Pacific Rim Pork Loin

Pacific Rim Pork Loin
¾ lb Pork Tenderloin with visible fat removed
-For Marinade-
1/4c low-salt soy sauce
1/4c distilled white vinegar
4 med garlic cloves (crushed) or canned garlic
4tsp Dijon mustard
2tsp ground FRESH ginger (makes a HUGE difference)
dash of freshly ground pepper

Throw the marinade and pork loin in a zip lock baggie with all air removed for at least 20 min. (I leave overnight)
Remove Pork from baggie and discard marinade. Grill or broil pork for 7 minutes on each side or until center reaches 160 degrees. (will be a bit pink, but it is totally safe due to the temp readings)
Slice and eat as a main dish or serve over rice or green salad.

WOW good!!! Very kid friendly too!

Sixth Grade......Music???

Furniture

I’ve been knee deep in visitors the past few weeks and shallow on the posts. So sorry!
Last week I got a WONDERFUL delivery for the front porch. The Brazilian Cherry rockers came! I ran over with Pearl to pick out some beautiful fall mums to accent the porch and I finally feel like it looks like a H-O-M-E. Before it just looked so sterile! Now it’s a favorite place to read the paper and take a late afternoon tea!


Still no inside furniture, but I hope to post about that as SOON as it's made!

Turkey Lurkey

The turkeys were back this week and you can hardly tell which ones are the babies and which ones are the parents. Now they only visit about once a week during our waking hours, but there is some evidence that the neighbors have gotten some visits during the wee hours of the morning. They have been wreaking havoc on the neighbor’s new sod, peeling it back for something yummy underneath!

Football

Football practice is in full swing now that it’s late August. Brandon has been enthusiastically practicing three times a week and loving every minute of it. I can’t believe he joyfully goes to practice in 80+ temps with full pads, helmets and gear on. He’s a Football NUT! Saturday was his first Jamboree 10 min-game scramble. His team did great and scored several goals and prevented other teams from scoring. The long practice hours proved to be doing their job I guess. It was a beautiful cool morning and Tyler played photographer getting some really great shots. Go Tyler! I found myself shouting an rooting on our players with encouraging words. It was FUN, but then one of the other mothers looked over to me shivering in my little thin jacket and said, “Be glad we got this much, this will be the WARMEST one of the season. By mid October you’ll be watching the snow flurries fly!” OUCH I better get to quilting some football game blankets!

(I'll post more pix soon)

Playing Fetch

I thought I was done blogging for the week, but after dinner, when I looked out into the yard I saw the most peculiar sight!  There was my youngest son, Tyler chasing our dog around the yard.  This isn't a huge news flash.  They play chase and fetch every day, but this time Cole had found something in the yard that was a little unusual to play chase and fetch with.

This is what I saw:

A HUGE 7 foot branch had fallen out of our cottonwood trees and Cole decided it was as good as ANY stick to play fetch with.  Tyler would heave the HUGE branch up and throw it a few feet, then Cole would retrieve it (after finding out how to pick it up in the middle.)  Cole would bring Tyler the stick and the game would start all over again.

Cole weighs barely over 40lbs and the stick was nearly 7 foot long!  WAY funny!!!

Here and there and Everywhere!

This week Pearl has been dashing us here there and everywhere! Tyler has been attending a community education Art classes on different art mediums this week. He's been having a great time learning new things and practicing all KINDs of new art techniques. Right up his alley!


On the flip side Brandon has golf lessons with a golf pro this week. Matt (the golf pro) has a great ability to teach children. Today Brandon and Matt worked on form, stance, grip, and lots of practice. Golf balls were sure flying! (all straight and far of course!)




Both boys have been so happy to do something other than unpack, clean, and organize!
It's such a blessing to watch each child develop in their special areas of talents and interests.

New Du

Cole finally got a new hair du after a month of waiting lists at the grooming salons! No more girly pig tale ears. No more long straggly leg and belly hair. He actually looks rather dashing in his new tuxedo hair du!

Now if we could only get him to stop drooling!

Goes with the dog- territory I suppose...
ya got ta love him!

Which Disney Princess are YOU?

Thank you B. Smith for this inspiring look into my alter ego! I just got done watching Disney's Enchanted and listening to, "How do you know."
Which Disney Princess am I?



You Are Snow White!

Pure and trusting. You are a gentle soul who can get along with just about anyone. Everyone you meet instantly falls in love with you. How can they resist? You have a pure, lovable nature that's irresistable. Just don't trust everyone who comes across your path.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

Ty's new room

Tyler's NEW room...from his eye to yours....enjoy the perspective!

my OH my Mary!

Mary Mary quite contrary second verse same as the first!

Things just keep showing up in my garden. Every week there is a new color a new delicacy, a new burst of North Dakota to entice us to come outside and ENJOY!

This week there are even MORE things I need help to identify. There are blue, orange, white, purple, red and yellow things popping up everywhere! I’m going to need a horticulture class just to keep up with all the naming games!

Same verse same as the first post, if you know the name of these, can you email me? I’m in need of some serious googling!

1. Hydrangea

2. Hosta

3. ?Flower

4. Blue Clips Bellflower

5. Gaillardia, Dazzler

6. Roses!

7. ?Flower

8. ???

9. ???

Please help stop the madness and fill in the gaps of our horticulture knowledge!

Mom's MiniVan Games

For those of you who travel with kids to far-away family.  This post is for you!

Our local Fargo paper had an article with games in it that kids could play while traveling in the car.  They sighted a website as their source, so being the nosy-mom-blogger that I am, I hopped on my laptop and went to it.

http://www.momsminian.com

It's CHUCK FULL of all kinds of fun and interesting things for kids to do.  Granted not all kids are into every activity, but there are so many to choose from, surely even the pickiest down-turned mouth youngster would like at least one of them!

Just thought I'd share....ENJOY!

Impressively Simple Move

I have finally finished the NEW studio...take a peek!

NEW IMPRESSIVELY SIMPLE DESIGN STUDIO

Inspiring!

Mini mi's

Have you ever created a ‘mi’?
It’s a wii version of yourself to play the games with!
The boys and Mom and Dad had a BLAST creating wii’s this week.
Brandon and Tyler created my Mom and Dad’s wii’s then my parents turned around and created wii’s of my aunt and uncle. It was hilarious to watch them put new noses on and different eyeglasses and hairstyles...what a hoot!

(Aunt Judy ^)

(Uncle Chuck ^)

Good News The Furnature is ORDERED!

The Good news is that I finally for once in my life got to order furniture. I'm really excited about what I found:

















Of course these are NOT the upholstery colors, but the bad news is
It will take over 3 months to get it!
zso for now....card table and chairs will just have to do! :) I'm STILL WAY HAPPY!