New Storage!

I am so excited that I am getting New Food Storage shelving. I was at the "Time Out for Women" and they had an incredible deal on the Shelf Reliance shelves. If you bought 2 you got an incredible deal and it was with free shipping. They also threw in the 4 side shelves and the top rack for free. I will post pics as I get done putting it together. Did I say I was so excited.

What is your house made of?

We have an on going project that will be done in the next month. Christian is working on replacing all the base boards in our house. I am so excited. This past week he did the living room base boards.

Well, while I was vacuuming out the space where the new base boards were going to go, I found something interesting in our wall. It was a soda can, the person who built our home left in the wall. I thought it was interesting, and wondered what other things they left us. But at least 10 years later the can is empty of all liquid that could have been in it. Nicole thinks it is funny that her house is made of soda cans.

What is it about eating dinner!

Tonight I made a easy dinner. It is Sunday and unless we have company for dinner I just don't feel like going all out for a dinner. I do that most of the week. We had bake potato's and toppings for dinner. Everyone thought it was great. I loved that all I had to do was get the toppings ready while the potato's cooked.

Nicole is really funny about eating dinner. She will look at her plate and tell us that she can't eat part of her dinner because it is yucky. Tonight she did it and she had 3 piles of potato. 2 of the piles she was able to eat, while the 3rd and smallest pile was the yucky pile. I just had to take a picture of it because I know when she gets older she will not believe us when we tell her. We took a picture of her with her plate and she ate the 2 larger piles but the yucky pile just could not be eaten. You can all understand right. Who wants to eat yucky food.

Where do you live?

I have been teaching Nicole where she lives. She is getting pretty good at knowing that we live in Sacramento California. The other day I was talking to her little pre-school friends that I had in the car for carpool. Nicole say to me"I live in California." Me being so excited that she remembers. I ask her what city she lives in"I live in Sacramento" Yeah. Well, it started a big conversation with her 2 friends:
Nicole"Where do you live Hailee?"
Hailee" I don't know"
Nicole: "You live in Sacramento"
Hailee:"Oh, Sacramento"
Nicole"Abby, where do you live?"
Abby: "I don't live in Sacramento, I live in a house."
Nicole: "Well I live a house too."
Hailee: "Me too."
I was laughing so hard as they were all were changing, because we do all live in a house.

Free Bike...Yes that is right a free bike

This company is giving a free bike every Wednesday. If you would like to see how to win this bike, click on the picture and see the rules.

Daddy I want to do this....

Last Saturday when we were all feeling well, I suggested that we find a lake to go play in for the afternoon. Everyone liked the idea and we made dinner and snacks and packed up the car with all the essentials for a lake visit. We had never been there and didn't know what to expect, but we were determined to have a good time even if the lake was a flop. We decided on Bullards Bar Reservoir. It is just past Camp Bountiful in the Tahoe National Forest. The trees were so beautiful and we got the see the smoke from the forest that was on fire just a couple ridge tops over.

We got to the lake and found that you don't have to pay to use the lake. But you have to hike down, down, down to the lake. The shore was carved in large steps to get down to the water. And if you decide to go, bring a beach umbrella to sit under, there are no trees by the water. The dog and the kids had so much fun. It was fun to watch Oakley realize she is a dog that should be able to swim in a lake. This is the first time we have ever taken her out to a water source that she could not touch the bottom. At first she did the panic swim, but a few tries and she got out and would swim all over. The kids had a blast and they loved the water. Christian loved the water as much as the kids did.

Thank You for the Great Idea!

I would like to thank Carrie for the great idea about Dessert Waffles. I have been thinking about them ever since she talked about them. We had Dessert waffles for dinner tonight and it was a big hit. I should have taken pictures but I didn't.
Here is how you make the yummy waffles. (If you didn't guess I really like waffles and I am always looking for new ways to make and eat them)

You make your waffles, you top your waffles with Ice cream, syrup(any kind), fruit, whip cream, or any other way you top your dessert. We had waffles with fresh raspberries, homemade blackberry sauce, whip cream, caramel sauce, maple syrup, vanilla ice cream. Everyone made a different kind of waffle. I loved that I got all the great fresh flavors with the sweet ice cream.
So here is to the great ideas of others that we all love to share.