Awesome Recipe

Butter Yaki

So I am kindof cheating here! This is a recipe that my friend Rachel gave me, that she got from a friend. We ate dinner at thier house on Sunday and it was soo tasty and fun to make.
Rachel cut up fish, shrimp, steak, chicken, onions, mushrooms, peppers, eggplant and a few more things. (I know we totally got spoiled) Then we got to cook what we wanted on a buttered skillet. (Without seasoning the meats or veggies.)
Then she gave us our own bowl of Butter Yaki to dip our food into. Kindof like an at home samari 21 but, with a cuter cook. Anyway it was a fun low key meal to eat with/make with the fam. Or good to have with good friends like we did! So enjoy serve with some fried rice and you are good to go. ENJOY


1 cup soy sauce
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup water
1 T sesame oil
3-5 drops Tabasco

1 quarter-sized piece of ginger, peeled
2 T toasted sesame seeds




Bring first three ingredients to a boil. Add last four ingredients. Turn heat to low. Serve with rice and all manner of meats and vegetables fried in butter.

P.S. Thanks Rachel and Chad We love your company! P.P.S. I think it is time you post your award winning Peach Days recipe Rachel.

Run 4 Kids

So the past year I have picked up some crazy past times. One I never thought I would love is running. So being an aerobic instructor has a few atvantages other than getting paid to work out. I can get into a few local runs for free. Well my boss at Golds gym got my whole family in this one. The "Run For Kids" The kids ran a 1K. While Rusty and I ran the 5k. It was Rusty's first run and he placed 3rd in his age division. Ugh how annoying. I was sure proud. I took 2nd in my ade division, only because it was a small race. That was my ONLY chance. I still was very pround of myself for keeping a 7 minute 20 secound pace. Who would've thought. I coulnd't even finish a mile in high school. Well since then I have done a half marathon, 10k and few others. I couldn't walk for 3 days after the half, but it was worth it. If you want a good stress relief I highly recomend running. Also if you think you can't ever enter a race. Well your wrong. They are for anyone. Short and long ones. Some people even walk.

Dress-Up

You think dress up is just for girls. Well I did too. Tannon has the most fun convincing Daylor to dress up like a girl. She has also been known to put make up on both her brothers while they are asleep. Well It all started with RUSTY!!! He thought it would be great fun one day to surround Daylor with all of Tannon's barbies. Even placing one in Daylors hand. All During his nice sound sleep. Taking several pictures. Daylor knew nothing about it, nore did the rest of the family. Well the next day when Daylor was mis-behaving he threatened to tell the neighborhood kids that he played with barbies. (The worst possible thing you can do to a 6 year old boy going on 16.) Daylor said back to Rusty "No I don't dad!" Which Rusty thought was the perfect time to pull out the pictures of him sleeping with barbies. Daylor was so upset that he thought Rusty was going to show the pictures to his friends that he fell apart. So Rusty deleted them from the camera. So I can't show you dads sneaky trick pictures. But I did take these pictures of Daylor and Tannon willingly, with some bribing of course. Only because he could then bribe his sister as much as she could him. Rusty has some wierd ideas sometimes. I have to admit it was pretty funny. He even kept the sneaky pictures from me.