Sense-Action-All

Today's assignment in el challenge-o: Ahhh the five senses! 

 I cannot address my secret sense, or I'd have to kill ya--maybe with my mind, who knows...

I haven't got much to say about the regular ones, not my extra special sense or maybe it's just mom-sense :)  Here's what we're up to and it kinda hits on the topic at hand.

Sight

Touch

you would dddiiiiieeee if you could see LB slam down that egg! Hee-layer-eee-usss!

Hear

Smell 

Taste

They are delish!  Now don't make me stare you down with my third eye, go check out the other sensible peeps at prenda le stelle

s:)

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I laugh in the face of cooking

Today's assignment in the month o' journal posts is a favorite recipe.  Umkay.  I tell ya what peeps, I am not much of a cook.  Luckily, the hubs and the offspring don't know enough about all of you out there with your schmancy food creating abilities.
  I like to bake, but cookies are easy and I'm a cake-in-a-box kinda girl.  My friend Vanessa (also doing this month o' posts) is taking a cake decorating class which I think is way coolio.  Let's all ooh and ahhh at Nessa's soon to be awesome skills. :)  She'll probably come up with something groovy for this post.  I digress.

Here is an easy peasy dessert that is popular with your favorite sandwich family:

Oreos And...

1 package of Oreos

1 tub of Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (get the green, it tastes better, I promise)

1 tub of Cool Whip

Hershey's Syrup

Set Ice cream on the counter (seriously, this is a step!)
Count out 30-35 cookies (Not more than 35, or else you won't have any extra to eat while it's setting--hello, priorities!)
Crush the counted cookies--in a bag with a rolling pin (my fav aggression releaser) or in the blender if you want them finely crushed
Cover the bottom of a 9x13 dish with Oreo mixture
Spoon Ice Cream onto Oreo Crust (it is so much easier now that it's soft, right?!)
Smooth out the ice cream
Spoon Cool Whip onto ice cream
Drizzle, Draw or Diagram something with the Hershey's Syrup on top of the Cool Whip
Stick that Baby in the fridge for a few hours, or 30 minutes if you're impatient like me :)
Enjoy!
I should have made one and taken pictures! Blurg.  Here is a pic of our wedding cake for no reason at all, besides the fact that it is supah-kewl!

(Nessa--learn how to make that, k?!)

To read the other, and probably real, recipes go check out Prenda Le Stelle

Happy Day!

s:)

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Fav Vacay!

The next challenge in the 30 day epic journal event is your favorite Vay-ka-shun!  Oooh!  I like this one!  I am a dirty cheater and I'm combining two vacations into one--they're both in the same place so does that count? Donchooo gimme that look through your screen!  I'll cheat on the journal if I wanna.

Anywho, my favorite vacation is to Hawaii.  I've actually been three times, two of which were on cruises.  I can't tell you how gah-reat they were and each had a big impact on my life.  Since there is only so much screen space 'round these parts (um, and because I don't have pics of the first time on the ol' puter), we'll only cover two of the three excellent trips.

When I was first dating the hubster, we went to Hawaii.  Seriously, we were dating for less than two months (aaacckk), we had a great time.  Now we look back on it like our pre-kids-real-life-wedding honeymoon.

Then in 2007, my rockin' parents took our entire family on a cruise for Christmas.  It.was.more.fun.than.I.can.describe.

(this was our Christmas card that we mailed from the island)

You weren't supposed to go out this far, the surf would come up unexpectedly and was crazy strong--we didn't see the sign until after-meep!)

my big bro-insert your own caption :)

my Grandma, she isn't with us anymore, my youngest is named after her.  My youngest was also conceived on this trip--shhhhh-hehehehehe

We went on lots of excursions, ate excellent food, drank, and were very merry!  Spending time on a beautiful boat, with your awesome fam, on your favorite holiday.  Seriously, how much more spectacular can it be?!

This was all of us on Christmas Day.  Don't you be hatin' on those red shirts.  We made quite the impact moving around the ship as a group.  It was really great :)

    We are all spread out, so getting to spend time together is extra extra special!  And heck, we were in a tropical paradise--unbeatable!
And that peeps is the reader's digest version of my favorite vacay.
s:)

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America's Birthday!

Yesterday was not super eventful for us.  We are inches from all being healthy, but decided to not venture out with the crowds.  

(the berries are like candy-delish!)

The little ladies and I did make a cake and decorate it, while we did, I tried to work in a little lesson about our flag and what it means to live in this great country.  

Emster, was a little into it, she liked that we were having a birthday party, she likes things being 10, so you can guess how old the USA was yesterday :)  

LB, on the other hand, was resident taste-tester.

