A Family Night Out

So many things to catch up on, but I’m just going to skip all that and focus on the now, or I will drive myself crazy and never actually post a single thing. My goal is to feel somewhat a little up to date before it comes time to post this years Pumpkin Patch pictures, because I’m still stressing over the fact that I haven’t posted last years pumpkin patch pictures. Oy vey….what kind of mother am I?! ;)

This is a few days ago, at the Oasis up above Lake Travis. The self proclaimed “Austin Capital of Sunsets”. I’m going to have to agree with that title! They even ring a gong once the sun slips behind the mountains. Not that we got to hear that gong, the kids lasted until about 5 minutes before that happened, so we slipped away before the sun (har har).

Watching these kids grow and discover the world and discover their own little personalities is such an adventure. Atlas has such passion for the most random things. Like wearing these rain boots and using his umbrella when it is clearly a beautiful sunny day. Urban with the little words she decides to perfect and say over and over. (Definitely an Urban update coming soon).

And I decided to have a little bit of fun with my phone tripod and made my first time lapse! Bucket list! (watch in FS)

BTW, hold your hats, I’m going to blow you away…..we’ve officially lived in Austin for a year! WOAH.

Up next in crazy unbelievable facts: Urban’s 1st birthday pictures.

you're not picky, you just haven’t had it cooked right

There have been a few times in my life where I realized that I’m not really picky, I just had never had certain things prepared right, and turns out…I do like them!

Some life changing examples:

Guacamole – I HATED it until we went to Mexico on our honeymoon. Ever since then I’ve been hooked, it can be lame or gourmet, I will eat it. Same with Avocados….I will eat them for breakfast, lunch, or dinner, I just had to have delicious Mexican avocados before I was converted!

Green Beans – My whole life I had only ever had canned green beans until just like a week ago I decided to buy fresh….turns out they don’t make me gag this way!

Steak – One of these days, take yourself to a nice restaurant and just order that $22 dollar medium-rare steak, it will change your life. There is more to life than chewy, overcooked grocery store steaks!

And this weekend Mike (my FOODIE hubs) made some groundbreaking progress with my palette…SUSHI!

I would like to personally thank HOW DO YOU ROLL restaurant (and mike’s master ordering skills) for changing my mind! I thought I didn’t like Sushi. I’ve had sushi so many times with Mike, been very open to liking it, and put forth my best effort to do so. Mike loves sushi. He’s always wished I liked sushi. He’s long believed that our marriage would be better if I liked sushi.

Since this is right next to Mike’s work, he kind of goes there all the time, so he was able to put together the PERFECT order for a non-seafood and non-sushi lover such as myself. Here is the recipe/order that converted me:

 Exact Order of perfection: (By the way, its only like $8/person….a score for sushi!!!)
Soy Wrap
white rice
Ahi Tuna
Avocado
Tofu Skin
Sprouts
Chili Marinated Red Onion
Cucumber
Topped with crunchy Tempura & Creamy Miso
Dipped in Ponzu w/ a touch of wasabi

Mike is so excited that our marriage can finally move forward.