David Archuleta sighting at the DMV?

Well, we are back in Utah, and it´s been quite busy as you may have figured...no posts in the last couple of weeks!

Anyhow yesterday we finally got our beloved Sonny back from the dealership where he was being stored for the past two years! He´s our 2006 Scion tC, by the way.

So we were at the DMV, and I had to leave to hurry and find a Fed Ex/Kinko´s to print out our insurance card, leaving Leo with the baby at the DMV to wait in line.

So anyhow, while I was gone, Leo was sitting in the waiting area and a middle-aged woman walked past him, stopped, looked at him funny and then kept going. Then she turned around and looked at him again.

Leo in his mind: "Okaaaaay"
Middle-aged woman: I just had to come back and take another look, I thought you were David Archuleta and then I had to tell myself "David Archuleta doesn´t have a baby!" So then I knew you weren´t him, but you look a lot like him!
Leo: "Uh, thanks!"

So, look here in this post for a photo of David Archuleta...do you think my almost 30-year old husband looks like a 17 year old wannabe pop star from season 7 of American Idol? And yes, Leo is channeling his inner Zoolander for the picture. :)

Happy Easter!

Today was extremely tiring for me! I spent most of the day yesterday cooking and getting ready for the Easter dinner today. I wanted to have a huge spread of food and invite Leo's family over for dinner because they had just gotten home from Washington yesterday and I was sure they wouldn't want to cook. And it's also traditional in my family to have a big Easter dinner, every excuse we have to eat, we use!

SO! Yesterday I made:

• Carrot cake (and it turned out!!!! I had to kind of guestimate the adaptions to the recipe for high altitute, we're over 7500 feet here...) The first time I tried to make carrot cake here, I didn't know the tricks to make my oven work, or how to adjust recipes for high altitudes or adjust cooking times/temps and the result was a burned mass on the outside, and barely cooked enough on the inside...blech! But it still tasted good...hahaha
• My aunt's Refrigerator rolls (didn't turn out, it was too cold and the rolls didn't rise enough so they came out kind of dense), my aunt is still the undisputed queen of these rolls!
• Since I can't find the canned French's Fried Onions, I had to make my own fried onions so I started by marinating the onion rings in ranch dressing.
• Pineapple sauce for the ham - since I couldn't find crushed pineapple, I had to have Leo crush it for me.

Today I made the:

• Potatoes and Onions with the Lipton's Onion soup mix. These are SO easy and SO yummy!
• Mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallow fluff mixed in - this reminded me of the candied yams my grandma used to make and she'd put in miniature marshmallows. I had a jar of marshmallow fluff that somebody had given me that was set to expire so I thought "What the heck?!" Sooooo yummy!
• The ham - Costco makes it easy! One minute to make the glaze, heat up the ham, put the glaze on and voila!
• The green bean casserole. Since I could not find canned green beans, I had to buy the green beans, steam them and then make the casserole. Even yummier than my mom's (sorry Mom!)
• The fried onion rings for the green bean casserole topping - since they had to marinate overnight, I fried them today in a bran/flour breading.

When writing down the dinner menu, it doesn't seem like that much work, and I knew it would be a lot of work because I do this every Thanksgiving and Easter, it was fun and I'm glad almost everything turned out!

SO! Dinner was a hit, my in-laws gave me permission to marry Leo (a family joke every time I cook something that turns out really yummy)

So that was happy...I was tired and took a much-needed nap after dinner.

Tiago ate green beans for the first time today! He's getting much more coordinated than before, he's reaching for toys now and he can pass toys from one hand to the other and back again. It's exciting to see him grow and progress, I just can't get enough of him!

Leo left tonight for Spain. He's got 13 hour flight (or something like that) straight to Paris, then he has a two hour layover in Paris, and then a two hour flight to Barcelona, Spain. He'll be back next Sunday... :(

He really did not want to go, I think I was more excited for him to go to Barcelona than he was! I did some research and gave him a list of some places that he had to go try and visit this week! It's our goal to move to Barcelona sometime in the next 5 years as General Manager of the office there, once Leo gets his MBA. Becoming a GM or a VP is the next step up for Leo from where he is now.

Well, this has been a long post, so long for now!

Leo comes home today!

Leo is coming home today from Colombia! This is the first time he has been gone for so long since the birth of Tiago...10 days! We didn't get to talk much while he was down there because international rates from hotel phones are notoriously expensive! And he stinks at writing emails!

He called me for 10 minutes from Cali, Colombia where he was on Friday to Sunday, and he checked his hotel bill and saw that that phone call had cost the company $90 DOLLARS! So needless to say, we didn't talk much.

Vonage has a worldwide plan that we will probably get that includes free calls to 60 countries for free (well, $40 a month but that beats $90 for 10 minutes!)

I'm excited to see him again and I can't wait to go pick him up from the airport!