Seattle

Posted on 08.19.2011 by

Friends, I am not a very good blogger. Thank you to the 10 of you that have loyally read the blog for years and put up with my wishy-washy ways.

Moving on. Our next stop on the tour-de-western-america was Seattle. I just love the Northwest.

We hung out down by the water with Uncle Dan. (As a side note, Keadryn and Sayla LOVED clam chowder…they keep asking when we are going to eat “fish soup” again):

We walked around Pikes Place Market:

Took some pictures of lovely Shanna (who is expecting their first in about a month!)

Went blueberry picking:

aaaand once again, ended up on a beach. Good thing we are moving close to the beach, because the girls love it.:

Thanks Dan and Shanna for a wonderful visit! Next up- Northern Idaho!

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Oregon

Posted on 08.06.2011 by

Oregon was wonderful! It was perfect weather (at least I thought 65 degree weather was perfect after the summer we have been having in Texas!), great family time and everything I thought it would be to vacation on the Oregon Coast. So are you ready for the picture overload? Here it comes!

Shopping at the farmers market:

This was the beach a block from the house:

We toured the tillamook creamery and cheese factory (this ice cream rivals blue bell…amazing!)

The “secret” beach…a little gem that our hosts let us in one. Gorgeous.

A day in Newport and a tour of the Rogue Brewery:

Cousins and more beach town fun:

I love my family. What a wonderful week!

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lots of life

Posted on 08.02.2011 by

Hi friends. Its been awhile, I know. We have been busy and crazy. We sold our house, moved in with friends and started our 10,000 mile roadtrip before moving overseas! Here are a couple of pictures of the last month or so to get you up to date… polskie kasyno online legalne bez depozytu

moving out of the house:

Celebrating the 4th

Getting bigger…and being silly.


Harry Potter Premiere (with 20 friends in matching shirts)

Starting the 10,000 mile roadtrip…

…quick stop in Salt Lake City…

…on through Idaho…

with a whole lot of this:

and this:

That last one is night driving. OK you are for the most part caught up! Now I can share fun Oregon coast pictures with you. YAY!

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right now

Posted on 06.22.2011 by

June 2011

Just a snapshot of the girlies loving Florida. (Summer in Florida is a lot more fun than summer in Lubbock btw. fortuna zakłady sportowe )

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vanilla bundt cake

Posted on 06.04.2011 by

I am the first to admit that I am no baker. I don’t have the ability to follow directions. In cooking, I can add, subtract and substitue ingredients as I wish. In baking though, the tiniest wavering from the recipe seriously changes the outcome (apparently, there is a difference between baking soda and powder…lame.) So, when a friend gave me this recipe I figured it would end up like most of my baking endeavors; seriously lacking. ivermectina bifarma You can imagine my surprise then, the first time I made this cake and it actually tasted amazing. So, like a good cook (and bad baker) I decided to experiment with variations of the recipe and am happy to say that it can stand up to my need to create new things! oral ivermectin for scabies

I need to take a better picture. I turned the cake too soon (guests were arriving and I should have just waited. When you make it- give it the time it needs to cool. does ivermectin treat mange )

1 box yellow cake mix
3/4 cups oil
3/4 cups water
3 eggs
1 small package instant (chocolate or vanilla) pudding
8 oz. sourcream (light works fine, too)
1 small package chocolate (or white chocolate) chips

mix first 5 ingredients according to the instructions on the cake mix box. Fold in the sourcream and the chocolate chips. Grease a Bundt pan with crisco or butter and lightly flour the surface. Bake according the cake mix instructions. Let cool (at least 20 minutes, no more than an hour) Flip onto a cake stand or platter. Drizzle with ganache. (chocolate and cream melted together)

I have made a version with chocolate pudding and chocolate chips and a version with vanilla pudding and which chocolate chips. Both are delictible. Next I am trying a peach version, with real peach bits! Thanks Jenn (via Sarah, Kim and Heather) for the wonderful recipe.

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four

Posted on 05.29.2011 by


She turned four last week..and everyday I feel like snuggling a little longer, kissing her a bit more often, and holding her as much as she will let me, because it seems like she is so quickly turning into a girl. She makes me pray harder than anything in my life, she is constantly pointing me to Jesus and she makes me so proud to be her mama. She is God’s gift to us.

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recommendations

Posted on 05.26.2011 by


Hi friends! How’s it going? We are doing pretty good, just enjoying the longer days and trying to not complain about the wind. فريق kaa gent I actually have some “real” posts in the works…but as I was editing pictures I saw this one and thought I would pass some recommendations on to you:

Per Kelli, Sara, and Jen’s recommendation I started reading this book. So far, it’s fabulous. I’ll probably write more about it and my complaining heart later…but you should go buy it.

