Some of Last Week's Bits

You all know how much I love to watch Hallmark Christmas movies right? Well, one of my Christmas presents from Jacob was an Amazon gift card. Hallmark movies are a lot cheaper there than at the store so I got five new {to me} Hallmark movies {the last one arrived the following day. It was A Princess for Christmas.} Now I have a total of ten Hallmark movies. I still need to order more. I also got a 2015 agenda. I love it. It's got pictures of what one would find on a farm; a barn, a cute country house, farm animals, fruit and vegetable garden, pottery, a greenhouse and flowers.

My poinsettia's are still alive. Yay! Oh, and Expendables 3 is pretty awesome! All of my favorite male actors are in this movie ... well, almost. If Bruce Willis and Liam Neeson would have been in this one then it would have been TOTALLY awesome! I wonder why Bruce didn't come out in it. He came out in the first two.

Ok, so we served Riley spaghetti and salad one evening without asking him and he got upset. He didn't eat any of it! So so lame. Well, he doesn't know what he's missing. We're still gonna keep trying.

We had four days of dense fog. Seriously, by the first day of it I'm ready for it to go. I'm all for dreary days but fog makes the entire house extremely dark no matter how many lights I have on.

I made myself huevos rancheros for lunch several days ago {since I'm still not into eating a big breakfast in the morning}. I fry a corn tortilla until crispy then put a fried egg on it and pour ranchero sauce over it. SO good!! and when I happen to have queso fresco on hand it's even yummier!!! ... and beans. You can't have huevos rancheros without refried beans {which I also cook myself}.

Father/son reading/bonding time. I love how Riley brought out dinosaurs that come out in the book Jacob's reading to him.

The times that we've been to Legendary Donuts most of their donuts have sold out. These donuts are so good ... even better than Seattle's best known Top Pot Donuts. I had a few errands to run one morning and decided to stop here to see all that they had. I texted Jacob and asked him what he wanted. He chose the Charlie Brown. This place has cool names for each of their donuts. There's a Jack Sparrow donut which is made with rum, lol. Love it!

Got these. The one with sprinkles is for Riley of course. Nathan's double chocolate old fashioned with chocolate frosting was really good. I got an old fashioned donut. It was too big. Only ate half.

Got Riley several pj's and tops with his Christmas money. As soon as the cashier handed me the bag he asked me if he could carry it. Funny.

We stopped by Auntie Anne's for some mini pretzel dogs. Can you believe that Riley likes these?! I'm still in a bit of disbelief but he sure does. He ate four mini pretzel dogs. I even texted Jacob and told him. That's progress.

I let Riley see King Kong for the first time on Friday. He was totally into it. I had forgotten that dinosaurs came out in the movie so he loved that. I stopped it right after he was put to sleep to be taken back to the U.S. I didn't want him to see King Kong getting shot at and then falling to his death. Riley got a bit sad when the men were throwing the chloroform to put King Kong to sleep. He's a sensitive boy.

I've got a funny story to share.
Several weeks ago Sydna was holding Riley and he brought up his legs and were pressing on Sydna's lower abdomen. Sydna then said, "ouch Riley get down, you're hurting my ovaries". A few minutes later Riley hit his elbow on something and he said, "ouch I hurt my ogry {instead of ovaries}". We all cracked up. We told him that only girls have ovaries but he kept saying it trying to be funny. I seriously hope he stops saying it because what if he says it when we're out somewhere and people hear. That would be weird!