Swan Lake

Ok I know that those of you who know Dave won't believe this but it's true. So after a very frustrating week of house hunting, making offers and finding out our loan wasn't what we thought and losing those offers, Dave calls me to reassure me that we'll get a house and it'll be fine. Then he says " Oh so I heard that the Colorado Ballet is doing Swan Lake do you want to go with me to see it on Saturday?" I was speechless and said" Of course!!" I actually thought he was kidding but no he really did take me to the ballet to see Swan Lake. It was amazing!! The dancers are incredible and the music is unbelievable!!! Even Dave was impressed and he actually liked it. It was a very nice and romantic night out. So kuddos to Dave!!

Corn Chowder request

I know I posted this recipe last year around this time but I had a request to repost this recipe, oddly enough it's from Jenny the daughter of Mama Faylor herself. Too funny Jen!!! This is our families favorite!

Corn Chowder
4 potatoes peeled and diced
1/2 bag of baby carrots diced
1 onion diced
2 stalks celery diced

put into pot and just cover with water. Boil until vegies are soft.

Add:
6 strips of bacon cooked and chopped up (I usually use the jar of hormel bacon bits, not the hard Bacos)
2 cans of corn w/ juice
1 can of cream of chicken soup
1 can of evaporated milk
stir and heat over low heat until warm. Enjoy!!

***If you like it thicker you can take
3/4 c butter and
3/4 c flour and make a rou
then add
the evaporated milk to it with
1/3 c of 1/2 & 1/2 and add it to it.

Castlewood Canyon

So there's this canyon by where we live so we thought it'd be fun to take the kids and go for a little hike and take some pictures. Well we didn't know where we were going so the first trail we attempted was no good for us considering it was almost all rock climbing. So we headed down the road and found this nice little trail. It was a fun afternoon hike before I headed off to work all night.

My cute kiddos

Such a handsome boy
Aubrey posing she's growing up so fast

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Win a quilt

So if you visit the website of the quilt on my sidebar you can enter to win it. Isn't it adorable. It looks so vintage I love it.

Traditions

So I was reading my friend Shannon's blog and she got me thinking about our family traditions. We don;t have a lot of our own yet but we have a few and some from our childhood.

- For the pas 6 years now our Halloween tradition is to eat mama Faylor's corn chowder(YUMMY, and Aubrey's absolute fave) before trick or treating then come back for cake and ice cream for Aubrey's birthday.

-every Christmas eve after our baths we always get new PJ's that are a surprise with new slippers.

-on Christmas morning we can always look in our stockings but can't touch any presents until my dad hands them out.

- the first snow of the season i attempt to make (again)Faylor's famous cinnamon rolls with hot cocoa.

- while we live in Colorado (we couldn't do it in South Dakota) we go and cut down our Christmas tree in the forest and have hot chocolate. Now that we're back we can start that again.

Dave and I have been talking about this for a few years and need to start more of our own traditions. I'm interested to see what others do.

HE PASSED!!!!

DAVE PASSED THE BAR!! SO we found out this morning at 9:20 that his name is on the list. YEAH!! I ditched school so I could check online right at 9 am and it didn't get posted until 9:20. I was getting so irritated, do they not know that peoples lives were waiting in the balance for hose results. So I called Dave at work and told him to refresh his computer because he couldn't see the list. We are so excited. I'm so proud of him and now we're house hunting!!! I found a few I like but still want to see some more but we hope to be in a house before Thanksgiving. Ok so I know I haven't been up on blogging but I work full time 12 hr nights and go to school full time and now looking for a house. I promise to post some pics soon.