Mexican Dinner

Two roasted Black Forest bacon wrapped, cream cheese filled jalepenos.  Brown Rice and homemade black beans topped with poblanos, onions, and sautéed lemon cilantro spinach.  Finished of with a little tomato and avocado... I (Wodie) got the one out of four jalepenos that didn't get seeded all the way... put a whoopin' on me.

Happy Halloween!

A week and half ago, Will and I went to Tennessee/North Carolina for about 4 days. Our friends Whopper and Caris got married in Asheville. We tagged on a few more days to be in Knoxville and be with our family. Here is us and Will's roommates from college and their wives, also our favorite people to be around in the world, after the rehearsal dinner.

Saturday, as the boys were off doing the things groomsmen do, us girls sat around the breakfast table at windy gap talking and drinking coffee. We then strolled through Asheville and we ate a yummy lunch at the Early Girl. My time with them was really great for my heart.

Here's Whopper standing waiting for his beautiful bride! Loved this whole wedding!

 Here's Will and I with our friends the future Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Corum!

Love them!

The Bride and Groom!

And my favorite thing about this wedding, besides the people, were all the flowers!!

My camera, sadly, then died. 

We had a baby shower for Knox the next day in Knoxville! I wanted it to never end, all these people in one room, there for us and our new family member. I started to weep then and do again now as I realized that these people won't be in Knox's everyday life and Knox won't be in their everyday lives. I don't know who will really know Knox, other than Will and I down here in Houston. It was a hard thought to take in, sitting in front of 60 people, with all eyes on you. I'm thankful for that moment and those people, their generousity, their hearts, our excitement, our nervousness, and our time in tn/nc.

The weeks here go by so fast. Every Monday I think, "I can't believe it's Monday again already!" It's already half way through October. Good Gosh. Here's to another beautifully crazy Monday Night!

Will and I are way past juicing and gone to eating the real thing. We read this book called, Food Matters by Mark Bittman. Basically he says eat less meat, don't eat processed foods, and eat a lot of fruit and veggies, that way you'll help preserve this earth and your bodies. It just got us thinking.

 

So, on his birthday this past Monday, we joined a Co-op. We reserve a box about once a week and pick it up at the park. This week we had eggplant, romaine, spinach, cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, avocado, lemon, thyme basil, apples, oranges, kiwi, pears, tomatoes, and green onions. We went  straight from the park to my all-time favorite grocery store, Central Market. We brought our How to Cook Everything Vegetarian Cookbook along with us and planned our meal based on what was in the box. This week has been fun, basing our meals on what veggies we have left. My only complaint is I've had a enough zucchini to last me awhile. We made a veggie ratatouille (which also had for lunch the days following), zucchini pancakes, and zucchini bread. I bet Knox loves it too. 

Oh yeah. After too many conversations over meals, in the late night hours, in the car, as we're watching tv, and on the phone, we decided on a name...

Knox Wilson Odom. 

We had a top 5 but neither of us were crazy on one name, so we let it lie, hoping one would catch our attention, hopefully before the birth. Knox  wasn't even in our top 5, but then one day as we're eating sandwiches, Will asked, "What about Knox?" We had brought the name up early on in the pregnancy and I had shot it down. But sitting there at Which Wich, I said, "I think I really like it!" After thinking about it for a few days, we put our stamp of approval on it. I was excited for a few reasons but mainly to just have one picked out and to not to have think about it anymore! I had no idea  that I would feel so much responsibility about a name! 

Babies R Us here we come!

Will and I didn't have much going on Tuesday afternoon, so we decided to begin a registry at Babies R Us. Better sooner than later, because who knew babies came with so much stuff aka shit. We were given a "guide" of "must-haves" for the baby. Half the stuff Will and I just looked at each other dumbfounded asking, "Do we really need that?" or "What is that?" or "Which one, there's like 15 different kinds?". It was fun, but it was definitely not like registering for your wedding, where you just picked out what you liked. We agreed on almost everything that we registered for...

Our biggest decision or shall i say debate right now is cloth vs. disposable diapers...

When Will imagines a landfill he pictures a bunch of dirty diapers... I'm pro healthy environment, organic when you can/should, hell i was a vegetarian for a year, but I cannot imagine myself washing poo poo everyday in my washing machine. Talk about gag reflux. And what if I'm at Target or something...I can't just throw the diaper away. Do I just carry around this poo in my purse??  I see where he's coming from, and maybe it's not as bad as I make it out to be, but in reality he won't be changing Mister as much as I will. We may try both out. 

Our first club in Houston!

Here's a picture from club last night... We left last night beaming!

Had 125 club cards in my hand afterwards...

And all heard about a guy named Jesus that welcomes all of them to Him and to Young Life.

We know we are supposed to be here.

I wanted to take more pictures (I didn't even take this one) but was just having too much fun!

Video from first club...

Dopple Gangers from Will Odom on Vimeo.
">

Video try out...

We are trying to figure out how to get a video on here... found this one from a couple months ago.  Our crossover into the republic.  Let's see if it works.