SE Idaho News

Here's what counts as news in SE Idaho (and gets the mocking attention of the WWW):

Holy Geeky Candy Awesomeness, Batman!

For those of you who don't recognize what this is supposed to be, I'm not sure you're quite geeky enough to appreciate it. On the other hand, the candy detail is pretty awesome in its own right. Check out the full article here, but beware, the author uses some naughty words and such.

Baby's Name

Some of you have already heard us talk about our leading favorite name for Tyler's little brother, but we figured we'd best post it for all to see, just in case we missed anyone.

The name we've chosen is:

Joaquin Manny Miles!

We chose this name because of this, this, and this, and because of this, this, and this.

Food: Fillet Mignon

I've been wanting to make something a little nicer for a while now and I came across just the thing last night when Angie and I were grocery shopping - a whole beef tenderloin (the cut of meat from which fillet mignon comes) for about $6/lb. We went all out today, cooking for Dan & Tammy. We started out with a green salad with crab (imitation, sadly), followed by fillet, roasted potatoes, and steamed carrots and broccoli. Dessert was strawberry shortcake.

Salad toppings.

Dan leaned in to be in the picture with Ty,
so Ty thought he ought to lean in too.

Excitedly waiting to eat.

Waiting again.

The main course - sorry about the orange on orange.

And for those not squeamish about fresh meat, we have some pictures...

Those who have a weak stomach might want to look away...

Don't say I didn't warn you!

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This is what about 3 lb. of beef tenderloin looks like, cleaned
up and cut into several steaks and a couple of roasts.

Look at that great marbling!

I Wanna Hippopotamus!

Tyler absolutely loved this page.

By the way, I came across it on dooce ®. Check it out - it's my new favorite blog.

Freaky!

Christmas is on its way!!!

I can't believe that Thanksgiving has come and gone. Really, once Halloween came, it has seem liked time has really flown. We had Thanksgiving and Grandma Hobbs house in Idaho Falls. It was delicious. Cory and Dad did most of the cooking. We forgot our camera and Dad has already posted the few pictures he took. The day after Thanksgiving Mom and I stood in line at JoAnns for a good 1/2 hour and I was so impressed with our method this year. We were in and out in one hour. That's a record for us. I got enough fabric for a few baby blankets and Christmas pajamas. I just have to start making them now.






Well, this has been quite an eventful week for us here at the Miles household. First, Thanksgiving break ended and Cory was back to his usual, but rigorous school schedule. That Nursing program is one hard program. Then, we set up our Christmas tree (pictures will soon be posted). Our tree has beautiful white lights and all the ornaments are at the top 1/3 of the tree. Little Tyler thought that the ornaments were toys and would take them off the tree pretty much as fast as I put them on. Today Tyler and I went to Amy's studio so that Tyler could get his Christmas pictures taken and then, he looked so cute I thought it would be a good idea to go to see Santa. He didn't like it very well as you can see. But, it was fun. Our Santa was so nice, he let me take so many pictures with our camera phone. I love Santa.

New church calling.

So, I have some news everyone. Last week I received a new calling...yes everyone, I am now the newest assistant cub scout leader and I have know idea what that involves. I do know that the pine wood derby is coming up and we get to race little wooden cars. That's all I know. I guess we'll find out next week what's going to happen. Hopefully, I don't have to wear that ugly yellow shirt. I will refuse.

More shelf playing!!!

I don't know what is it, but Tyler definitely has thing for empty shelves and cupboards. Here we were at his aunt Amy's house and then, the next thing we know, Tyler is crawling in and out of the cupboard below the kitchen sink. He was having so much fun and giggling and laughing. What a cutie pie.

Not the pantry this time.

So, I was cleaning up the living room, vacuuming and doing the usual stuff. Tyler didn't want to help clean and I thought he was just playing, well, when I was done in the living room, I had to clean up the pantry as well. At least Tyler was kind enough to empty the shelves so that I could straighten and organize the shelves over again. I do have to say, Tyler was pretty cute climbing up into the shelf. All you need is a few cans, a shelf, and then Tyler is one happy boy.