From the Mouths of Babes....and Matthew West....

Saturday was day one of the baking craziness! 


My sister and brother-in-law came to help (and brought all of their fancy schmancy kitchen gadgets)

My mom came too...and helped until the. Very. End!   (she is a much better person than I am...seriously, I was about 2 seconds way from having a major temper tantrum...IN The Church Kitchen!!!)

This picture doesn't even begin to show ALL of the ingredients it takes to make 50 dozen peanut butter cookies!!!  10 boxes of butter, 40 eggs, 25 lbs of sugar, and can't remember how many packages of flour and brown sugar we used....oh and 10 lbs of Peanut Butter!!!

That huge bowl was constantly filled, emptied, refilled...and filled some more!!!

In the end we had 583 cookies...not quite 50 dozen, but good enough for me!!!


I was SO tired.   My legs hurt.  ALL that I could think about was--Crap, we're only half way done....and These Were The Easy Ones!!!!   I still only smell peanut butter....


My attitude was even stinkier!


Then I came home, tired, sore, and awful....


Jamie called me over because I just had to watch this video...



V8 smacking my forehead....


Me, Me, Me...thoughts of what was I thinking taking this on....all this garbage, when my focus really is on helping Hackleburg!


I love that my 11 year old gets this better than I do........
(and now I'm crying, thankful that even though I'm a selfish mess up...my son Rocks!)

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Grandpa and Grandma were in Minneapolis this week. They came bearing gifts...really you shouldn't have! (at least you could have added in some advil or mellow mommy in a bottle!) The title is a favorite of ours! Jim is an absolute Monty Python nut! At any moment one of us could break into "I don't want to talk to you no more, you animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction (that is even more true now that the boys are obsessed with bodily functions!). Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"

Dad was getting fitted for a new prosthetic leg....a C-leg. He will now officially be the bionic man. There could be a new reality tv show on it called pimp my prosthesis! It comes with a battery pack, lots of bells and whistles..only problem is figuring out how to walk in it! They said the trick is not to think about it, easier said then done when you're about to fall on your face! No, but really this will be a total blessing for dad. His prosthetician (?) Amy did an awesome job getting through all of the red tape. She has been with dad from the begining, always fitting him in for adjustments, questions..you name it and I'm sure she's gotten answers for dad! Thanks Amy. You're the best!

These were J's birthday cupcakes (chocolate cupcakes filled with strawberry chocolate ganache and frosted with chocolate glaze and butter cream). Sounds difficult, but if I could figure them out there is no reason to ever buy a box mix again! The recipe came from an awesome sight....Kathy: you can try the lavender cupcakes and let me know what there like...boys probably wouldn't go for that! Anyway here's the link
http://cupcakeblog.com/

Yesterday we ended up going to see Speed Racer. If you have boys they will love it...a couple areas of questionable language, but it was done kind of on the sly so the boys didn't ever get it. I still have a headache from watching all of the crazy racing scenes from the very top row of the theater!

On a knitting note, I just ordered 3 pounds of merino to hand paint and then spin!~carpal tunnel anyone?!?! I hope to have pictures soon.

Have a great holiday weekend!

Happy Birthday J

Mr. Cool
Originally uploaded by princess and the purl

More later....off to have some birthday fun!

dumpity dumpity

Last night we took the boys to playland at McDonalds...only way to get a date...oh the romance in our house! We were the only ones so the boys could go crazy.


Corey loves that yogurt commercial, the one with the lady doing yoga on a ball...he's always trying to strike that pose! This was the first time he actually somewhat got it...he was so proud of himself! He is really into telling stories now. When we were eating he got as close to me as he possibly could and said "Once upon a time, far far away...Dumpity Dumpity sat on a wall. Dumpity Dumpity fell off the wall...All the kings came and said 'Poor Dumpity'..And he stayed broke." He was so serious that I had a really hard time not laughing at Dumpity!

They kept trying to be a train going down the slide....somehow Riley always got to be the first one down..sneaky little brother :)
Jamie has graduated from the happy meals...I am kind of sad! He doesn't want the toy anymore and he likes to drink a big drink. I can't believe that he'll be 8 in 15 days (we get the count down at least once a day). Where did the time go?!?

Jamie and Riley were glued to Jim all day...first time all week that he's been home for more then a few hours. J didn't even want to go to kidzlink which never happens. Instead, he sat with us through the entire adult service (he had to go to the bathroom 3 times...probably from the pop I gave him to help his "tummy-ache") I really think the boys are starting to really miss having Jim around...his school breaks for the summer in June so hopefully that will help!