Day 27: November 26, 2014

Today is Eric's birthday. 6 years ago today, Eric and I were new friends. Since he was away from home and so far from AZ, I took him out for his birthday. I told him we're going past BK, so he thought we were going to BK. I only gave him clues and eventually took him to our small town's Mexican restaurant. Eric said he missed Mexican food. But there's nothing in KS that's as good as real Mexican food. But I took him there. We communicated a lot through text, but we were still trying to figure out how to talk verbally. Eric was still trying to learn how I talk and how to move his lips.  We went to the Tuttle Creek dam, but it was so cold we decided to go to the mall and the library.  I gave Eric Harry Potter 1 book for his birthday because he never read it and I was a Harry Potter geek. I still am. We started to date about a week later. We have had Thanksgiving every single year (some of them late, but never more than a week late) since the year we met. Eric has been to my house for Thanksgiving haha. Then in 2009, I went to Arizona when he came home for R&R. Then in 2010, we had Thanksgiving together and made our first Turkey and made them for the missionaries. Then in 2011,  Thanksgiving in Colorado. Then in 2012, Thanksgiving a few days after,  about two days after he came home, in CO. In 2013 and this year in CO as well.


Anyways you get my point! In a way, Thanksgiving is our favorite holiday.

Today we celebrated Eric's birthday by going to Hubachi and then to the movies. Hyrum enjoyed it so much. I think he thinks it's his birthday.

Oh yeah and Hyrum climbed onto my lap and fell asleep on me. It RARELY happens! And after 3 long days, Eric finally turned in all his equipment. On Monday we will be officially done with Fort Carson and be able to PCS to Germany. We still have a few last minutes stuff to do like ship our unaccompanied luggage, buy Tigger traveling luggage, ship our car, and get him health inspection.  But other than that, we are ready. We are going home to KS. This is my first Christmas at home since I got married. My parents have never spent their Christmas with their grandkids so it's an exciting time. Until then,  adieu!

Day 25: New recipe

Alton Brown's Crepes

Ingredients
2 large eggs
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup water
1 cup flour  (I do half whole wheat and half white flour)
3 tablespoons melted butter
Butter, for coating the pan
Directions
In a blender, combine all of the ingredients and pulse for 10 seconds. Place the crepe batter in the refrigerator for 1 hour. This allows the bubbles to subside so the crepes will be less likely to tear during cooking. The batter will keep for up to 48 hours.

Heat a small non-stick pan. Add butter to coat. Pour 1 ounce of batter into the center of the pan and swirl to spread evenly. Cook for 30 seconds and flip. Cook for another 10 seconds and remove to the cutting board. Lay them out flat so they can cool. Continue until all batter is gone. After they have cooled you can stack them and store in sealable plastic bags in the refrigerator for several days or in the freezer for up to two months. When using frozen crepes, thaw on a rack before gently peeling apart.

*Savory Variation Add 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 cup chopped fresh herbs, spinach or sun-dried tomatoes to the egg mixture.

*Sweet Variation Add 21/2 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and 2 tablespoons of your favorite liqueur to the egg mixture.

Recipe courtesy Alton Brown

Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/crepes-recipe.html?oc=linkback


**** Note: Sometimes I added a little cinnamon and sometimes orange extract/peel. 

Oh my what a busy and a little horrible 5 months since we found out we were moving to Germany. Not only did the Army messed up Eric's plan to go to Ranger school, we had a horrible, bossy, pushy landlord and then we had no place to live. It's a very long story.

 We are back in Colorado, trying to out process. We quickly learned Fort Carson has a lot of rules and things have to be done in a certain way. Then we have workers who don't know what they are doing. No offense to on post civilian workers, but I'm so tired of dealing with them.

On side note, we have also become a Doctor Who fan. :)