Honeymooners: Europe Here We Come!

      Hello family and friends, 

     I'm so excited I can hardly stand myself right now! It's official, cruise is booked for January 2013! 

   We might come in a day early so that we can see the sights of Barcelona, Spain. That will also give us a little wiggle room since it's winter (and we all know how well planes land in snow). If there are any recommendations for what to see send them our way (especially in Barcelona, the hotel we looked at has bike rentals which sounds spectacular).

We want to do excursions that allow us to see all that is amazing in this world.

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Malta &Tunis!

 

Firenze!

Roma!

Sicily!

1	Barcelona, Spain
2	Cruising			Cruising
3	Tunis, Tunisia	8:00 AM	5:00 PM	Docked
4	Valletta, Malta	9:00 AM	6:00 PM	Docked
5	Messina (Sicily), Italy	8:00 AM	5:00 PM	Docked
6	Naples (Capri), Italy	7:00 AM	7:00 PM	Docked
7	Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy	7:00 AM		Docked
8	Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy		7:00 PM	Docked
9	Livorno (Florence), Italy	7:00 AM	7:00 PM	Docked
10	Cruising			Cruising
11	Barcelona, Spain	6:00 AM

Engagement Photo Project

Hello!!

I have recently been able to take my friends engagement photos! If you'd like to check them out, I've started a blog for that session and any semi-professional photos to come. Must take classes!!! I'm really excited to grow in photography and better myself so that I can do more. Hopefully there will be a certain 6 month old that will make a good model, too! :)

Here's the link to the blog:
Little Big Picture
Love!

Grandma Hildebrand's Tuna Noodle Twist

I had my mom send me this recipe, I've been craving it for months! I took liberty with couple of ingredients, the alternates are in parenthesis. It ended up being a healthier alternative to the original.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup chopped onion (1 shallot)
2 tbs butter or margarine
1 can cream of mushroom soup (reduced fat, tasted just as delicious)
1/2 cup milk (fat free)
1/2 cup drained chopped canned tomatoes (1 fresh, chopped)
2 cups medium noodles, uncooked (wheat penne)
1 cup peas
2 cans (7 oz) tuna draned & flaked

While cooking the noodles (don't over cook, they will soak up a little of the milk), grab a sauce pan that can fit all the ingredients.

In sauce pan, cook onion (or shallot) in butter until tender; stir in remaining ingredients until everything is in the sauce pan. I added frozen peas and let them cook a while with all the ingredients, you can use cooked peas too.

Salt and pepper to taste (I didn't use any).

Pour into 2 quart shallow baking dish.

Bake 400 for 20 min.

Stir and top with sliced cheese (I used shredded cheddar to cover the top lightly, about 2-3 cups) and croutons if desired. Bake until cheese melts.

I am a huge fan of shallots, love the flavor, but it tastes just as good with onion. I'm not a big fan of peas and this dish gets me every time. It's a good recipe to be flexible with. You can add cooked carrots if you don't want as many peas (for me, one cup is bordering on too much). I think I remember my Grandma using rotini pasta, but the consistency of wheat tasted great. If you try it and did something different please post and let me know the result!

Love this recipe, love my grandma!

A Change in Scenery

The blog has changed, please let me know if there are any issues with the new layout. I changed something and ended up loosing the old one. You can click on the top left drop down and change it to different formats. On this particular one that I chose you can click the titles of the blogs on the left and it will come up with the full post. It seems a little easier than the old blog, but please let me know.

Love from the Sauce 3!

(Penny wanted me to amend the previous statement, for she knows that she is a Gonzales. Sorry, Penny.)

Morro Bay Vacation

Can you believe it's been a year since Ron and I got married?? Penny can't either. Great Adventure is opening soon for it's full season, so we needed to get a vacation in pronto! We were able to stay at Margie and Gary's lovely beach home in Morro Bay for some much needed fun and relaxation (thank you, thank you)!

Our first stop was Montana de Oro.

Two soon became two plus many fun and amazing creatures. Above is one of the snakes we saw, there were tons of them!

Can you spot the little birdy in the above picture?

We met a few awesome lizards some with tails,

some without.

Our adventure with lucky ladies.

Back to Morrow Bay for some good food at Rose's

Enjoying Champagne from Margie and Gary

My first Italian Margarita, it will not be the last!