Guacamole

This is an awesome recipe for guacamole. We love it our house, especially Luke. He sits and eats tons of it at a time. Anyway, here you go and hope you enjoy it :)

3 avocados
1/2 onion
bunch of cilantro
clove of garlic
1-2 t. kosher salt (more if needed)
2 roma tomatoes, roasted
2 jalapenos, roasted

First roast your tomatoes and jalapenos. (cut them in half and put in a 450 degree oven for about 15-20 min., watch them carefully) Put your onion, cilantro and garlic in a food processor and mince. Then add the salt, avocados, tomatoes (make sure you take the skin off) and jalapenos (remember every jalapeno is different spiciness so may be only add one at a time to make sure it isn't too hot or you might have to add more). Taste and make sure it doesn't need more salt or something else. Then serve.

Anniversary

Yep that's us 9 years ago and here is us now :)

Wow 9 years!! What a great ride it has been. I have the most fabulous husband and I thank God every day that he is in my life. He is such a wonderful husband and father. Time flies. I remember being so young and wondering what life was going to be like to be a "married woman". And here I am 9 years, 4 kids and 1 awesome husband later. Thanks honey for being who you are and for letting me be who I am. Thanks for helping me be better, for trying to make me laugh all the time, for working hard for us and for being so close to God. I love you (and I really hope you read this)!! Thanks for so many great years and so many more to come. XOXOXO...

Blue Angels

Wow!!!!! Tomorrow the Blue Angels are performing here and we are too cheap to go ($15 a person) but they had a practice session today and we went and saw the most amazing things. How cool to watch the stunts and maneuvers they can do, especially flying so close together.

This one here below really surprised us. We were watching and looking all around us waiting for them to come back through and do another trick when all of sudden there was this plane right above us (and I mean right above us) and then the sound hit us. It scarred us pretty good, especially Luke. He really enjoyed watching them up until this point and would just point at them in the sky and smile, but after this anytime there was sound he would get scarred and cry. The girls didn't last long either and were begging to go home but it was so amazing to watch these guys in action and Sam, Seth and I sure had great fun.

This is all them in formation. It seriously looks like their wings are almost touching. I can't believe they can fly so close together.

A very funny one

I found this on my sister's friend blog and I thought it was hilarious!!

1. My Rockstar Name (first pet, current car):"Lady Odyssey"

2. My Gangsta Name (favorite ice cream flavor, favorite shoe):"Phish Food Flip Flops"

3. My Native American Name (favorite color, favorite animal):"Pink Koala"

4. My Soap Opera Name (middle name, city where you were born):"Catherine Nampa"

5. My Star Wars Name (first 3 letters of last name, first 2 of your first):"Beuju" (what is that?)

6. My Super Hero Name (second favorite color, favorite drink):"Purple Diet Coke" (just doesn't have a ring to it)

7. My nascar Name (first names of your grandfathers):"Garth Frank"

8. My Stripper Name (favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy):"Happy Twix" (WELL!!)

9. My TV weather anchor name (5th grade teacher, city that begins with same letter):"Dudley Des Moines"

10. My Spy Name (favorite season/holiday, favorite flower):"Christmas Daisy"

11. My cartoon name (favorite fruit, article of clothing you are wearing now):"Strawberry T-shirt"

12. My Hippie Name (what you ate for breakfast, favorite tree):"Muffin Willow"

luke and mud

This is what I found when I was watering the garden. Luke loves anything that makes a mess. I had just finished watering the tomatoes (hallelujah they are finally turning red!!) and was watering the cucumbers when I turned around and found him sitting smack dab in the middle of the only mud hole in garden. He was having a wonderful time and thought that it was absolutely great.



Luke is our busy little boy. This is new to me because my other kids were not like this. He loves to go from one thing to another and hates to stop. For example: he got a new bag of mini marshmellows out and dumped them all over the floor and was mashing them into the carpet, then he turned all the faucets on in the bathroom, then dumped all the movies onto the floor, then was trying to flush the hair brush down the toilet, then he went to emptying all the drawers in the kitchen, and so it goes. Of course he is always starting the next one when I am trying to clean up the last one. Good thing we like him!!!!
He also loves to help me in the garden, which is a lot of fun. This last week we ate peppers, zuchinni, potatoes and beets from our garden. They were so yummy. I also canned 15 pints of beets. When I went out to pick them, I found this monster:

(I put the pen next to it to try and give you some idea of how big it was :)