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Yay 8 years!

Sorry for the recent lack of pictures, but our camera's been on the fritz. On to better news - Aric and I celebrated our 8 year anniversary this month. We had a great dinner at Fogo De Chao. If you ever get a chance to go to this place, it's worth it! All the food and all the service is divine.

We've just started looking for our new car (amazing how one bank taking over your loan bank can really slow down paperwork *bleck*). Luckily friends and community have been gracious enough to cart us around or lend a vehicle when we really need it. And when the weather gets below 20 degrees regularly, sometimes we do really need it!

Both the boys are having growth spurts, eating about twice what they normally do. Avery's regularly writing out sentences (asking how to spell things still of course). There was a science night at school where we did experiments and then wrote observations, and now he's doing that at home just for fun. Whatta cool kid :D Curran recognizes that he sees letters and numbers, but doesn't know how to say their names yet. He sings a lot of songs lately too; Avery jams his air guitar next to Curran.

Hope the new year is treating you all well. I'm looking forward to constant improvement...
I hope!

Christmas morning...

Merry Christmas everyone!

A funny moment...

I told Curran he needed to grow up a bit before he did something on the computer...so he looks at me, sits up tall and says, "I grow up!"
*smile*

Happy success...

So here is my first ever attempt at making 'sushi rolls'. I made them with canned tuna so that first-timers to sushi would feel a little braver. I made it spicy with chili sauce, but still didn't have quite the right flavor balance in my opinion. But they looked pretty! (And stayed rolled which was my big worry.) Curran actually helped me...by eating the seaweed wrappers and using wet (clean) fingers to flatten the rice.
I made these for a short public presentation I did on international holidays. In my little speech I touched upon Guy Fawkes day, Shichigosan, Baba Marta, Loi Krathong, Teej, Semana Santa and Eid al-fitr. I think about 12 or more sat through my presentation and participated awesomely, offering up their own stories of local and international holidays and traditions. The event was even written up in the local paper beforehand afterwards here as well. I had so much fun putting this presentation together, and I learned a lot which felt great.