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Purge

We got infested with those disgusting pantry months. I cleaned out once a couple weeks ago, but not thoroughly enough, so tonight I took EVERYTHING out of the cupboards, threw away a BUNCH of stuff, and wiped everything with bleach. Hopefully we're all set now.

Sour cream enchiladas

I often have leftover chicken from dinner, and I love enchiladas, but a lot of commercial enchilada sauce has wheat in it (!) and I can't use cream soups like cream of chicken, b/c it has wheat too. So I thought a recipe that used sour cream might work. I made a modified version of this recipe and it was delicious, and so quick and easy.

I used corn tortillas instead of flour ones, I left out the cilantro (which I hate) and I used regular salsa instead of jalapeno b/c I didn't want it too spicy. I left it in the oven a bit long (not on purpose) so it came out more like enchilada casserole, but it's terrific. I made a big batch and I've had it for lunch every day this week. YUM! Next time, I'm going to put some corn and black beans in, for extra color and pizzazz.

Saturday

Alana had a princess birthday party at the YMCA for one of her daycare friends (Anya), so Caleb came along and went swimming (he's in the back of the pool photo, in front of him is his friend Jake). Above, Alana gets her hair braided and then shows off the result. The cupcake photo is not the BD girl with Alana - it's another friend, Abby (obviously, A names are popular in her age cohort!)

Get on the bus!

Alana is just thrilled to be going off to school. And Caleb is being terrific - helping her out.

WCU Update

From Matt:

Well it's only the middle of the second week of classes and there's already so much that's to be done! The first week ended very well, and was made even better by the 3-day weekend from Labor Day. Yesterday was virtually another day off because I only had my Chemistry lab in the morning. However the extra time was well spent. I have had much homework to do (the majority of it being from Calculus and Chemistry) with lots of reading thrown in. But things have not been all about the books! I am now an official member of the Alchemist's Club, the official Chemistry club of the school. We meet every Tuesday night and discuss the month's community service project and social gathering that we're planning. And through the club I am tutoring General Chemistry and Calculus 1 (because I took the AP tests for both those classes) for an hour on Wednesday afternoons.

On Tuesday nights (after the meeting) and Thursday nights I will be working for the WCU Phonathon, a telemarketing service used to ask alumni and their families for donations. Certainly not my ideal job, but if it's a source of income, I'll take it. I am also now enrolled in the Taekwondo club, so I can continue my training. They meet for an hour on Mondays and Wednesdays. I was also told they are working on introducing Olympic Sparring to the club. That'd be so great! :-D

My friends and I are getting a Flag Football team together to compete in the Intramural Tournament and we also have a Fantasy Football League, just in time for the season opener on Thursday night! So there is no dull moment at West Chester this semester!

Labor Day

We wanted to squeeze just a bit more summer fun out of the last day of the season, so we visited Oneida Shores this afternoon.