Tuesday, August 18, 2009

My First Cake

I made my first cake from scratch! For Ree and Julia's birthdays, Dan and Doreen hosted a Julia dinner Sunday night. See Dan's blog here. It was fun and delicious!

This was the first time I made a cake from scratch, so I was quite anxious about it. It turned out great, and I am excited to try again! I didn't take pictures of each step because I was a bit stressed, so here is the final product!

Me and my cake.


A close-up.


With the birthday candle.


My slice!

DomiNate Visit Houston

I stayed in Houston Thursday night, then Nate and Domi came to Houston Friday and Saturday night. Friday night we went to our Aunt Ree's birthday happy hour.

Here is happy Ree!


Ree and Rex with the Roe's.


Ree and Rex with the Bechle's.


The ladies!


We were all pretty tired Friday. Domi slept on the LoveSac while I did wonders with Wii bowling. I am so terrible at all the rest of the Wii sports though.



I didn't use the camera the rest of their visit, but it was a great time. We had lunch with Dan and Doreen Saturday, then played frisbee golf at the park next to our house. A good time was had by all! I am so happy they are in Austin!!

My First DomiNate Austin Visit

Domi and Nate moved to Austin last week! I drove down Thursday to help them move in, but as you can see, didn't help much.

We started with some welcome to Texas bubbly.


Nate enjoyed some wecome to Texas beer, St. Arnold's Texas Wheat.


Here is their lovely cat, Maggie. She turned 1 yesterday!




We rode the bus downtown to eat. At least I think it was downton. Here we are at the busstop. That's their apartment complex in the back.


Sadly, this is the only picture of the capital I got, and I managed to line a light pole right up the middle! To my credit, it was taken from a moving bus.


It's Domi and Ernie! This is at the restarautn where we stopped for coffee and wings before dinner. Odd combo, but we were tired and hungry.


We ate dinner at Stubb's. Here are the fried green tomatoes. Delicous!


Texas style chili. The best kind of chili if you ask me.


And here is the brisket with fries and creamy cheesy spinach.


Then on to 6th St. We started drinking at The Library.


Some dude drew our picture. I felt bad and gave him $5.


Here are a few fun pics from the 3rd or 4th bar. I don't recall the name....


Julie & Julia

Two weekends ago Jared and I went to see Julie and Julia. Great movie, I highly recommend it. When we got home, we decided to cook Chicken Fricassee from Julia's cookbook.

Here we go!


You must dry the chicken!


Here are the veggies and, of course, butter.


The chicken is cooking.



As are the onions.


The mushrooms were cooked separately as well.


What a mess! I need a bigger pan for this.


Dinner is served! It was delicious.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Austin

I'm in Austin with Domi and Nate! Here is Domi talking to V.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

The Melting Pot

Mmmm. Dessert.

The Melting Pot

Here I am, timing the cooking!

The Melting Pot

Yum!

The Melting Pot

The cheese sauce.

The Melting Pot

Let the fun begin! This is the first time Jared has been to a Melting Pot.