One of our neighbors brought this salad/dessert to the party...and it was really good! The kids ate it up!
Snickers Salad
3 red apples; cored and cut into pieces
3 King size Snicker Bars; cut into pieces
2 small packages of vanilla pudding mix
1 Large container of Cool Whip
Mix it all together and let set for an hour in the frig! Super super good!
Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Our flowers
My great grandma and grandma on my mother's side of the family are gloriously fabulous gardeners...my mom not so much!(but that's ok! :0) I love plants and flowers, but I'm not even close to being as 'green-thumbed" as they are!
We had a little neighborhood party in our back yard last night- it was alot of fun! And then tonight we all ate dinner out there. If/when we move...I'm really going to miss our backyard and patio!
Here are a few pix of my backyard haven...
This is the side patio looking out along the house. My hanging baskets are looking like crap this year- not sure why?! I can't seem to get them perked up...owell! I'm pretty sure they won't make it through July anyway!
This is the side walk leading up to the driveway. (pic taken from the patio) This is my hodge-podge bed. I did alot of transplanting and couldn't bear throwing out the old plants- so they all ended up here. Sedum, lilies, hostas, and a few others.
Here are my Asian lilies... LOVE LOVE LOVE them- easiest plants in the world to grow and take care of!
Here's looking into the back yard from the side of the house. The hose is watering my raspberries- they NEED/LOVE the water!!!!!
These are our crazy raspberries- they are really growing like crazy! We should have some great produce this year!
Here's looking around the corner of the house into the back yard. I have one Boston fern- which isn't looking the greatest. But the other two ferns are actually indoor ferns- and they have been thriving!
This is the backside of the house - we're having concrete edging put in around this bed...but its looking like that won't happen until after we get back from vacation. The rainy weather has really played havoc on our concrete man's schedule. These are all plants that I had left over from thinning out other beds in the yard. The only thing I bought was an elephant's ear bulb...its just started blooming- but its not in the pic.
This is another picture of the back side of the house- but looking off the patio this time. The bed will come out farther from the house- but I wanted to wait until the concrete man came. I didn't want to screw up the drainage and have water running along the house. We live on a hill and water runs through our yard down the hill... so you have to be careful about the grade etc.
I'm planting more Asian lilies along the backside of the house to give the that bed some height and add more color.
We had a little neighborhood party in our back yard last night- it was alot of fun! And then tonight we all ate dinner out there. If/when we move...I'm really going to miss our backyard and patio!
Here are a few pix of my backyard haven...
This is the side patio looking out along the house. My hanging baskets are looking like crap this year- not sure why?! I can't seem to get them perked up...owell! I'm pretty sure they won't make it through July anyway!
This is the side walk leading up to the driveway. (pic taken from the patio) This is my hodge-podge bed. I did alot of transplanting and couldn't bear throwing out the old plants- so they all ended up here. Sedum, lilies, hostas, and a few others.
Here are my Asian lilies... LOVE LOVE LOVE them- easiest plants in the world to grow and take care of!
Here's looking into the back yard from the side of the house. The hose is watering my raspberries- they NEED/LOVE the water!!!!!
These are our crazy raspberries- they are really growing like crazy! We should have some great produce this year!
Here's looking around the corner of the house into the back yard. I have one Boston fern- which isn't looking the greatest. But the other two ferns are actually indoor ferns- and they have been thriving!
This is the backside of the house - we're having concrete edging put in around this bed...but its looking like that won't happen until after we get back from vacation. The rainy weather has really played havoc on our concrete man's schedule. These are all plants that I had left over from thinning out other beds in the yard. The only thing I bought was an elephant's ear bulb...its just started blooming- but its not in the pic.
This is another picture of the back side of the house- but looking off the patio this time. The bed will come out farther from the house- but I wanted to wait until the concrete man came. I didn't want to screw up the drainage and have water running along the house. We live on a hill and water runs through our yard down the hill... so you have to be careful about the grade etc.I'm planting more Asian lilies along the backside of the house to give the that bed some height and add more color.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Friday FUNNIES!!!!
We went to the lake for a little bit yesterday. There weren't many people there. A few small families and a group of college boys. The college boys were drinking, getting loud and acting stupid.
At first the girls were so busy playing and making sand castles that they didn't even notice the boys. A little bit later I see Corynn standing at the waters edge with her hands on her hips staring and this group of boys. Then she starts shaking her head spins around and starts back toward her sisters. I asked her what was wrong. She rolled her eyes and said "Boys are so lame!"
Hopefully she thinks that way until she's 30!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Hot MAMA!
It was sooooo HOT yesterday!! Even by my jaded Nebraskan standards! And it was all the stinkin humidity that made it so unbearable!
I am so glad that when I was in GI town last weekend- we made a side trip to Hastings to see a gma- I picked up two of those big hard plastic pools. They were like $8 or something cheap like that. Anyway- one for the girls and one for Emma, of course! She thought it was hot yesterday too! And boy did she love her pool! I'll take some pix next time she's out - I hear its supposed to be even warmer today...
The girls use the other pool for filling water guns and splashing eachother. Its obviously not big enough to swim in- but gives them sufficient water to cool off and entertain themselves for awhile.
Good luck surviving the heat today! Drink lots of water and stay cool!
I am so glad that when I was in GI town last weekend- we made a side trip to Hastings to see a gma- I picked up two of those big hard plastic pools. They were like $8 or something cheap like that. Anyway- one for the girls and one for Emma, of course! She thought it was hot yesterday too! And boy did she love her pool! I'll take some pix next time she's out - I hear its supposed to be even warmer today...
The girls use the other pool for filling water guns and splashing eachother. Its obviously not big enough to swim in- but gives them sufficient water to cool off and entertain themselves for awhile.
Good luck surviving the heat today! Drink lots of water and stay cool!
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