Water Babies

Sweet water pixie

Perfectly dressed for an afternoon lounging by the pool.

I am not so sure I want to get in after all.

I suppose the boat is kind of fun.

Captain Lorelai!

Kellen contemplating the scientific properties of water.

We had a blast, but alas it is time to go.

What do you mean we have to leave? I was having so much fun! Ok, if you say so, but first I will give you "the look".

Mommy: *shudders* : /

A tale of gastronomic proportions:
I am a California Culinary Academy flunky! Well not literally, but I might as well be. I do not fancy myself a great cook by any stretch of the imagination, but I do like to cook and I have fun doing it. Even while having two toddlers running about I still try to excercise my culinary creativity and make some interesting dinners on occasion. Sometimes I just add my own touches to an already trusted recipe and other times I try a new one. Usually, I have good luck...today that wasn't to be the case!

This morning I pulled out my Italian Cooking at the Academy cookbook with the aspirations of making a memorable dinner for my family. I chose a homemade sundried tomato pasta recipe that I was going to pair with a great homemade sauce using herbs from my garden. It sounded good, but after food processing the ingredients together, while balancing Kellen on my hip, what I had was a big unappetizing brown blob.

"Poo-poos" says Kellen as he points to the mass, then Lorelai comes into the kitchen climbs up onto a chair nearby and exclaims "yuckies" while scrunching up her face. Is this a sign? *sigh* It didn't get any better either after letting the blob rest, rolling it out and even cooking up a batch of sample "noodles". Let me just say that my version of homemade pasta was utterly and completely awful! For now my pasta making days are over. I will leave the work to those nice people over at Dreamfields.

So, how does one salvage such a disaster? Ask the husband to bring home take-out and make him homemade lemon bars instead (or were those lemon bars for my own culinary ego?) : )

Thar be Booty a'waitin for me

After an afternoon hanging out by the pool at Grandma and Grandpa's house (pictures to come soon) we arrived home to find treasure on the front porch!



Clan Milliken dropped off some belated birthday goodies for the kids and I. Kellen and Lorelai received a bunch of cool art supplies and immediately set out to add new colors to themselves and the front walk-way (washable markers were a great invention). I got this cool basket of stuff to pamper myself with. To this tired stay-at-home mommy of twins a basket full wonderful smelling pampery goodness (uh different than pampers thank you very much) is worth more than a treasure chest full of doubloons! Thank you so much E, A, and C!



Hot off the needles
This pre-empted my other knitting works in progress, but it is now hot off the needles. I made this black wrap to give as part of a bridal shower gift.

Here is a close-up of the open stitch work. Nice and airy, perfect for summer.


Here is the wrap all wrapped up. I like how it came out, but I did come to the realization that I need to step away from the novelty fur yarns, at least for a little while. My recently finished projects are making it seem like I have some kind of funky furry yarn fetish. Thankfully, I have the Saturday Market Bag that I am getting back to work on and it is 100% cotton. Not a single strand of fur in sight!

Parting Shots
It has been mentioned as of late that I do not put many pictures of myself on my blog. Alas, it is true for it is hard to find a harsher critic than ones own self. Anyway, here are a couple pictures taken Saturday of me and my sweet babes.

Kellen and I


Lorelai and I

There you go! : )