Happy Birthday Jori and Eddie!

My little bitty twins who were not supposed to make through birth turned 15! How did they get so big? I all too well remember sitting by their hospital bed for 3 months and so thankful they are now big teenagers.

We kicked off the day by opening presents of course. 

Hard to believe at one time they were only 15 inches long and only weight 2'6 and 2'8. After presents we headed out to breakfast at Denny's. Unfortantly I had to work but before I left we put a good dent in the ice cream cake they both agreed they wanted more then regular cake. 

I had to work 2pm to 2am so we waited till Saturday for the real fun. I was woken up way to early for someone who didn't get home until after 2pm. Once all were up and dressed we headed out to the blueberry farm in Edom. It was packed but that did not phase the kids at all. They all grabbed baskets and headed out to the rows and rows of blueberries. 

I think they ate as much as they picked. 

We also found a nest in the blueberry bushes. 

We left with 1 1/2 gallon of blueberries, a jar of blackberry preserves, and a jar of salsa. 

So far we've made blueberries muffins and have plans for a cobbler and blueberry pancakes tomorrow. I was pretty worn out but we did manage to make the afternoon movie to see Madagascar 3. The kids loved it! All in all it was a great day with the kiddos.

Happy 15th Birthday Jori and Eddie!!!!!

My Pinterest Addiction

I'll admit it I'm addicted to Pinterest. I pin stuff from other sites but mainly I troll Pinterest for ideas. I love the clothes combos and find myself wanting to wear scarves so I can do some of the super cute clothes combos I see on there. Unfortunately I'm not great at coordinating clothes. I also have found tons of projects for Daniel to do. But so far all he has done was make some wine shelves I pinned. I have high hopes for a firepit I found. He seemed interested when I showed it to him. One thing I can pin and do easily is the crochet. The majority of my projects lately came from Pinterest. However I seem to lose them as soon as I can make them. Case in point this very cute shrug I made. See how much Julia likes it? I've been informed it's no longer mine. :(

Since I keep losing all my crochet projects I decided to make some recipes this weekend. First we started with cinnamon roll pancakes. While they were good it's way too much work for me that early in the morning.

Dinner was much better. 

 

We started with Spicy Chicken rolls (pictured in the middle). This recipe is actually how I found about Pinterest from my sister. She made these at a party and I was instantly addicted. When asked where she got the recipe she told me about the site. Next we (I say we because Julia and Jori helped) made homemade Chicken, Cheese, and Bacon taquitos. First time I have ever made taquitos that weren't frozen and we were not disappointed. Since Little Bill was not happy at the sound of anything we were making we threw in mini tacos. They were great! The shell is wanton and baked in muffin cups and cooked with taco meat and cheese. A very unhealthy dinner but the kids were very pleased and loved all of it. It's good to know my new addiction is productive! 

The Beginning of Summer!

Thursday was the last day of the school and it was only a half day. As I was getting ready for work I heard the bus roll up. You could tell from the noise level it was not just a regular day. Jade was the loudest of the bunch. LOL She burst into the house as happy as some who had just been let of jail.  Unfortunately I wasn't so free and had to go to work. Daniel had decided to take the day off too so he got the fun part of hyper kids and sending Jade off to her dad's house. Being the sweet husband he is he decided to bring dinner and the kids up to my work during my lunch so we had an impromptu picnic. 

Friday Daniel took the boys to work with him so it was just me and the girls. We decided to try our hand at making sushi. Didn't come out pretty but it sure tasted good. 

Saturday the boys and me decided to check out the local Farmer's Market. It was fun and we came back with homemade tamales and pineapple salsa. We think figured the best way to celebrate summer is with ice cream so we broke out the ice cream maker and made some homemade vanilla. To make it even yummier we threw some Resse's in at the last minute. Very good. 

All in all it was a good weekend. I also got a good start on my school work and some crocheting done. Here was my crochet project for the weekend (I added a black boarder on the bottom after I took the picture). Gonna give it to Daniel and mine's 2 1/2 year grandson. He loves Cars so he should love this.