"So gross motor would be like....slime."

Lol, this week's quote is from Brittany's work. She was doing some therapy yesterday with the brother of the boy she works with. They were going through some fine motor skill exercises, and he suggested that they play tug-of-war for fine motor skills. Brittany explained to him that that was more of a gross motor skill exercise. He asked what gross motor skills were and she explained somewhat to him what it was. Then he said, "Oh, so gross motor would be like....slime." *facepalm* Obviously none of the explanation sank in. Oh well...

Last Monday, we were invited over by Josh and Michelle for a southwest party in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. There was fried chicken, twice-baked mac and cheese, biscuits and gravy, fried okra, waffles (which were supposed to be eaten with the chicken and the gravy and turned out REALLY good), and lots and lots of cornbread. Our recipe (well Mama C's) was the hit of the party. Lots of raving and asking for the recipe. We ate, and enjoyed company, and at the end we watched the "I have a dream" speech. It was lots of fun.

We recently bought what's called a starving student card for each of us. It is chock full of sweet deals and free stuff. We went out to Carl's Jr. and got ourselves some $6 burgers. Frikin huge burgers and delicious, Brittany couldn't even finish hers off. It was a fun night. We also used our card for last night when Chris Williams decided he wanted to treat us to pizza, so we went and got some Papa Murphy's and took it home and played Monopoly with him and his home teacher. I won with about a bajillion dollars. :P We tried to make some chocolate crackle cookies for dessert, but were impatient and didn't wait for the dough to chill. We stuck it in the oven to try to cook them like bar cookies. It worked out...mostly. We also realized afterwards we only put in half the baking chocolate we needed to. Oops.

Friday we went and saw the movie Planet 51 at the dollar theater. It was a hoot. It's about an astronaut that visits an alien world that's basically Earth in the 50s, and gets stuck there trying to avoid being killed (kinda like a reverse E.T.). There were tons of references to other alien movies that I'm sure 75% of the kids in the audience didn't get. It's fun watching kid movies as an adult sometimes.

This week's recipe is the amazing Cline Cornbread. It's way simple and yummy too.

1 can of creamed corn

1 pint sour cream (it's ok to use light if you want a less-fattening recipe)

2 boxes of jiffy corn muffin mix

1 stick of butter, melted

Mix it all together and put it in a greased 9x13. Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes, or until golden brown on top.

See? Easy!

Ok I love you bye bye!

Chris and Brit