Per Keje’s recommendation this is my new Starbucks Drink: Trenta Iced Black Tea with coconut and no water (makes the tea stronger). TRY THIS DRINK TODAY. I know…tea with coconut doesn’t sound great. I was skeptical at first but am so happy for my Starbucks-Partner sister and her drink recommendation. Trust me, it is amazing. Kirst and I might have even passed on dinner and eaten cereal a couple nights in a row so that we could use our food budget to buy this drink. Definitely worth packing the kids in the car and making the trip to The Bucks. (…and coming from me that’s saying a lot!)

Hope you are all doing fabulous.

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homemade playdough

Posted on 05.15.2011 by


Just to let you know up front, this recipe is 100% stolen from Kelli. I don’t know if she made it up or got it from somewhere, so I am giving credit to her. That being said, I love this play dough and felt like I needed to share it with all of you. It lasts forever, it’s soft, it’s easy to mold, and it’s so much less expensive than the store bought stuff. trifexis has ivermectin?

Here’s what you’ll need:
2 C. flour
1/2 C. salt
2 C. water
2 Tbsp oil
1/4 C cream of tartar
a few drops of food coloring

Directions:
Let your little one help you mix together all ingredients in a medium sauce pan (except the food coloring…unless you are very brave.)

Transfer the pan to the stovetop and start to cook over medium heat. Add the food coloring and stir the mixture continuously (you could probably wait to add the dye until the end and separate the dough into sections to make a couple different colors…my kids just mix the different colors together anyway, so we stick with a single color).

It will start getting lumpier, keep stirring… ivermectin injectible vs topical

…when it looks like you’ve messed it all up, keep stirring…

…it will get a little tough, keep stirring…

and then all of a sudden it will form into a ball and pull completely away from the sides.

Remove from heat and let the dough cool a bit and then knead it to make sure there are no pockets of dye. Once it is completely cool hand it over to the little ones and let the creativity begin!

I store mine in a ziplock bag in the refrigerator for months and months.

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thirty plus one

Posted on 05.14.2011 by

Drew turned 31 this week and we had a little shindig for him. Good friends and good food, a perfect way to celebrate my fabulous husband.
(Thanks to Corrie, by the way, for picking up my camera and taking pictures. I always forget to take pictures of people at parties)

and now a food rant:
1) stop what you are doing and make this pulled pork now. right now. life changing.
2) the cake may look a bit rough, but it is amazing. oonoo I will be sharing the recipe soon.

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cries

Posted on 05.11.2011 by

Any mom knows this about her kids, but Kead has many different cries and they all require different responses.

fit-cry: Ugh. This cry is loud, out-of-control, irrational. I loathe this cry. It drives.me.crazy. The response to this cry is discipline, every time. (Our system is a green/yellow/red system and big fits automatically get her on “red”)

hurt-cry: No mom likes this cry. Keadryn is pretty tough, so when she does cry from getting hurt you know its bad. The response with this cry is comfort. Call it pure maternal instinct, but I just want hold her, kiss her and make it better. ivermectin/strongid t heartworm mixture prevention

shy-cry: This one is a tough one for us. Drew and I score about as high as you can on the “extrovert” portion on the myers-brigg. We like being with people, meeting new people, and are generally ok in large crowds. Kead has some problems with large groups of people she doesn’t know and often cries when new people talk to her. My response to this cry? Safety. I try not to make too big of a deak about it, but whisper to Kead and let her know that things are ok, that she is safe. It generally clams her down. (Any other suggestions?!)

broken-cry: Oh man. The broken cry. This is the cry when someone hurts her feelings, when she misses someone, when things are hard. She tries to fight it, she starts blinking her eyes (like her dad) she even tries to smile…all the while tears are welling up in the corners of her eyes and then she gives in and starts sobbing. It kills me. My response to this cry? Yes comfort, yes safety. . . but most of all prayer. She will out grow the fit cry (for the most part…) hopefully she will stop crying when a strangers talk to her. ivermectin dosage for donkeys But the broken cry will happen often. is ivermectin for ear mites safe to use Mourning,fights with friends, hurt feelings, embarrassment, and heart break. Yuck! It causes me to pray that soon she would trust in Jesus and place her hope in him. That her suffering would produce endurance and her endurance would produce hope: Hope in Jesus that will not fail.

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