Someone wants to say "HI"

To set the scene: Nine year old "T" is recording two year old "D" climbing up a mountain of clean clothes, waiting to be put away, at the foot of the bed.



P.S. To my mother in law, I found your Paperwhites and they are residing in my bedroom until you come pick them up this summer.

Fruit pizza..

yummy, yummy!
This is the most delicious fruit pizza recipe, perfect for the summer.
I found it on allrecipes.com.
Sometimes I make it on a pizza stone, but more often than not I make it in a 9x13 pan.

1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
1/2 cup white sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and 3/4 cup sugar until smooth. Mix in egg. combine the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until just blended. Press dough into an ungreased pizza pan.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool.
4. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese with 1/2 cup sugar and vanilla until light. Spread on cooled crust.
5. Arrange desired fruit (mandarin oranges, grapes, bananas, kiwis, strawberries) on top of filling, and chill.
   

I dare you to eat just one slice.

He'll put a spell on you

Just in case you need to preform some spells in the future,
here's an email I got from my nine year old "T" this week, (misspelled words and all).

Body of the email read:

Here are all the spells I know

Expeliomose- is a fore on an object
Impirio-makes he or she obey the cerser
Crusio-tourchers he or she
Reducto-makes the object the spell hits turn to dust
Eronea eggsamay-makes a fore on a object
Avada kadabra-kills almost any living thing
Feravertoe-make an object to into a new thing
Wingardia leviousa-make an object rise into the air
Stupifi-makes any living thing stuned

Sent from my iPod

End of Email.

It's good to know he's learning something useful from reading all those Harry Potter books.

Leverage

This is how four year old "C" opens the refrigerator.Both feet firmly planted
and
PULL.

Where there's a will there's a WAY.

Little Brother

It was my brother's birthday yesterday.

Here's a picture of me holding him when he was a baby.
Don't I look perplexed as to why he's crying?
Maybe it's because I'm about to drop him.
At least I'm wearing a cute polka dot shirt, right?

Anyways, he's not so little anymore and one of the things I love about him is that
we both share the same enjoyment for thrift shopping and bargain hunting.
Most of our phone conversations involve one of us telling the other about a good deal we found or to tell each other to be on the look out for something
we want at the thrift store.

Speaking of my brother, his in-laws live out in the country, so every year for their children's birthdays they have a party there. A few weeks ago we went to my niece's birthday party and a neighbor brought over a horse and
all the children got to have a ride.
(Miss "A")
Then they all got to hit this butterfly piñata and
my brother pulled them around in a little trailer behind a riding lawn mower.
I think he enjoyed it as much as the kids, but don't tell him I said so.
My brother's kids love this tradition of the same thing each birthday.
There's no debating what to do each birthday and it's inexpensive and fun.
They probably won't want this same party when they're teenagers,
but then they can move on to bigger and better things, like this...
skydiving.
Not.
There is a small airport behind their house and so this is what we see every time we're at a party there.
Hopefully the little kids don't get any ideas, because I know my big kid has.

Jump Around....

jump around,

jump up, jump up,

and get down.
It's the weekend!

Some trampoline fun on mother's day weekend.
Yes I'm very behind, but it's the weekend.
Wait, did I already say that?
Wishing you a great one!

Burn Out

Are moms allowed to have melt downs?

Well, allowed or not I had one this morning.
I couldn't quit crying. The tears just kept flowing.
I wasn't even real sure why I was crying.
I knew what set it off. Do you ever do that? I don't very often,
maybe once or twice a year. Sometimes I just need a good cry.
I dropped "C" off at preschool and little "D" and I went to the new Hobby Lobby that opened this week ten minutes from my house. Yippee!
Retail therapy always helps cure a case of the blues.
I only spent seven dollars, but it it helped lift my mood.
(more flowers from my boy)
I've been going non-stop for the last few weeks and it's finally catching up to me.
I know some people can do that, but I can't. I need down time.
I have a hard time transitioning from being really busy to
taking a break here and there, especially when there is no time to take one.
I'm like a top, once I get spinning I just keep going and going until I collapse.
That's what happened today, I finally came tumbling down in a heap of emotions
I don't normally feel.
Too many things to do coupled with stress from different things in life right now aren't a good combination and next week is going to be crazy as well.

Thank Goodness for Prayer
and
a loving and supportive "husbird."

Busy, Busy

I've missed blogging lately.
I've been busy filling out applications.
We got notice that our health insurance rates are being hiked up so we decided it was time to start shopping different companies, one of the joys of being self-employed.

(image via goggle)
After filling out insurance forms for three different companies, I had to fill out passport applications too. Four hundred and twenty five dollars later (yikes),
Mexico here we come (this summer).
Yea!

(image taken by the "husbird")
Now I have to get busy preparing a lesson for church on Sunday.
Hopefully next week I can get back to my list of projects.
The "nestlings" get out of school in about four weeks, so the pressure is on.

Teenagers Again

The "husbird" and I turned thirteen today.
We're past the childhood of our marriage and we're now into our teen years.
Yea!
Do you remember how excited you were to become a teenager?

The "husbird" made me the most delicious omelet for breakfast.

Later in the day we celebrated by going to the "big house" aka the temple.
It was so peaceful and serene.

Then we came home, put the "nestlings" to bed, and shared a Cafe Rio pork salad, while we watched "500 days of Summer." It was kind of weird, but made me think
I'm grateful I found my man, destiny or not.

Can't wait to see what our 13th year brings.