Sweeeet 16

Happy Happy Happy Birthday to my BABY! I can't believe he is 16 TODAY!

Logan gladly blew out his brother's candles :) He waited so patiently in his birthday suit for some cake :) It is vanilla cake with homemade vanilla butter cream frosting and dark chocolate chips.

Zachary didn't get a car and right now MINE is in the shop so he doesn't even get to drive today- He has such a good attitude and is so thankful and grateful for all of his gifts this year. I am so blessed to have such wonderful children!

Happy Birthday, Violet!

Happy Birthday, my sweet love. I cannot believe you are two-years-old! Pictures of the birthday extravaganza will be forthcoming!

Lentil Cakes

I liked these very much! The boys (including Logan) ate them so....

1 cup dried lentils

1/2 yellow onion, diced

1/2 green bell pepper, diced

1/2 rib celery, chopped

2 Tbsp. olive oil

1/4 cup Dijon mustard

2 Tbsp. lemon juice

1/2 bunch parsley, chopped

2 cups cooked rice

Salt, to taste

1 cup ground bread crumbs or flour•

Place the lentils in a large pot and submerge, adding an additional 2 inches of water. Boil for 20 minutes, or until tender.• Sauté the onion, pepper, and celery in the olive oil until the onions are slightly browned.• In a medium bowl, combine the lentils, vegetable sauté, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, parsley, rice, and salt, then mash slightly. Form into small patties.• Roll in the ground bread crumbs or flour, and refrigerate while preparing the sauce.•

When the sauce is done, pan-fry each patty until nice and brown.

For the Horseradish Sauce:

1/4 cup Vegenaise

1 Tbsp. prepared horseradish

1/2 tsp. lemon juice

2 tsp. red pepper flakes

Salt and pepper, to taste

In a small bowl, whisk all the ingredients together until blended.• Serve with the lentil cakes.

Under the coffee table

Logan loves to draw, EVERY morning we pull out his purple box and we draw for an hour or so..then the morning gets busy. Breakfast is being made, things are getting done, sometimes the purple box is left out and he is being monitored less. We DO notice when he draws all over the walls, we do notice when he is drawing on himself but we don't notice as much when he is quietly under the coffee table

Welcome HOME

I am thrilled to have my boys home!! Zach has been playing with is early birthday present from G'ma Lyn and Papa- IPOD TOUCH for his 16th birthday what an awesome gift!!!!

I was also sooo happy to have my Mom and Lyla stay with us for a few days :) It is great to cook for them, take them to church with us, laugh, cry, go swimming and just being together was wonderful.

Logan and Lyla are sooo funny they remind me of my cousin Nat and Brie when they were little- It was so cute to see them play together, they laugh and laugh. Max is also so sweet with his little cousin and she just loves these big boys.

We miss you already- Logan was very sad and pouted for about 30 minutes after they left this morning.

movie day #1

Yesterday we decided it would be a WONDERFUL idea to take Logan to his first movie! He loves movies at home, he loves to watch Ice Age 2 and we thought we would take him on a special day to the movies- Ice Age 3 in 3-D!!!

As soon as we got in he ran right to the race car video games with Dad while Mom got popcorn & soda.

Ok keeping 3-D glasses on a 2 1/2 year old is CRAZY! SO.... I worried the whole movie that he was going to go blind from watching a blurry movie!! I would try and hold the glasses on his face and sometimes that worked, but the other times he just screamed and we got shhhhed! Ok fine just watch the movie without the glasses!!! He was into it for like the first hour laughing at funny things it was adorable. Then the soda popcorn and gummi worms had ran out-he is getting restless wanting to stand, wanting to talk, wanting to move around- we are being shhhed more! Now the tantrum is growing he is beginning to get louder and he throws my earring (it was Brie's and I was really sad- we left our number but no such luck in finding it) Ok we are outta here! I take him out and we go back to the race car game. He made it almost through the whole movie but really I don't know what we were thinking!! I am proud he made it that long!


We all learned alot from this experience! We will try again next year or maybe just movies at home until he is 4!!!

weekend getaway at McClesky Manor

My Husbands BEST childhood friend needed us to watch their house, dogs and salt water pool for the weekend. We were happy to oblige :) We pretended we rented a house for a weekend getaway.

Logan had so much fun with George and Zuzu- they ran and ran!

Logan is showing off the workout space- there was a nice treadmill that I enjoyed while Logan was napping.

Logan loved diggin in the dirt along with the dogs-


And this is Rusty he was such a sweet dog.

We had such a nice time it was truly a special weekend-- a FREE God given weekend. They needed our help and we were so happy to help them out! Thank you McCleskey family it was a lovely weekend getaway! We miss the big boys though and can't wait to see them!