My Mouth Is On Fire!...And Other Random Things

I picked up a new salsa at the store the other day. We are salsa lovers and it's a staple of our diet. I haven't found any good salsa since leaving Texas. I found a replacement. It's called Screaming Hot made by Garden Fresh of MI. I really didn't notice or realize that the name of it was SCREAMING HOT. Once I did take note of that I thought "how hot could it be, I'm from TX!" Well...

Down Side: IT BURNS! HELP!
Up Side: SOOOOO YUMMY!
Down Side: So Yummy I can't stop eating it - IT BURNS! HELP!

We've now tried all the other flavors (except Mango - yuk!) and honestly - none of them are quite as delicious as the Scream Hot. We'll have to see if mixing it with one of their milds will do the trick. Until then - if you come to our house and we offer you salsa, consider yourself warned!!!

We finally bought Jason a bike with some of our tax return money. He's really been enjoying riding to school. It takes him about 15 mins to get to south campus and 25 mins to north campus from home. We are so proud of him for riding! This will not only help our pursuit of treading more lightly on the environment but it will also save our pocket book about $30 a month in either bus tokens or gas.

Yesterday Jason removed the tree from our front yard. Many people have worked on this tree. First the weather uprooted it, then the city chopped it up and left us a stump half in the ground, then the gas company repaired the leak in the gas line from it's uprooting and pulled most of it the rest of the way out of the ground for us, lastly Jason chopped it up. It's been a long time coming but this weekend was the perfect weekend to do it and frankly, it could not have been done before now. He did a great job and had a lot of "fun" (in his words) doing it. It gave him a reason to buy a chainsaw and do manly things. He looked like He-man at one point - he was swinging a rather large ax to chop through a root.
Abygail loves music (as we've mentioned many times before), she's learning so many songs. It seems like we sing all day long. A few months back I started trying to involve her in the singing. We were in the car and I was singing Popcorn Popping and I stopped mid-verse to see if she would sing the next line...SHE DID! Now I sing part of the song and stop, wait for her to pick it up, when she's gone as far as she can then I pick it back up. Our singing sessions go back and forth just like that. This morning on the way to church she wanted to sing Child of God "by self" (as she likes to say about EVERYTHING). It was such an endearing and precious moment to hear her sing as much of the song as she could remember.
Abygail has nick names for all of us. Jackson is Jackson-Boy, Daddy is Daddy-Man and Mommy is Mommy-kins. She also likes to say HI!, in her sing song voice, to everyone she sees and walks around the house saying "my name Abygail!". Her favorite show is Little Bear and she has finally started to like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

The kids love playing with Daddy, their favorite thing to do is clobber him!

Jackson has become quite the character. He loves his Daddy very much and can't wait to see him and crawl up into his arms. The other day he got up in Jason's lap all by himself (he was on the floor and Jason was sitting in a chair). He likes to wave at everyone. He says "bye, bye" and "hello". He likes snuggling his blanket and rubbing his face on it to go to sleep. He wants to eat whatever we are eating ESPECIALLY if it's pizza. He also like eating dirt!

We went to a playground Friday morning and he got to swing for the first time, just like Abygail's first time, he wasn't sure if he liked it. Abygail got to swing in a big girl swing and L.O.V.E.D. IT! I had a hard time prying her away from the regular swing and the tire swing. We had such a good time that we went back after dinner that night with Daddy. It was a perfect day and EVERYONE from the neighborhood was already at the park. I was glad there were 2 of us. The kids had a great time running around, sliding, jumping on the 'jumping bridge' and eating dirt. Someone had a bubble machine there and Abygail loved dancing under the bubbles too.

Jason and I took on Chris and Rozannah's challenge while we were there. I'm sorry to say that I only made it around once and Jason did it twice. I think we need more practice and less people there watching us! Just give us a few more weeks and we'll be the winners!!!!!

That's it - we've been up to ... nothing. ;)