What a Ham!

So 2009 has started out to be a pretty routine year. We are back at work and figuring out our schedules again and life has not been too exciting. Not boring, just uneventful which is just fine. BUT, last night I cooked my first ham and it turned out really well! So here are some pictures of the ham and the story of how we even got the ham.

I was looking up glaze recipes online and found a really simple one that turned out really well:

1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup honey
1 cup Orange Juice

The glaze really does make it look nice. Sorry the presentation isn't better.
W e were hungry and just wanted to eat.

Mark using our electric knife for the first time. Someone gave it to us when we got married (yes 4 1/2 years ago...) and we have never used it. We have actually never really cooked a holiday meal. We have made lots of things to take to holiday meals we were invited to but never hosted or made our own. This was like a practice run.

So, the ham. In December Mark and I went out with some friends to get hot chocolate and look at Christmas lights. When we got back to our apartment there was a grocery bag at our door. We looked inside it and there were the makings for a Christmas dinner! There was a ham, a box of stuffing, a can of green beans, a box mix for Au Gratin potatoes, and a brownie mix! We were really confused as to why someone gave this to us. We figured it was someone from church but everyone knew (at least we thought everyone knew) we were going home to California for Christmas and wouldn't be cooking any meals here for like 2 weeks. We figure that we were part of someone's Christmas tradition and are glad that we got to be the ones to help them fulfill it. I do hope that it was for us and not someone else and the person accidentally delivered it to us. Either way someone did a nice thing and we enjoyed the meal. It sounds like a fun tradition too, to bring all the stuff for a Christmas meal to someone. Or maybe someone thought Mark didn't look like he was getting enough to eat and that is why they picked us? Hmmm... He eats a lot I swear! I cook all the time! (well he helps too) he hasn't gained any weight since his mission in 2000-2002! Lucky huh? Anyways...

Now that I have typed this out it reminds me of a question I have been wondering about; feel free to answer if you want.

When someone drops something at your door and rings the doorbell and runs away do you try to catch them? Do you look at the window or have someone run out a back door to see who it was? I try really hard not to and to not let Mark because if they wanted to be known they would have knocked and waited. But it can be hard to not know who did the nice thing for you because you want to be able to thank them.

So even though no one in Greeley reads this blog that I know of, Thanks so much to whoever brought us the trimmings for a great meal!

P.S. I went back to the Oral Surgeon today and they said the holes from my Wisdom Teeth look great! They said that they were mostly filled in too so less food will be getting stuck in there so I do not have to squirt them out as much. I feel like it really took awhile to feel better. In case you do not remember I got them out December 12th and they were still hurting up til a few days after New Years! I took more Ibuprofen in those 3 1/2 weeks then I normally do in like a year! So no infections and they look really good. I am a star patient and really glad that it is over! And that I got all of them out, I can't imagine only getting the one that had actually broken through out and then having to go back and get the others!