Beth n Chris

Been a while since I added new photes… I will be adding more soon…

For now here are some new pics of our cabin being constructed

New Cabin

More New Cabin photos

Dad, his friend jerry and I went to detriot today to pick up hist newest toy…. What do you think ?

1995 Moto Guzzi Sport

[edited]  SOLD - Dad sold it to the Anchor Bar… Going to be put in the rafters like his triumph… awfully nice of them to allow dad to use their rafters for his motorcycle storage

Just adding photos for now… will put more later

Valley Forge

Sesame Place Day 1

Here are some new photos of maddy’s Gymnastics show

Been a little while since I added new photos… so here we go :

Christmas - Told you it has been a while

Sock Hop at Maddy’s school

St. Patty’s Day @ GeGe Carol’s

Mary’s First Communion

Coloring easter egg’s

Strong Museum

Nicole’s Song Fest Day

Nicole’s Birthday

Maddy’s Author Day

Misc

Brianna’s baby sister was born today (Monday, March 5, 2007) at 4:35 PM at Sister’s Hospital… Meghan Sarah (? - Name is still being finalized) weighed 8.23 lbs, 14 1/4″ head, and 21″ length. Along with Brianna, Daddy Aaron, Grandma Kathy, Grandpa Rich, GG Carol and Aunt Beth waited anxiously for her arrival. Both mom and baby are doing great! Brianna is very proud and excited. For now here are the first photos. More will be posted at a later date when we can gather pictures from other cameras.

Some of you may have either read about about my dad in the paper (Billboard not so welcome a sign) or saw him on the channel 2 news ( Niagara County is #1 In Property Taxes ). You could have also heard him on WYRK yesterday, WBEN today or WLVL. He is also being interviewed by Reuters so you may next see him on the national news… I guess you could say he has been pretty busy… just waiting for larry king to call

I have also received a couple of inquiries about sending in donations. For those people first I am not the guy on the news… that is my dad, Lee Bordeleau… If you want to donate send me an email @ chris@bethnchris.com and I will forward them to him. I will check with him about posting his email address later….

[update] You can see the video of from channel 2 here : Channel 2 coverage large (85mb) - Channel 2 coverage small (2.2mb) - thanks dennis for encoding this

Here are the two recipes I made for our new years party :

Dirty Rice

INGREDIENTS
• 1 pound lean ground beef
• 1 pound hot/medium beef (or pork) sausage
• 1 onion, finely diced
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 Bell Pepper
• 2 (8 ounce) package dirty rice mix
• 4 cups water
• 1 (10 ounce) can diced tomatoes with green chile peppers
• 2 (15 ounce) cans kidney beans, drained
• salt and pepper to taste

PREPARATION:

1. In a skillet over medium heat, start w/ onion and garlic then brown the ground beef, sausage; drain.
2. In a large pot, combine rice mix and 4 cups water.
3. Add diced tomatoes and chilies.
4. Stir in the kidney beans. (if making this in advance you may want to wait and add kidney beans about 30 minutes to 1 hour before eating) Bring to a boil,
5. then add meat mixture.
6. Season with salt and pepper.
7. Return to boil, reduce heat, and cover, stirring occasionally.
8. Cook for 25 minutes, until rice is easily fluffed with a fork.

Keilbasa in Spicy Mustard sauce

INGREDIENTS
• 2 pounds Polish sausage or smoked sausage (turkey smoked sausage is also good)
• 1 large onion, quartered and sliced 1/2-inch
• 2/3 cup beer (lighter beer tend to work better - I used Labatts Blue)
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
• 1/4 cup prepared mustard
• 2 bay leaves
• 3 minced garlic cloves
• sprinkle of caraway seeds
• squirt of honey
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed with 2 teaspoons water to make a paste

PREPARATION:

1. Slice sausage into 1-inch rounds;
2. Cooked 1/2 an onion and 3 cloves of garlic minced in the hot pan for about 5 minutes
3. brown keilbasa in hot frying pan with garlic and onions
4. place in slow cooker
5. combine remaining ingredients and pour over sausage and onions.
6. Cover and cook on low for 4 hours;
7. stir in cornstarch-water paste to thicken before serving, if desired.

Let me know if you try these and make any changes. I would like to hear what else people try.

Here are some of our new pictures:

Maddy at gynastics

Setting up the Christmas tree

Taylor’s Baptism

Christmas parties at Maddy’s school

Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert

Halloween (forgot to post these a while ago)

Finally got around to posting pictures I took of Baby Taylor and the girls… sorry it took so long