My life is amazing.

I'm playing a little catch-up with this blog post because I haven't posted anything in forever and a lot of food has been cooked and Christmas trees put up!!  

I'll get this out of the way first, I made the Split Pea Soup from our cookbook Forks Over Knives, it lacked.... almost everything.  It was really bland and very watery.  If I make this again I would add noodles and probably celery and ... just more vegetables or something.  And probably 2 cups less water. Soo not the best thing I've ever eaten.

THIS WAS DELICIOUS.  We were watching Destination Truth and were really craving a dessert, so Joseph looked online for some good vegan desserts because, if you don't already know this, every delicious dessert under the sun is made with butter and milk and BUTTER.  But! we found this recipe for cookies that was amazing.  If I remember correctly, it was 3 cups instant oatmeal, 3 bananas, some amount of prunes, 1/4 cup vegetable oil (or applesauce), 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp nutmeg.  I put a little peanut butter in it as well.  If I were to make this again I would probably put some nuts in (I didn't have prunes so I have no idea if it's good or not).  This was seriously a delicious cookie and it made the house smell AMAZING.

Layered Tex-Mex Lasagna

5 stars. So good.  I really didn't miss the meat or the noodle in this!  It had pinto beans, corn, green chiles, corn tortillas, and some serious red sauce.  If you like your local mexican restaurant you will really like this, it tastes exactly like something you'd get there.

I LOVE CHRISTMAS.

Our neighbors had us over for dinner on Sunday and surprised us with helping them put up their Christmas tree, BEST IDEA EVER.  Dinner was yummy and tree was beautiful!  Kendra helped me make some origami ornaments since we had three ornaments last year.  They turned out so amazingly awesome and now our tree looks fantastic!!!!!

Tim-Tam Slam.

Our neighbors, Adam and Kendra, enjoying their very first Tim-Tam Slams.  Aren't they cute?!

Haha, I don't even know what he's doing.

So I hadn't had milk in a couple of weeks and when we drank some at A & K's house it was so weird!  It was really strong and just kind of strange tasting.  I think I made Joseph drink some of my milk because I just couldn't handle it which is kind of exciting.  I love eating vegan meals and feeling generally more healthy.  We're not completely vegan yet because our supply of meaty and dairy foods seems to be never ending but in all the time we've been eating vegan meals we stopped drinking milk.  So I guess I'm just excited my body is okay with not drinking it and I don't really miss it too much anymore especially now that it tastes crazy.  

I LOVE MY BODY!  It really is kind of amazing how it knows things.  For example, Saoirse had her first taste of bananas about a week ago and she never really liked them much although I would force feed them to her everyday.  As it turns out they were likely causing an allergic reaction and she was super off the whole week until finally her body produced a lovely rash.  No more bananas, rash gone, happy mommy.  Well.... kind of happy, this means that while I'm breastfeeding her I probably shouldn't eat bananas either.  Bummer.  I guess Joseph will have to enjoy those cookies all by himself.  Anyway, I think she didn't like them because she already knew they were no bueno for her tummy.

P.S. A banana allergy is often accompanied by a latex allergy!  Weird.

My giggling babe.

My neighbor, Kendra, came over to hang out while the boys when to their priesthood meeting Sunday night.  Saoirse had been in SUCH a bad mood all day, I blame her teeth, but I seem to think all of her crying ever is associated somehow with her teeth.  Anyway, Kendra came over and started making her laugh really hard and I got a video of it!  She's so cute.

Okay.... I realize this video is fast, I think I have to change its format or something.  Stupid blogger not supporting my Photo Booth movies.  I'm keeping the video there anyway, this does count as a blogpost and it won't be taken away from me!

Our unicorn farts.

After watching Tron with our neighbors, the Thompsons, two nights ago we ended up talking about cake.  I'm not sure why.  Cake is good?  And not knowing the name of that one delicious cake with the sprinkles inside (later discovered to be "funfetti" cake) we began to call it "That Unicorn Fart Cake" because obviously, unicorns fart rainbows.  Then last night Kendra and I decided to make everyone's dreams come true and while the husbands were at their meeting we decided to make a Unicorn Fart Cake.  It was pretty glorious.

 We made our own delicious frosting so that we could have as much as we wanted as well as make all the colors and happiness we wanted.  I think it turned out really well.

We based our farting unicorn knowledge off of Adam's shirt.

Such a FUN night!  Happy friends, happy food, happy happy happy.  Saoirse even enjoyed some of the frosting and promptly fell asleep.