Cool-whip was great, easily spread 'frosting'

It was tasty (and confetti on the inside)

We also put up a flag.  The wind was perfect for it.

this is my fav shot of the day, so sahweeeeet!

What about you?  How was your fourth?  See any good fireworks?

s:)

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Uh, music?

Day four of the challenge is 10 songs everyone should hear. 

Oof!  I am a music lover but not by any means at all a music knower.  It's one of those things I just don't seem to have the brain space for.  I love to listen, but never.ever.ever.eeevvvvvveeeerrrrrr can remember names of bands and such.

In checking my itunes for inspiration, my most often listened to songs are Christmas! Ha!  I adore Christmas music.  And, I direct the puppet ministry at our church, where my favorite part of the year is our Christmas show...so...My top 25 songs are all Christmas.

Next, I'm turning to the hubs--he's a music lover, but most of his stuff is not my style :)  He did help some with my list, this may be the only time you ever hear from him 'round these parts--so wave hulloooooo!

Ohhh the pressure to come up with 10 songs!  Here goes nothin'!!!

• Mary Did You Know by Go Fish (my #1 played song--I'll do a post on it sometime-it is amazing)
• Feed One by Amy Roth (another puppet song)
• Amazing Grace
• Jesus Loves Me
• Star-Spangled Banner
• Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2 (maybe any and every U2 song should be on this list)
• 'Round Here by Counting Crows
• The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel
• Sgt. Pepper's by the Beatles
• Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash.

Phew, I'm glad this post is done!  This was a hard one! Happy Fourth of July peeps!  I'm so thankful for the people that serve and protect our groovy country.  The little blt's and I are working on a dessert, I'm hoping to share it with ya later today!

s:)

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In the name of Love

Pride!
Day 3 of the challenge is what you're the most proud of...Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy.  Here is where I find the most positive feedback in my life:

and the pee-esss de ray-ziz-tance

seriously!  could they be any more awesomesauce?!
s:)

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A Day in the Life

Today's journal assignment is a peek into the psycho, a glimpse at the goofy, a crack at the crazy of your favorite sandwich family!

So here goes nothin'

Wake eat play eat drive eat sleep.  Wow that was exciting.  contain.yourselves.please :)

Oh let's start today with a story eh?!

LB is a lover of yogurt.  Well, she is a lover of food, but yogurt is definitely in her fav five. Also in her top picks of things to do is undressing herself.  This morning, while eating-- in her birthday suit--she decided to cover herself from head.to.toe with her strawberry yogurt.  Oh and the fun doesn't end there, she stands up in her chair (she's been anti-highchair lately) and begins to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star while waving her arms triumphantly in the air.  It was glorious.  And messy, very messy.  No I have didn't take a pic, for fear of suspicious Wally World employees :)

 Definitely the highlight of my morning.

Here is our day in pictures. with a caveat--poor Gman has the flu, otherwise he'd be hiding his face in some of these shots.

(her second yogurt was eaten in her chair)

Insert the hubs here-he didn't want his pic taken

nitey nite blogosphere, there's some movie or another on

s:)

Wanna see other days in the life?  Go check out Prenda Le Stelle

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A challenge: 30 day Journal.

My pal Jilllian has had a lot of success with her blog and now she is hosting a little journal challenge for the next 30 days.  Oof, that's a lot of posts, but if some friends can do it, I might as well give it the old college try...

Day 1 is an intro post, so here is a bit about me-

Deets:

I'm hitched. I'm a parent. I like to go to the sound of my own drum :)

Is that enough?  hmmmm...

I like opposites:
I am reallleeeeee friendly--I talk peeps up in the line at Target, but I think of myself as only having a very few close friends.
I started out as a young mom and now I consider myself a young-at-heart-mom.
I have a much older (way cool) brother but we both think of ourselves as practically only children.
I have a very colorful personality but I wear a lot of black.
I love Jesus, but am not what many would consider a 'traditional' Christian.


Something cool about me:
I work in a wild gypsy industry full of personality called film production.  I started out acting and moved to the other side of the camera.  I wonder about that choice sometimes.

Something boring about me:
because of said industry I have a tendency to analyze television and movies in terms of production value--lighting, shooting style, editing etc.  Some peeps have been known to refuse to watch movies with me, but I try to reign it in :)

Something new:
I have a new house!  Yowza, lotsa posts 'round these parts to be found about that!  Making this house into home is exciting and challenging at the same time, mostly fun though! Painting and decorating is something I could blog about all.day.long--hope you don't mind :P

Something old:
I've lived in AZ for almost 30 years and while it is still practically 100 outside, I'm wearing holey pants with a cracker jacks pattern on them because I'm cold and kewl :)

The best for last:
My kids are awesomesauce!

s:)

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