Little girls and their toys

The 'kids' who are too little for taco soup had cheese porridge.

He's leaving today

First, to Great Lakes in northern IL for bootcamp, 8 weeks. 

Then, 4 weeks of culinary training while still at Great Lakes.

Then, to Groton, CT for 4 weeks of submarine training.

After all the prep for the going away party my arm was just too far gone to decorate the cake, so my brother did it.  Hopefully the Navy has better ships than this SSJake! LOL!!

6'3"... Just how is he going to fit in a submarine??? LOL!

Jake's leaving Sunday for bootcamp

We're having a going-away party Saturday.  So far, I've baked and frozen the cake, (tip I learned at the bakery field trip... makes a cake more moist and less crumby) made 2 kinds of cookies, cut the celery and carrots and bought (well, had Tom stop by the stores today) other stuff.

We're having: burgers, dogs, chili, veggie tray with carrots, celery, broccoli & cucumbers with fiesta ranch dip, chips (regular, fritos, tortilla) and dips (french onion and bean-n-cheese with homemade refried beans.)  I'll probably end up coming up with more stuff I just 'have' to make too by Saturday noon..

I asked my mom to make him some cream puffs, they're his favorite dessert she makes :)

It's just family, us, both brothers' families (minus one brother since he has to work) and mom & dad.

I was upset about having to move the party to Saturday (was planned for Sunday when EVERYONE could come) but what are ya gunna do...

Jake's leave date, Feb 2nd???

Aaaahh, the Navy.  Ya gotta love government reliability.  By their own standard we should have believed them when we were told Jake will leave for bootcamp on February 2nd.

Here's a link for your viewing pleasure...
http://web.utk.edu/~leon/rel/overview/reliability.html
So, this doesn't really mean they should have to stick to their word?

All this to say, Jake's bootcamp leave date is now January 31st.

(and don't forget, this is the 3rd date we were given... and I suspect the last since the time is so close now LOL)

I WANTED to wait till summer to get a new printer

My printer hasn't printed in black for some months now.  I don't know why.  I cleaned it, put in new cartridges, tried injected cartridge, nothing worked.  It WAS printing the first 1/2 of the page fine, then the rest was lined like an old TV with the vertical hold going bad.  Sometimes it'd print, sometimes nothing at all black.

The color is FINE!!  I don't get it!!

Anyway, I WAS going to wait till summer to get a new one.  I've already taken everything I need for schooling to the library to make copies for the rest of the year. (History Pockets, etc)

But, DUH!!!!  I can't do my taxes without being able to print BLACK!!!

So, I got a new Canon printer tonight at Walmart.  $40.  Got the extra-large sized cartridges for it. (A very nice invention!!  Over twice the ink for not twice the price!!)

Guess I'll be back in business, once I decide to install it...

Fieldtrip @ the bakery

     

They made chocolate chip/M&M cookies and coffee cakes and decorated cupcakes.  They got to watch how a cake is decorated too and had a grand tour of the whole place.  It was a blast!!

While the cookies and coffee cakes were baking we used our Pizza Hut Book-It coupons for lunch.

A meal with some of our food sent from 3000 miles away

 

The bottled teriyaki sauce is YUMMY!!  Gunna use that before making my own with the mirin.

We used the somen noodles this time. 

YUMMY!!!!!