A Little R n' R

Jedi Jaydon

Family Bonding

Shall we say, startled?!

What the?! I guess this picture is proof that we do get some sleep after all :)

Raw Cobbler

Here's my version of Ani Phyo's raw foods cobbler (I did mine with berries instead of peaches since that's what I had available). Very different, but so yummy & SO good for you! Raw foods (as you probably all know) have the most nutritional value because nothing is cooked out, so my new goal is to have an all 'raw foods' meal at least once a week. I had Sarin buy me Ani Phyo's new cookbook for my Christmas present to help me in this endeavor & since she was the one who introduced me to her. For anyone interested, you can type in her name on YouTube & she has some videos/recipes there.

p.s. double-dog dare you to guess what the topping is made out of, never would have myself, but you might! (answer: on YouTube)

Johnny Appleseed Festival

We attended our first annual Fort Wayne festival at the "Johnny Appleseed" park, he's big here apparently...They had a lot of great authentic games n' goodies at a not-so-authentic price--EXPENSIVE! The funny part is that when we first arrived Jaydon immediately said, "ooh, what's that?!" to a big pile of rocks...then when we told him they really were just a pile of rocks, he said, "let's go see them!" They did have some pretty awesome cannons shooting off every little while.

A game played in 'ye olden days' where you let the ball swing & try to hit the piece of wood

A parade we watched while waiting in line for one of the lil' rides

A fabulous tree near our car the boys climbed twice (Tony included)--once when I was nursing Ari before the festival, & once after :)

This is the tank located by the park, but somehow I don't think it had anything to do with Johnny Appleseed. No matter, we're all about the "free" entertainment, the parade, the tree, the tank...

Here is the 'ride' the boys went on, & if you look closely, you can see Tony's bum almost all the way off the seat, cute isn't it?

And just because she's so durn cute, here's Ari at 3 weeks while I am trying to convince her that awake time does NOT start at 11:00pm, suggestions anyone?????

My heroes...

Tony in the "Performance Theater" of where he now works where they go to listen to special presenters and performances.

Sarin is here visiting & keeping my boys entertained as usual!

My little Curly-Locks!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope it stays :)

Ari at one & a half weeks

It's LOVE!

They are SO good with her, love her SO much & this Mommy is SO grateful!



And in other news... this is one of the Daddy-of-the-year 'cool' tricks. They jump on the tramp almost every night--Jyson said, "We have a FUN daddy, he plays with us, stuff that kids like to play..."

"The Elusive Monarch" at last is CAUGHT! Jaydon was so thrilled, he said he even prayed that morning for the strength to be able to catch one. I'm grateful for a Heavenly Father who answers even the 'littlest' of prayers.