Giant Veggies

God has blessed us with a bountiful harvest this year! 

We had:

 over 30 cucumbers, some of which were gigantic

lots of huge, delicious, crunchy carrots (and more than half are still in the ground)

tomatoes galore, with plants almost 5' high, cherry, beefsteak, and orange

more yellow and green beans than we could readily eat

4 types of lettuce

It has been delicious and amazing. We still have many more carrots and tomatoes to enjoy!

Happy Birthday To Me!

Yeah I am 30! Birthdays are fun. I made my own cake this year because I really wanted to try out a new recipe on myself. I found a recipe for white cake that called for frozen lemonade concentrate. So I wondered... what about frozen PINK lemonade concentrate?
So I made myself a pink cake. It was delicious. The icing was amazing.

RECIPE:

Take your favourite white cake recipe and add 3tbsps lemonade concentrate. I just used a Betty Crocker recipe. I also added 3 drops of red food coloring just to make my cake more pink. Bake normally.

For the icing you will need

1 tbsp butter softened

2 tbsp lemonade concentrate

1/2 tsp vanilla

4 oz (half block) cream cheese

1 3/4 cup icing sugar

Kids Love PB&J

My kids love peanut butter and jam. I was reading some old magazine while our car was getting an oil change and saw a recipe for pb&j popsicles. WHAT?!? When I got home this is what I made:

You don't really need a recipe.
I mixed 2/3 cup peanut butter with milk until it was the consistency I wanted. Thick but pourable.
In the blender I put 1 cup fruit (in this case a mix of blueberries, saskatoons, and raspberries), 1/2 cup OJ and icing sugar (maybe 3/4 cup).
Then I carefully spooned them into the molds. I didn't freeze in between doing each layer since both the PB and the Jam part were fairly thick I didn't really think they would mix up. And they didn't. The boys loved them.

Two Little Artists

My boys really like to paint. So when they asked to paint this morning I was almost prepared. I had found this cool idea on pinterest where you use tape to spell out a word on a canvas and then you paint over the whole thing, let it dry, and peel off the tape.

This is how our project went:

I just absolutely LOVE how these turned out. What a fun way to spend part of a morning!