Thursday Mishaps

I shouldn't use the breadmaker on Thursdays.

Tommy has class Thursday evenings at 6:15pm. This means dinner needs to be ready pretty close to when he gets home from work.

Last week I remembered he had class. I wanted to make ham and pineapple pizza with homemade dough. I use the breadmaker's dough setting so I don't have to kneed. I fiddled around with the breadmaker trying to figure out the delay setting because I was going to visit a friend and wouldn't be back until close to 5pm. I had given up and decided to start the cycle and just let the dough sit risen for a couple hours when the delay worked. Hurray!

I got home pretty much at 5pm which isn't a big deal because pizza only takes a few minutes to prepare and about 12 to bake. I thought it smelt alot like bread when I got home. That's because I baked a loaf of pizza crust. Whoops. Apparently I didn't have the setting right after all.

We ended up eating at Taco Cabana. Where Daniel and I waited for 30 minutes after eating for the rain to let up before we headed home. Tommy couldn't wait and sat through most of class wet.


Tonight I forgot Tommy had class. I was running behind on preparing dinner. And I'm pretty sure I only used 2 1/4 cups of flour in a 3 1/4 cup recipe for focaccia bread. And I forgot to buy fresh tomatoes for bruschetta but was willing to substitute canned until I opened the can. Lots of seeds and mushiness (great for salsa, not so much for bruschetta). I also forgot broccoli to add to the pasta.

I collected my wits and decided on what I thought was a decent plan. We'd put Daniel to bed at 7pm and eat a nice late dinner just the two of us! I'd force a rise out of the bread, use the less than perfect tomatoes and just nix the broccoli. Then Tommy reminded me about his class.

So we went to Whataburger. We debated over which one to go to. He wanted to go to the one on Seminary Dr, but I told him the one on Altamesa was closer. The light at Altamesa was backed up about 5 times longer than I'd ever seen. Whoops. We made it with about 15 minutes for Tommy to order and eat.


Maybe next Thursday we'll just have peanut butter and jelly. On anything but homemade bread.

Daddy's Boy

at the SWBTS picnic
















Tommy is such a great father. He loves getting down and playing with Daniel, teaching him how to play with cars, how to play hide and seek and how to avoid eating carrots.







after church this past Sunday

Splash Pad

After hearing about the Splash Pad a few months ago, we just got around to going yesterday. I'm kicking myself for not going sooner. It was so much fun (and free too!). It took Daniel a few minutes to warm up to it mainly because it took us a few minutes to realize that big kids think it's okay to hose down babies. It closes at the end of the month, but hopefully we can squeeze in one more visit when it's not as busy.



Sporting his cute swim suit from Auntie Katie



















































Cousin Vincent loved the water gun.

Featured

Please take a moment to visit my friend's photography blog.
Michelle Monk Photography
Tommy and I had dinner with their family (5 girls!!) Saturday night. Michelle recently (maybe a month ago) broke her ankle and so we offered to bring dinner. And I invited us to eat it with them. How else do you make friends!?

After dinner Michelle took advantage of the opportunity to take pictures of a boy (5 girls remember?) Between Daniel's inability to be still longer than 4 seconds and Michelle's inability to do anything but shuffle on her broken foot it's a wonder she got anything!

Check out the pictures HERE as well as her version of the evening. (She says she invited us, but she didn't. I invited us after stopping by her house unannounced with a Coke from Sonic.)

PS if you're looking for a photographer...

Saturday

Tommy gleaning

















ready for his first haircut















at Daddy's barbershop













sportin' the new do






















building











proud mama and daddy

One!

We celebrated Daniel's first birthday yesterday evening with some of our (therefore his) closest friends.















the present he got from Tommy and I







his smash cake






















starting to dig in















He doesn't really like things all over his hands. He even started shaking his hands, flinging cake all over to get it off.















everything is better with milk








I surrender!







We had an excellent time at the party and were so thankful to have such wonderful friends and family to share it with!
check here for more pictures!

Baby D's Quilt

I think to properly photograph quilts you are supposed to live in the country and have a clothesline. We live in the city and have community driers. Oh well.
I made this quilt and burp cloth for my sweet friend Martha. She is due with her third baby in September.















The pattern is called a Bento Box and if your husband is a spatial/mathematical genius like mine, you don't have to pay for the pattern! I loved working the the pink colors, they were so bright!





The back is a very bright pink flannel.






















Here is the quilt all folded up. I must say my binding skills have greatly improved from my first attempt. The burp cloth had the same coordinating pink and green colors.

I can't wait to meet their sweet baby, and to find out her name! They aren't keeping it secret, the just haven't decided. What a blessing children are!

Chalk

I bought Daniel some sidewalk chalk a while back and we just brought it out Tuesday night. He was completely oblivious to the fact that it wrote on the ground. Instead he walked back and forth across the downstairs patio carrying the blue piece until it broke in half and he had a piece for each hand. He tried sucking on it which turned his mouth and snot blue. By the time we went inside his feet were black and hands and face blue. And he couldn't have cared less!