they're not balls, grant., they're eggs. NO!

In the first 15 minutes of being back from MF, grant climbed on the kitchen table, found the four dozen eggs mom gave me, and proceeded to throw them at our dog Baxter who happily licked up his fair share before I saw.

Grant is seriously going to keep me on my toes. He threw 14 eggs on the floor. 14! In a matter of minutes...It's gonna be a rough 17 years...

But gosh, he's cute!

Cooking with Jenny

The title had to make you laugh. So many of my friends post these amazing recipes and pictures of what they make. So I thought I would too! :)


It was breakfast for dinner at the wilde's house. We had a secret recipe. Shake and pour pancakes. This was a first for me. I mean I've made a few hundred pancakes in my day, but never of the shake-and-pour variety. Anyway, you pour in water....

You shake....

and then pour. Doin't be fooled -it may look easy, but it really does take some serious skill.
Pour a variety of sizes to accomodate a variety of mouth sizes. See, i told you - skill.
Wait for the perfect pancake bubbles to form indicating ideal flipping time.
Then stack those hotcakes up nice and tall and drool a bit.
What are pancakes without scrambled eggs? Get you a farm fresh dozen...
...crack a few...
scramble 'em up and spill 'em on the griddle.
see that bright yellow - that's the bright yellow of farm fresh happy hen eggs.



the last thing you need is a few hungry boys.
and someone to do the dishes....

Look for a post coming soon about what Grant thought eggs should be used for...

it's so good to go home...

Our visit home was so wonderful. It was relaxing and calm and the boys just played and played. I even got to run to austin one afternoon to buy some new running shoes at Runtex where this crazy hungarian lady totally hooked me up with the best shoes ever. I don't really know what she said, but she made me run on a treadmill and walk around barefoot and examined the bottom of my flip-flops. She knew her running shoes.

Mom and I played bananagrams. Mason got to go fishing a few dozen times. Grant snuck onto the trampoline like 13 times. I slept in. It was the best three days. :) Mom and Don have quite the garden growing. I was hoping to find a few fresh veggies on this trip but all I saw were a few cute little budding squash and tomatoes, climbing vines and almost ready peppers. I'm thinking early to mid June will be a great harvest...

grant loves his gema...especially when she gives him sugar wafer cookies. And watermelon.

The above shot is titled "summer in a bowl."

Mason spent most of his time with pop-pop. They caught grasshoppers to feed the fish. Then they caught fish to feed themselves. Yum!

The view from the front door. Beautiful.
It's so good to go home...

i am alive.

Have you missed me?
:)

Well, things got a little crazy here. Big changes. Some tears. tough decisions. and I didn't want to drag the blogworld into blown out of proportion drama. And I'm still not really ready to. Nothing bad is happening. A little sad, but not bad. Anyway, here are a few things that have been going on.

Crystal and I did our first real wedding yesterday. It was outside. And yes it did rain. It was an event. Crystal and I were dead tired. and cold. and achey. And seriously, the wedding was filled with the prettiest female guests ever. the most fashionably dressed wedding guests i've ever seen. I haven't even looked at the pictures. I'm scared.

I ran in a race yesterday. It was five miles. I finished in 43:51. Not bad since I've only run very haphazardly, if at all, since March, but I was hoping for under 43. At the end of the race, at about mile four, i was trying desperately to pass a few people...just to climb up the ranks a little. So, I passed this one girl at about mile 4. Then, about 50 yards before the finish line, she passed me! I was seriously near death, but I passed her again. Then about 20 feet before the finish line she caught me again! So she and I both sprinted across the finish line. I loved it! Our times were identical! It was so fun! I was laughing as we ran across the finish line as you can see...
Anyway, my rank was 61st out of 120 which totally annoys me. I wasn't even in the top half. But, this was a roadlizards.org sponsored race. Not like a fundraiser race. These people were runners!

Im going to MF for a few days this week. I need to see my mom. Mason will miss some school, but hes in kindergarten. I'm willing to bet he'll be fine. And I did get it okayed with his teacher who said she couldn't hardly teach them anything at this point anyway. "its may." she said. :)

Kylah's shower is being planned! Yay! Can't wait to make it super special!

Mason spells our names now when he wants us - "m-o-m-m-y, where are my socks?" etc. It was cute the first time.

grant is starting to be two a little early if you catch my drift. Yikes!

and I have to go get ready to go to moms. Jenny, the dedicated blogger, will return at some point... I promise! :)

boys.

I really love having sons. They're so cute in their dirty grubby way...

Right now Mason is playing baseball in the front yard in the rain with the two boys from across the circle. They're soaking wet and just hollering away. I love it.

And earlier today Mason told me, "I can make a burp even if I don't need one. Anytime I want, I can burp." This was followed by a burp. I laughed and said, "you're such a boy." To which he replied, "yeah. I can do so many things girls just don't understand."

It's good to have boys. Sweet, dirty, bug-lovin', burpin', sticky, grimey, gap-toothed grinning boys.