Evan's Birthday!

So for Evan's Birthday this year we celebrated with a little Family Dinner!
Here's Alden doing his Uncley-dudely duties playing with the kids!

Victoria kept saying "look at me Uncle Alden look at me! "

Evan BBQ'ing Tandori Chicken! And Charlie making a couple of yummy Indian dishes!

Dinner was a India theme dinner and was super good sorry no pics of the finished products, it was just to delicious to pause to take a picture of!

Here's Evan with his Birthday cake! Make a wish!

You can see Here that he got a new Gerber multi-tool, An old school candy Bar called a zaganut, a cool Nintendo mint container, and a compass!

Here's a nice Picture of his Monster cake! At first it was suppose to be a bunt cake but the bunt pan got lost then we couldn't find any round cake pans so finally we settled for brownie square pans!

It's a delicious Lemon cake! Charlie made a really good lemon filing for the in between layers!

Evan cutting his cake

Owen enjoying the yummy cake!

Overall a great birthday for Evan and wonderful family night!

Bella's calling mark!

So Bella is my girly girl! She loves her dollies! I can tell where she's been playing because she leaves her call signs! (Bella like to go off on her own and play quietly by her self for periods of time, so I lose track of where in the house she is. ) When i go look for I often run into...

1) Dolls, &
2) Wash clothes being used for a blanket or Blankets! (baby or regular size one)



this is what I found when I walked into my room!

Oh that silly Bella!

Our Garden

We had a garden this year. It was really fun and plentifully :) but first here the girls being sugary cute!


Okay on to the garden!


Basil and Mint

Yellow tomatoes

and spicy Peppers, these were still green and on their way to red-ing up!

here's Evan with our Watermelon! It was pretty big!

more watermelons I think this variety was called a rattlesnake watermelon.

This little watermelon was a different variety. I can't remember what it was called but it was yellow inside! Maybe a yellow watermelon! LOL!

We also grew a nice garden of sunflowers. There were very pretty!

and Very Big! The size of Victoria's head!

a different variety of sunflowers. Evan like to get the unusual variety, mix things up a bit!

We really enjoyed our garden and look forward to planting again in the Spring!

20 Aug- My First Cobbler !

So Evan is the pro chef around the house always making the best goodies and dishes. We had an abundance of peaches and they were not going to wait for him to get to cooking (to busy with work). So I thought I would give it a try! It turns out I can can kinda bake! It turned out really good and pretty too ! :o) LOL!


My first strawberry and peach cobbler! Yummy!

Monster and a Princess!

So one afternoon when I was busy else where Owen discovered the flour! At first I thought okay it's just a little pile he can play and touch it. But then he goes and spreads it all over the floor and then rolls in it Not what I had in mind!!! Ugghh little monster!

And here's my princess who can't let a picture opportunity escape her!

Little Monster, lucky I love him! :)