Sunday Dinner

One of my favorite dinners is a Cafe Rio inspired pork salad.  I put a 6 lb pork roast in the crock pot last night with brown sugar, Worcestershire  and other spices and set it on low all night. 


We serve it with black beans, cilantro lime rice, chips, corn pudding, pico de gallo, avocado, limes, flour tortillas, cheddar, lettuce and a cilantro dressing.  When there's this much food involved  it's nice that we can split the work between my mom, Jeannette and I.  The recipe can be found HERE.http://www.thesisterscafe.com/2009/02/shredded-sweet-pork-salad-2


Also nice that I have friends who bring whole wheat peanut butter chocolate bars, they were so good.  It's actually a recipe of mine and I gave it to her and can't remember where it's from.  It's probably better that way.

Emry getting some sewing tips from my mom after dinner.  Since I've realized I cannot now and will never sew I told Emry to have at it, it's all hers now.  She made a purse out of a T-shirt tonight, it's a start.

Emry also sporting her new short hair.  She cut off about 8 fried chlorinated inches.  
 

Lila working on a friendship bracelet.  Can't have Emry outshine her in the craft department.  Lila also looking like she needs her hair chopped off.  We love to live in the pool but man it wrecks my kids hair.

I asked Emry to get some shots of us all but she missed our lovely friends and only got Glenn & I.  I guess we're her favorites.  Or she got sidetracked by something cooler than our guests, like a praying mantis.


I also need to ask her to please make sure we look good, c'mon Emry.  Glenn & I may be super dorky but at least if she got a good shot of us we could pretend we weren't.

I took this one of my beautiful sister Jeannette and her daughter Kylee.  She's almost done with her 3 months of training at the hospital and is an R.D. all on her own, what a grown up.


Seriously though she's finding it very challenging working and keeping up with her kids while being a single mom.  She has a wonderful attitude though and enjoys her crazy busy life nonetheless.

There's nothing I find funnier than people on cell phones.  Maybe it's because I don't have one but it seems they are pretty much an appendage of most people.   I can be in a group where everyone has their cell out making deals, checking in or I don't know, doing whatever they do.  Teens especially can't be without one, I am sure life as they know it would end.


(on that note I've taken Emry's Ipod touch away because it annoys me (shocker!!!) not for good, but it has to be on my terms, yup, I am that controlling)

And I have to have a cute picture of  my favorite child  Ethan.  What would a post be without his precious mug?  As I am snapping this picture Ethan is asking "Do we have anything healthy to eat?" 

 Which really means "I want some dessert and I know I have to eat some real food first".