Well I am now the parent of a high school girl. To top it off my baby has a new boy in her life:(

Payton had her first dance recital last fri. night and here is a little clip. She has only been doing this for about 2 months now. I don't think she did to bad:)

Well tasty Thursday is here again! Okay, okay I know I am behind.

The boys wanted to go pick strawberries Sunday so after church we got ready and headed to Olney's local strawberry patch. Unfortunately the guy said with all the rain he was done with strawberries. Well the kids were very upset and holding back the tears so what does every mom do with there sad kids? I tried to fix it! I called Bigards in Newton and they were going to be open at 1:00 so off to Newton we go. In the mean time we missed our church picnic (sorry dad), but we had a great time.
So as I was going through one of my magazines I found a recipe for cream cheese pound cake.
WOW was it good!
1-1/2 cups butter, softened
1 pack cream cheese
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. lemon extract ( I just used a half of a lemon and squeezed it in)
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
mix butter, cream cheese and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beat in extracts. Combine flour powder, and salt and beat into cream mixture. Pour into a greased fluted tube pan and bake at 325 for 50-60 min. Garnish with confectioners sugar and strawberries and whip cream! YUMMY!

Parker picked out two winners on accident last night so we have Jodi and Stella G. I know how to get Jodi's to her, but Stella G leave me a e-mail as to how I can get yours!

Utility room redo
Well I am finally getting the utility room painted and cabinets hung. In the mean time everything in that room is in the dinning room yuk! I choose a pumpkin color and it is bright and fun. Maybe it will make me in a better mood when I fold the piles of laundry on a daily basis!

Tasty Tuesday

Well a little homemade salsa sounded good and it was!

I used a can of canned tomatoes from last years garden YUM!

4 grocery store tomatoes

chives chopped

4 green onions

bunch of cilantro

1 purple onion

a little bit of salt and pepper

a little bit of lime juice

jalapeno pepper

Easy, yummy, and not bad for you! I can't wait for the garden fresh tomatoes what a difference that makes

Here are a few pictures that I wanted to post no order to them



Payton and her girls before the graduation dance



One cute little monster taking a bubble bath. 1 bubble bath = 20 minutes of peace for mom


the second little monster or as I call him Rico Swavey! (not sure how to spell that LOL) He is such a cute little ham! I am glad that he and the boys live by each other and can play well together. Thanks Gwyen and Chris for being such good neighbors with good conversation!

Patton the graduate.

Patton had his preschool graduation last Monday night. It is hard to believe that he will be in kindergarten it just seems like I just brought him home from the hospital. How time flies by! He wouldn't do the dance and ended up falling asleep on Mrs. Kincaid's lap.

How cute is he!

His teachers Mrs. Kincaid and Mrs. Bradham

Look a that awesome cake! WOW!