Just a Li'l Bit of Lately

I have been searching for "cool Math stuff" for my upcoming job and I ran across a website with some games, naturally, I had to try them out and found one to be pretty fun. I showed the hedgehog game to Mark and since has successfully beat it, twice. I enjoy this game but I'd have to say one of my favorites is still the classic, Pac Man.
I have been trying a few new things in the kitchen as of lately. I made strawberry freezer jam a couple of months ago with my mom and sis for the first time. It was much easier than I had imagined. Since blueberries and strawberries happened to go on sale again, I decided to try some more jam, this time with mixed berries. {To be quite honest, I can't taste a difference with the blueberries in the jam, really}

It's always nice to have meals where over half the ingredients is fresh from the garden. Everything seems to taste so much better being fresh rather than from the store!

I caught the "baking bug" the last few days and decided to try a couple new things. I tried making jalapeno-cheese bread. It was delicious! I think I will definitely make it again. I did eat one bite in particular that required an immediate 64 oz. of water within 20-30 seconds after indulging. Other than that bite, I would say the 'kick' is just about right. I spread some cream cheese mixed with mozzarella and a few seasonings on the bread. I don't know which was better, these or the cupcakes. It's a toss up because they both included cream cheese (who doesn't love anything with the word "cream" in it, honestly?).
I tried a colorful cupcake recipe from this website. I modified it a little bit by only doing three colors and making my own frosting version, but the addition of sour cream {there's that 'cream' word again} to the cake mix made this cake really moist. I generally prefer ice cream over cake nine times out of ten but I can't seem to keep my paws off these babies.

A kiss from the cook...Two random facts about the Tews:
Something new that Mark enjoys:We have officially changed from the dog being a man's best friend to the DROID. Mark is passionate about getting good deals on things. It's fitting that his favorite "app" is the bar-code scanning feature. He scans something and then checks online to compare prices. He loves it! (and I think it's pretty sweet too)

Something Lacey enjoys:This plant {and cream cheese}. I keep taking pictures of it because I think it's so cool and because it seems like every week it looks so much bigger than the week before.