Hatch Fantastic

Saturday afternoon we drove down to San Antonio to visit the Williams Family.  Adele won a Hatch contest sponsored by Central Market and as her prize got two bushels of Hatch peppers, a cooking class, and $1,000 cash!  We keep saying we need to take her with us to Vegas because she always has luck like this.  The party wasn’t supposed to start until 7 but since it’s a two hour drive to their house, we left the house around 3 so we could get down there and give Brady some swimming time before she turned into a pumpkin.  Casey took Brady out back and joined Kevin and Emma and they all swam for close to two hours.  I offered to be Adele’s sous chef and ended up chopping/mincing/dicing a ton of veggies for all the tasty dishes she was whipping up.

Brady started fading as the guests started arriving (close to 8) so I took her upstairs and put her to bed.  Obviously the theme of the party was Hatch and there was Hatch in every dish – including a cocktail, which I think was called a Siberian Donkey (a Moscow Mule with Hatch).  Adele made gazpacho, New Mexico baked corn, enchiladas, pulled pork, guacamole (served with Hatch chips), apple pie, and her award winning Banana Potato Hatch Bread with Goat Cream Cheese Frosting.  I think I’m still missing one of the dishes but that gives you an idea of what all we had.  It was all so good!  We were able to eat and hang out for 3 more hours after Brady fell asleep but at 10:45 as the crowd was heading upstairs to play Rock Band, we decided we’d call it a night since we still had to drive home.  Thanks Williams family for another fun party and for all the Hatch and pears as our door prize!

Before we left for San Antonio, Casey turned Brady’s car seat around so she was forward facing.  I tried keeping her rear facing for as long as possible but she is just so long now.  I was feeling bad for having to cross her legs or making her contort to fit comfortably facing the back.  Also, we had taken her car seat out a few weeks ago and put it forward facing for a few days and she seemed to like that much better and was very vocal in the car pointing out the things she saw.  I think that facing forward is what kept her awake the whole ride home from San Antonio – she didn’t go back down in her own bed until 1am.  The good news is she slept til 7:30 but I was still tired waking up then and I know she was too.  While I feel kind of guilty for turning her seat around, I’m hoping that she enjoys it and won’t get fussy in the car too much.