The Logans came to town! Juice and Jack headed over to the Logan household in Lake Oswego so the boys could meet. Liam was born on December 21st (same day as our favorite gal Madeline). I made sure that Juice took along the camera to document this first "play date" of sorts.
Jack and Liam (LT) Logan.
The birthday girl posing with her special platter. We hosted an Iron Chef competition here on Saturday night. I totally stole the idea from some other clever UPS Loggers (and, yes, Natalie, I'm a total blogger stalker...thank your husband for the idea). The secret ingredient was "tomato". Kate and I joined together to make a bitchin' eggplant parmesan with a homemade tomato sauce and a salad with toasted pine nuts, gorganzola, tomatoes, bacon and a homemade dressing. Brett and Justin (the cheaters and the LOSERS) made grilled veal steaks and gazpacho. They spent more than $50, but tried to cover up their cheating asses. They worked real hard at this: picture two dudes realizing that they could lose becasue they spent too much...making their way back to the butcher to ask him to divy up the veal steaks into 2 separate packages, individually going through the check out line and then throwing away one of the receipts. Did they forget that I'm a nosey lady? Of course I was going to check out their receipt! They were so busted, but DAMN, their steaks and soup were tasty. We tried to sit and take tastes at the same time so we could savor our hard work. That lasted 2 seconds. We were hungry and it looked and tasted so good! I'm hooked with this idea. It was the best! Everyone was involved, had fun and ate well. Shouldn't every dinner party run like this?!
Damn Kate! You can toss my salad any day! O.k. that sounds gross...but doesn't Kate look darling?! It looks like she's growing right out of the salad bowl. You tiny, girl!
Once again, just when I think I've got the hang of things...I'm such a blogger re-re. I tried to rotate the picture, but I guess it still looks tasty. This is the CHEATERS platter: veal chops with grilled tomates and purple onions.
Super baby! Jack has taken a liking to flying above our heads. Mainly, I think he likes this because it gives him the opportunity to drip and drop major spit bombs onto our faces, shirts, etc.
Jack's first trip to the beach (Lincoln City) for Joy's 30th. It was short, but sweet and GREAT to get out of town.
This one didn't survive...
Mr. Nguyen--my most favorite Building Engineers of all time, helping us with the infamous Egg Drop. Long story short, the kids had to create a structure in which an egg could "lay" in and then be dropped from a high place. I would show you pictures of the kids, but I think that's illegal and I like my job too much.
