wordless wednesday 12.15.2010
Videos of the tree and misc
Noah And Ezra Awake from nap to find the tree they helped pick out earlier in the day, all lit up with pretty lights. I have no idea why they felt the need to blow out the lights like birthday candles, but they tried anyway.
Ezra being a ham for the video camera, so i put him to work on saying some words
thanksgiving 2010
Yet another wonderful thanksgiving. Pics to prove it happened.
Coloring Time
Crash and Danger have started to really like coloring. They usually only do it for 5 minutes or so, sometimes a little bit longer. Danger discovered the joy of breaking crayons in half, so their Nana bought them some of these Crayola Twistables 
Crash showing off his red tongue.
Demonstrating how he got red.
Danger showing off his green tongue. (Don’t mind the interesting paint on the wall.)
Wordless wednesday 11.17
Wordless Wednesday – 11.10.2010
Wordless wednesday 11.10.10
Fun at the children’s museum
More fun times from our Phoenix Children’s Museum. The boys really have a great time.
What, the light and sand table isnt for tasting?
Lost in the noodle forrest.
How I save all the recipes I find online
If you are like me, you love to find new yummy recipes to try. I find most of my new recipes from other people’s blogs. Apparently we all really like to talk about food, or just the people I follow do. 
For the longest time I had no idea how to successfully organize the online recipes so I could find them when I wanted, I just had a folder on my hard drive that was a jumbled mess. I didn’t want to print them, because well then I would just have a jumbled mess of papers (okay I actually have several three-ring binders for this purpose, but was tired of wasting paper and organizing it). Enter my super, amazing husband who introduced me to Evernote. You can easily save, tag, make notes, and search recipes (okay it isn’t just for recipes that’s just my primary use). The best part it is FREE! It can cost money if you want to pay to have more monthly space, but really it isn’t necessary.
Do you want to see how easy it is? I took a few screen shots to show you. Just click on any of the images to see the picture bigger.
Highlight what you want to save, you can save the whole page if you want, but that takes more space.
Push the elephant on your browser, I have Safari.
How it now looks in evernote
How it looks after I have changed the title and added the tags I wanted
Searching for something for dinner.
The sidebar where you can have different notebooks to organize whatever you want.
My someday dream is to have all my recipes in evernote, no more three ring binders. I can either scan them in and add them or type up short ones.
Evernote is backed up online, so I have no fear of losing my recipes. You can easily delete ones you don’t like, or make notes on what you want to change. It is super easy and I LOVE it!
wordless wednesday – 08.11.10
Wordless wednesday 08.04.2010
Bee-sy Morning
The suspect
This morning I woke up with a stiff, sore back, nothing I couldn’t live with but knew to take it easy. I planned on doing very little and just playing with my guys. The morning started off really well, Crash was doing much better (the last two days he was a cranky, clingy, teething boy). We were having lots of fun and giggles were plentiful. The load of laundry had finished washing, our cue to go outside and have some fun.
I was putting Crash in his swim trunks, because water play is inevitable, when I heard Danger screaming from the kitchen. Run in to find him sprawled out on the tile face first. I knew he hit his head. I calmed him down and started to worry. Usually once he stops crying, he wants to get right back to playing, but he just laid on me. I called my husband who just told me to monitor him for a bit, at which time he finally starts to liven back up and I notice the giant egg forming on his forehead. He seemed back to normal and we changed into our swim trunks.
(I should note that the above came with a heavy dose of mommy guilt. I had given him an ice cube to eat and he slipped in the water from the cube.)
We finally headed outside, where I could clearly see something was wrong in the garden. Tomato hornworms were on the attack, my tomatoes and peppers look horrible. They are so hard to get rid of because they are so hard to see and they seem to multiply like bunnies. I quickly hung the laundry on the line and started hunting caterpillars while the boys played.
Need to go hunt some more, I know there is more of them out there!
I was working in my large garden bed when I heard Danger crying right behind me. I spin around to see a bee fly off and immediately started looking him over. He was holding his hand funny and didn’t want me to look at it, so naturally that is where I kept looking. I didn’t see anything, I hadn’t been stung before so I called my husband and asked if the stingers were easy to spot, he said they were. I then assumed he hadn’t been stung but maybe had just twisted his hand funny. I went to set him down and saw something on his side that look kind of fuzzy/goopy and tried to brush it off him. It was the stinger, the poor guy had been stung. 
We went inside removed the stinger, cleaned him up, and put a bandaid on it. He was now acting fine and I was relieved.
Admiring the caterpillars
Crash really loves them.
They had their lunch and are now napping. I sure hope the day improves after nap.
Kids & excersize
I’m borrowing Stephanie’s “Mom’s Soap box” category for this one. Kids these days are chubby. The stats are growing and so are their waistlines. 1 out of 5 kids is considered obese. INSANE! I bring this up, because there is a great post over at Car Free Days about how kids are not the problem when it comes to riding a bike or walking for travel. Parents are. Parents give all sorts of reasons why their kids don’t ride or walk to school: traffic, fear of abduction, weather, crime.