Our Hero

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. Things have been crazy around here. I have a picture of our little Home Front Hero. Greg's Guard outfit gave medals to the children of their Guard members who had been deployed during the past few years. Since Greg had been in Iraq Hannah was given a medal. Sorry about the quality of the picture. Our camera has been acting strange lately. After they put the medal on her chest she would keep telling us to not take it off. She also got to sit on Santa's lap.

Favorite Soup Recipe ****WARNING MUST BE MUSHROOM LOVER****

One of my friends posted a soup recipe on her blog. She asked us to post one on our blogs. Here is my favorite.

Tomato-Mushroom Soup
1 medium onion halved, thinly sliced, and separated into rings
1 clove of garlic minced
1 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp olive oil or cooking oil
4 cups of sliced fresh mushrooms
1 10 1/2 oz can of condensed chicken broth
1 1/4 cups of water
1/4 cup of cooking sherry
1/4 cup tomato paste
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 Tbsp snipped parsley

In 2-quart saucepan cook onion and garlic in butter and oil about 5 minutes or till onion is tender. Add mushrooms. Cook, covered about 5 minutes or till mushrooms are tender. Stir in broth, water, sherry, tomato paste, and pepper. Bring to boiling, reduce heat. Simmer, covered for 20 minutes. Sprinkle each serving with Parmesan cheese and parsley. makes 4 servings.

(from Better Homes and Gardens Magazine)

Dancing Penguins

Hannah and I had a Mother/Daughter day yesterday. Her daycare lady had a grand baby yesterday so I took the day off so she could be at the hospital with her daughter. Hannah and I had fun. We started out by stopping for brunch. From there we went to the mall and bought tickets to see Happy Feet. We had time to kill so we went to look at the fish and then do one of her favorite things at the mall, ride the carousal. Of course she has her favorite animal to ride. Every time Greg takes her to ride she has to get on the dolphin. She loves riding UP DOWN. I think she would ride all day long if we had the money.

We then went to watch the movie. She was being a wiggle worm. It didn't dawn on me that she was actually sleepy. She fell asleep with about 25 minutes left of the movie. She said that she liked the movie though. It was a cute movie. It bothers me though that just about every movie these days has to have some kind of political message in it. This one was about enviromential issues. I am all for being responsible with our earth but sometimes the just seem to go too far. Anyway, I leave that only. It was cute watching the penguins dance.