An International Night Out

July 1, 2008

Carnivale
I had a fantastic birthday weekend. Brian surprised me with a night out in the city. We first went to Carnivale, a new restaurant for us. They specialize in Latin culture and flavors from all over Central America. The food was very good and full of flavor. My Arrachera, skirt steak was the best I have ever had. The atmosphere was fun and colorful. Brian then took me to Navy Pier where we saw Cirque Shanghai in the Skyline theatre. www.navypier.com/cirqueshanghai/. Cirque Shanghai is a Chinese style “Cirque” with acrobats direct from China. It was a fun and memorable night. We had fantastic weather for walking through the city. Posted by Anastasia

Cirque

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Celebration of Hope 08’

May 4, 2008

Tonight Brian and I spent some time volunteering with Feed My Starving Children. We packed meals that would help feed children in over 50 countries. It was a great and rewarding experience. Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) invites volunteers of all ages to hand-pack meals for starving children. You can even plan your child’s next birthday party there and teach your children the importance of giving, serving and having compassion for others.

Willow Creek Community Church has been our home church for many years now. Over the last several weeks, the churches focus was Celebration of Hope 08’ Hunger. We were given the opportunity to participate in a number of challenges. Limiting our consumption (LIST), packing meals for others and experiencing a fair trade market. During the Mother’s day service, we will be able to offer our savings from our limited consumption use to raise money to feed over 10,000 children in Zimbabwe.

If you would also like to be a part of this experience and make a onetime gift, you can do so by CLICKING HERE and going to the church website.

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Another cousin!

May 4, 2008

James Burger Jr.That’s what we told Brandon and Nathan when we told them that their Auntie JoJo had a baby boy. James Burger Jr. was born Friday morning at 8:45am (6lbs 7oz, 21inches long). Mom and baby are doing well and everyone is very excited about the new addition.

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Earth Day Sugar Cookies

April 24, 2008

Posted by Anastasia

My famous sugar cookies took a whole new look this week when we celebrated Earth Day at school. I was signed up for snack mom this week and looked everywhere online to find a creative idea for Earth day that the preschoolers would enjoy. I’m not one for detailed cookie decorating or using lots of frostings so I came up with just dying the cookie dough green and blue to form sugar cookie “globes”. It worked like a charm and was very easy.

Earth Cookies
Sugar Cookie Recipe:
1 pkg. (8 oz.) Cream Cheese, softened
3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
2-1/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
Green & Blue food coloring
Green & Blue sugar sprinkles

(recipe from: kraftfoods.com)

Once the dough is combined make half blue and half green. You will need to form a log with blue in the middle and two green stripes around the outside. Refrigerate for 30mins. Cut ¼ inch circles. You can use your hands to form circles. I used a biscuit cutter and pressed the dough into it to form my circles. Sprinkle with colored sugar and bake for 10mins. @ 350F.

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Emergency

April 22, 2008

Last Thursday at school Brandon had the pleasure of meeting a firefighter at school. Later that night at the dinner table for no reason what so ever Brandon told us all to STOP DROP & ROLL. I guess thought dinner was just as good of a time to roll around as any.

Bed time came and after Nathan was brought up for bed I went to get Brandon ready. As I got closer I heard Brandon talking. Talking to who? No one else was in his playroom that’s weird. I opened the door to find Brandon on the phone. I picked up the phone to find out who he was talking to. The response, 9-1-1.

The operator asked if everything was ok and how old Brandon was. I explained how he met a fireman at school that day. Fortunately no emergency resources had been dispensed.

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