Exhibit #1: It has a pool with an ultimately fun (and fast) water slide. It doesn’t look like much, but trust us, it is fast.
Exhibit #2: It is pet friendly. Normally we wouldn’t think this is cool. In this case, it is really cool because it is so pet friendly we met Crystal the Monkey. That’s right, the monkey in Night at the Museum. Harmon even got to pet her.
Admit it, you are jealous.
Introducing…
Our blog is now available at www.puerquenos.com
Don’t worry, kelseyandaaron.blogspot.com still works.
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My smaller baby is getting older and wiser too.
She loves: eating her feet, giggling, tummy time, smiling, sharing a room with her brother, chomping everything, and playing with rattle toys
She can: roll both ways (but mostly is lazy), kick her brother, death grip everything
For her 4 month birthday she gave me the gift of sleeping a 7 hour stretch (the night before); her doctor gave her lots of shots (the day of); and her body gave her the gift of both bottom center teeth (the day after). Some of us are better gift givers than others.
Her stats:
Nice Large Head: 42.7cm, 90%
Still Pretty Tall: 25.28″, 86%
Just Chunky Enough: 14lbs 1.5oz, 63%
Here is what she looked like for the last month:
For those of us who live outside of a reasonable driving distance from a Cafe Rio (6 hours is my limit) we have to suffer. We have to suffer the cravings to the creamy tomatillo dressing which we can’t have. We have to think of ways to try to get people to bring us food when they travel from Utah. When it’s been over a year and you still think about it on a weekly basis, you may just decide that you have to try a “knock off” recipe. If you do, you will probably be happy, and very very full. After a bit of internet research, I found a couple recipes and kind of mixed them together. So although I would like to take credit for them, they aren’t really mine, but I put them here for you, so feel free to send me lavish gifts and money as an appropriate thank you.
Creamy Tomatillo Cilantro Yummy Addictive Dressing
1 packet of Buttermilk Ranch dressing
1 cup mayo
1 cup buttermilk
4 tomatillos
1/2 bunch of cilantro
1 lime (juiced)
1 clove of garlic
1 jalapeno (minus the seeds)
The best choice is a food processor to chopify and mix your sauce, but I think a blender would probably work fairly well too. Put in the refrigerator and try not to drink it. I heard from a reliable source that Cafe Rio uses crack in theirs, but I didn’t, because crack kills, people!
The Tasty Chickens For The Salad
4 big chicken breasts (or however much you want to make)
1/2 cup Kraft Zesty Italian Free
1/2 cup Sprite
(you could totally just use one cup of sprite or the dressing, this is just what I did because I had half a bottle of dressing and a bit of sprite)
4 T minced garlic
1 T cumin
1 T chili powder
Put all in wideish pot. Bring to boil, flipping the chicken along the way, put the lid on, then turn down to low to simmer for 1 hour. Make sure to spend way too much time flipping the chicken and making sure that it is hydrated. This is an act of love and will make the chicken taste a lot better. Then pull it out, and burn your fingers shredding it. Put it back in the sauce in the pot, mix, and cook for another 10 or 15 minutes on super low. If you are a lazy person who doesn’t want to put love into your food then you could just use a slow cooker for 4 hours, shred, and cook another hour.
Rice is necessary too
2 cups white rice
4 cups water
1/2 bunch cilantro, food processored or chopped really small
1 can green chiles, food proccessored
1/2 medium onion, food processored (yes, that’s a word)
4 T minced garlic
Bring to a boil, cover and turn to low to simmer until it’s done. If you don’t know how to make rice/tell when it is done, I can’t help you.
Other Things You Need
8 Tortillas
Cheddar cheese, grated (enough to cover 8 tortillas, I don’t know how much)
Can of black beans, heated
Head of Romaine, shredded (is it called a head? I don’t know, a bundle of romaine?)
Assembling Your Salad
Heat a frying pan and crisp your tortilla on one side. Then flip it over to do the other side and put on a layer of cheese. Put on a plate. Add rice, beans, chicken, lettuce, ultra tasty sauce. Oops, did you save some cilantro for the top? You should have. Also if you want to be ultra Cafe Rio like (I did not because I am too lazy) you add some white cheeses and some skinny tortilla strips. I think the skinny tortilla strips would have added, and next time I have intention to make those happen.
This was probably my longest blog post ever, and surely my most tasty. I should really write a cookbook based on other people’s recipes in a really long drawn out manner. It could make millions.
Now, let me preface by saying that although I have no experience in retail sales, I have a lot of experience in buying stuff, so I’m pretty much an expert.
