Archive for January, 2010

Yes, I know my birthday was months ago

Roger took me to Elevation Chop House for my birthday last year. The restaurant is next to the runway at a small airport, so you can watch the planes take off and land. We’d been wanting to eat there for a while, and it’s a cool place but unfortunately the food is overpriced and not [...]

I didn’t see Elvis but…

That’s the Bellagio, and it was our home for the MLK holiday weekend. Well, more like our crash pad. Since we partied like college kids the entire time, we saw very little of our ultra fancy room. This was mine and Roger’s first time in Vegas, and we were impressed. The hotels are beautiful. I [...]

Thinking of Ecuador

As many of you know, last June Roger and I went to Ecuador on a mission trip with my home church Wilmer UMC. You can read all about the trip on our Ecuador page. I knew then the trip was changing my life, and it’s an odd feeling to be aware of such a change [...]

Chicken Tamale Casserole

I don’t have a lot of notes on this dish, because I followed the directions exactly. And it came out delicious! So instead, I’ll share a story…

My 2009 Reads

Happy New Year! I hope your Christmas and other holidays were great. I managed to catch a nasty cold just in time for New Years Eve, and it was one of those that forces you to rest all day, even though you don’t really want to. But ironically, I think the rest helped me over [...]