Author: Ray

Ray is the other half of Ashley Au. He set up this blog and designed it with Ashley. He is an avid web designer and gadget guy. He loves to relax and hang out with Ashley and their dogs! Captain Fishbone, aka Cappy. Cappy and Ray are buddies and together they pick on Ashley and Pok'e.
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Crazy Besties

We met up with our friends Shoko and Wim and their daughter Amelia who is about a few days apart of Emery on age. The two are such great friends and they are just crazy and mischievous together. They are so cute we hope they will be life long friends. Here’s some pics of the “best friends” aka “besties” having fun on the belt line.

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Best Mexican Around

We have become really big fans of a local Mexican place called Mr. Taco. The dishes are all really flavorful and fresh. Most entries are unde $7 and the sides of different types of sales and sauted onions and jalepeños are all free. Emery always gets her cheese quesadilla but Ashley and I have been having fun enjoying the menu!

   

  

 

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Hearty Soup

For Valentine’s Day I cooked Ashley’s favorite, a tomato based seafood stew. The Italians call it Cioppino and there is a French version bouillabaisse.

I bought little neck clams, large shrimp, tilapia and bay scallops and cooked it in this stew. I found the recipe on Big Oven. She loved it. I made so much we have a few meals out of it. Emery liked it too. It was not oily or creamy and tasted really brothy and fresh.

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Christmas Merriment

We had a great Christmas this past week. Emery received lots of wonderful gifts and we were able to take a short road trip to Nashville.

Here some pictures of the good times we had.

Nashville- We had some good ramen at a Japanese Pub in hip East Nashville. We took a wonderful tour of the Belle Meade Mansion, dated back to the 1800s who made their money from horse breeding. We saw a wonderful show “The Rockettes Christmas” at the Grand Old Opry Theatre. We also had some time to just relax at the hotel with the dogs. Emery loved jump and climbing on all the furniture and she only hurt herself once.

Belle Meade Plantation

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Two of Emery’s favorite things, rides and candy!

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Grand Old Opry

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Gaylord Opryland Resort

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Irish Food On Canton street near our house!

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Getting Ready for Santa and Xmas Morning

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And we had some great Mexican food!

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Turkey Artwork

Emery’s showing lot os artistic ability.  Her teachers are really impressed with her eye for detail on her work.  Here’s a turkey drawing she made.  She did not make the paragraph of writing but wrote her name, dates and put together everything else.

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