The Saxton Lair

Saturday, March 28, 2009

St. Patrick's day and a slug...

This is Summits Tavern in Cumming, GA. Every St. Patrick's day they have a special meal for $2.09.

The meal consists of mashed potatoes, corned beef, and cabbage. We both got the meal and a root beer. We ate outside on the balcony, we thought it'd be neat because it was beautiful outside but there were some smokers that messed it up. The food was good though!

Mikel enjoying some Irish favorites.

A slug we found outside our apartment!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Cooking

I've been trying to cook/bake new stuff lately, there's been some successes, some failures and some in betweens.

I made this apple crumb cheesecake for Mikel's birthday. My first time making a cheesecake.

Here's some pulled pork and corm nuggets. Pork was great, corn nuggets look better than they were.

My first homemade bread. It's braided bread!

I made some blueberry cinnamon whipped cream mini cakes. A little bit messier looking then they should be, but still not too bad.

Fishing

Me and pops went fishing, we had to take a picture of us with our poles because we didn't catch any fish...

Amy and the girls were at mom and pops.

Snow Day

Snow day, one week ago!

Mikel and I built a snow man!

I made a snow angel.

We were quite cold by the time we came in.

And our snow man survived the next day!

Valentine's Day

Mikel got me flowers and these neat little chocolate cups with cream and chocolate spoons with a chocolate covered strawberries on top.

I made chocolate suckers for Mikel!

Monday, February 2, 2009

Chinese New Year 09

Me, Mikel, dad, Gram, sister Ali, brother(in-law) Jared and niece Chess went down to Chamblee for a Chinese new year celebration. This year, is the year of the Ox, that's the year that I was born in! It's gonna be a great year for me!

Here we are in China town.

Here Mikel and I are standing next to the great wall of China! or maybe it's just a painting... but still neat.

Holding my niece Chess in the Chinese Cultural center.

Mikel and dad "talking" in the cultural center where the dances and thing go on.

They had lots of authentic Chinese food for sell all around the cultural center. Here Mikel is eating a seafood pancake.

I'm showing off the yummy tentacles hanging out of my seafood pancake and some Chinese rolls are in my bowl.

This cool looking dude walked/danced around on stage and held up a sign in Chinese that I thing was saying that this year is the year of the Ox. He threw pennies at us and some candy too!

Ali and Jared are trying to feed Chess, but she's a little distracted.

We went up on a stair, balcony thing to watch the lion dance and the dragon performance.

There's the dragon.

Afterward we ate at Steak and Shake.

Then later (with no accompanying picture) we ended our day watching Kung Fu Panda, what a Chinese filled day we had. Except for the Steak and Shake I guess...