Sunday, September 26, 2010

just a few things.

Michelle sent this link to me. I haven't had a chance to get to far into it BUT what I saw looks GREAT! She recommends the Feb 25th entry! :)





Our Walk Team for the JDRF walk has raised....$2,640.64, so far. The walk is next Sunday. We have 22 registered adults and 7 more tike's tagging along! WOWSERS!
We all are looking forward to it. Keep praying for good weather. ;)



It's a gloomy, chilly, Sunday, but I'M LOVING IT! Perfect for making Homemade Vegetable Beef Soup-so homemade mind you I had to dig the marrow out of the soup bones and brown the meat in the marrow (yuck-but I made it through!)and catching up on all kinds of things you catch up on a Sunday like this. ;)



Happy fall y'all!

~chat soon!

Saturday, September 25, 2010

a day at the zoo.



A couple weekends ago I took the chicks to the zoo.
Adam needed some time to get things done with business realted things and I could tell we weren't really needed around. :)
We had an awesome day! Spent the whole day at the zoo. Stopped at every train station, got off and looked around. The girls loved every second of it.
We missed Daddy, but made it through anyway! :)
~chat soon!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

our next Mary Lou Retton?



Anne finished up her Gymnastics lessons two weeks ago.
If I can be honest, I don't think she was the top gymnast, but it was her first attempt.

She had fun. That my friends, is all that matters.


I think next summer, we'll try it again! Maybe she will give ol Mary Lou a run for her money!

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

simple.

 


I brought home 5 caterpillars this past weekend to feed and water before they formed into their cocoons.
Anne was smitten.
Even more amazing, we were lucky enough to see them spin into their cocoons, or sleeping bags as Adam and Anne termed it!
It was simple, but quite amazing for all of us to see!
~Chat soon!
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Monday, September 20, 2010

a little cake and some candles.






Today is mom's birthday.
She isn't all too keen on this year's big day.
I don't know why.
She's accomplished so much in her short years here. ;)
A doting wife, wonderful mother, loving grandmother, talented crafter, fine cook, and loyal employee...just to name a few.
We threw Mom a very small, intimate, family affair this weekend. It was a surprise. She claims she sensed it from the conception of the idea. I don't believe it. Not for a second.
(but, since she's my mom, and I have the same odd intuition. She knew about it before I even thought of it! :))
Happy birthday momma, you're only as old as you feel!
~Chat soon!

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

I believe! I believe!



Don't you just hate it when you give someone the right to say 'I told you so?'
Well, I gave my momma the right to say it LOUD AND CLEAR!
I have had horrid allergies the better part of my live long days. They took a brief hiatus in the 5 years that I had been pregnant, nursing, etc. (Not 5 years straight, but you get my drift!) I guess the hormones got to talking to the sinus's and realized everything is back to normal...

None the less, I have been stricken with allergies-again. In a bad way. The kind where you sneeze, itch, water, run, everywhere you go. It eventually clams up and take refuge in my sinus cavity and then I am so miserable with a headache and pounding cheeck-ache.

I finally gave in, and after years of my mom telling me that the 'Neti Pot' is the next best thing to sliced bread, I have to admit. She was right-AGAIN.

It was the.most.awkward.thing I have expierenced in a while but it works. It really, really works.

The whole event was quite humerous. I snuck upstairs to have a little orientation with the 'snot genie' (I so graciously gave it that name-doesn't the little pot look like a genie in a bottle kind of pot?) A few minutes later, they all came looking. Adam came in and proudly said. "I gotta see THIS". Anne said, "Are you putting that thing in your nose?" Kate just said. MEEEE TOOOOOO! So there I was. With a genie bottle shoved up my shnoz, water running out of the opposite nostrile and the whole fam damily crowded around to watch.

I swear we really could be The National Lampoon people.
Got sinus issues? Trust me. It works. GO GET ONE!

~Chat soon.
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Food.

You know what they say.
The way to a mans heart is through his...STOMACH!
(or something like that.)
Adam has had an odd bit of work related stress here lately and I decided to try to 'fix it'.
It worked. ;)

Try these four things, if you are in the same boat..or looking for new recipes!

1.Pioneer Woman's BBQ MEATBALLS (it seems to me, that I think I have posted about these little works of magic, but I'm a little too unmotivated to see if this is a repeat. Sorry!)

2. Pioneer Woman's MASHED POTATOES

3. Whatever's GLAZED APPLE BARS
and tonight's menu-Julia Child's Poulet Roti (aka-roasted chicken with LOTS of steps!)

I'm sure all this will help settle nerves, you think?
Bon Appetite!
~chat soon!