Mooshy, you need to know that this is a very beautiful backstroke! You are smooth and evenly-pulling - once you build your confidence in just how good a swimmer you really are, you should try out for swim team.

Welcome to Our World, Owen Emmett Ogden

Owen is about 18 hours old in all of these photos <3

Norah got to be present during the birth of her baby brother
Owen was born on Monday, December 12, 2011 at 6:02pm

Isn't Owen beautiful <3
The birth story is cute - it's for George and Lynnette to tell =) <3

Norah is kissing Owen bye-bye; Grandma Church is taking her home to eat lunch and nap

Abraham de Lacy Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley the Alley Cat

<3 My goof-ball <3

more pictures ???

I need to put up some more relevant pictures I think .. don't you?? mmm, don't hold your breath or anything :-D I'll try

New entry - French Toast Casserole

During Christmas break, in Virginia at Emily's house, I learned a great new way to make french toast --- in a casserole :-) --- so ... this morning I tried it and it came out fabulous (with a tweak of my own :-P ) -- here it is ...

... the night before: cut French bread into 1 inch slices, mix 8 eggs and (what did you use?) about 1/2 C or so of milk -- not too much, but enough to get the eggs well mixed, then I put in some cinnamon, orange peel, nutmeg - blended all together......

now alternate 2 layers of the french bread with egg mixture in a 9x13 pan (I used a round French casserole dish) (light coating of oil in pan to prevent too much sticking) -- put pan/dish, covered, in the refrigerator overnight ....

next morning take it out about 1/2 hr. early (to warm up a bit) then bake at 350' for about 30-40 minutes ... then the best part, while it's HOT serve it by pouring cold Egg Nog over it (I had some left over from the holidays) (you could use yogurt, jam, honey, syrup, whatever else seems yummy to you :-))

make sure that you pour carefully, covering all the pieces, especially the crust - THEN - put a cover on the dish overnight to prevent drying out ...

you could also do a savory version (we did one at George/Lynnette's for Christmas morning) with adding with each layer, cooked crumbly sausage , then cheese on the top! be creative - this is so easy! :-)

oh AND I probably should have made this a blog entry, too, huh? LOL :-D ♥ ♥ ♥ :-D silly me ;-}
(see?? blog! :-D )