Jacob made my day...

So on Thursday afternoon, after going to the store, we had a funny thing happen. I had bought a baguette and left it on the kitchen table after putting all of the other groceries away and putting Jacob down for a nap. Jacob woke up from his nap, but Hannah and I were busy finishing up a project downstairs, so I just let Jacob wander around the house and play for a bit. I heard him upstairs, playing with toys, running around, crinkling paper... what? "Oh, it must just be the grocery sacks that I left out."


10 minutes later...

Jacob had pulled the baguette off of the table, ripped the paper off and broken it in half. I found him CHOWING down on the bread totally happy that he had found food for himself. He wandered around for a good 20 more minutes eating the bread before I was able to get it away from him. Check out all of the crumbs on his mouth and the other half of the baguette on the flour behind him! Silly kid!

Orange Jello with Carrot Slivers

Obviously my orange jello with grated carrots was NOT a hit in our house! No one would eat it! I seriously like it, but I guess I'm the only one. I asked Hannah if she would like some and she said "No way!" I asked her "Why not? Don't you like the carrots?" Hannah replied, honestly, "No! They're YUCKY!" Whelp, I guess I'm never making THAT one again!

Memorial Day Fishing

Jacob saying "cheese" for Aunt Lisa. He thoroughly enjoyed sitting in the camp chairs and walking around the site.

Grandma saving Jacob from himself.

We got to go to Colorado Springs for Memorial Weekend and we had a great time with Grandpa and Grandma Powell and Aunt Lisa and Uncle Bryan. On Monday we went up to the mountains and went fishing. Bryan, Hannah & Cami all got fishes, but only Bryan's was worth keeping. Hannah was very excited about her little fish. Jacob wanted to play in the water and kept trying to nose dive in. Here are Aunt Lisa's pictures from the weekend.

Super-Hero Kids

Super-Hero Jacob in action!

Our kids LOVE to pretend that they are superheros! Here they are running around in their "capes." By the way, did you know that only the most heroic Super-hero's suck their thumbs? Super-hero Jacob is not invincible though, as you can plainly see from the top picture. He fell off the couch a few minutes earlier and got a good sized goose-egg on his head.

Ready to Swim

Hannah and Jacob got to swim in our new PINK plastic pool (can you guess who picked it out?) on Monday. We had a hot day and the kids had a great time cooling off. These pictures are of the kids all ready to go out and swim.

Lumpia

This is an amazing recipe for Spring Rolls that was given to us from a Filipino friend in Bozeman. Just thought we'd share the wealth!

3 cloves garlic
minced 1 medium size onions chopped
1/4 lb. Ground beef or shrimps
1 pk. bean sprouts
2 c shredded cabbage
1 c green beans, diagonal thin sliced
1/2 c carrots, shredded
soy sauce ( optional)
cooking oil
salt & pepper
Bell pepper ( optional)
Celery( optional)
Knorr cubes (optional)
Spring rolls wrapper( Buy @ Asian grocery store)

Saute the garlic, onions and ground beef. Cook till meat is done. Add vegetables according to hardness. Seasoned to taste. When the vegetables are cooked, drain out all liquid. Wrap vegetable mixture in spring rolls wrapper as directed in the spring rolls packaging. Deep fry in low heat.

Happy Mother's Day

What could make Mother's Day better than happy kids? Here are a couple of videos of happy Jacob playing with Daddy. Thank you Jacob for making me laugh. I love you Boo Boo!