A Few Pictures

Here are some random pictures for you to see.  Just day-to-day stuff in our lives!

Sammy is a great eater.  He eats pretty much everything (and in huge amounts)!  Here he is eating lentil lemon soup with bread.  He ate 10 of those little pieces of bread that he has in his hand!

Emma showing her ballet shoes.  She wouldn't let me get a picture of her face.  She kept saying, "Don't get my eyes".  

Sammy won these "cool" glasses at a little fair that was at a park to support the public library.  Isn't it amazing how kids love the cheap little prizes they get at those things?  They don't need fancy electronic toys, just give them a bag of little fair toys and they are happy !

Emma with her "teddy baby".  For a few days she was carrying this teddy bear around with her everywhere.  The teddy is swaddled in a sheet.  Emma is over it now....teddy was last seen on the floor of the van.  Emma moves on pretty quickly.

Doing print painting with a sponge.  The kids loved making these little turtles.  I love the little face Sammy drew for his turtle.

Our Evening

No one even knows that I started this blog yet.  Since no one knows, I don't even have to feel guilty that it's been 10 days since my last post.  Well, hopefully tonight I'll send out an email letting you all know about it.  

After dinner Sammy and Emma always get really wild and most of the time I'm breaking up fights or consoling a crying child.  But tonight, this was not the case, thanks to a huge piece of paper Checo brought home from work last night.  By the way, Checo works until 8pm, so that's why it's just me with the kids after dinner.  Sammy and Emma sat on the kitchen floor for about 1 hour drawing on this huge paper.  It was a success!

Even though it's still in the 80's here during the day, Wassail sounded delicious to me.  I threw the ingredients in a pot, and I've been drinking it all evening!  Side note: I never use the word "evening" and I just wrote it twice in one post.

About 6 months ago, I decided to try to make my own dishwasher detergent.  I was trying to be frugal, and I thought I'd give it a try.  I found a recipe online that had great reviews, and the person that wrote it says it's all they use.  So I tried and it was a huge disappointment.  I kept trying it, thinking that I just needed to give it a few more tries.  Over time, I convinced myself that it worked.  But it didn't work...our dishes came out cloudy, and sometimes with food chunks still on them.  I finally admitted to myself that it wasn't working and I went back to buying detergent.  Well, fast forward to today.....I ran out of dishwasher detergent.  I had just went to the store and forgot to buy it, so there was no way I was going back.  I still have all the ingredients from my "homemade fail".  So I decided to make a batch....I know the dishes will come out cloudy, and with a few leftover chunks, but I figured it was better than having the huge pile of dirty dishes sitting in my sink for another day.  The dishwasher is going right now...

My homemade dishwasher detergent

That's all for tonight!

A New Blog

I finally started a new blog!  I've been meaning to do it for awhile now, actually about a year, but it's been low on my priority list.  Many of you know how sporadic I was at updating the last blog, and I'm not making any promises that I'm going to be any better. But here is my attempt at keeping family and friends updated on our life in Texas.  

Sammy loves t-ball.  He is on a team and they have practice once a week and a game each Saturday.  

This picture is from the summer.  Sammy and Emma love all the spash pads here- unfortunately they all closed at the end of August.  We will have to wait until next May until they open again.

I will write more updates on our life later.  That's all for now!