I Did It!

I'm not a chef.  My SIL is.  I'm not.  I enjoy cooking.  By following a recipe.  I'm very good at following recipes.  And planning menus (as long as I have time and it's not the night before grocery shopping.  I'm not a good last minute planner).  Except since we've started doing Bountiful Baskets.  'Cause you never know what you're going to get, so it's really hard to plan around.  But it's a super deal and we are trying yummy new foods (artichoke, anyone?  On a quick tangent here, my kiddos, aged 4 and 2, pretty much ate an entire artichoke themselves tonight at dinner.  I had 4 leaves [is that what you call them?] and DH had 3.  The rest was devoured by the kiddos).  And not so yummy foods (jicama.  'Nuff said).  Anywho, this past Saturday I volunteered and was in charge of divying out the "extras".  I mentioned to the Volunteer Site Coordinator that I had almost ordered the tortillas (some crazy number of them, flour and corn, different sizes) but hadn't and asked her if she liked them.  She said they were very good and offered to let me try one.  So I said sure.  And she gave me an entire bag of burrito size flour tortillas.  What a nice lady!  However, they weren't in my menu, and I'd already done my shopping.  They needed to be used, so I looked online for burrito recipes.  I didn't have all the ingredients for any of the recipes that I found.  So, I MADE UP MY OWN RECIPE!!!  I've never done that before.  I'm calling them, Mama's Own Burritos.  They turned out yummy and DH was impressed when I told him I'd made it up myself.

These aren't my burritos.  They are some of our gorgeous tulips.  I just couldn't do two posts in a row without a picture!

Just a Funny

"N" and "A" and I were in the girls room while DH was giving "J" her bath.  We started playing peek-a-book with ourselves in the girls' mirror.  "A" really got into, peeking through his fingers at himself, then saying, "peek-a-boo!" and laughing a big belly laugh!  Have you played "Peek-a-boo" with yourself lately?

The Yard

I know these are really poor pictures.  But one of my camera lens' is broken - the one that would take this picture clearly.  And my other lens is a telephoto, so I'd have to be a block away to get a picture, and then houses would be in the way, so you still wouldn't be able to see it.

IT'S OUR FENCE!!!!  And a wall in our carport.  We love it!  The kiddos can go outside (and come in and go out and come in and go out and come in and go out...) anytime they want (when it's good weather).  They don't have to wait for my work to be done.  "A" can't play in the street.  "N" can't ride her bike on the sidewalk (in truth, she's very good and careful), but she has a patio to ride on anytime (except that she has wasp-phobia.  And they've begun to show themselves.  She's seen them around her bike a couple of times and now is afraid of her bike because there might be a wasp near it).

This is our orchard - 3 apple trees, 2 cherry trees, 1 plum tree, 1 apricot, and 1 pear tree.  We're going to get another pear tree.  Can't you just taste the fruit?  Visit us in 3-5 years.  Then you'll be able to taste it!