Sunday, May 6, 2012

Ice cold milk

This past Thursday we broke another record high temperature of 88 degrees!
Last weekend we had snow flurries.
It's been a bit unpredictable around here lately,

But on this day, after running around outside, these two buddies wanted some ice cold milk.

In matching cups.
 Aren't they the sweetest!!

Hot, sweaty and dripping of milk, sweet :)

Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Letter R

R is for Rocket.
Red Rocket to be specific.

We're going on a trip in our favorite rocket ship!
(You're welcome, Little Einstein fans)
 We also colored a rainbow for R.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The Letter Q

Q is for Mommy!!

Hehe. No really, Q is for Queen.
(which IS Mommy)

But not according to Gavin.

Gavin: "You not a queen Mommy, you are a girl."
Me: "So what are queens?"
Gavin: "Queens are fairies".

Interesting. 





Friday, April 20, 2012

For the birds

But first, check out who our actual first customer turned out to be.
Not who we intended to be feeding, but everyone has to eat, right?

We started this project the other day.
Actually, we made two bird feeders.

The first one was super simple.
Gavin found this GIANT pinecone. I mean, it's humongous!!

I gave him a knife and an almost empty jar of peanut butter and he went to town.


Sticky peanut butter hands and rolling around birdseed created a bigger mess than I anticipated.

But it turned out fantastic!
Our next bird feeder I discovered on Pinterest.
Still very simple, but a few more ingredients than just peanut butter and birdseed.

Recipe:
4 cups of wild bird seed
1/2 cup of warm water
1 envelope of Knox gelatin
3/4 cup of flour
bundt pan
nonstick spray
3 tbl light corn syrup
whisk
wooden spoon

First we took a big bowl and whisked together the water and gelatin.
Next, the flour was added along with the corn syrup.
Stir it good!
Then, pour in the birdseed and stir to coat.
(Notice I pre-measured everything so all Gavin did was pour things in.)
After it's coated completely, spoon it into a bundt pan and press down.
Wet hands were best to get it nice and pressed.
Only needed to leave it overnight, but we left it two days....because that was when Uncle Ronny was able to come over and hang it up for us!

Didn't it turn out great!!
Don't worry, Uncle Ron, I'll hold you steady.
We aren't superstitious people, who avoid playing under ladders, either.
(In fact, on Friday the 13th, I received the news I was promoted to full time at work!!)

OK...I'll let you play on the ladder for a minute.
Such a big boy :)
They turned out better than I had hoped!
Now get down before you fall and hurt yourself :)


Saturday, April 14, 2012

One of THOSE days

Every have one of those awful, emotional, overwhelming kinda days?
I do.

Here's what I’ve always wanted someone to say to me when I do have "one of those days": “Wow. That sucked. That sucked hard. But you survived, huh? Awesome. Did you have a breakdown? Yeah? Well, then it was a very well-deserved break-down. No breakdown? Wow!! Way to hold it together. You did great. It was hard, and it sucked, but I totally understand why you did things the way you did them. You’re the best. Thanks for taking such good care of things, and going to work, and just getting life done. It’s really hard sometimes, but you are doing a really terrific job.”

And flowers.

What girl doesn't like flowers occasionally.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

The Letter P

P is for Penguin

I'll do it myself!

I'm just glad he is wearing pants. 
Whichever way he may pull them up ;)