Funny Sunny days with you

Funny, sunny days.
When the weather is perfect we go on adventures.
We went to Saguaro Ranch Park and played with Peacocks.
Today is a rainy day, but still fun and funny. Funny how a change in the weather can bring on new adventures.
Today they were storm chasers and tent builders. We have plans to read some Nancy Drew snuggled on the couch. A visit to the library and lunch with Aunt Brittany.

Feeding the masses...

Sometimes I wish Jesus would show up at my door and do the fish and bread miracle. When we lived in New River, I stocked up on many food items so I didn't have to take the 40 minute round trip drive each week to the grocery store. These days the store is walking distance, so I've been going each week. In doing this, I have come to realize how much food we actually consume. Just for fun I'm going to catalog our weekly food intake and then hopefully as they get older compare to see just how much more or less we consume as they grow. It's hard to imagine it getting worse!

Per week
2-3 - gallons milk
1- 1/2 gallon Almond milk
1 gallon apple juice
5 gallons lemonade
2-3 cases of water
12 pack of soda
4-5 boxes cereal
2 doz eggs
1 box granola bars
granola (making oatmeal and cookies
2.5 lbs of flour
2.5 lbs of sugar
4-6 sticks of butter
1 box cereal bars
1 batch of something home made (cookies)
2 boxes snack bars (cliff kid bars or organic rice crispy bars)
2 loaves of bread
2-3 pkg lunch meat
2 frozen pizzas
1 box chicken nuggets or 2 pkg hot dogs
1 large bag of Cheddar cheese
2 pkg tortillas (about 20)
1-2 bags of potato chips
3-4 cans of fruit
6lbs of apples
4 cartons of strawberries
1 large bunch bananas
6-8 avocados
5-6 tomatoes
3-4 peppers
lettuce
cucumber
various other vegetables (broccoli, corn, green beans)
3-4lbs hamburger meat (thankfully we are only eating elk right now)
5-7lbs chicken
I'm sure there is more like sauces, seasonings, jellies, peanut butter, kat, syrup, ect... I'm not including.

Diapers, toilet paper, paper towels and wipes I order from Amazonmom.com it comes to the door! Just an FYI to other moms!

Its amazing to think people used to have to grow everything they ate and then prepare it all from scratch! Oy, what would we do?
 Be skinnier and eat less LOL!

Easter 2012

Easter 2012

Noah 9, Graham 7, Braxtyn 5, Cozette 2, Quinn 11 months

The Best salsa ever!

This recipe is from Pinterest and is now my favorite!

Guacamole Salsa

Ingredients:

1 lb tomatillos or 1 large canned tomatillos

1 jalapeno pepper (I omitted for the kids)

1 red pepper or a few mini sweet peppers

1/3 bunch cilantro

1 thick slice of yellow onion

1 garlic clove

1 avocado

1 tsp salt and pepper

(I added some lime juice)

chop it all up, be sure to peel the husks off the tomatillos

Put it in the blender

Serve it up with chips, on tacos, on fish tacos, on turkey sandwiches, on chicken, with rice, or just pour in a glass and stick a straw in it.

This is serious good.

It's good for a week in the fridge. If it lasts that long:)

I should be doing something else...

I should always be doing something else. But right now, I'm doing it all and nothing. Schooling with a few kids on the floor, a couple at the table and one blissfully sleeping. And I am sneeking a few moments to blog, answer e-mails and uplaod some much needed pictures. I have become very  porficient in typing and talking or surfing Facebook while flipping over flash cards. Yeah, I'm a multi tasker. It doesn't mean I'm actually good at any one thing while I'm doing two things, it just means I'm good at faking it. The other problem is I can't remember where I put things most of the time. Currently I can't find my glasses or my camera. Ughh..I hate looking for things. I realize that everything needs a place so you can find it when you need it. But for the life of me, I can't decide on a place for some things. Some things can't have a place of their own because I need them with me. Like my keys, shoes, glasses, camera. Do you see the problem? And my car is the black pit of lost things, so everntually I will clean it out and I will find all the missing shoes and the other half of Quinn's sock collection, at least 5 pacifiers and the source of some smell that started from the back seat last week. I did however do 12 loads of laundry on the last two days. While I was typing I just remembered where my camera was, so I'm uploading some new pics. Whish I had my glasses all the words are so fuzzy.