Food and other Fun

I had to display this picture of my beautiful husband and all of our friends in Porterville thus far... From left to right: Billy the Wells Fargo pony, Hope the always praying bear, Snuggles the favorite of Jeremiah, and Tika the dolphin from Aquatica Florida (on top of his head)

Also... many people have asked me if Jeremiah is starving now that we're living completely on our own and not spending the weeks at my mom and dad's home. The answer is - look at the pictures! (We have a special little button on our camera that is actually meant to take pictures of food, so I couldn't resist taking some...)


We've been eating quite well in Porterville, and I've been trying all sorts of recipes and marinades. From top to bottom: Fillet of Sole and Pan Fried Asparagus (thanks to Bethany's wonderful recipe) with salad, and today's main dish - salmon in soy sauce and brown sugar marinade with five cheese macaroni!

Jeremiah says he is quite pleased...and we LOVE our George Forman grill...and Costco!

Just had to show-off my new-found talent :) (Ok, so what if I completely burned the top of the steak I cooked before any of the inside cooked at all the first time around? - I'm definitely a work-in-progress!)

And besides the food, we've been enjoying our time here so much. Today we woke up bright and early before the heat set in (it gets to be about 107 degrees here!), and we took a wonderful bike ride for an hour. It's amazing, we can ride our bikes in the streets here, and cars don't even THINK about running you over (you Southern Californians know what I mean - what are so many people's main reactions when they see a biker in the street???) Actually, there are hardly any cars that drive around town, even during rush-hour time of 8:00-9:00. We were thinking about those of you stuck on the 91 or 605 in traffic today while the 5 cars that passed us were going about 45 mph around us...

We also signed our contracts with the school district today, so we are officially teachers! YEA! (we were getting a little frightened that they might say nevermind...) And then, to cool off, at 5:00, we went swimming in the very refreshing neighborhood swimming pool. It felt soooooooooooooo good! We got to talk with some of the younger kids in our neighborhood who were using the pool as well, and some of them were so excited that Jeremiah might be their teacher in a few years since they will be going to his school... It was so cute!

TV!

Ok, so I'm not a big television watcher, but sometimes, I definitely like to relax and stare at the tv while eating ice cream at night, even if I'm not really watching anything in particular. Jeremiah, on the other hand, enjoys watching a couple of shows. So, in La Habra, we bought one of those tv converter boxes, and we were able to watch lots of different channels for free! It was wonderful! And the picture was so clear.

Porterville is another story, however.... only 3 channels showed up, and they were so blurry that I didn't even enjoy staring at the snowy television screen while eating ice cream. Something had to be done...


So we got the Dish system, and I thought we should show you all how beautiful it looks on our patio...especially since we haven't invested in any other furniture out there yet!


And also, now you get to see what our back yard looks like, we back up to the freeway - no, it's not the 605... it's the 65 (just 2 numbers, because there are only 2 lanes, and only 2 cars every half hour or so...)

Other than that, it's really private. We love it!