Not in pounds but in years...Yesterday we got to celebrate Chad's 40th! We actually celebrated twice for this special birthday, once with a SPAM party last week and then just with our little family last night. Thankfully he did not request SPAM again for last night's dinner. :-)
Chad
LOVES SPAM…yikes! In fact did you know there is a SPAM Museum in
Minnesota? Unfortunately Chad has added
it to our list of stops for our cross country trip next Fall! J Did you know
there are lots of recipe’s and ways to use SPAM?? Last week I made SPAM “cupcakes” and SPAM
buns. The “cupcakes” were simply mini
SPAM/hamburger meatloaves with mashed potato “frosting” and SPAM buns is a
friend’s recipe and honestly I have to say I could eat the SPAM buns. The SPAM buns are grated SPAM, Sweet Baby
Rays BBQ sauce (the original recipe calls for ketchup but Chad doesn’t eat
ketchup) and garlic salt all mixed together then you top a potato roll with the
SPAM mixture and grated cheese then broil them for a couple minutes and WALA …
you actually have edible SPAM... it tastes like pulled pork! For
dessert we had Lazy Daisy Cake that Isabelle made and I made a Beer and Bacon
Ice Cream Sundae Toffee Sauce that is poured over vanilla ice cream and topped
with bacon crumbles, toasted pecans and sea salt! No worries… all the beer cooks out J It actually
turned out quite good, better than I expected!
Last
night his dinner of choice was chicken fried steak with country gravy, homemade
biscuits and eggs. He finished off the evening with a Bourbon Cherry Rhubarb
Pie. Gee… I think I am starting to see a pattern
here with alcohol J… JK... honestly it cooks out and
it is just the flavor left! I guess he has no worries about clogging any
arteries at this point!
Hard
to believe my precious husband is 40. We
sat around the dining room table last night as the children and myself
spoke of all the things we love about
Daddy. His kindness and patience, how he
takes the time to teach them, his wrestling and tickle fights, how he is a good
example of being a Godly husband and father and much more. It was precious to
hear the children speak and a gift all in itself.
I love this man God has given me more than I can rightly express. I am blessed that he unconditionally loves
me, he is patient with my impatience, he is tender, longsuffering, sacrificial
and unassuming. He is a special man who gives his all for another and loves his
Savior with his whole heart. These years have gone quickly as we have grown up
together. I pray the Lord will bless me with the gift of many more years
with Chad as I have much to learn from this man.
