Belated Father's Day!

I personally prefer Mother's Day, and had no clue what I was doing for my dad or my husband..
I searched the Internet, and although pinterest had some pretty unique ideas like this: http://pinterest.com/pin/32106583/
It seemed like it's the same wherever you look. Tools, golf clubs, and ties. So what if your dad isn't handy, has a full set of clubs and rarely wears a tie?!
Well for my husband I got him and online gift card to his favorite store, this way there is no complaining when I buy him the wrong size or color!
And for my wonderful Father, I am planning a photo shoot of him with his grandchildren. He wants to wait a little longer, as he is on a diet and almost 50 lbs lighter! So proud!
I also had my Father, Father-in-law, Mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and niece and nephew over and made a yummy supper of steak, shrimp, and all the trimmings.
And for dessert My super moist, super delicious Carrot cake.
I hope you all honored thy father.. I think I should start planning next years fathers day now!

Rain Rain go Away!!

It has been raining in my little part of the world for the last 3 days. But I am not letting that put a damper on things. Did you like that..'damper' ha I'm so clever.
Anywho my daughter and I have been wanting to go tenting. Just in the front yard, because well she doesn't know that's not really camping! Ah tricking children, easy and fun!!
I decided instead to have an indoor camping night!  Our tent is so large that it would literally fill our living room, so instead we used the play house:

It's really hard to see whats actually going on in this photo, we camped in Maddi's room so there wasn't much space! You can kind of see the 2 halves of the play house, we put the matress from her bed inside and pinned a sheet over, but left an open side so we could watch a movie from bed. Yep true campers!

Here's an inside shot of my little man..getting ready to watch Cars, or so he thinks! We ended up watching Little Mermaid :)

Camping is just as much about the food as it is the tent, and the number one camping food to me is SMORES! We made a modified version that I found here: http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/warm-toasted-marshmallow-smores-bars/902bb288-e52b-4aba-a264-925d20f37d98

This is a must try for smore lovers! Here's how mine came out:

There is one issue I had with this though, it makes a huge pan of smores. More than a family of 4 can ingest safely. However we did have some the next day, that we reheated in the microwave for a few seconds and they were just as gooey as they should be.

Happy camping :)

 

Manic Monday

Today is Monday.
 As a stay-at-home mom it's quite surprising that I even know this.
But today everyone headed off to work and left me at home with my children, my not-quite 2 year old nephew and my 5 month old niece.
 As the older kids eat, and throw their breakfast I am rocking the baby off to sleep.. and my mind shifts from breakfast to lunch.
I know already that I will be serving something prepackaged, quick, and non-nutritious. So to balance everything out I think of the most delicious salad imaginable..perhaps for supper?!

OK so this isn't my picture..but it looks something like this!
I haven't figured out how to link my other pages to this so for this ah-mazing salad recipe click on the recipes..trust me this will have your mouth thinking it's Saturday!

The start of something new..

Here I go...
I've been a journal-keeper for a long time, but being so busy with the kids and all of my hobbies it's not something I have kept up on, so I decided on a blog. Why not?! It's something I have been wanting to do for a while now, not just to show you what I am currently working on but all of the things that inspire me. I will share tons of 'crafting' tutorials, recipes and family fun activities. I know that sometimes we need a little inspiration, an idea to get our creative little minds rolling and what we can create is limitless.