technical problems

See I decide to start blogging again and then things set me back. Technical things. Picasa won't let me upload anymore pics for my blog cause they want me to BUY more storage space. Well, I ain't doing that so I have to find someone who can help me figure something else out with my pics. I'm bummed cause I have some really good ones to post for ya. So anyway on to my life.
Yesterday was my Mom's 80th birthday. I can't really believe she is 80 she doesn't seem like it. She's still working everyday and enjoying it. It keeps her young. Mom wanted to make us dinner. Doesn't seem right does it her making us dinner on her birthday but that's how she is. She enjoys cooking so we let her. =) She kept it simple. Made a few of our favorites. Pork tenderloin and chicken, mashed taters, green beans with cheese on them. Then we had another little party later as we waited for the Eagles game to start. Which the Eagles lost against the Cowboys. That can really get me mad. I hate losing to the Cowboys. Anyways......
Saturday we had Edwin's birthday dinner. Made him rice and beans and chicken. It turned out soooo good. Then we had icecream sundaes for dessert. We were all here including Erika and the g-kids. My goodness those kids are cute. We had them overnight and took them to church and then along with us to Mom's and then Erika came after work. I'm thinking it would be nice to start bringing the kids to church with us. They really like it. Maybe we should take advantage of that.
We'll see. Maybe not all the time but more regularly.

Rico

Here is the ever fashionable Rico. At the girls softball game I found him like this. He picked up one of the players glasses and tried them on. Not bad.
Rico started working Monday and Tuesdays at Goodwill. Last report he is doing very well with putting CD cases together. He seems to enjoy it. He has his own ID card now it looks just like a license and he also has his own access card to get into his job. Pretty professional he is.
He still really likes Barney although he likes other more grown up things as well. We had his senior pictures taken and we will be picking them up soon. He looks very handsome and so much older in the pics. He continues to be very socialable at school and sits all over the place with whoever he chooses at lunch at his school. So all in all Rico is doing well.

Chicken and Dumplings

 

Yesterday I was watching "Tyler's Ultimate". Tyler Florence is a chef on the "Food Network" channel. This time he made The Ultimate Chicken and Dumplings. I decided to give it a try. I printed out the recipe and got to work.
I had a fun time making this meal. Number one I was hungry for something soupy because of this rain. And number two we had no plans for the evening and knew I could take my time makeing this recipe. The meal turned out wonderfully and everyone liked it a lot. Now it's always fun when you make something new and everyone likes it that's no small thing around here pleasing everyone. We sat down to eat and I looked at my plate and thought I need to take a picture of this. The kids laughed at me. I said hey when you guys do something fab you like to take pics of it and it's the same with me. So here it is. And by the way did you miss me? I wonder how long it will take for someone to check my blog and see I actually update. Whoever stops by please leave me a note. =)

Freeman picnic........

Okay wow I got lost there for a long time so long that I almost forgot how to get on my Miranda Experience website. But no fears it all came back to me. Below is some pics of a great picnic we had with some great friends. I've been wanting to hang out with the Freeman's for a while I really wanted to use there brick outdoor barbecue but that didn't happen they need to do work on that. So we settled for a barbecue normal style. Enjoy the pics.

Basketball 09

From Basketball 09

The girls basketball season has come to a close. Bella's team went undefeated this year 16-0. Pretty cool. Bri's team came out pretty strong the first half but struggled the last half of the season. These pictures are of the last game of the season against Manheim Central. We've also been spending a lot of time watching the J.V. and Varsity High School girls play. The Varisty girls went undefeated as well in there divisional play. So they won there section title now it's on to the LL league playoffs. I know some of these pics won't be of interest to you but I just wanted to show you how we have been spending some of our time this past season.