I'm such a slacker!

So the weekend got REALLY busy and I haven't blogged AT ALL! I'm afraid I'll get out of the habit, so I'll just fill in some blanks about the last few days and start right on track tomorrow!

Thursday I got a visit from my long-time friend from elementary and high school, Alice, and her boyfriend Shawn. They got here before I got out of work. We grilled the last steaks we had in the freezer and had some grilled potatoes/broccoli/mushrooms and grilled corn. We topped it off with some Mothership Wit. I don't think Alice was much of a fan, but the rest of us enjoyed it! We found out that Shawn also used to skate, and knew alot of the same people as Lucas did back in the day, and they were like long lost friends. I'm really glad they got along as great as they did! Next it was off to House of Blues for a Rancid show! It was even better than last year, I think! We stayed through the Rise Against set, which I was NOT impressed with, nor was I impressed with the sold out show full of sweaty, slimy, stinky guys. Guess I'm getting old.

The next day I worked a bit, then we hit the beach for a bit before the storms came. Look at the awesome picture my sister got of the clouds coming in on the beach:



We went home that night and did nothing, we were so tired from the night before. Dinner was an organic pasta with sun-dried tomatoes, zuchinni and mushrooms.

Saturday we invited my sister and her kids, and our friend Ryan for some dinner, beers and Wii. We grilled some turkey sausages and made a macaroni salad. I was disappointed that we couldn't get the organic pasta at Bilo - but I'll remember that for next time! We played Wii until the wee hours and finally went to sleep - LATE!

Sunday brought a day of cooking, as is becoming the norm. I made Rocky, our best man from our wedding, a batch of the mac&cheese that he loves, and added some bacon for him. The bread this week was cheating a bit. Nathan requested plain old white bread machine bread (which we sliced and toasted tonight and it's delicious!) I also made some peanut butter cookies (also cheated-pillsbury ready made Simply Peanut Butter cookies). We had the New York Style pizzas again, and I have to say, the first night we had them, I enjoyed them much more! I think freezing the dough was not the best idea!

Back to work today, and it was a long one! Tonight we just had turkey burgers and leftover macaroni salad...maybe we'll get more interesting tomorrow - it's not as easy when the kids are home!!

A little Rancid to take you out.....good night!

Squash bugs, sit-ups and new music!

I was thinking that maybe anyone reading this may not want to read ONLY about what we're eating. Since this blog is about the "newlyweds learning about life, love and happiness", I thought I'd add a little variety about life today.

One of the things we've learned about gardening this year, is that there are LOTS of different bugs that are specific to the plants they attack, that we had no idea existed. Our cabbage, beans, peas and squash were ravaged by pests before we could figure out what to do about them. A few weeks after the attacks started, we found this organic pesticide recipe online. It did the trick with getting rid of the bugs on the cabbage and beans, but not soon enough. We only have one cabbage plant that may or may not still make it. The jury is still out on the beans. There's lots of new growth, and not a bug to be found, but not much going on with them, either. The pests on the peas were just discovered yesterday, so we haven't done much with them yet. We totally lost the squash though. However, I came across some ideas here for getting rid of the squash bugs. I can't wait until next year to try the ideas!

On another subject, Lucas has been kicking some butt with this new push-ups challenge he's doing. He's up to 40 a day now. I keep talking about doing the sit-up challenge, but haven't done it yet. I think tonight I need to give it a shot! I'd love to have the ambition to start running, or at least walking, but I just can't get myself to do it! Lucas has inspired me to start the sit-ups though...so I'll get moving on it!

Finally, I just want to introduce one of my favorite new artists! Ladies and Gentleman, I give you Ray LaMontagne!