Anti-pasto salad yumminess

Today for lunch I mad Anti-pasto salad. My mom would always make this during the summer months and when you came in for dinner and saw this pasta salad on the table you knew summer was here. Since I enjoy it so much (and have a few converts to it, too!) I'll share it with you all:


Anti-Pasto Salad (as passed down by V. K)

1 lb medium shells
1/4 lb salami sliced 1/4in thick from deli
1/2 lb pepperoni sliced 1/4in thick from deli
1/2 lb provolone cheese sliced 1/4in thick from deli

2 green peppers
3 stems celery
3-4 tomatoes or 1 package cherry/ grape tomatoes
1 can large black olives
a little bit of diced red onion, less than 1/4 cup

Cook the pasta according to the box.
Cut everything else into bite sized pieces

Mix together:
1 tsp Salt
1 TBS oregano (dried)
1 tsp Pepper
3/4 cup red wine vinegar ( you can mix white wine vinegar with it too)
3/4 olive oil

Mix this all together in the pasta pot or the biggest bowl you have. You can eat it right away, at room temp or after refridgeration.

Enjoy!

Waiting

The waiting game is so hard. Got news that G has a c-section scheduled for Wednesday. We're hoping natural labor happens before then. If not, we're garunteed a baby next week!!!! But waiting still is tough. Oh well. Happy Wednesday.

Cheese

Literally. He's eating ricotta. Yum!

Happy Mother's Day

She's such a great mom/ grammy she doesn't even mind finger paint everywhere but on your fingers.

This is how you eat a chocolate cookie

The Bachelor party

Russel is planning his bachelor party. I know he is not supposed to but he is. He wants to go somewhere far far away and party. Get drunk, dance with random girls and just hang with his friends. His friends on the other hand want him to get drunk and hit on random girls and do stupid crazy things that will get him in trouble "if I know about them, but I won't because they won't tell me." But I will know. Because Russell will tell me. Either way this party goes down, I'm not looking forward to it. First, I don't understand why he needs to go 1000 miles away for a party when there are places close by here that will be just fine for him and his friends to go to and get a hotel room for a night or two. Second, I don't understand why it needs to be for a week. The bachelor party was supposed to be a few nights before the wedding where the best man took the groom out for dinner and a few drinks to celebrate him being "single" for only a few more nights. Why does he need to party for a week? I know what Russell does when he drinks for a week. He does things that aren't smart. And he may tell me that he won't drink anymore after the first two nights, but with these friends, he can't stay sober. They won't let him. Someone told me to "ease up because he has to listen to me for the rest of his life and just let him have some fun." I don't think I'm being too "tight fisted?" with him. I'm concerned for the whole thing. He is going to be so far away I can't be there, he's going to be with friends who will over-rule any objections he has to activities, and he will be drinking. A lot.

I'm sorry for this really long rant. I've really worried.
I hope everyone is enjoying the Spring weather.

Rainy day

Ahhhhh! I love rainy days when I am home. I just got off work and have the chance to snuggle in my bed while its still dark and dreary... and rainy outside. It makes me want to snuggle. So does this guy:

He is playing in a tunnel made out of the futon mattress. He had a blast. Too cute!