Dinner: Impossible

We love the Food Network channel! We love many of the shows they produce. But our favorite has to be Dinner: Impossible with chef Robert Irvine. For each episode, Robert is told to show up at a certain place, he is then given a challenge of making food for a different amount of people every time and a deadline. Sometimes it's for a huge party with only 9 hours, and sometimes it's for a smaller group and 12 hours. But they always throw some twists at him. We love to watch him handle the stresses of small kitchens, under supplied kitchens, and ingredient restrictions. It's fun to see how he pulls together such wonderful meals, and always right on time. Last year Food Network found out that he had lied on his resume (who hasn't?) and fired him. Aaron and I were very upset about this! But we decided to give his replacement chef a chance. We watched one episode with the new guy (I don't even remember his name) and gave up when he made chocolate covered bacon. We weren't happy about it, but that night we deleted Dinner: Impossible from our DVR list.

Two weeks ago, after the kids were in bed, we were watching Food Network. We had to rewind the commercials to make sure we saw what we thought...a new episode of Dinner: Impossible coming up with Robert Irvine! We were so excited! I even jumped up from the couch and started clapping. I decided to get online and send the good people at Food Network a note to let them know how happy we are that they re-hired this magnificent chef for this show. We then made sure it was set to record again. It feels so good to have our show back!

What an Adventure!

We went on a family adventure today! Aaron's wedding ring has had some problems over the year. The gorgeous black jade inset in the ring kept breaking. We were tired of repairing it, so we decided to talk to Farr's about options for replacing. They said we could trade it in for current value for another ring. Aaron picked out a ring that is a similar design, but with antiquing instead of stones inset. The ring has been ready for us to pick up for a few weeks, but we haven't had a lot of time now that Aaron is out mowing lawns on Saturdays again. When we found out it was going to be rainy all day today we decided today would be a good day to make the trip.

We decided to make an adventure out of the trip. Since Zack loves trains so much, we decided to take TRAX and the Frontrunner up to Ogden. Farr's is less than a mile from the train station, so then we could walk up to the store and pick up Aaron's ring. When we told Zack that we were going on a train ride he was expectantly excited. We took off early this morning and drove to the TRAX station on 90th. We then rode it to the end of the line where we got on the Frontrunner up to Ogden. We had so much fun! Zack was sooooo happy to be on a train!

When we got to Ogden it was pouring rain. Good thing we were prepared! We had umbrellas, warm jackets and hoods. We had Lexi in the stroller, warm and dry, and Zack had his own umbrellas. Unfortunately, he only made it a block before he wanted to be carried. So, Aaron made the rest of the walk with Zack on his shoulders. By the time we made it back to the train we were soaked! Poor Zack was not happy about it. Fortunately, the train was warm and dry, I brought snacks and downloaded a movie on my ipod, so Zack was happy again in no time.

When we got back downtown we went to Happy Sumo for lunch. Aaron loves his sushi! I was just excited that Zack ate his lunch, after 3 pieces of string cheese and 2 packs of fruit snacks on the train. By the time we were done with lunch and back on the train, the kids were exhausted. We rode TRAX back to our car and came home for a much needed nap, for all of us. What a fun way for us to make the trip to get Aaron's ring. I certainly appreciate my car more now, I wouldn't want to take the kids on public transportation every time we needed to go somewhere, but it was fun for today!