1997 Ford Explorer with 230,000 miles = dead = must get new car Here’s what we got. Honda Pilot
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Original – Cooing Baby Here’s my fixed version.
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Saturday we went to the Auburn University Vet School Open House. They have it every year and we’ve never been. It was really fun. Lots to do and see for free! Another reason to love living in a college town. Agility Demonstration Llama, llama, llama in the petting zoo Another animal in the petting zoo; the Alpaca Green Tree Python in the snake exhibit Sheep herding. This was so awesome to see how these Border Collies can control these sheep. Since we have a Herding dog, a Corgi, it was fun to imagine our dog doing this. Here they painted…
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Original – Baby Peek-a-boo Here’s my “fixed” version.
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On the way to playgroup the other day, this was the conversation that ensued: Alex: Mom, I know babies come out of their mom’s tummies, but how do they get out? Me: (*Thinking* Oh geez. Why is he asking me this?!) Mommies have to push them out really hard. Alex: How? Me: With lots of determination and they have to be strong. Alex: But how do they come out? Me: (*Thinking* uhhh, how can I get around not saying where babies come out? Just not wanting to get into all that while driving down the road.) Mommies just have to…
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Arrow of Light award is the highest award in Cub Scouts earned by Webelos. Part of the requirements to earn this award is to help them choose which boy scout troop they would like to cross over to as well the Scout badge, which will be warn on their new boy scout uniform in the spot where they put their rank. We’re so very proud of Drew for earning this award and even happier that he’s chosen to crossover to boy scouts. He will be in Troop 15. We have our ceremony on the property of one of our scouts…
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Today we got to go to the AU airport. Alex got to sit in an older Cessna, which the university owns a slew of them. They are used for the Aviation School at Auburn. Living in Auburn for 13 years, you would think I’ve had an opportunity to go the airport, but have never had a need to go. I’m so glad we went, because I learned a couple things and it was neat to see the students take off in those planes. A couple things I learned, I’ll share those with you. They have a couple small jets that…
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Last week Alex and I went to playgroup for an Easter Egg Hunt. He had a really good time and got lots of eggs. Here’s a few pics. Cool carrot-shaped egg Eating his “Crabby Patty”
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I love bacon cheeseburgers, or any variation, so I was super excited to find this Bacon Cheeseburger Roll-Up Recipe. My recipe is a little different than the original in that I used homemade pizza dough as well as a couple other additions, I made. Servings: 6 Prep Time: 25 minutes Cooking Time: 20 minutes Ingredients: 1 lb. lean ground beef 4 pieces of chopped bacon 1 small chopped onion 1/2 lb. (8 oz.) Velveeta Cheese, cut into 1/2-inch cubes 1 pkg. (14 oz.) refrigerated pizza crust (I used my homemade dough)
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I forgot to blog about this a couple weeks ago. This was one afternoon after Drew got home from school. His allergies were driving him crazy, especially after his walk home. I gave him some Benadryl and I’m pretty sure it induced this short period of silence for me. As for Alex, he didn’t have any medicine or anything. I think he was just warn out from a busy day of driving me crazy. Regardless, it was quiet around here for a couple hours and it was nice.
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I’m always looking for ways to change up potatoes. These Parmesan Potatoes are so easy and a family pleaser. Servings: 4 Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 30 minutes Ingredients: 1 cup of olive oil 1 cup grated parmesan cheese 1 tsp. garlic salt 4-6 Yukon gold or russet potatoes, cut into thin wedges Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 425ºF. 2. Chop potatoes into desired size. The thinner you make them crispier they will get. 3. Put in bowl with olive oil. Make sure all pieces get coded in the oil. 4. Pour 1/2 cup of parmesan cheese and 1…
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We left Friday around noon and headed to Orange Beach for some fun and soccer. We didn’t get far before we had to stop because the truck was over-heating. Luckily we were close enough to Montgomery that we could turn around and find a place to go. We ended up at a car repair place in downtown thanks to AAA, which is a whole entry unto itself! We were able to walk to Daisy’s Diner. Great little place and lots of food for the money. Our stop in Montgomery set us back about 3 hours, but ended up in Orange…
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Here’s another creation that I finished the other day. I took some old jeans from the kids and cut them straight across a couple inches from the crotch (couldn’t think of another word, sorry). Turned the jeans inside out and sewed the bottom together. Then, I took the red/white gingham clothe and cut it to fit inside the jeans. Those two piece were put insides facing each other and sewed them together. Since I had these handles from another purse that I have, I measured to see where the handle loops need to go. From there, I folded down the…
