I love my husband!

yesterday Lee and I celebrated Valentine's Day because he had his unified exams yesterday morning and was studying the eeeeentire weekend. so after his exams in the morning we headed for the beach! more about that on my other blog kelseycoghill.blogspot.com
after our beach excursion we came home and washed alllllll the sand and salt off and I headed to the orphanage.  Every Monday I go to Queen Elizabeth's Home and play with the kids there for a couple hours. Lee stayed home to study and prepare for a presentation he has to do in lab tomorrow (the studying NEVER ends!)
and when I got back we got ready to go out to eat for Valentine's Day.
I really wanted to go watch the sunset together... and I really wanted pizza (because like I said, I love it!!) and I've gotten pretty good at making most of our other favorite meals... so why pay for it in a restaurant, right?
and Lee really wanted to watch Star Trek... because we haven't watched a movie together in a while and we hadn't seen it and my friend Sherry gave us a  ton of movies to watch! and Sylar from Heroes is Spock!
so we went and watched the sunset, it was beautiful as always, and we just walked down the hill and got pizza from the restaurant on campus... haha even though we had full intentions of going out.
it doesn't take a whole lot to make us happy.
Pizza, popcorn, pop, and a movie! :)

but even better than that.... while I was at the orphanage Lee washed the dishes!!!!!!!!!!! hooray!!!! he knows how much I detest the dishes... that is true love :)\

My Lee.

Plantain chips!

today I perfected plantain chips!
this was the 3rd time I have made plantain, and the 2nd attempt at 'chips'
for some ridiculous reason, the first time I made them I started cutting the plantain by slicing it down the middle.... length wise. as soon as I did it I was like, why did you do that! so we had long strips of plantain that day... with brown sugar. they were really sweet and so good!!
Lee suggested I make chips (apparently they sell them in the vending machine where he worked) so the next day I attempted to do so but turns out Lee prefers his chips really crispy, and I like mine crisp, but with a little softness in the middle. so he wasn't quite satisfied.
alas today I decided to try again, we were having shredded chicken sandwiches for lunch after church... and in honor of valentines day, I thought to myself, I should cut the chips into little hearts! i cut a little v into the whole plantain at once and then sliced the chips... but they did NOT look like hearts.
I cut them soooooooo thin and they turned out delicious! I took mine out of the pan a little sooner than Lee's so his would be cripier.
and he LOVED them! 
he kept talking about how good they were, examining them closely, commenting about how I could sell them because they were better than the ones from the vending machines........ and he never noticed that they were supposed to be cut into hearts. HA!
I was waiting for him to say, why do these look like pac mans?? or what happend to them? lol.. but nothing. He just gobbled them down and I never mentioned it.

My chicken sandwiches (which my mom is famous for making) turned out the best they ever have!!! I made  them last night and let them sit in the fridge overnight & they soaked up all the good flavor.
and. I'm pretty proud of this idea... they got a little dry last night & I didn't have any chick broth or stock, or bullion cubes.... so I opened a can of chicken noodle soup & used the broth off of it! perhaps that's something most people would have done.... but I thought it was pretty smart of me :)

it looks a little gross here..... but is soooooooo good! 

a Cooper family favorite :)

Tomorrow Lee has his first tests of medical school!!! He's been studying like a fiend.  So we didn't celebrate Valentine's Day today..... well not really. we had really good lunch and dinner though, if I do say so myself... dinner was penne and alfredo with chicken, onions, and bell peppers and garlic bread, our favorite meal by far.
but tomorrow we're going OUT! :) and to the beach! together!