On to more recent happenings...

So as many of you know we've been doing our best to eat natural and often organic food...we still eat out every now and then (not anywhere near as often as we were doing) and eat "normal"  food.  We just try to be reasonable about it.  Here's a few pics of some of the yummy foods we've been making with our better for you ingredients...

My chocolate chip banana bread...not as healthy for you but all natural sugar and whole wheat flour

Dave's scrumptious pizza...made with wheat dough, spaghetti sauce, mozerella cheese, feta cheese, and tomato bruchetta (that's the brown lumps and what makes it look greasy)...dare I say it's as good as if not better than "Wheat State" pizza? :)

The finished product...SO GOOD!

The Halloween pasta my Mom sent us :)

The seeds from our pumpkin I baked

The meal Dave prepared for me after a rough day at work..

mmm...veggie potstickers, organic brown rice, and wine...perfect :)

Our trip to Wichita...

So way back in the day (ok more like the beginning of September) we made a trip down to Wichita so here are some pics and everything from that trip...

We got to go down the lake (Tablerock) with my Dad and stay at his lake house...it was an awesome weekend full of jet skiing, boating, and of course my Dad's famous slushies.

The boys and their slushies

Been awhile...

So it's been awhile since my last post...I've been really busy, but that's no excuse, so here I am!  So to get the blog updated on what I've been up to since last time...

First off...I got a job!  I'm now teaching at Children's World Learning Center here on base...so far it's been pretty good, I am loving getting to work with kids again and to be making money again...it'd been awhile, I forgot how good it feels to be getting a steady paycheck :)  They have all the new hires working as "floaters" going where we are needed to fill in for breaks and such...although so far I keep getting chosen to be placed in classrooms for weeks instead of hours like the others haha.  My second and third week were spent in a classroom of 2-3 year olds and now I am in a 3-4's room until their second teacher returns (which right now is indefinitely.)  That's good for  me though!

Dave even got me some flowers to celebrate my first day...these were waiting for me when I got home, along with dinner...I am so blessed :)

Also the past month or so, Dave has been playing lots of shows in the area...here are a few pics from those...

Playing on a Saturday night at Koopers Tavern

...and the shoes are off, it's serious now!

Woody's Rum Bar and Grill...my favorite location to be in the audience so far, such a great view!

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Ok enough of the catching up, now on to the new stuff...now Dave and I have been looking into getting rid of my beloved jeep (aka Serina Misquito) and getting a newer car for me!  Even though it's going to be tough to finally get rid of my trusty Serina, it's time to move on...we took her to CarMax this weekend to get an appraisal and they offered us 1,000 (not bad for a 97 jeep with 169,000 miles.)

As for the replacement car...we were thinking a 2004 jeep grand cherokee...you know, stick with what I know and love.  But after some intensive research by my wonderful husband, we're looking at other options...

Now we're looking into possibly getting a 2003ish Acura MDX

Or a 2003ish Yukon Lt...

So far I'm leaning towards the Acura, not sure I could handle a big car like a Yukon quite yet. What do you all think?

Ok that should be enough for now, love and miss you all! ~Mal

4th of July trip to Tennessee...

Dave and I got to spend our 4th of July weekend in Tennessee with his family!  It was great, we had a 4 day weekend so we had a little extra time to spend with everyone.  We spent most of our time at the lake his family has their camper at, the weather was perfect and it only rained a little after we got back from watching the fireworks on the boat...

There was boating, tubing, relaxing...and of course rib day! :D

My 10 year old sister-in-law Jessica is taller than me now (not that that means a lot since I'm so short, haha!)  And my nephew-in-law (if that's such a thing?), Hunter gets bigger and can say so much more every time we see him, its great...this time he was cracking everyone up by calling his great-grandpa (Homer) an "old fart" after every time Homer called him a "punk"...it was too cute :)

Here are some pics from the weekend...

Dave and Jessica tubing

Beautiful sunset

Hehe, my fav pic of the weekend...Dave gave Hunter a mohawk :)

Dave playing with his cousin Daniel

We had a great time and we can't wait to go back once we're out of here for good and spend more time with everyone, weekends are never long enough...even when you have 4 days!