My thought of the day

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart- John Higwood

Who knew???

While at WalMart last week I bought popsicle makers for like 2 bucks. So yesterday I filled them up with coke and froze them and the kids are loving it! My son eats pop-ice like there's no tomorrow, so I thought why not try to make homemade popsicles. Anyone out there have any recipes on popsicle's they would like to share? All I can think of are lemonade, juice and coke popsicle's.

I was also eyeing a counter top ice cream maker. I've never worked with one of those but it looks fairly simple. I have a chocolate hazelnut gelato recipe that I'm itchin' to try!

Busy as a little bee

For the past couple of years I have expressed on how badly I wanted a new patio set. The patio set that we own are going on 10 years old. The table is a glass top table with cream colored trim. The chairs...man these poor ugly chairs. They were at one time a very dark green and they matched a table that we had a long time ago, but sadly the table didn't make it, hence that is why we have a different table. And no matter how hard I clean up these mixed matched items year after year, they are still freakin' ugly. So a couple of weeks ago, Sam and I went out and sort of looked at a new patio set and holy shit at the prices! That's when I decided that I was going to paint what we have now, I mean they can't get any uglier that's for damn sure. One week later....Sam and I put the table back together and WOW! Not only does the chairs now match the table...but they look awesome! YES...I am patting myself on the back and it only cost $25. Now Sam is having to hide the left over paint cause now I'm painting everything that even remotely looks faded. My next project.....the garage doors! Stay tuned.....

Look at little brother

He got mad cause sissy was riding all by herself and now I can't get him to come inside! I guess today was the day to break from training wheels. Soon after these pictures, our next door neighbor's son got on his bike and he too is now going all over the hood!
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She's actually riding!

After hearing "I can't do it!" over and over again and many tears later....guess who's riding her bike now with no training wheels!

You go girl. Mom and Dad are proud of you!
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Yummo!

For dinner tonight I made Sam roasted shrimp with olive oil, salt and pepper. Risotto with white wine, garlic and parmesan cheese and freshly baked bread. He was a very happy camper. I watch the food network during the day and I saw where Ina Garten from Barefood Contessa had roasted shrimp in the oven. So I tried it and holy moley it is absolutely awesome. Who knew that roasting shrimp could be so easy and so delicious.

Aaawww...they match

Sam took this picture on I-44. Now really, does the Yugo really need to match? Or sadly, did they match the RV to go with the Yugo?? Hmmmmm.....