Mmmm Watermelon!

We bought a Texas watermelon the other day from a roadside stand. Rather than cutting it up in little pieces, we let Sunshine eat it the "right" (messy) way.

Tasty Tomatoes

Do you have lots of tomatoes and need something to do with them? I have the perfect recipe given to me by my friend Mindy. Funny thing, I don't really care for tomatoes (don't ask me why we have 7 tomato plants, I don't even know) but I love this recipe! We have some basil growing as well, so I've been making this side regularly. It is so fresh tasting and nice for these hot days.

3 large tomatoes
1/3 cup olive oil
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/2 garlic clove, chopped
1 TB chopped parsley
1 TB fresh chopped basil or 1 tsp dried basil
2 TB chopped onion

Cut tomatoes into 1/2 inch slices and arrange in a shallow dish. Combine remaining ingredients in a jar with lid. Shake well and pour over tomato slices. Marinate for 2 to 24 hours.

Stockpot Silliness

All moms know that when they leave the room there is a high probability that their child will find something to get in to before mom returns. It could be their toys, or a drawer that they can reach, a kitchen cabinet, a house plant, the newspaper, the list goes on. Well tonight I left the room for maybe 30 seconds. When I came back Sunshine was literally "in" something. I let her play with this pot, but I've never seen her get inside of it. Although the expression on her face looks a little more cheesy than happy, she was really enjoying herself.

Chicks!

This week Uncle Gerald brought us some chicks. They were only a day old when we got them and so they are super cute. We currently have 4 laying hens, but we needed to repopulate our flock since we had lost some. It's so nice to walk right outside and gather fresh eggs every morning from our free range chickens. These should be laying later this year.

Sunshine is very intrigued by the chicks. In the pictures below you can see that T is holding a chick in his hand for her to look at.

Fun with Family!

Sunshine and I had a great time visiting my family and friends in Kansas over Memorial Day weekend. She was a great traveling buddy. We spent several days with my parents. It was so nice for them to have some extended time with her since they do not get to see her all that often. It was fun for me to watch them interact with her. I think her favorite "item" at my parent's was their piano. She really enjoyed pressing the keys and hearing the resulting sound.


my Mom and Sunshine


at the piano


my Dad playing with the grandkids

Sunglasses!

Sunshine and I just returned from a great trip to Kansas to visit family and friends, so I have many things to blog about. However, I thought I would start by posting a few pictures I took before we left. She is always wanting to play with my sunglasses so I thought I would get her a pair of her own. She loves to take them on and off and flip them around.

Catch Up

These past few weeks have been full and so I haven't been keeping up with e-mail, blogging, or facebook. We've been busy working on our "to-do" list. Funny thing is that I never actually make a "to-do" list with the bigger projects on it. My list just include the tasks I want to accomplish on a daily basis. I guess I just keep the bigger project list in my head. Anyways, we recently stained the concrete on our front and back porches. Neither one of us had ever done this before, but it really wasn't that hard and we like how it turned out. We also repainted our living room and rearranged it so we could have some more space. I still need to decide what I want to do with the windows, but other than that it's pretty much done. We are always working on our garden. I told T I think I might spend the entire summer pulling bermuda grass. He keeps telling me it will get better with time...I can only hope.

This past weekend we took Sunshine swimming for the first time this year. She is a lot more active than last year (of course), which makes it all the more fun. She loves to splash her Daddy and sit in the floaty that Grandpa and Nini have at their house. We also had a great time celebrating Mother's Day with T's family. We made a trip to the Rose Emporium to do some rose shopping. I love the new roses I received and I look forward to getting them planted this weekend.


Working on her stroke for the 2028 Summer Olympics.


Taking a break.