This has been a great year for blogging. Kelly started a private girl’s blog. Christian started a tech blog. I found all the entries from when I started blogging in 2004 and was able to add them to the front end of this blog. We are even going to spend the evening with our good friends Troy and Youngin who started their blog just this month. It is one of the best blog starts I have seen with very interesting posts on their recent trip to Argentina. One of them features a list and beautiful pictures of the many different birds Troy saw while he was there.
We are getting together with Troy and Youngin to finish out the year making tamales. How much better does it get than that? Lorena bought all the ingredients yesterday and was hard at the preparations last night with more to follow this morning. I have made a lot of mistakes in my life, but marrying this particular Mexican woman was not one of them.
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| Tamale stuff | Mexican wife |
Update: Oops. I just got the following note:
Good morning! Not to be picky or anything but… I started my blog in 2007, and I don’t know if you should link to it. But I don’t think anyone could get into it anyway could they???? Because it has a password and all that. Anyway, just a heads up. Happy New Year’s Eve! Love, Kelly
I am WAY sorry I got the date wrong! No one can get into it. It is password protected with a good password, but it will be a good idea to remove the link.
Update II: One more time. Kelly writes saying, “And Christian started his in 2007 also I think.” He did. Sorry Christian.
Update III:
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| Dad gets a lesson on how to cook tamales | |
SWWEEEEET! I’m happy to see those tamale pictures, but you’ll have to show ME how to make them sometime. And you’re right, Ken, you have an awesome wife! Can’t wait til tonight! y
Thanks! We are VERY excited about you coming! We should trade lessons: Kimchi and Korean barbecue lessons for tamale lessons.
Happy New Year to the Chapman’s!!!! I want to be there learning how to make tamales! Remember, Lorena you promised to teach me how? Yes, Ken you are a very lucky man with a lovely talented wife and 2 beautiful talented young people as well. May they rise up to call you blessed. Hope your New Year holds out the very best for you all. We love you!
Hello JoAnn! We would love to have you come out for a lesson, although I suspect, based on having eating your cooking so many times and the fact that you were part of the reason why I could not keep my weight down in Oregon (how is that for an excuse), you would make GREAT tamales on your own. But it would be WAY funner to do it together. Thank you for the compliments. We absolutely miss Albany a lot and have thought about trying to get back there when the kids are out of the house (or sooner). We especially miss our little meeting at your house. We got a little nostalgic thinking about all our friends their over the holidays. We love and miss every one of you there, too!