Saturday, August 27, 2011

Jamaica, Mom

The unofficial 5th member of the Ford family stopped by this week to do another country.  Nana took over our country night for the second time.  This time instead of cooking she brought us yummy takeout from one of her faves....Rumbi's!  She brought her Jamaican facts along and Ayden even let her put the pin in our map.  BIG honors! 
 Here's what we had:
Nana had some great facts too!  For example:
  1. Many Jamaican believe in witchcraft or "obeah".  These beliefs include an evil spirit known as Rolling Calf that comes out to haunt people at night....creeeeepy!
  2. In restaurants Jamaicans will ask if you are "having it" which is their way of asking if you are dining in.
Thanks for doing Jamaica Mom, we always have fun with you around and can't wait for your next country pick!  It has defiantly been nice having friends and family take over lately, but I am totally ready to get back in the game!  Ayden's pick is next, lets go ask him.  Madagascar?  Yup, wish me luck.


Friday, August 19, 2011

"Are they talking about China on T.V!?!?" - Tyler Allenbaugh

My little brother is home!  After 10 months in Oregon he just couldn't stand being away from his most favorite sister any longer so he packed up and moved home.  We all really missed him and just had to have him join us for one of our country nights.  The country of the week was China which is actually kinda funny because when Tyler was a little boy he used to think that lady parts were called "Chinas".  It's something our family still giggles about, and something he is probably not to happy about me broadcasting.  Good thing he doesn't read my blog.......psh.

When I was preggers with Mr. Ayden Fox, I had the worst cravings for those almond cookies that they have at Chinese restaurants.  I used to make Adam take me to this China Buffet in Prescott where I would fill my purse plate with as many as I could eat.  Adam thought it would be a good excuse to go again, but mostly I think the man just loves a buffet.  I have to say that it wasn't quite as good as I remember, they didn't have almond cookies, and Tyler was making me vom with the HUGE octopus he was eating, whole.
Tyler brough along his adorable girlfriend Eliana and some goodies for the kiddos.  What a good Uncle!  Eliana has actually been to China which is super cool and she even taught us a few words.  One of our facts was how fortune cookies were invented in a factory in San Fransisco, where my Grams and I have totally been to, toured, and tasted.  Delish.

Then we went bowling!!
 Which I completely suck at.  There isn't enough beer on this earth to make me a good bowler.  Tyler implemented some dancing rules that had us gettin' our groove on.  Had there been a score board for dance moves, I would have totally won.  Just sayin. 

World's worst bowler = me.


Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Ay, Columbia

Okay, okay.  I totally suck.  It's true, we missed a week.  In my defense, the past two weeks have been very busy for momma Ford.  So, in order to redeem myself and ease the shame I decided I would show you all some of my very valid excuses.

 First, I loaded up my adorable kids and took them to their G.G's house in Tucson where they got to play with their cousins for 3 whole days!
Then I worked a total of 37 hours in 3 days at the salon, oh man my dogs were barking!  Followed by a super fun sleepover/wedding vendors conference in Camp Verde.
 
There was tequila...in LARGE quantities.  Cute cowboy servers, amazing food from Red's in Sedona, beautiful decor, a much needed bloody mary brunch, and a connection that landed me a styling gig for Bridal Magazine!  More on that later...

Then...Kid Rock (and Sheryl Crow..HELLO!)
For those of you who don't know, my mother and husband are huge Kid Rock fans.  Like, HUGE.  My mother even has a Kid Rock tramp stamp that she proudly portraits.  We had such a great time and got to spend time with my other mother, Starla!

Okay, so that doesn't exactly make me sound that busy but I assure you, it totally felt that way. 

Finally, we got to Colombian night.
We had Pimentones Rellenos and Coffee Cake.  Basically, I bought a box of coffee cake mix and used Maxwell House Colombian coffee instead of water.  Points for creativity, right?  We learned that 95% of the worlds emeralds come from Columbia and that Columbia is the worlds third leading producer of women's lingerie.

Lastly,
Zoie has started making this hysterical face.  The first time she did it, Ayden and I were laughing so hard we could barely breathe.  I caught a couple of them on camera and just had to share....enjoy!
See you next week!  I promise!!!