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Dear Lady “Selling” Swimsuits at Costco,
I am pretty sure that it is your job to help people, to tell them interesting information about the promotional item, and to answer any questions they may have. I am pretty sure it is not your job to tell prospective swimsuit buyers they are fat. Seriously.
I was in such a good mood, upon entering Costco and finding that one of my favorite shirt makers was now making swimsuits. But then you had to go and tell me several helpful hints to make my day better:
1. “You definitely need the bigger size” (thank you, I am aware, and also I didn’t ask)
2. “You should get the one piece because children change your body and it’s not time for bikini bottoms anymore” (um, first, I didn’t ask, second, there were no bikinis and I was looking at tankinis with an ample bottom piece, and third, SHUT IT)
3. Repeat various forms of #1 and #2
Just because someone may be still be carrying their baby (ok cookie) weight, doesn’t mean that you can call them fat. Especially if you are trying to sell them swimwear. I suggest for the future you stick to the following talking points:
1. “You would look very skinny and attractive in that!”
2. “These suits are so modest! The bottoms are extra high and top extra long for maximum coverage.”
3. “Since you asked, the appropriate size for you would be….”
4. “You would look so amazing and good-looking in that suit!”
5. “I bet every suit looks good on you!”
Just try it. I promise you will sell more suits.
I bought the smaller size and it fit anyway, in your face,
Kelsey
Dear Comcast,
You called me. You lowered my bill and gave me more channels. You told me how to fix the bad signal (and even offered to have someone come to my house for free to check it out). You told me to tell my friends that if they have problems they should call you too. That was very Comcastic indeed.
BFF (until 6 months when the promotion runs out),
Kelsey
Look! It’s Friday! And I have things to complain about!
Like the suckers we are, when we signed up for comcast a bit over a year ago we signed up under a promo deal. I made sure we weren’t locked into some horrifying contract with penalty for early termination. (I know, I’m flighty, have to plan my escape routes at all times) Although there was no contract, our promo rates would expire in 6 months. We determined that was fine, we would just cancel the cable or go to a lower package when the time came. It did, and I called and was offered another deal for 6 months: the same thing we already had for the price we had been paying. I took it.
Fast forward 6 months later when I received a larger than normal bill and realized it was time to call again. Apparently this time they didn’t want to give me a deal. No wait, that’s not true, they had another number I could have called and waited 4 hours for someone to answer who had the power to give me a better deal so I wouldn’t quit. Like I have that kind of time? Anyway, we ended up with a ghetto cable package for more money than the original promo deal. I wasn’t happy, but figured it was life.
Enter new ghetto cable package. Fine, we lost some of our channels, like National Geographic and Military channel (cue Aaron’s crying…) but what we really lost was a working cable connection. It’s like when we turned off the “premium” channels, they also turned down the quality of the signal. So now we get silent gaps along with weird digitization, normally timed conveniently at the most important part of a show or best joke.
Conspiracy? Maybe. Annoying? For sure. Do I love it? No, I don’t love it at all.
P.S. Aaron just asked what I was writing about. When I told him Comcast he said: “oh, how the DVR doesn’t work and the internet is slow?” Oops, it seems I left out the two other important points. Comcast: we’re officially fighting.
Today the children and I were driving to my mom’s. As I turned the first corner I heard “rrrrrrrrrrrrr ker-chunk!” Oh no, my car is broken. Did a belt just fly off? I pull over and look under my car, nothing. I keep going and hear it again. When I turn. Or go down hill. And it is LOUD. It sounds like skeeball, or a miniature golf…..wait a minute, didn’t Harmon have a golf ball in his hand when he got in the car? That’s right, Harmon somehow managed to drop his golf ball onto the floor, where it rolled into the heater duct and is now lodged in the system under the front left side of the car. Awesome. April Fool’s Day Count: Harmon: 1 Mom: 0
Since it’s April Fool’s Day and I don’t have any good jokes this year, I have this conundrum for you instead:
If you have a popcorn kernel stuck way down in your neck that is stabbing you to death, is it better to leave it and suffer pain, or to stick your finger way down there and gag yourself, potentially having all the popcorn you just ate visit you again?
If you were wondering what I did, after 15 minutes of pain I decided to risk it. And although I gagged, I dislodged said offender and didn’t barf. Victory is mine.
Ok, so maybe like 400, but whatever. I have finally uploaded photos. This will interest like two of you, so if you are bored/love looking at our children’s faces, here you go:
December 09 (updated)
January 10
February 10
March 10
Plus here are a few you are forced to look at:
Month One
Month Two
Month Three
