A great find at St. Vincent DePaul's

This is a awesome Pyrex pot I found at St. Vincent's for $3.00 and I just love it. I can cook the childrens mac n cheese, drain it and serve it all from the same pot instead of having to dirty a colendar and then put the mac back in. Yeah! Makes mama's life easier.

The best thing about summer...

BERRIES!!!!

And fresh fruit and veggies. There are such wonderful things you can cook and bake with them like pies.
Today the boys and I ran to Triple B Farms- a local farm here- and picked up some fresh berries and apples for fresh eating with yogurt and for pies. Oh, do I love to bake. Another wonderful farm in the area called Sand Hill Berries makes a delicious pie with blueberries, cherries and raspberries but since its pretty pricey I just took there idea and make my own- no cherries today though.

Here are the pies before I put them in to bake. Note that I make 2 smaller pies instead of 1 larger pie sometimes to please everyone in the family. Usually it is 1 berry and 1 apple like today.







All done

Manny in the Sink

I let Manny enjoy a Yummy Earth Lollypop this morning in his highchair so that I could get some laundry folded and he needed a good bath afterwards so I gave him one in the kitchen sink and he loved it. I took some video as well and I'll try to get that up later. He is sucking in his fat belly in the picture above.

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A Little Boys Dream...

As I type this my lil boy is living the dream at 10:00 p.m. We had a water main brake in the alley behind our house tonight and they are working on it right now. It is perfectly out our schoolroom window and you can see right in the hole they are digging with a lighted backhoe and dumptruck. I told my husband that Mason will probably be there all night till we hear a thud and he passes out.

Our Boys

Aren't they just the cutest! Mason just loves his brother. I pray it stays that way.

Just a little something for Memorial Day

I dont usually have much luck with this but my aunt sent me a really cool link for Memorial Day and I wanted to share it. Here it is...

http://www.usba.com/memorialday/

I hope it works. It really makes you think about our soldiers and how awesome they are and how lucky we all are to have people willing to die for our country.

Babies are just so silly

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There is nothing on that spoon!