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Yesterday my wonderful husband made us pho for lunch. For those of you who are not familiar with pho, it is a vietnamese noodle soup, typically served with beef, though we had it with chicken Phil has been researching some pho recipes and came across this one.
The best thing about this soup is it completely satisfies the craving for chicken noodle soup with a lot more flavor. The stock is simmered with ginger, star of anise (haha, anise) and cinnamon. But then the condiments are where it is really at: lime wedges, cilantro, basil, hoisin sauce, sriracha (thai red chili paste), and bean sprouts. Each person can add in various measures of each and every condiment and then proceeds to slurp down the piping hot soup.
One of the most pho-n things about sitting down to a lovely meal of pho is thinking up a pho-ew pho-tastic puns. Pho-nomenal!
There are many ways in which my husband is awesome. One way is the organization of the family workshop above. I say family workshop, but really it is his workshop. This weekend he cleaned it up and organized it so that he can make even more cool stuff, but also so that I won’t have an asthma attack when I go in there. Awwww, cute.
Another way that he is awesome is that he got this cool Craftsman clock from my parents and was so excited to put it on his peg board (note: the peg board is definitely a high-status location as is evidenced by the pneumatic air guns and the fancy Japanese-style saw). That clock is just more motivation to keep Phil makin’ awesomeness.
If you know anything about my husband Phil, you know he makes cool stuff. One of the coolest things he has made recently is a new tool box for some of his tools he takes back and forth to work, home and class. He used his new dovetail jig to put it together. The coolest part is that he used wood from an old pallet that sat on our driveway all winter. So it has this great, weathered, grey-ish tint to it, even though that does not really show up in the photos above. one thing about lumber is that there is nothing you can do to fake the texture to make it appear aged. You have to go for the real thing. Oh, and if you would like to pay an really large sum for a tool or other wooden box, let us know!
My husband is the most amazing, great talented person in the world! Thanks for being so awesome Phil 
Sarah
I hope that you caught my earlier post on “Our Bathroom” and today I would like to tell you all how the bathroom project really got started. Phil and I needed some storage in the bathroom in the worst way. We also needed to change the layout of the bathroom a bit so that Phil and I could get ready in the morning without bumping into each other and bruising ourselves, again, on the bathroom fixtures.
We decided to hire a plumber to cap off where our original pedestal sink was attached to the wall and to move the sink into an alcove that was previously empty in the bathroom. This (along with a vanity from Lowe’s) gave us a sweet new sink but left a gaping hole in the wall where the old one was.
So, one evening while I was at my work’s graduation, Phil got to thinking that we needed a recessed medicine cabinet:
You can imagine my delight when I got home:
This was only the beginning of the transformation. We planned to add two cabinets near the toilet and to put up some bead board around the lower parts of the wall to cover the giant hole. This started with more cutting holes into our house.
Cabinet 1
Cabinet 2
Sarah
So Phil and I have this backyard porch that came with the house we bought in September and moved into in October. At first we thought, “Wow, that porch’ll be nice.” Friends and relations, it is not just nice. Our porch is totally sweet! I am currently writing to you from said porch after eating some fine cheese, drinking some delicious wine (7 Deadly Zins Old Vine Red Zinfindel), with husband and my dog. As of today, Phil and I actually have something to sit on too. We got some low-design and high comfort plastic adirondack chairs from Target. I highly recommend them. They really have facilitated my porch-sitting today and I look forward to continued porch-sitting in the near future. In just a short two weeks, it will be summer.
Sarah
Not too long after we moved to Colorado we met a great couple named Mike and Virginia at church. They recently moved from Alabama and are avid rock climbers. Does it get much cooler or more hard core than that, I think not. Sarah and I are by no means hard core in the least. But when the weather warmed up we got our chance. Mike and Virginia took us and a group from church rock climbing. Mike said that it was an easy climb, but too me it was still shear rocks going straight up for about at least three or four hundred feet. in actuality Mike said it was about fifty, my sense of distance might have been off while I was trying with an absurd amount of energy to look like I wasn’t scared. I learned a few things that day, first was that I could actually get to the top of a cliff (the view was amazing), second was that we have pretty amazing friends, and third was that my asthmatic wife is a far superior rock climber than I am. She was amazing, she looked like she was running up the rock. My wife is a Hoss
Phil
Sorry about the pictures, we used a cellphone
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- Phil at the top of the world
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- Sarah mid run
For those of you who don’t know him, this is our dog Meatball. He is the manliest chihuahua on the block. When we first drove into town here, Phil convinced some unknowing Lovelanders that he was an East German Shepard. “They breed ‘em small behind the Iron Curtain,” Phil assured the family.
After his first encounter with snow this winter, Meatball is frolicking around his newly fenced in backyard. He is eagerly awaiting the day he can take a bite out of a squirrel and is chasing birds left and right since they’ve returned with the spring.
Sarah
We are recent transplants from Southern California to lovely Loveland, CO. We haven’t totally left our SoCal roots though: case in point, we have caved to the pressure of blogging and this it, baby. Thanks Bret, Amanda and Liana! Springtime is here, so we are inundated with manic weather patterns and the return of many outdoor excursions. More posts to come on life in NoCO (Northern Colorado).
Sarah
