Its Been Busy Here...

Last Thursday the children and I went to the park and Marlee fell off of this zipline type contraption and fractured her wrist and elbow. My husband watched our other children while my wonderful mother, Manny, Marlee and I spent the night in the ER and then the poor lil thing had surgery in the morning. She'll have it on 6 weeks. Oh, and it her right hand, she's righthanded.

She's smiling cause the morphine kicked in...




Marlee, Manny and I went up to Uniontown to Mt. Saint Macrina for the Pilgrimage. We had a really nice time and we are looking forward to next year.

Love the bright yellow cast? You can only get that color if you get an operation.




Manny has been helping me with the end of the summer clean-up.

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