Mm Mm Good part Deux

I promise I won't take any more pictures of our food. But these wontons turned out more of a golden brown, and I added crab. They were really yummy.

And cashew chicken. So yum. More of a fresh flavor than the sesame chicken, with all the veggies. Thanks Rachel for the home-grown snow peas. They were delicious! Really. They made the meal.

Celeb Look a Likes

In honor of Facebook's doppelganger week, I've decided to show my family of look-a-likes. Well, not my family. Brandon's family. He and his brothers look like celerities. So here goes, by age...




Chris

Russell Crowe

I couldn't find

one where he

wasn't hairy.

Hubs. Isn't
he so
hardcore? :)

Robert Patrick

AKA

T 1000 from

Terminator 2

Jason
I only have
2 pics total
of Jason.

John Mayer

Tyler. He's
pretty young
in this pic. He
looks much
older now.

Justin Berfield

from Malcom in

the Middle

I don't think Lindsay looks like anyone, but she's gorgeous, isn't she?

Did I tell you that...

my childhood house burned down? It happened in the beginning of January, and I think I posted something on Facebook. But I was going through old emails today and was looking through the pictures again. So sad...

I lived in this house from when I was 3 til when I was 17. I loved this house. I always told myself I would buy it later on in life. And it's funny- every time I went down to Mesa I always wanted to try and tour my house to see how it's changed, but I never actually did.

Apparently a little kid was watching something on the projector in the basement, and he fell asleep. The projector started a fire. No one was injured, but because of the inaccessability of the basement (it only has the stairway down, I remember it well), they couldn't get to it and it just burned and burned.


The front of my house. Well, not my house anymore, but you know what I mean... I remember my parents putting in that bay window...

I also remember my mom picking out those numbers for our house. She loved them... This house had the best back yard. So big...

This one makes me sad. There used to be an entire upper level. Master bedroom, master bath, library, office... That's not snow on the ground, by the way. It's foam from when they were putting out the flames.

One more little close up of that bay window again.

When's the last time you visited your childhood house?

Laney's new laugh

Mmm Mmm Good

Frankly, I'm pretty proud of myself for this meal I cooked on Thursday. Before I got married, I didn't know how to cook. At all. I didn't even know how to cut an onion. Sad, but true. But the meal I made a couple days ago was DELISH. Homemade cream cheese wontons and sesame chicken.

Look at these beauties. Don't they look yummy? Well, I guess if you don't like Chinese food you won't think they're yummy...

And the sesame chicken. Again, stinking yummy.

The wontons were my favorite part. Brandon and I always get those as appetizers when we get Chinese food, and now we can enjoy them from the comfort of our home, whenever we want.

Now I have to go. I have beat Brandon at another game of table tennis...

Hubs

In light of the fact that this is totally public and all, I didn't want to post that Brandon was going out of town. Didn't want any crazy people trying to break in, or whatever other scenario my freaked out little brain wanted to put together.

You see, in the past when Brandon went out of town, I had to sleep on an air mattress in the living room with the TV on because I was too scared to sleep in the bed. This time, I did it. I slept in the bed. Yeah! I'm growing up. I had the flu and therefore didn't sleep well at all, but at least I was in the bed.

I'm so glad to have him back. He was out of town on business- he had his first week of his new job, and their corporate office is in San Jose, so he needed to meet people, etc.

And he's working from home! Which is pretty cool cuz when the kids are napping I can go on errands. Pretty convenient, actually. But we've got to completely redo our home office area to fit his needs. And when he's working he's working- we try not to bother him. But I'm not complaining! We save $ on gas, I actually get to see him even though he's the bishop, and my kids love having him home.

Honestly, I don't think it's coincidence that a few months after he's called as bishop he gets a new job where he can work from home. A definite answer to prayers...

What we do on Saturday nights...