Anhder Reunion: Memories

*Day 180*

Happy Memorial Day!


Grandma and Grandpa Anhder

Most of the memorial days since I've been married have been spent with Matt's family. Memorial day is when they have the Anhder reunion. My mother-in-law was an Anhder. Today I want to share the memories of my first Anhder reunion. I first went to the Anhder reunion when me and Matt were dating. Here are some of the things that I remember about it:
* Me and Matt took his cousins Sam and Brian to play basketball at the park. (I was taller than both of them then. Now, Sam just graduated from high school and Brian is just finishing basic training.) Before we played ball, we stopped at Matt's house. He let me borrow a pair of shorts to play in. When we got back Matt's mom told us that his cousin, Kari, sounded a little upset when she told them, "she's wearing his shorts."

* Matt told me before hand what I could expect of some people. He told me that at some point his Uncle Jerry would seemingly, magically produce a deck of cards and recruit people to play. Sure enough, we were sitting at the table and all of the sudden Uncle Jerry had a deck of cards. I looked at Matt. It was just like he described it. I don't remember if it was this year or a later year when they taught me to play hearts. But it was fun. I had never played before. They thought I would be easy to beat, but I won! Beginners luck.

* This is Matt's favorite memory. He still reminds me and mocks me for it. Matt was teasing me. I told him that he had to catch me. Then I started running away at which point I promptly slipped on the grass and fell. Matt thought that was pretty hilarious. That's what I get for being cocky. Karma!

Welcome Home!

*Day 179*

Logan thinks he's all big and independent. He likes to get ahead of me now just to prove that he can cross the street by himself. We were walking home from church today and me and Matt were talking to a neighbor. Logan got tired of waiting so he ran ahead of us. So when we got to the door, this is what we saw.


Logan waiting for us between the screen and the door. He looked really funny. I laughed, so now I'm sure he'll do it every chance he can get. Love that kids sense of humor!

Apple Pancakes

*Day 178*


I checked a book out from the (big kid side) of the library called Pancakes A-Z. They had a different pancake recipe for every letter of the alphabet. We tried some of the recipes in it. This is one of our favorites.

Apple Cottage Cheese Pancakes
1 cup cottage cheese
3 eggs, separated
3 Tbsp. butter, melted
1/2 teas. vanilla
1 cup peeled, cored and chopped apple
1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp. flour
2 Tbsp. sugar
1/4 teas. salt

In a large bowl, combine the cottage cheese, egg yolks, butter and vanilla. Stir to blend. Add the apple, flour, sugar and salt and stir to combine. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. Gently fold into the batter just until blended. Pour a scant 1/4 cup batter onto hot, greased griddle for each pancake.

Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. (1/2 cup sugar and 1 teas. cinnamon)

If you're making these for a lot of people, you might want to consider doubling or tripling this recipe. Me and Logan could eat a whole batch between the two of us. Maybe your not as piggie so you could feed more. I just thought I'd warn ya.

(Hey Vickie, If you're reading this, I just wanted you to know that I am not a big fan of typing recipes, so I'm impressed that you did the whole cookbook. Thanks!)

Date Night

*Day 177*

Thanks grandma for watching Logan tonight so me and Matt could go out. Movie was good and dinner was delicious.

Class of 2010

*Day 176*

Tonight was preschool graduation. I'm glad it's over. Just because it's been such a busy week and I'd rather stand up talk in front of preschoolers than their parents, families, and grandparents. Oh, well, it's part of the job, right? Aside from me, everything went well.


I love these kids! I am going to miss them. It's been great year.

Cookies, Cookies and More Cookies

*Day 175*

Today I've been making cookies for Preschool Graduation tomorrow. I decided to go the easy route and I made cake mix cookies. But, this is a special occasion, so I had to do a bunch of different kinds. Like chocolate cookies with chocolate frosting, chocolate cookies with white chocolate frosting, chocolate cookies with mint chocolate frosting, white cookies with chocolate frosting, white cookies with mint chocolate frosting, white cookies with white chocolate frosting, white cookies with lemon frosting and lemon cookies with lemon frosting. (Hmmmm, I wonder why I need to loose weight. I mean I have to taste test all of them. And that's a lot of different kind of cookies. Maybe I should simplify and make just one kind next time. It wouldn't be so tempting. But, what's the fun in that! I'll just skip dinner.)

In case you ever want to make them, here's the recipe.

Cake Mix Cookies
1 package cake mix (today I used devils food, yellow and lemon)
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil

Mix all ingredients together. Bake for 9-10 minutes at 350.

Frosting
1 8 oz. package of cream cheese
1 cup melted chips (I tried chocolate, mint chocolate and white chocolate, but not all together)
1 Tbls. butter

Mix until smooth.

Or, if you don't want to bake, but want cookies, just come over to Lynn's tomorrow. But, come after graduation (after 7:30). You just want to come for the cookies and not the show. Really, we will have tons of cookies. Lynn is making them too. Really!

Ants!

*Day 174*


Yesterday in my blog I mentioned that I worked one summer with my Uncle Terry. He had a yard care business. I was working at Shopko full time, but when he needed extra help he would call me. I liked working with him. I really don't mind yard work. I like being outside. But talking about it reminded me of the time I was working with him and got fired. The only time in my life I've ever been fired.

We were doing some work for a lady. She had a lot of stuff she wanted us to do, so Terry took a whole crew of us up to her house. He divided us up to do different jobs around the yard. I was weeding in a flower bed by the driveway. The lady we were working for was standing in the driveway talking to someone who had come to visit her. I was just weeding away. Then I pulled up a weed and disrupted an ant colony. The ants came pouring out. I didn't really pay attention until they started biting me. When they started biting me I jumped up, shook them off, then moved over a little ways and started weeding a different area until they settled down. I don't think I was out of control or spent too much time not working. But, I guess the lady thought differently. We didn't finish all of the work at the house that day. Terry called a couple of days later to see if some of us could come and help him. He told us that I couldn't come. The lady had told him that she didn't want "the blond girl" to come back. Apparently, she wasn't impressed with the way I worked. The only thing we can think of is that she didn't like it when I stopped working when I got attacked by ants. Really! You don't even weed your own flower beds, you can't tell me that you would sit there and finish while ants were biting you! It made me feel better that Uncle Terry wasn't wasn't very happy about it, and felt really bad telling me I couldn't come. And that's how I got fired from a job.