Happy Birthday USA!

Don’t these little splatters look just like fireworks? We used our patriotic marker colors to create a Happy Fourth card for our bloggy friends – enjoy! We’ll be spending the day swimming (hopefully the weather will hold out) and gorging on BBQ goodies like watermelon. We had a little watermelon appetizer today, Claire’s favorite fruit. Some more goofy watermelon pictures below or here in the … Continue reading Happy Birthday USA!

Big Girl!

“Wooooooowww, weeee-weeee! ” Is Claire’s newest phrase, can you guess why? Well I wanted to wait a week to be sure, but I can now officially announce Claire is “potty trained!” We’ve been almost 2 weeks now with NO diapers at all…even at night! Remember when we started potty training back in January? We were just trying to catch the…errr…”solids.” Since the weather was warm … Continue reading Big Girl!

Our Christmas Dinner Adventure!

Ingredients for a Christmas adventure: a smoking oven from that toy your toddler hid in its depths a stomach bug that said toddler shared with Grandma Caca who now cannot leave the couch a grocery store that closed earlier than expected leading husband to announce: “Honey, let’s play Food Network challenge!” Oh my gosh. So…we have no where to cook the giant 24 lb. turkey, … Continue reading Our Christmas Dinner Adventure!