Beautiful Baby!

Since my last post was all about "Ugly Babies", I thought it was only fitting that we follow it with a Pretty baby... We just entered Rocco in the "Regis and Kelly Beautiful Baby Contest"...
Cross your fingers and Hope he WINS!!!

Ugly Babies

So there is this free website, called MakeMeBabies.com, where you can put in you and your spouse's pictures, and it shows you how your babies are supposed to look... Haha!
So, for the fun of it, I decided to see how baby ZeeZee is supposedly going to look, and these are the results (hee hee!!!)...

If she gets my lighter coloring (not sure where the blonde hair comes from though):

If she gets Seth's darker coloring:

Man Alive! Can we just say UGLY!!! Save us!
But I'm really not worried, because this is how Rocco is supposed to look...

If he got Seth's coloring:

If he got my coloring (once again... blonde?):

HeeHee!!! Always good for a laugh!

War...

I got the picture and story below in an email today, and I thought it was special, so I'm sharing. The little girl looks to be about Rocco's size/ age...

This little girl's entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head...but they failed to kill her. She was cared for in John's hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan. The nurses said John is the only one who seems to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair. The girl is now coming along well with her healing.
John is a real star of the war, and represents what America is trying to do. This story goes to show that what we're doing over there IS making a difference... Even if it is just one little girl at a time.

The Next Purcell...

For those who haven't heard:

It's a....


GIRL!!!

Juli, Julie, and Julia (and Seth)

For Christmas this year, my Wonderful sister Becca, sent Seth the cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". For those who've seen it, that's the book that the movie "Julie and Julia" was based around...

On New Year's Eve, we made one of the recipes from the book...
Filet of Beef with Mushroom and Madeira sauce. We served it with fingerling potatoes and sparkling cider, and I gotta say, it was SOOOOOO GOOOOOD!
Perfect way to end the year with a bang...

The pictures don't do this dish any justice... it was INCREDIBLE!

New Year's Day night we made Filet of Beef with Cream of Mushroom Madeira and Parsley sauce, and it was absolutely delectable! Great way to start the year with a bang...

Thank you Julia Child!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!