Good morning buddy!
Ian sleeps over.
Birthday supper: Mac-n-cheese, of course.
fun gifts
Happy Birthday dear Nate.
Lemon cake with jellybellies and white chocolate shavings.
We love you, Nate!
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Squirrel Trap
I forget what inspired him. Maybe it was those pesky rodents eating all the seed out of our feeders. None of them fell for it, but it was a pretty cute little set up.
Five!
Good morning birthday boy!
(Not pictured: breakfast request…cocoa puffs, orange segments and mustard bread!)
Playing games with mommy while Meg, Nate, and Kate are in class.
No friend party this year, so a little Monkey Joe time with the sibs, then home to family birthday dinner and funny face cake (chocolate with chocolate frosting and chocolate ice cream.)
Pappy and Mema joined us for the festivities and Grammy and Grampy sent this great Blue Track!
Happy Birthday Bubster! We enjoy you more each year!
Speaking of Florida
When Erik took on a client in Ft. Lauderdale last August he asked if we wanted to come along on one of his trips. I said I’d wait until February.
See why?
Besides beach and pool time, we enjoyed a day at Butterfly World (thanks Ron & Bertha), meals with aunts, uncles, and cousins, and visits with high school and youth group friends. One highlight was taking my kids on the Palm Beach Bike Trail—one of my favorite childhood activities—with my oldest and dearest childhood friend and her kids. I call it a highlight because I have mostly forgotten how frazzling it was to have two older kids bored and complaining about our slow pace, one younger kid in tears because her little bike had hand breaks and multiple gears, and the other younger kid on a pedaling strike because he was too tired to get himself and his training wheels up the “hills.” Yes, maybe a one foot incline every 1/4 mile or so. (Editor’s note: Who knew that just three months later this same pitiful crew would be sailing along through the Badlands, downtown San Diego, Yosemite, and the Tetons?!)
Blast from the Past
I was snapping pictures of random items around the house while experimenting with my camera and my lens fell on this framed photo in the family room, taken in my parents’ Florida backyard the day after we were engaged almost 13 years ago. Thanks for asking, Babe!
Reenactment
One good child’s version of a Shakespeare comedy plus a few stick puppets equals hours of fun.
Vitamix
Did I mention Erik gave “me” a Vitamix for Christmas? I’d been making fruit smoothies for awhile. My old blender did an ok job (I could sneak in a handful of spinach undetected) but it was no match for kale. The Vitamix—no problem. When Erik stopped eating meat at the first of the year he started making himself a smoothie everyday for lunch. His are much grosser than mine. I’m really stuck in a banana-strawberry-blueberry-vanilla-flax meal-spinach or kale-yogurt or a splash of heavy whipping cream*-orange zest rut. But here it looks like I branched out in a tropical direction with orange sections, pineapple, papaya, mango, banana, coconut milk ice cubes (plus spinach, of course). It is nice to start the day with one green vegetable checked off the list.
*smoothie makers: try it! just the tiniest bit makes the whole thing seem like ice cream!
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