Flowers

Each year for Mother's Day, Devon gets me a bunch of flowers and then he helps me plant them in containers.  I wish I could say I have a green thumb, but I really don't. I would love to really know what I am doing and what works best.  My planters might not be the prettiest things out there, but I love them just because my son got them for me!!!

After we planted all the flowers, Devon went around and watered them all.

These are the containers by the back door.  The bird feeder is one that Devon made for 4H last year.

 

 

The front door

A suet feeder Devon made in Cub Scouts

Love Baseball

I love baseball season!!!  It keeps us very busy.  Devon had a game this morning and he did a great job.  They tied 10-10 with the other team.

Now to their next game on Monday!!!

It's me again!!!

I have really neglected my blog for several (I mean several) months!!!  I want to change that.  With school getting out in a couple of weeks and the entire summer to do fun stuff, I have no excuse not to keep up with my blog.  I want to share with you fun stuff I do with my son, scrapbook pages I do, new recipes I try, and anything else I can think of.

So, here is to another new beginning of my blog!!!

 

I made banana bread today.  I have posted this recipe before.  I added cinnamon and vanilla to the mixture today and it was delicious!!!  I made two loaves with the recipe and only have half of one is left. 

What a face! layout

Summer this year has been very busy for me and unfortunately, my scrapbooking got pushed to the side.  Hopefully things will start to settle down a little bit now and I can begin working on layouts!!!  I was able to spend about an hour in my room yesterday and created this layout.  I used a sketch from Boys Rule as inspiration.

Sketch


my layout

Strawberry Lemonade Layer Cake

I found this recipe on Pinterest and thought it looked good.  And I was not disappointed!!!  The cake was very tasty!!!!

• One box of strawberry cake mix (plus oil, water and eggs as directed on box)
• 8oz. Philadelphia Cream Cheese (softened to room temp.)
• 1 packet (0.23oz.) of Kool-Aid Lemonade
• Yellow food coloring gel (as desired for color)
• 2cups Jet-Puffed Marshmallow Creme
• 8 oz. Cool Whip Topping
• Fresh strawberries to garnish.

DIRECTIONS:

• Make cake according to box and bake in 2- 9 inch round cake pans as directed.  Turn finished cakes over on cake racks and allow to cool completely.
• Cream together cream cheese, lemonade and yellow food coloring until smooth.
• Mix marshmallow creme in and then mix in Cool Whip until completely smooth.  Refrigerate until cake is cooled and cut.
• Cut each cake layer in half.
• Alternating layers of cake with layers of filling, assemble cake.  End with layer of filling.
• Top with sliced strawberries.
• Refrigerate and serve chilled.

Elliott one year old layout

Here is my layout for today.  I really liked how this one turned out.  I love mixing different patterned paper together!!!   I even made my own file folder.  I used a sketch from The Memory Nest

Here's the sketch


Here's my layout

 

Thanks for looking

Bree layout

I put this layout together this morning, it actually came together rather quickly.  This is my niece Bree's kindergarten picture.  I like how the layout came out, especially since I was able to use some scraps of patterned paper and embellishments that were sitting on my scrap table left over from another layout (magic mesh, pearls, and a button).   I used a sketch from My Scraps & More Sketches

Here's the sketch


Here's my layout

 

Thanks for looking