What's going on here....surgery or landscaping?

Nothing too exciting going on for me today...just my usual Sunday grocery shopping, random errands and household chores. This morning Tyler and I went to the farmer's market and they are celebrating the 10 year anniversary this weekend, so there was a big to-do. There was a ton of people there...it was crazy, I've never seen so many people there before! We got a ton of stuff...kettle corn, corn on the cob, green beans, zucchini, rainier cherries, and some blueberries. They were even giving out free pieces of cake and ice cream and Tyler got a free reading book from one of the booths. Apparently, I'm the only bad farmer :( My zucchini plants are not producing anything and all my pepper plants are really small....even my tomatoes are kind of small. Oh well, it's probably my fault for planting the plants so close together in the first place!

Rick stayed home today to work on the sprinkler system in the back yard. Three neighbors across the street had their yards landscaped last week and now we are one of the few remaining houses with unfinished backyards. I think that motivated Rick to make some progress on this ongoing weekend project. So, uhhh....what's with the gloves?

Here's a look at my garden today...a bunch of overcrowded tomato plants, some miniature pepper plants, and a couple of zucchini duds!

Thursday Night at Franklin Park

Tyler and I went over to Franklin Park tonight, which is apparently quite a big deal on Thursday nights...we had never been before. They have the free concert in the park, the family night art in the park, and free swim all going on at the same time. The park is also right next door to a middle school, so there is also a really nice track and tennis courts and things like that.

Here is our art project that we did tonight...Tyler and I worked on it together. It's a collage using pictues cut out of magazines. After we finished the art project, we went over to the pool for the evening session which was from 7:15 - 9:00 p.m. We got in line right as they were letting people in, but the line was so long and the pool capacity is kind of small, so unfortunatley, we didn't get to swim. Tyler was sad about that...we had been looking forward to going for a couple of days now. At least they had so much other stuff going on tonight...he played on the playground for a little while and then ran some laps on the track.

Here is the track, and you can see the middle school in the background...
Cheeeeese....Tyler ran a good mile on the track....4 times around and then some. He fell on his first lap and skinned his knees, but that didn't stop him from "racing" with the other people on the track.

Some recent pages

Here are some scrapbook pages that I finished recently...they are of our trip to Portland.


I think Susan will appreciate this and please excuse the fact that I sound like a 3 year old when I say...see that pagoda at the bottom of the page...I stamped and embossed it all by myself with no help! Doesn't that sound like something Tyler would say? Anyway, I was so excited that I was finally able to emboss...it wasn't that hard after all (with the right embossing powder, that is).

Just another Tuesday afternoon...

Tyler and I hit the park early this morning, so we could do the art project before it started getting too hot. The craft today was a wind sock....Tyler decorated a large piece of construction paper and one of the instructors helped him staple it together and add a string to hang it by and some curly ribbon on the bottom. We are already 4 weeks into the Art Van program, with only 2 more weeks to go....Yikes, I can't believe it'll be over soon! Tyler always has so much fun!

I did my part in stimulating the economy today...I stopped at Joann's, just to take a peek...you know how it is... and look at what I came back with! I used a coupon and got a new cookbook at 40% off and a border punch...also 40% off. Then I got the whole series of the new clear mini alphabet stamps...at least they were only $1 each.

Fresh out of the oven... 4 mini coconut loaves. I finally got around to baking a recipe that I got while attending the Taste of Home Cooking School earlier in the spring. I haven't tasted them yet, but they sure look good! Here is a link to the recipe if anyone is interested.

Weekend Fun

I was a little late this year baking my festive red, white and blue dessert. I had wanted to make some cookies using red, white and blue M&M's, but I was never able to find any at the store. So, we settled for cake instead. We made one of those funfetti cakes that uses red and blue sprinkles that are baked in with the cake. We frosted it with vanilla frosting and topped with more red, white and blue sprinkles. Of course, Tyler loves to help out in the kitchen whenever he gets a chance. Especially when he gets to try out his new Diego apron that his Grandma sent him in the mail.
With a little inspiration from the Day out with Thomas, we came home and the boys spent the majority of the weekend building this massive train track. It takes up most of the floor space next to the table in our formal dining room. It's too bad we can't really find a good place to set up a track permanently...it's going to be sad to see all this hard work be put back in the box!

Rick + planned event involving prepaid tickets = disaster

We had tickets for Friday (yesterday) for the Day out with Thomas in Snoqualmie and the Go Diego Go Live show in Seattle, all for one jam-packed, action filled day. I know, ambitious day for a toddler, huh? This is what was supposed to happen...Rick was working in Colorado last week and had a flight home Thursday night. We were going to leave early Friday morning and drive to Snoqualmie because our train ride was scheduled for 12:45 p.m and you were supposed to arrive an hour early. This is what really happened....Rick missed his flight home on Thursday night and couldn't get another flight out until Friday morning, which put him in Yakima at 11:45 a.m. He had to stay in the airport overnight and got very little sleep. So....Tyler and I went ahead with the schedule and left early Friday morning without Rick. Just as we were arriving at Snoqualmie, Rick was finally home. He had to take a cab home from the airport, but didn't have enough cash to pay. What else, huh? Then he had to drive a separate car and meet up with us around 3:00 in the afternoon. What a mess!!! Tyler didn't notice though...he had a great time!

Here is Thomas the Train in all his glory....
Me and Tyler aboard Thomas...
Check out that tatoo!!
Tyler and Baby Jaguar...oops, I mean Daddy at the Go, Diego Go Live Show...

Wednesday Art and other random stuff

We are planning on taking a trip to Canada in August so we've been trying to get together all the necessary paperwork to get our passports started. We scrounged up our birth certificates and today Tyler and I went to Walgreens and had our passport pictures taken (who knew they did that!). Now all we have to do is fill out the applications and head over to the Post Office ASAP.

We went to the West Valley Park today to do the art project and boy was it hot outside!! It's about 95 degrees today...look at Tyler's poor little red face! We didn't stick around too much to play on the playground because the equipment was just too hot. The project today was texture rubbings. The kids put texture plates under their paper and rubbed with crayon until a design appeared. Then they cut shapes out of the texturized paper and glued them onto construction paper, making a scene. Tyler made a house, tree, sun/star, purple flower and a red bush. You can't really tell in the picture, but each object has it's own texture pattern.