Randomness galore!

Happy Hump Day!
What have we been up to today??? A whole bunch of nothing...fabulous nothing all day long! :) This morning we had some fun time - a little music lesson (more on that later), and then some playtime with this little cutie patootie!

I LOVE watching this little guy learn new things!!!

And I love this girl, too!

(and I promise I wasn't neglecting Mills, he was just getting a little worn out from tummy time!)

So I didn't post my menu monday this week, but I've still been sticking to it! Last night we had Sweet-Spicy Glazed Salmon (from Cooking Light via myrecipes.com - I would attach the link but for some reason it's not working!) with sweet potatoes and steamed broccoli, tonight we had light penne a la vodka with grilled chicken and salad, and later this week we're having chicken and summer vegetable tostadas! The salmon was A-MAZING! Sadly, I had never cooked salmon at home before and I was muy proud of myself! (And it was soooo easy, but if you cook it don't tell anyone that!) :) And Nicholas said the meal tonight was his very favorite that I've cooked, so a thumbs up on that one, too! A few people have e-mailed me asking for the recipes, and if you want them just shoot me an email or leave a comment and I'll send them to you! Maybe one day I'll be a fancy blogger and start a site for all my recipes, too... just call me Susie! :)  ha!
{Also, I have had a few people ask me about how to follow the blog or comment - the easiest way to do both is probably just to start a gmail (google) email - it's free and super easy - and then it will let you know whenever I update the blog!}

In other random news, we just got our house exterminated again (which we do religiously every three months because we live in coastal SC) last week.  And if you live in, or have visited this area, then you know all about these notorious "palmetto bugs," which we Southerners like to call them to make it sound a little less disgusting then what they actually are...cockroaches.  Thankfully (I'm knocking on wood right now), we have not had a problem with them at our house here in Charleston. Thank you, Lord. I say that again because if you knew me when I lived in Hilton Head one summer in college, you would know that I had a nice, neat apartment and still had a horrible roach bug (ahem, excuse me, "palmetto bug") problem. As in they would always conspire to come out when it was only me there, and I would have to call my mom on the phone for moral support so that I could run really close to it, spray it, and then run back. And repeat. Until it was so stiff with bug spray that it resembled a plastic, toy bug.  But then of course I still would have to wait on someone to come over who would pick it up...probably because I was raised in a house where we put a cup over a bug until my dad got home to take care of it, hahaha! (I won't even start on the story of when I lived in NYC and a bat flew into my apartment, right mom? haha) These suckers fly, too, by the way.  So anywho, back to the task at hand...so every time we have our house exterminated, I always find these yucky things dead in the house. And I'm not complaining because they're dead. But they're still there. And have you noticed that even though those things may be lying on their back, they're actually still alive - yes, they play dead - but they're actually like the energizer bunny, they can last for hours...heck, days! There was this one in our living room today, on its back, completely looking dead, but every time I walked past it it would wiggle its legs and those long creepy antenna..EWWWWWWWWWW!!! I get goosebumps just THINKING about it! Luckily, Nicholas does not have a fear of bugs (good thing, or we probably wouldn't be together, ha!), and he took care of it when he got home from work!  

Okay, enough about gross things, I'll leave you with some more pics of someone that's stinkin' CUTE!