All About Angie

Time for Another Rendition…

Of that fabulous and well-loved favorite game….”What’s in Angie’s camera?”

It’s been a while, so let’s take a Happy-New-Year-look, shall we?

When we put up our Christmas tree, our family tradition is to have fondue.  So I fired up the fondue pot and filled it with cheese and other things (all GF, I assure you).  It was yummy.

As it turned out, it took so incredibly long to cut up and/or cook all the dipping things that we had to postpone the tree-raising until the next day.

(Skipping around now…) A few years ago, when we still had a pickup truck, I *accidentally* pulled into the garage too quickly and tapped (er…”knocked”) a (rather large) hole in the wall.  See how my hand is sort of Barbie-sized next to it?

Yeah…well….anyway…  I finally patched it up about a month ago.  I’ve sanded it since and now it looks *slightly* better than the gaping hole.  Oh well.  ::shrugs::

When we traveled around for Thanksgiving, I made GF cinnamon rolls from a mix.  They looked really yummy!

Unfortunately, they had all the deliciousness of sugared rubber.  It was disgustingly nasty.  Except for the sugar part.

Also while we traveled, we saw my parents.  Here is my dad with his big toy.

We all took rides on his prize-winning 1928 Rumley Oil Pull Tractor.  It was really fun.  I hadn’t been on that thing in over 20 years.  Crazy.   And I got lots of really great pictures of it.  (Note to parents:  I forgot to show you the pictures!  Sorry!)

For Christmas, I received some really wonderful gifts.  My very own parents heard my cries for a working vacuum cleaner and responded.  Here is our new family member.  He has been put to and effortlessly passed the Dishman Hardwood Floor Test.  He’s got a difficult job ahead of him, dontcha know?

The second gift I will mention is what my fabulous in-laws gave us.  Fiesta ware!!  The dishes we’ve used daily for the last 14 years have been leaping to their proverbial deaths with some help from the children unloading the dishwasher.  As a result, we were getting low.  No more, though….  Introducing some of the most cheerful dishes ever made (colors picked out by John Dishman, himself):

It’s impossible to be grumpy while eating off of these babies.  In fact, one morning I was so disappointed with how the day was starting that I fixed myself a cup of coffee with HOT CHOCOLATE MIX added in my favorite colored cup.  You would think that would be the blue, right?  WRONG.

GREEN!!!  And oh yes, I did.  BEFORE I made the kids’ lunch (see the bread in the background?).  Who says I don’t live on the wild side, eh?

And last, but not least, this is what our family will be doing this year–and probably for many years to come, because it could take awhile–(already started, actually–just now taking picture):

The picture might be a tad blurry, but it’s Spanish for The Total Savage Gringo.  Oh yes.  Rosetta Stone.  We’re gonna need all the help we can get!!

I took a bunch of Christmas pictures with…FOOD!!  But haven’t compiled a post yet.  I know you are dying to see all of our food.  We had omelets for Christmas brunch with Uncle Peter (great pics!) and black-eyed peas on New Years Day.  And this morning, I cut open a pomegranate just to see what was inside.  Surprise!  It’s really beautiful!  As a bonus, it is Luke’s new favorite fruit.

Happy New Year!!

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