Just had to post these adorable little baby shoes someone in our ward made for Eva. So darling! I just need to figure out how to make them now. She’s already outgrowing everything!
Okay, so now that I post it, I realize it’s not the best picture, but the soles are that suede kind of fabric, and the back is that same red color that’s in the flowers. SO cute.
And a picture of the girl.
Kim Chee
Makes approx. 5 cups
1 head napa cabbage
6 Tbs salt (approx)
2 Tbs sugar (I would make it a little less sweet, Conan likes it as is)
2 Tbs crushed red pepper flakes (according to taste)
1/4 tsp fresh ginger root, finely chopped
4 cloves garlic, peeled and finely chopped
2-4 green onions, finely chopped
This is loosely the recipe we followed, here’s the process, as Conan remembered from his Korean contacts while serving a mission in New Zealand.
So, we’d had a fun grown-up party way back in 2002 celebrating the Chinese New Year with good food, friends, games… it was so fun I decided then and there I’d make it a tradition. I think we did have one in 2004, before Burke was born, but it’s not really been as traditional as I’d hoped. At any rate, sometime around mid-February, we had an Asian Celebration of sorts as a family. We’d totally missed the holiday, but decided to celebrate with good food anyway. The menu included Chinese Stir Fry, Korean Kimchee, and Japanese sushi. Here are photos of the kids making candy sushi. I’ll make a second post with a recipe and photos of Conan and I making KimChee.
Our Inspiration: Veggi Sushi. I think Keane tried some pickled ginger, but that’s as far as that experimentation went.
So here’s some fun projects my kids have been up to…last year. I’ve had them ready to post for about that long, but never did post them. Ah, well. Life is life. Here they are:
Lizzie’s post about Jodie’s gift reminded me that, although I took many photos, I never actually posted about my gift from Micah & Lizzie last year.
FINALLY. It had been fully constructed for almost a year, painted for months, and we (ahem, I) finally bought birdseed. So we will see how many birds we can help out these cold weather months! Well done, Neils.
So, despite the fact that some of my boys are hilariously squeamish about creepy crawly creatures, they have all been enamored with some of the very interesting creatures in our backyard. Burke wanted to catch this gigantic praying mantis, I tried to get him close to it for a scale picture, but it didn’t turn out all that well. You can kind of see a brownish line on the window to his left. He wouldn’t get any closer because he thought the bug might eat him. At least you get to see his cute smiling face! We didn’t get to capture it for closer examination primarily because even our largest mason jars were not large enough for this big guy!
Neils later captured this fuzzy-looking caterpillar, though he couldn’t tell me if it were prickly or furry because he opted to just scoop the thing up into the jar rather than (ugh!) touch it with his hands… who raised this pansy, anyway? (Remember, you’re talking to the girl who used to eat live grasshoppers just to gross out the boys down the street…) Anyway, we have learned some rather fascinating things about caterpillars, primarily that when fed on beet greens, they get these groovy red stripes and produce rather large quantities of poop.
Well, after lots of hard labor, we finally have something to show off! Introducing… Read the rest of this entry »
SO, it took me awhile to take this photo. My apologies, as nobody is probably even curious about this anymore, but this is our fabulous IKEA purchase… we actually have one more bookcase like the one on the left that goes on the right side… it’s still in the box. But these at least are set up and filled (nearly) so I thought I’d go ahead and finally post this!
Yikes.
This is a post all about Neils’ obsession with Zelda. Nevermind that the hero in the Zelda games is not named Zelda, that name just sounds way cooler than "Link" so he is ZELDA. Pretty much every day.