorating!
So! School started two days after we moved into our apartment. This translates into "our appartment was filled with boxes all semester until Christmas break came around and we had time to finish unpacking things other than our clothes and dishes"
I unpacked the box labeled "fragile pretty things" and this is where I decided to put them! :-D
the gooth teases me about the second one. "Nice nails" she says :-P Gooth is thilly like that :o) The funny this is, about a year after putting them up...they are still nails :-D But, its not our fault you see: No candles allowed in the apartment. C'est la vie!
Now, I don't want it to seem like we have created a shrine to ourselves in our apartment :o) All of these things have been given to us, and these are pretty much the only sorts of "decorative things" that we have, besides the picture of Christ that the Teek gave us that is in our entry way (thanks the Teek!) :o)
But never fear! We have plans ...that will occur some time in the near future... maybe. After I graduate. :o)
I unpacked the box labeled "fragile pretty things" and this is where I decided to put them! :-D
the gooth teases me about the second one. "Nice nails" she says :-P Gooth is thilly like that :o) The funny this is, about a year after putting them up...they are still nails :-D But, its not our fault you see: No candles allowed in the apartment. C'est la vie!
Now, I don't want it to seem like we have created a shrine to ourselves in our apartment :o) All of these things have been given to us, and these are pretty much the only sorts of "decorative things" that we have, besides the picture of Christ that the Teek gave us that is in our entry way (thanks the Teek!) :o)
But never fear! We have plans ...that will occur some time in the near future... maybe. After I graduate. :o)
Olivia
Mark got me a flower.
It's an Orchid.
And, her name is Olivia.
I love her!
She eats ice cubes and sunlight.
but I think we were killing her at first because we didn't have ice trays, so we just "guesstimated" how much we thought three ice cubes worth of water would be in a Ziploc bag and froze it. Turns out we were waaaaay off. Poor Olivia! She has bad parents that starve her.
But now we have ice trays. So we are doing better. :o)
We hope her flowers come back :o) She is super pretty! Thanks Mark!
It's an Orchid.
And, her name is Olivia.
I love her!
She eats ice cubes and sunlight.
but I think we were killing her at first because we didn't have ice trays, so we just "guesstimated" how much we thought three ice cubes worth of water would be in a Ziploc bag and froze it. Turns out we were waaaaay off. Poor Olivia! She has bad parents that starve her.
But now we have ice trays. So we are doing better. :o)
We hope her flowers come back :o) She is super pretty! Thanks Mark!
Surprise!
Most of you know that it is almost impossible for me to keep any sort of surprise, for any length of time. It just escapes! I get too excited and I blurt it! Mark, however, LOVES surprises, so I have been trying to get better at keeping them. The kicker now is that if mark asks me a question even remotely related to the surprise, I will squeal.
For example:
"Hey Teandra? is this butter on the table yours?"
*nervous silence*
"Sweetheart? Did you hear me?"
*more nervous silence* *Mark walks closer*
"Is that butter there on the table for a reason or do you want me to put it awa-"
"OK! OK! I ADMIT! ITS ME! ITS FOR THE SURPRISE COOKIES I WAS MAKING YOU!!"
At this point Mark usually starts laughing and gives me a hug; I usually heave a sigh of relief and then secretly pout about ruining my own surprise. I can never think of any suitable sort of excuse.
But really, when there are only two of us in the house, whose else would the butter be, right? :o)
When I explain that to Mark, he laughs some more. :o) He is pretty stinkin wonderful. :o)
Anyway, my surprise spontaneity generally tends toward making "snacks" for mark. He is just so fun to cook food for! Plus, food is one way of telling people that you love them :o)
My mommy taught me about that :o)
ANYWAY! Valentines day I was determined to surprise Mark with not just a snack--but with this!
an ICE CREAM CAKE!! :-D
"HOW did you managed THAT!" you say?
(...especially since our freezer is only about 1.5 cubic feet and stuffed with food that Mark checks daily for his ice cream dose? :o))
WELL! That's for me to know, and you to find out. he he.
(ok, ok, I'll tell you. I can't keep surprises, remember?)
Well! I pretended that I was making the batter for someone at school, and then put the ice cream in it after he had gone to bed, and then I HID it beneath the shelf in our freezer with bags of broccoli in front of it. Broccoli is a sneaky food like that. The next day I came home from school during lunch and frosted it while he was at work, and then hid it AGAIN in freezer! :-D
Here is a picture of it cut:
So! When Mark came home from work, I had made him a nice dinner of pork loin stuffed with sausage polenta (SO yummy, if any one wants the recipe...such things can be arranged...) with potatoes and broccoli and stuff
(here is a picture of the meat! it is a bad picture though, sorry about that)
and THEN i surpsied him with DESSERT!! :-D
*sigh*
I think that was just about the best surprise EVER and I kept quiet ALL DAY and PLANNING and EVERYTHING!
I even had to clean up all my mess before he came home :o)
That was pretty tricky too
Mmmm....chocolate cheery ice cream cake... layers of chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream, fudge, more cake, cherry preserves, cherry icecream, and ganache...oooh yes.
and I didn't say a word!
SURPRISE!
For example:
"Hey Teandra? is this butter on the table yours?"
*nervous silence*
"Sweetheart? Did you hear me?"
