Date Night Done Simply

"How about a walk?" asks the wife, and the hubby says, "sure." Out they go, camera in hand, arm-in-arm and jacket laden to inspect the geography round about. And as they go they talk and laugh and listen.

Sites around the neighborhood and local park:

Date night can be so simple and so fun.

Green Food

The two peas are going green! (Or trying to anyway.) 

But just in their food. Baby steps.

So, they've been eating plenty (and I do mean plenty) of spinach, in whatever they can get it into. The favorite so far is spanakopita. They must eat it twice a week! 

 The second favorite is colorful vegetable sushi, which only the wife consumes. It's soo good! Carrots and cucumbers and avocados. Oh my!

Sewing Projects

This is just one of many projects the wife had stacked away in a self. But she is very pleased to announce it's finally done! And it turned out cute! Her first pencil skirt. She is, needless to say, very excited it worked out.

A quick close up to show the embroidered detail of the fabric.

And now back to the large pile of sewing projects....

Create!

It seems in the moment of creating, whether it be a smile, a good story, or delicious food, we are closest to our creator, and we have the best experiences to share. This pea thinks it's most especially true when making really good food.

So, on a brisk Wednesday afternoon (yes; the weather has cooled down a bit, thank goodness!), these two silly peas decided to make their very first pumpkin pie in honor of the coming season, chocolate pie, and spanakopita. All of which was very yummy and almost entirely homemade.

 

We sauteed one head of garlic, half of an onion, and one can of spinach. When this mix was cool we added mozzarella and parmesan cheese. We cut frozen pastry dough into 36 squares, sealed some of the mix inside, and baked for about 10 minutes.

Best idea ever! We used the pumpkin pie recipe printed on the label of our canned pumpkin. Who knew, right? We used Ina Garten's pie crust recipe at foodnetwork.com. So good!

We mixed 3/4 of an 8 oz. package of cream cheese and one package of instant chocolate pudding mix. We added milk to that until it seemed like the right consistency. And then we put it into the pie crust we made. Oooo! Fast and yummy!

We had a little extra pie crust and pumpkin pie mix left so we made two cute pies for each of us in our muffin pan. Fun and yummy!

Bon Appetit!

Dimanche

Every Sunday the two peas fire up the ol' computer and access Google+. It's been a blessing in disguise. They can connect to all the members of one side of the family at one time. It's like a virtual family reunion!

The wife's favorite moment thus far was when one little nephew tried to talk with grandma. Presently, he's just too short....

Oh the joys of family!

Pizza Party

The two peas made tons of pizza dough and headed over the house of their friends for an awesome family home evening pizza party. They made little pizzas for the kids, one large ham and veggie pizza, and one large, absolutely delicious barbeque chicken pizza.

 

 

Seriously, homemade pizza is the best! 

There's just no place like home.

Long Days and Nights

The two peas have been missing each other terribly since the hubby has been detained for call every third night for three weeks. Not to get too mushy, but it's a bummer, and it's the only news they've got to share. The wife's been sitting around, 'cause she has two weeks of vacation before school. At least there's plenty of projects to try and keep busy and make the time fly.

On a lighter note, both sets of parents to these two peas are celebrating 20+ years of marriage. Congrats to our awesome mothers and fathers!

In thinking about it, the wife couldn't help but reminisce on this lovely (and her favorite) Shakespeare Sonnet:

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, or Bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

(If one reads to the punctuation, rather than the line break, Shakespeare makes more sense.)