Yes, I know, long time no post. After I found my camera things just got busy and I lost track of time.
Tracee came to visit from Sitka, Alaska. It was a quick whirlwind trip for only 4 days. She had lots of family and friends to see in a short amount of time, but she still managed to spend two nights with us. We saw Ironman which was an awesome movie! And she got to eat at Mr. Sulu's with us. Plus she and I got to have our quick little chick time in the makeup section at Longs.
After dinner and the movie we met the Green Fairy. Yeah, in case you hadn't heard, 
Absinthe is legal now! You can just pick it up at BevMo! Crazy, I know! I chose a bottle of French stuff called Le Torment Vert. I really wanted to start off with the traditional "La Louche" ritual. It involves slowly dripping ice water over a sugar cube into the green stuff. But because of attention span issues I just mixed in the sugar and ice water and Tracee mixed her Absinthe with champagne ala Ernest Hemingway. It's an anis flavored spirit with just little hint of mint. It's actually pretty refreshing, especially if you take a big whiff of the freshly opened bottle. It's cool stuff, I'll totally continue to drink it. But, no hallucinations, just a good quick buzz. It might show up at a Halloween party sometime...
She and I also spent way too much money on our hair at Robert Cromean's and ate way too much Mexican Food. We had a great time.
That same weekend Mimi turned 90! And Gail threw her a fabulous party. I made the cake, but unfortunately, I was so drained from all my time with Tracee I didn't snap a picture. Lala did, so I'll try to get one from her. It was a two tier chocolate cake with chocolate filling and whipped cream icing. Mimi's favorite is bluebirds so it was covered in little plastic bluebirds.
The following weekend was Mother's Day. Aunt Deb had a big get-together at her house on Sunday. All I had to bring was the Pink Fluff (as usual) and scalloped potatoes. But, I ended up cooking most of Saturday. I started by peeling and boiling the potatoes. While they were boiling I noticed that I had quite a few cake mixes and tubs of pre-made frosting, so I made a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Then I was telling Michael how funny is was that we had so much leftover rice, so I made him some rice pudding. We still had lots of rice, so I made two chicken and rice casseroles. I took advantage of the cooking the chicken for the casseroles to make some homemade chicken broth that I used to make millet later in the week. Somewhere in there I also made the Pink Fluff for Mother's Day.
We all found out on Mother's Day that Alex and Kim got engaged! He proposed to her the best way I've ever heard. It involved a shovel and a gopher hole! You'll have to ask Kim to tell the story, it's adorable! Anyway...
Congratulations Alex & Kim!!
The night before he brought home his favorite pizza, Killer Pizza From Mars. I totally love the name, and have to admit it's pretty damn good pizza. Then the next morning we had his favorite cereal Count Chocula for breakfast. He got to open his presents in bed, and then we planned to go to the beach because he loves to play in the waves. But that meant we had to get out of bed and get dressed. We decided against that. So, basically we just had a nice relaxing day hanging around the house.