*more nervous silence* *Mark walks closer*
"Is that butter there on the table for a reason or do you want me to put it awa-"
"OK! OK! I ADMIT! ITS ME! ITS FOR THE SURPRISE COOKIES I WAS MAKING YOU!!"
At this point Mark usually starts laughing and gives me a hug; I usually heave a sigh of relief and then secretly pout about ruining my own surprise. I can never think of any suitable sort of excuse.
But really, when there are only two of us in the house, whose else would the butter be, right? :o)
When I explain that to Mark, he laughs some more. :o) He is pretty stinkin wonderful. :o)
Anyway, my surprise spontaneity generally tends toward making "snacks" for mark. He is just so fun to cook food for! Plus, food is one way of telling people that you love them :o)
My mommy taught me about that :o)
ANYWAY! Valentines day I was determined to surprise Mark with not just a snack--but with this!
an ICE CREAM CAKE!! :-D
"HOW did you managed THAT!" you say?
(...especially since our freezer is only about 1.5 cubic feet and stuffed with food that Mark checks daily for his ice cream dose? :o))
WELL! That's for me to know, and you to find out. he he.
(ok, ok, I'll tell you. I can't keep surprises, remember?)
Well! I pretended that I was making the batter for someone at school, and then put the ice cream in it after he had gone to bed, and then I HID it beneath the shelf in our freezer with bags of broccoli in front of it. Broccoli is a sneaky food like that. The next day I came home from school during lunch and frosted it while he was at work, and then hid it AGAIN in freezer! :-D
Here is a picture of it cut:
So! When Mark came home from work, I had made him a nice dinner of pork loin stuffed with sausage polenta (SO yummy, if any one wants the recipe...such things can be arranged...) with potatoes and broccoli and stuff
(here is a picture of the meat! it is a bad picture though, sorry about that)
and THEN i surpsied him with DESSERT!! :-D
*sigh*
I think that was just about the best surprise EVER and I kept quiet ALL DAY and PLANNING and EVERYTHING!
I even had to clean up all my mess before he came home :o)
That was pretty tricky too
Mmmm....chocolate cheery ice cream cake... layers of chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream, fudge, more cake, cherry preserves, cherry icecream, and ganache...oooh yes.
and I didn't say a word!
SURPRISE!
Monday, December 28, 2009
ALICE!
SO! I figured since I can find this video on you tube, it is ok to put a link to it here.
Ta-dah! THIS is a movie of the rocket Mark has been working on, Alice! (short for ALiuminum-ICE)
Enjoy!
p.s. the burn is only for like a second. The long videos are captured with the high speed camera so the frames are in milliseconds not seconds.
Ta-dah! THIS is a movie of the rocket Mark has been working on, Alice! (short for ALiuminum-ICE)
Enjoy!
p.s. the burn is only for like a second. The long videos are captured with the high speed camera so the frames are in milliseconds not seconds.
Their first Noelle!
Last thanksgiving, Michael and Lindsey had their first, beautiful, little baby Noelle. She was born 8 week premature on October 27, 2008. She was doing really, really great though, and was able to leave the hospital before her due date! yay! they brought her home on November 28, 2008 (...i think...) and she had to be on oxygen and stuff, but it was good for Mike and Linds to be able to have her home :o) She has been growing like CRAZY :o) and soon (cross fingers) I will post some pictures of her in the present when Mark and I were able to go there a few weeks ago. Here you go for a blast to the past!
When the family gathered to pay their respects to Grandpa Coates, they Pfeil family had some time to get together again and Mark was able to see little Noelle and hold her and give her lots of little kisses! (I wish I could have been there!) He gave her lots from me too :o)
Here are some pictures!! :-D
Noelle and Uncle Mark eating some lunch!!
Uncle Mark and Noelle cuddlin'
Uncle Martin and cute little Noelle!
Aunt Becky and baby Noelle! Looks like shes almost...got her... alseep .... :o)
Mark, grandpa, and grandma pfeil!
Grandpa Pfeil holding Noelle :o)
Grandma Pfeil and little Noelle! :-D How sweet!
Grandma Pfeil and Becky looking at the precious little noelle! :o)
Pfeil Family Foto! ;o) I am missing though, I had to stay at school :o( But I love you all!
Martin and Becky!
here is the blanket we made for noelle! It says "Noelle Mary" in the corner with little daises in the corner :o)
When the family gathered to pay their respects to Grandpa Coates, they Pfeil family had some time to get together again and Mark was able to see little Noelle and hold her and give her lots of little kisses! (I wish I could have been there!) He gave her lots from me too :o)
Here are some pictures!! :-D
Noelle and Uncle Mark eating some lunch!!
Uncle Mark and Noelle cuddlin'
Uncle Martin and cute little Noelle!
Aunt Becky and baby Noelle! Looks like shes almost...got her... alseep .... :o)
Mark, grandpa, and grandma pfeil!
Grandpa Pfeil holding Noelle :o)
Grandma Pfeil and little Noelle! :-D How sweet!
Grandma Pfeil and Becky looking at the precious little noelle! :o)
Pfeil Family Foto! ;o) I am missing though, I had to stay at school :o( But I love you all!
Martin and Becky!
here is the blanket we made for noelle! It says "Noelle Mary" in the corner with little daises in the corner :o)
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