Tigger and Pooh

Spring Break: Day 1 Dress ups, rip art and lots of play dough.

Salsa--oh soo good!

This (canned tomato!) salsa recipe will hold you off until the garden tomatoes are ready, I guarantee it!

You will love it, love it!

I got this recipe from A sister-in-law....Heather A? Jordan? Jenny? Heather J? (who by-the-way, has an awesome guacamole-salsa recipe that I need her to give me...hint...hint. I tried to duplicate it at home, by memory, to no avail)

I can't remember/don't know who is the original source of this yumminess!

Here is how I make it (I don't have the actual recipe , I never measure when I cook, and I add a lot of extras):

2 whole cans (about 14 oz) petite diced tomatoes

2 green onions

1/2 jalapeno

3? Tablespoons cilantro (about a 1/4 of the bunch)

1-2 Tablespoons lime juice

shake of garlic powder

shake of ground cumin

shake of chili powder

salt to taste

ground black pepper to taste

In a medium bowl combine everything but one can of tomatoes. I use my immersion hand blender to chop everything up because I melted my real blender in the oven about four years ago and I haven't got a new one since. (I some times to experiment with heat and plastic.) Once there are no large chunks left, add the remaining can of tomatoes and pulse your blender a couple times (I like to leave the second can of tomatoes almost intact). Taste and add more salt/lime/spices/herbs if necessary.

Does this make sense? I am not very good at writing down recipes...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We love Eric Carle books!

Happy Birthday Caterpillar!

St. Patty's Day is...

a great excuse to wear a LOT of green

my favorite color

Green eggs

How fun are these? Just in time for St. Patty's Day!

um...okay?

There are times in my life when an "um...okay?" is in order.

Like today, when I was talking to my diagonal back yard neighbor and my next store neighbor (NSN) at the same time. It turns out they are kin (kentucky vocabulary for related). Then, NSN's mom shows up. NSN immediately throws her cigarette behind her and mutters, "I'm not smoking."

As the catching up between kin continues, NSN notices that she has slowly wondered upon her stray, still-smoking butt. She picks it up with a look of disgust on her face and throws it past the nearby property stake onto our lawn. While this is happening, I look at her mom, she looks at me, and NSN avoids all of our looks. (this all happened in slow motion, by the way). And the conversation resumes.

This is when I think to myself, "Um...okay?"

Submarines

Paul says THE funniest things when he is half asleep. Last night, at 1 AM, we got up to go to the bathroom. While there, he asked me,

"So, do we have enough lint to build the submarine?"

Outside-In

Desperate for some warmth we had a picnic in the family room the other day.

Then, continuing on with the "outside-in" theme as I am in the kitchen cleaning up, I hear something (a lot of things) crashing to the floor as Dallin shouts, "Snowing, Mom! Snowing!"
I walk in to find Dallin making a SNOW ANGEL (devil) on top of the "snow".