New Mexico Enchiladas!

Today Jennie's family is coming up to the new house for dinner! We're cooking our New Mexico Enchiladas... New Orleans style! Don't worry, they are very good. For the sause, you start by cooking the onions and peppers and garlic in a little olive oil adding beef broth as you go with a strong mix of seasonings, including New Mexico Chili Powder, Cumin, Coriander, and salt, pepper and garlic. You add some tomato paste and sauce, and after an hour of cooking you have a sauce that you blend. It tastes AWESOME! Anyway, we did that last night along with the tortilla soup! Today we'll make the other sour cream based sause for the enchiladas, and put them into the oven.

We also have a nice Salad to go with it.

I'll take pictures of stuff and let you see them! And all the guests who are coming. Meanwhile, a shout out to all my friends in Vegas for NEONCON. Hope they are having fun!

Friday Night

Hello everyone! I haven't written much in the last little while, but I'll do a quick update on things and I'll promise to come back and add some more stuff later. Last week was Halloween and we have some fun photos I would like to post!

Okay, first of all, tonight Asher and Riley ran a Magic the Gathering Tournament at the store. A Zendikar Draft. It was fun, and hopefully successful for everyone!

Jennie and I lost our little cat Bug about 2 weeks ago. She is very shy, so while we moved, she was trapped in the old house. One morning I finally got her. She's very upset. Well I brought her to the new house only to have her utterly disappear the first day. I've been praying for her and asking God where she is. We've all been worried sick. Well tonight I was in the garage unloading things and I opened a drawer to a dresser there and BAM Bug was in the top drawer! She climbed up into it!

She's now safely in Ame's room, with Cinder (her favorite dog) and food and water. I hope she's okay, but I will tell you I was worried about it and my prayers seemed to fall on deaf ears. It was a weird experience. I've worried over that little cat more than I should. I'm glad she is safe now. I hope she is able to get comfortable in the new house.

We lost little chili too the other day, she got outside and was gone for two days! Also Philo and Houdini went out one night and spent the night outside. They were on the front door howling at 5:00 AM! Houdini had actually fallen down a window well and was howling down there.

I went for a walk yesterday with Cinder around my new neighborhood and it was REALLY nice. There really are so many things I could tell you about. But that walk was just nice, and the neighborhood is really nice.

My Dad woke me up at 5:00 this morning saying he was light headed and dizzy and numb all over. I talked him down. He has panic attacks now, and I got him calm and he went back to sleep.

Oh, I forgot to mention that Peggy and John and Josh and Jim and Raimi and Caitlen are all coming up Sunday for dinner! I am debating between enchiladas and lamb, and I'm leaning toward lamb as more traditional, but enchiladas because I can make more of them. Not sure yet which way I'm going to go!

My Mother would like the lamb. But she would like the enchiladas too. Work has been good, and we finished moving everything from the old house today, except the christmas decorations. That is the only thing left. Of course our garage is filled, our basement is filled, and everything is not put away. Cause of consternation for sure! At least we have the kitchen and the livingroom and the bedrooms put away.

I cooked two recipes this week, New Mexico Tomato Soup, and New Mexico Potato Soup. Both were absolutely incredible. I call them New Mexico in honor of Jennie's friend Brandy, who hails from that far distant land.

Hm... well we found the cat! I am grateful to God! I am utterly humbly grateful. The fence is almost done around the house, though Tommy was suppose to finish it today but the gates mysteriously didn't get put on. He's off to St. George and all my friends are at NEONCON in Vegas, something I dearly wanted to do, but had to cancel due to the move.

Ame has Olympic Soccer Tryouts tomorow! Can you believe that? I have to get up at 6:30 to get her there on time. Yeah. Can you believe THAT? On a Saturday? WHEW!

I watched Mulan with Asher last night, on DVD. It is one of my favorite Disney Movies. Just a plain old good one. Haven't watched much TV lately except So You Think You Can Dance.

Okay. I have Halloween pictures, and Ame Soccer pictures for the next post. I might even download them tonight but probably post another day. I really want to put my house away and settle down. And spend some time in it! You know, make it a home that is filled with love and excitement.

Oh my friend Joe Ballsteadt called me tonight. We have to get together soon with him and Mike Aguilar.

Okay, I'm going now. That wasn't entirely boring was it? I didn't think so. You wouldn't have read so far if it was. You would have stopped way up there... yeah, 10 paragraphs ago!

Bless you all!

Love Jason

New Mexico Malibu Chicken

Yes... Jennie cooked tonight. By proxy... but she cooked. We cooked New Mexico Malibu Chicken and it... was... awesome!!! We broiled the chicken in some olive oil, seasoned it with salt pepper and fresh thyme, then when it was done, added ham and swiss cheese with mushed potatoes and it was an awesome dinner that Jennie made for me and Ame! It was really really good. I can't emphasize that enough. Good stuff!

Winter

I know you don't tune in to this blog to hear about the weather. But I'm here to tell you it's cold. WINDY and COLD. I hear California has some wind as well, but it's suddenly nasty 36 degree 40 MPH wind COLD. Just letting you know. For those of you in warmer climates!!!

Onto other news, we are in the house now 3 nights! Can you believe it? 3 nights. It's been good. Everyone is adjusting. We aren't fully moved in yet, there is a lot of stuff still back at the old house, but it's almost all non essentials, like books. Lots and lots of books back at the old house!

I have new pictures to put up, but I left my cameras at home. Tonight I hope to get a chance to put some up!

Tuesday

Not much happened today except! We got a mailbox, we hung our mirrors, I did some good work, and Wizards of the Coast asked me to reapply. Ame had soccer practice, and the boys are at the office for Game Night, which is every Tuesday night! Yesterday sucked. Today was better. Thank you! And... Good night!

Oh yeah...

Almost forgot...

AME SCORED HER FIRST GOAL IN SOCCER TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAOH!!!!

WAY TO GO AME!!!

Here team lost 2-5, but against one of the best teams in the league. They are definitely getting better! 1 game to go!

The boys played Warhammer.

Tarot

Today Jennie and I took a Tarot Reading class from Suzzanne Wagner! It was fun to learn about all the ancient history of the Tarot, and the archetypes. I was the only guy in a class of 10 women! WOHOO!!! We had a lot of laughs and it was a nice time. We got home to see our barstools delivered from RC Willey! I should take a picture of them right now. Should I? What do you say? You want to see them? Okay! I'll be right back. Hold on a second!

Here it is! Jennie is working on her facebook while I took the picture!

What? You say that isn't the picture of the barstools? Nope. That's Jennie in the basement sorting our board games on the shelves. HERE is the picture of her at the counter with the new barstools:

What do you think? Cool chairs, huh? I think so too. What? You want MORE pictures? Okay!

Here is a cool picture of Jennie at about 6:00 AM (from some time this last week)! She's been having a lot of fun with her new supervisor position as an excuse to dress in these really neat new outfits! This is one of them! I'll have to remember to take pictures every morning!

And now, here is a picture of Jennie at our Tarot reading class today!



I hope everyone else had a good day. We finished it off by blogging and watching Juan Williams get told to go back to the porch. God bless you all and have a great night!