This is Strawberry Shortcake!

We went to the Turkey Roost for dinner and after a delicious turkey
plate I ordered a strawberry shortcake. It was huge! I couldn't finish
it but it didn't keep me from trying.

Matt's Steak Recipe

Today on Cooking with Matt he shares "Matt's Bad-Ass Good-As-Shit Steak" recipe. This is a picture of him pretending to draw it on the board left handed because he didn't want to just stand and let me snap a picture. Once again the recipe is drawn as a picture so follow along.

1. Take a large bowl and fill it with 1 cup of Worcestershire Sauce, 1 cup of Italian dressing, 1 tbsp lemon juice and 2 tbsp soy sauce.
2. To the bowl add 1 cup of water and your 2 steaks. Let it sit for 4 hours.
3. Rub on your spicy seasoning to your steak and stick on the grill for 10 minutes on each side.
4. Eat the bad ass shit out of it.

Thank you, Matt!

Student Assistants

Everyone meet Craig. Craig is a new student assistant here at work that I get to torture teach.

Today we're celebrating Jerry's birthday at work so we have food goodies we brought in. Lately we've noticed food poachers that come and take our food even though they don't belong to our group. I have assigned Craig to watch the food table and bite anyone who comes close. Matt suggested if anyone does sneak a bite to tackle them and make them spit the food out.

Craig's on top of it. I told him to show me a menacing face for this picture. I guess that's the best he can do.

Gross!

It's too small to read but the cap on my Snapple says:

"The average human eats 8 spiders in his/her lifetime while sleeping."

As if my tummy wasn't feeling squeamish enough. Now I'm thinking about eating spiders and I'm associating spiders with my Snapple.

I think I'm going to go get myself a glass of water to drink with my lunch.

Shiver Me Timbers!

Yarrrrr and Yo Ho Ho!

Today be international talk like a pirate day. Don't be a rotten bilge rat an' start a practicin' yer pirate talk. Ye scurvy dogs bes' be speakin' like ye should today or I's make you walk the plank. And don't be mistakin' me fer one of dem softy pirates ye sees at Disney. I's the rotten kind that skewers yer guts as soon as look at ye.

Oh ya and one more thing.

Pirates > Ninjas

Grapes are Good

Just wanted to let everyone know grapes are delicious. I wish I could
eat them all day.

Trying Scrapblog

Mom sent me the link to scrapblog.com today so I gave it a quick try with some Belgium photos. It lets me connect right to flickr so that was pretty cool. If it posts on here easy it might be a fun and easy way to do some digital scrapbooks.

New Baby Site

Since my mind is going to be preoccupied for the upcoming months, I decided to split my random crap and baby ramblings into two separate blogs. This site will continue to contain random crap about our life. Probably big events like ultrasound pictures and such I'll share here but other than that I'll keep my crazy pregger rantings off of here.

Since Dodge's parents live so far away, I thought a site for them to keep up-to-date with the goings on might be something they enjoy. So I have created just that. If you actually are interested in the baby information, you are certainly welcome to view it as well.

http://howellbaby.com/

Matt & zee Calculator

Today Matt took some time to impress me with his calculator spelling skills. He started slow and simple for me in case I didn't catch on. Messages like "hello" and "hi boss".

I then challenged him to make a complete sentence.

He sat figuring out all the letters he could get out of the calculator and pondered the sentence he could make. He finally came up with "I see hogs" (pictured above).

Actually his first one used a 2 instead of a 5 for the "s" in see so it looked like "I zee hogs". When I asked him about it, he said he was being even fancier and spelling it with a french accent.

First Doctor Visit

Dodge wasn't able to afford any time off work so Mom came with me to my first appointment today. I just spent time with the nurse. Giving her our medical history and getting the basics of what pregnancy means. They took like 6 dang tubes of blood and I had to pee in a cup. Mom says to get used to peeing in a cup as I'll do it every time I visit now. I made my appointment for next month and got my prenatal vitamin prescription.

The estimated due date we were given was May 4, 2009. Seems so far away!

When we got out mom handed me a little bag. She said she's had it for over a week already but she was out of town last week. We got love grandma and grandpa onsies and an organizer! Mom knows how I love organizers! This is the first official gift we've gotten so I had to take a picture of it.

Thanks Mom!

Tracker

I see the doctor for my first visit on Thursday but patience has never been one of my strong suits. I've checked parenting web sites trying to figure out an estimated due date and other baby information.

Today I bought a pregnancy tracker app from iTunes for my phone. $2 for a quick look of how far along things are. Like I wouldn't know anyway but eh it wasn't that expensive.

When the doctor gives me his estimated due date, I can enter that in and follow it according to that timeline. Right now it's just estimating based on my last period.

New Monitor

Karen and I got monitor upgrades today just out of the blue. It is such a technical leap from the monitor I had I'm feeling all high tech today!

Oh Em Gee! A baby!

Dodge and I are flipping out and are super excited. I just took a
pregancy test and it's positive! We are busy calling our parents and
family right now!