Category: mi familia

Fruit Salad

Smiley and Shari had everyone over after church yesterday to hang out and enjoy burgers and hot dogs. We had a great time and I found a “new” fruit salad recipe to mix up to take to the event.
I’ll try and type it up from memory. I doubled the recipe and we had about half left over. The original said it was enough for 6 servings.

2 cups of diced apples (i used semi-tart green ones)
2 cups of grapes (i used seedless red grapes from H.E.B)
1 can of mandarin oranges
1 cup of crushed/broken pecans
1 tbsp of lemon juice (i used apple juice instead)
2 cup of whipped cream
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of mini-marshmallows

The lemon juice is likely used to help preserve the apples but we were out of lemons and such so I just added a little apple juice to add flavor instead.
Mix the whipped cream and sugar together and then pour it over the fruits and nuts and mix it all together. Serve immediately or refrigerate before serving.

Our first finds

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Well I may just be speaking for myself but I think Laurie and I are hooked on Geocaching now.
We tried the “sport where you’re the search engine” on Monday but didn’t make a find. We tried again last night with a few easier ones within a mile of our new place and had much better luck.
I believe we even avoided “Muggles” for the most part.
We made our first find, Light Up My Life #4 and then went from there.
We found 5 of the originals in the Light Up My Life series. I believe there are currently two more.
We also decided to give Smiley and Shari a run for their money. They’ve been leaving their business cards for After Hours Improv behind and we decided we’d start a game of finding all their cards they’ve left behind and replacing them with cards showing our website on them.
Looking forward to some more geocaching with the guys at my bachelor party this weekend.

Marriage advice

Boy – you tell someone you’re getting married and you will get advice from EVERYONE.
Here are some of the latest (as well as a couple older ones):

  • Marriage is about three rings. The engagement ring. The wedding ring. And the suffer ring.
  • Husbands are the head of the house as Christ is the head of the church. But wifes, you are the neck and you turn the head which ever way you want it to go
  • A couple who had been married for 50+ years was asked about the secret to their relationship. The husband spoke up and said, “We decided before we were married that I would make all the major decisions and she would make all the minor decisions.” The wife then added, “And it’s amazing, we haven’t had a single major decision to make in over 50 years.”
  • There’s one phrase you need to remember, “Yes dear.”
  • It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission
  • There are two phrases you need to remember, “Yes dear” and “I’m sorry.”

With my bachelor party this weekend I’m sure I’ll get even more loads of advice before it’s all said and done.