First Weekend Home

It's saturday and I am actually writing a post....on Saturday. Imagine that. We had Jake and Laura over last evening for dinner and a movie. Melissa made this new coffee BBQ sauce. It was amazing. We had it with chicken and rice. Add corn and a salad to that and we had quite a nice meal. I think that we both agree....as did our company...that the BBQ sauce should make another reappearance in the future...maybe several. We will definitely be adding it to our binder of 'hit'recipes. We have been constantly amazed at how God has blessed us with so many things. We have pretty much been able to get anything we wanted for our kitchen through the wedding gifts that we have received.

We have used our pannini maker many times and are always coming up with new variations of sandwiches to try in it. We also take it over to Brad and Michelle's because they really like it, or actually, the food that comes out of it. We use our cookware set everyday and sometimes, we find that every pan in the set is dirty because we use them so much. And it's amazing because we do dishes very regularly....much more regularly than when i was living here alone. lol. Actually, the whole Apartment in general is cleaner now that Melissa has moved in.

Also, the coffee pot and french press get used very regularly. I try to use them both so one or the other doesn't get jealous. They both make great coffee. We used some gift money to buy a set of Zwilling J.A. Henkels knives. http://www.zwilling.com/en-US/Product-Range--sortiment/Cutlery--knives/Series-overview--serien/TWIN(R)-Four-Star-II--3542.html
We bought a smaller set that contains two chef knives, a parer, a peeler, and a serrated utility knife as well as the knife block and a set of kitchen shears. These, too we use every day and anticipate that they will last as long as the cookware set...

We also acquired a kitchenAid mixer.  Melissa asked me if i wanted to buy a new one from the store when we were there, and I knew that she wasn't crazy about them yet, so she was asking me because she knew i wanted one.  I told her that we should not spend $299 on something that she didn't really want, and that we might find one at a garage sale.  WELL, wouldn't you know, Jake and Laura are buying a house and the sellers have been getting rid of stuff in a sort of ongoing yard sale.  Jake called me last week and said that there was a kitchenAid Professional for sale that looked pretty good and he wanted to know if we wanted it(because he heard that we/I kinda wanted one).  When I asked him how much they wanted for it and he said $50, I talked to Melissa and it didn't take too long for us to decide that it was an AMAZING deal and that we should get it.  SO, we have one now, even though we are running out of room to keep stuff. :)  It's stuff like that that makes you feel so blessed.  A $300-$400 mixer for $50.00. :)

Thursday, We got her car title and registration all taken care of and switched to NY as well as her Drivers License.  There is a 'mobile' DMV that comes to springville every thursday.  They happen to set up at the town hall which is right across the street from where she works.  It was great.  After about 1.5 hours, we had it all straighten out and our pocket books were about $200 lighter. lol

Well, I suppose that's about it.  I rode my bike to work friday.  It was cool in the morning, but the afternoon was great.  an amazing ride.  We need to get all three vehicles inspected before the end of the month and probably get the oil changed for at least two of them.  STUFF>>>>means you have MAINTENANCE to do with it.  the more stuff, the more maintenance.  amazing.

Until Next Time....