Look At That Belly

Wendy & the kids & Jacob came up to the house on Saturday and we spent the evening hanging out, playing games, eating pizza and watching "The Surrogates" (great movie). It was so much fun. And of course Jacob just ran around playing ball the whole time so he wore himself out. I graciously loaned him my SpongeBob blanket... but I watched him closely to make sure he didn't mistreat it. He looked so cute laying there with his belly hanging out.

Happy Hour

After work today I went with a few friends to happy hour at Flame, downtown. Their basement area is called the Red Room Lounge. They've got great specials and I love going there, but that place is freaking dark. And they only use a few red lights. It takes 10 minutes before your eyes adjust and you can see the person sitting next to you. Good times though.

Stuffed Jalapeños

Tonight a friend came over and made something new for us to try. It didn't sound too good as she described it, but man were we wrong. These things were so amazing. Basically she put some ground sausage in a skillet to brown and while that was cooking she cut the jalapeños in half lengthwise and hollowed them out. Then when the sausage was done, she drained it and mixed in cream cheese and shredded cheese, filled the hollowed out peppers with the mixture, and baked them in the oven for a few minutes. They were amazing.

Chang Sha - The Best Deal Around

Tonight I was home alone and didn't feel like cooking just for myself. As hot as it is outside, standing over the stove is not my favorite thing. But chinese food IS one of my favorite things, so I got the brilliant idea of going through the drive thru at Chang Sha just down the road from my house. For $5.25 and less than a 5 minute wait, I got this huge serving of chicken fried rice, an egg roll & a crab rangoon. I love this place. They will also deliver food; Scott and I order from them quite a bit. This meal was awesome. I ate all I wanted (which was less than half) and had enough to put in the fridge for two different lunches this week. I recommend anyone close give this place a try. If you dine in, they have an amazing buffet. Sometimes they even have frog legs on it.

Lake Springfield

Even though it's too hot to do anything outside, I have been desperately wanting to play with my new zoom lens. So today after work I headed down to Lake Springfield Park to see if I could spot any photo opportunities. Unfortunately, it started raining shortly after I got there, so I only got a few shots in. It was so hot that after the rain stopped, the roads started steaming.

Food Again

Looking back through past posts, I have noticed I have quite a few pictures of food as my photo of the day. Sorry about that. It's just that sometimes I take those because I'm bragging about my food and sometimes I take those because I haven't done anything cool that day and need to take a picture of something.

This one is bragging.

Yahtzee!

After having lunch at grandma's and getting tired of the constant sweating that goes on there, I talked Wendy into inviting me over to her air conditioned house so we could visit AND enjoy it at the same time. Once we got there, a vicious game of Yahtzee broke out and fun was had by all... except for Emma who was losing. It's a good thing Kyle had drawn a giant "L" on her forehead earlier that day for losing a bet. It fit in nicely with our game.