it's what's for dinner

Baked Herb-Crusted Chicken Breasts - It's what's for dinner.
A Delicious and easy meal.

favorite german-puff pancake

2 tbsp. butter
2 eggs
1/2 c. flour
1/2 c. milk
Powdered sugar
Lemon juice

Heat oven to 400 degrees (must be hot). Melt 2 tablespoons butter in quiche pan in oven (ceramic works best, glass is second best). Beat eggs, add flour. Mix well (use wire whip) until smooth. Add milk and beat again. Pour into hot melted butter in pan. Bake 15 minutes or until golden brown on edges (like a large popover the edges will be puffy). Remove from pan onto plate. Sprinkle with lemon juice (2 tablespoons) and powdered sugar. Cut and eat.

This delicious treat is an excellent meal breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

a way above the chimney tops...

Just wanted to post a few photos from our plane ride from Austin to Portland!

That's where you'll find me...

Some where over the rainbow...

Way up high!

Birds fly over the rainbow...
Why then, o why can't I?

flowers & plane tickets!

Today is our 4th month anniversary and my DH sweetly brought me home a small bundle of white flowers (very thoughtful considering that we are headed out of town tomorrow for a long-weekend to surprise my folks in Portland!). We cooked a delicious meal of spaghetti for ourselves and our additional guest (someone we had been trying to have over to dinner for some time now). It was a sweet meal. Yay! for love! *grin*

visiting a newbie

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We got to go visit our newest little nephew today. While we were there the Diller family arrived to bring Jed & Grace some food. Here's a sweet photo of Erik, W, the three Diller-doodles (Ian, Eliza, & Caroline), and myself. I hadn't seen these little munchins for so long! They're all growing so fast.

brand new bundle of boy

There is a new Fehrenbach that joined us just today. He's a precious healthy fella with a cute tuft of dark hair (might actually be curly like his Uncle E's). I love his little toes and fingers and his little button nose. He's a strong little man already with a healthy appetite. Can't wait for you to meet him. He's sure a sweet delight.

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substitute orientation

I'll put something more here very soon, so check back.

tee-hee: (i just couldn't resist)

I have this silly attraction to cheesy jokes. I just can't help it, they genuinely make me laugh. A special thanks to my friend Lydia who so kindly put this in a card for me years ago. I just rediscovered this card the other day while doing a little spring-cleaning. I laughed out loud and then had to read it to my DH. And now I will share it with y'all. Bear with me... and so without further ado:

A string walks into a bar and asks for a drink, but the bartender says "we don't serve strings." So the string gets sad, ties himself up and rumples his hair, then walks in the next day and asks for a drink. The bartender said "are you that same string that was in here yesterday?" to which the string replied "no, I'm a freyed knot."

Tee hee hee... If you have a favorite you'd like to share I promise I will laugh... genuinely and heartily.

the little red engine jeans that could

Today I scored yet again another pair of designer jeans just slightly used at a savings of well over $150! WooHoo! *grin* AND they were in my size... length is a little long, but that is always the case. I'll have them tailored or wear them rolled or with heals! Oh yah! According to Jeans.com Store, Red Engine jeans retail at $159 & up. I stole mine for a meager $7.99. How, you ask? Go Goodwill hunting. Oh yah! Got to love finding made in the u.s.a. goods at such a great price. This was an exceptional find, since my last pair of Citizens of Humanity also bought at that price happened to be a few sizes too big... no problem, they'll fit me when I'm preggers one of these days. (note: again, I am not presently with child, but I suppose being surrounded by people who are makes one consider it often and see it's possibility in the unseen future).

jesus take the wheel

I just have to thank the Lord for getting everything done today for me and with me. I was seriously overwhelmed the night before just considering what needed to take place today. And realizing that the length of time it would take to do some of these things was out of my hands made it ever more stressful. Thankfully the sheer weight of the day didn't cause me to pull the covers back over my head and bury myself in the darkness of the bedroom. I know someone had to be praying. In the middle of the day when time was running out, like I needed to find a place to make photocopies downtown and somehow get those copies and some other paper work to another location, park, and delivered, all within a precious 20 minutes I knew that I had to simply ask Jesus to take the wheel. I know, it's lines from a corny country song, but seriously it was a simple request that relieved me of all forms of stress because I knew that I was in the Lord's hands and if He wanted things to get there in time, He would arrange for that to happen. And that thought was what kept me sane as I finally spotted a CopyMax six blocks from my destination, parked, messed with two different copy machines and flubbed up three extra copies and had to wait for another customer carry on frivolous dialogue with the clerk while I waited to pay my measly thirty-five cents, jumped in my car, made several green lights and found a parking spot at the next and final stop, scurried from my vehicle around a dozen other offices til I located the right one. I looked at my wristwatch. 4:25. He did it! Jesus took the wheel. Infact, Jesus is the wheel. Thank You, Jesus.