gallavanting

well..orang lidi i tengah pegi jalan2 agaknyer lah...maybe ikut sri nyer anak2 ayam and her cookies..hahha. now i wish i had saved the image on my hd but oh well...just wait and see if it will come back . kalau tak..dah nak kena tukar lagi lah the template..halamak..leceh betul lah..

some guy ice fishing on the lake

saturday was a beautiful day

anyway, sarina had her IQ tested. so now i am not sure what to do. due to the no child left behind nyer policy, teachers will not test students for the gifted class unless parents request for it. i ni mmg lah malas betul nak gi bebual ngan teacher2..maklumlah, when i was teaching, i can understand the pressures that teachers have to go through. so i am torn. nak terus cakap kat principal or to the teacher. my friends kat sini kata..go see P straight..but entah lah..i am still mulling this over. sean said to go ahead..but we'll see. for her, i think she is happy wherever she is at :)

father and daughters checking out the icy waters

then they decided to throw rocks onto the ice..what a mess they made..you can also see the air bubble underneath the ice :)

anyway, last night time dia tengah berus gigi dengan sarah while making a huge mess in the sink, she told me that one of the smarter boys in her class told her that muslims are the world's abomination. now, i know that she does not know what the word mean. her vocabulary is good but not that good! hehehe...i was stumped...took me a sec to compose myself and tell her the meaning of that particular statement. after explaining to her what it meant, i told her to tell the boy to keep his opinions to himself.

sayang kakak kat adik dia :) i love taking pictures of them when they are not fighting with one another...hahahaha

then while i was sitting in the living room with sean, i called her again and grilled her on whether this boy really said it. she said yes..and i finally told her to tell the boy, should he say those things again..that, in the eyes of others, christians are viewed the same way too. but i told her..best not to engage in such discussions. sean asked me what's going on and i told him. he said that if any more nonsense like this happens again..the girls will probably be home schooled. now i am all for it, but i do think that it is a good thing too that sarina is exposed to these sort of situations. because, in life, there will always be someone , somewhere, spouting stuff like this. it is a good practice for her to defend her beliefs. too bad that she has to do it at a very young age.

they found a couple of fossils..sarina was very excited..apa lagi..collect batu lagilah...don't even ask about her rock collection

i love this lake...sebab, we have the place all to ourselves :)

anyway, on a lighter note..we went for a drive on both sat and sun. saturday was very beautiful...like today, well this morning so far. the sun was out and the sky was so blue. sunday was a bit bleak and we had a dense fog advisory warning last night too. we checked out another part of wilson lake and went to lucas, kansas to finally visit the garden of eden. so many times we went there and it was always closed. finally we got to go inside and also view a dead guy in his concrete coffin. will do an entry on this another time.

sean got this hydroponic garden for me..see all my herbs growing in winter..hehehe

epok2 sadin..my peberet...sadin cap ayam dah habis lah..dah nak kena beli lagi ni..

for the first time here, i saw a few guys ice fishing on the frozen lake. the girls and sean were having fun throwing rocks into the lake, but the rocks kept bouncing off the ice. they started with small rocks and pebbles but by the time they got into full swing..they were throwing huge rocks to try and break the ice..hehe. what a mess they caused..we explored the length of the beach and saw a lone cougar tracks. i thought it could be that of a coyote..but the shape of the prints did not look like a dog's.

made this ooey gooey, chewy caramel brownies..dah habis dah..

first time making chicken claypot rice...wahh..so sedap.. if i do say so myself..hehe...can make it again :)

sean is already talking about buying a gun for our hikes. he said that one morning while driving to work, he saw an animal loping across the road. at first he thought it was a coyote but the tail looked different and finally he figured that it was a mountain lion. kansas does not acknowledge that there are cougars in this parts of the states..just because they have not seen any carcases..but that does not mean that there isn't any..according to the wildlife and nature reserve nyer sitelah.. so another thing to think about in the next couple of months..hehe. anyway, for more pics just go here.

rigatoni and chicken alfredo :)

fresh springrolls with dip :)