Wednesday Nights!

I love wednesdays. On wednesdays dakota and I head to my parents for dinner. Derek and Tisha meet us there and it is just a really nice time. It started a couple of years ago when Randy started playing softball on wednesdays and it was just me and dakota heading over but over the last six months or so derek and tisha have joined us and it just adds to the night. I think eventually we will switch days so randy can join us to, but for now this is working. The new simi established idea is that we will rotate dinner duty, which is nice because it mean that I have two wednesdays where I am off dinner duty, a night off yahoo. I cooked last night pasta with tomatoes, roasted red bells, artichoke hearts, sun dried tomatoes and olives, a salad, bread from farmers market and brownies. Here is the best part that is what we had at my house for dinner on tuesday I just made way too much so yay no cooking for me that mean three wednesdays off yayayay. It is the little things. Don't get me wrong I do like cooking but there is something about trying to figure out dinner day in and day out the wears me down. When I am being good and have menu planned it is so much easier and I feel less stressed and I enjoy it but that has not been happening lately. Note to self get that going again.
Last night was no exception to the always nice evening. First while out in gaggi (what dakota has chosen to call my mom) and papa's garden we found two tomato horn worms.


Dakota wanted to touch it but wanted some help.



They are just awesome, very destructive to tomato plants but beautiful in an au natural way. They turn into these huge awesome moths that help with night time cross pollination so as you can imagine I have very mixed emotions on what to do with them.

Dakota could not wait to show
uncle derek and aunt tisha.
After the excitement of that was gone dakota wanted uncle derek to teach her more judo. Dakota just recently saw uncle derek doing judo at the obon festival in oxnard and she has been asking to do it with him ever since while she is too young to start classes uncle derek has been helping her when they get together.

Not dancing, judo fall in the works.
After that we ate,

and talked and watched the republican vp nominee (no comment) give her speech (no comment) did some puzzle and just hung out. My dad has been getting all these old pictures put on to dvd so it has been awesome looking through those as well. All my childhood pictures have always been on slides (translates to seen once or twice in my life) so it is nice to look through those.

We will see what adventures next wednesday brings.