Red, White & Blue Recipes

Still celebrating the 4th---I had a little get together and made some fun Red, White & Blue Pampered Chef recipes. Pretty and Yummy!

Red, White & Blueberry Trifle

Tuxedo Brownie Cups

FOURTH of JULY

God Bless America

The boys had a Red, White & Blue parade at school on the 3rd with hats, flags, and noise makers they made for the occasion. We spent the morning at the Round Rock parade. Then we spent the evening at our neighborhood park celebrating with food, fun and fireworks. The finale was at our house--the boys had to do a couple of sparklers. It was a day to celebrate, be thankful for all our many blessings, and remember the men and women that are serving our country and fighting for our freedom!

Bye Bye Sippy Cups

I did it! I finally decided to get rid of all the sippy cups at our house. I'm following in Tina's footsteps. I have been thinking about doing this since she cleaned out her cabinets back in February. The problem, ya see, is that we have had this bad habit of taking a sippy cup with apple juice (watered down) to bed with us. I know, I know, I should have never started that, but you know what they say about hindsight. Hopefully it will be easy to break the habit. It must be done. So long sippys!

Georgia

This is Georgia

She is my neighbor's 8 week old black lab and my boys absolutely LOVE her. And she loves them. Every evening, no matter what, Michael insists that we go see and play Georgia. They haven't asked for a puppy of their own....yet. I'm not ready for a puppy. They are not ready for a puppy. So, until we are ready we will continue to enjoy playing with Georgia.

Rain

Guess what?

It rained at our house last night, ALOT!

Not like a sprinkle rain, but both kids were in bed with us thunder and lightning rain! It was so awesome. I don't know how long we have been without rain, but I do know it has been long enough. Everything has been so hot and dry. We needed it so bad.

Thank You Jesus!

At The Ballpark

The boys really enjoy going out to the ballpark so we try to get out to see the Express about once a month. This particular evening we had some great seats behind home plate. It was hot and our seats were in the shade. Of course we, I mean the boys, enjoyed all the usual sweet stuff.

After the sun went down I took the boys to the playscape. They were playing and then Michael said he had to go to the bathroom for like the 100th time. Still new to the big boy underwear so when he said it, we went. On the way back to the playscape we found this huge rock. I thought it would be a good picture of them with the ball game in the background. It took 3 tries, but here are my guys.

Now, I added this picture because I thought it would show how high off the ground this rock is, but it doesn't really. It was about 2 1/2 to 3 feet. Doesn't sound too high. It didn't really look that high.

That is until Jesse decided he wanted to jump off the rock. I'm thinking no problem, the kid jumps off everything, it's fine. Well, let me just tell ya, not fine.

He jumped.

His feet hit the ground.

His hands hit the ground.

His head hit the ground.

Then the scream and the tears came. Along with all the stares. I felt like the worst mother in the world. How could I just let him jump off the rock? I should not have let him jump off the rock. If I had not been with him he would have jumped. He is a boy and like I said he climbs and jumps off everything. So I'm that mom, the one that lets her kid jump off the rock and I hope he lands on two feet, but if not I will be there to kiss the bump and wipe away the tears.

~Words of Wisdom~

You should always use caution when you open a soda that your 2 year old has been holding, especially if you are wearing church clothes.