Daddy’s Out Numbered

Okay, so can anyone help me?  Seriously, I don’t know how to cook.  I’ve gotten by to this point, but now it’s just ridiculous.  I really need to provide healthy meals for my family.  My daughter told our sitter “mommy not a good cook.”  I need some easy to follow recipes.  Does anyone have any they would like to share?

-Kari

After all the rain we got last night we had a nice little mud puddle in our back yard.  Dylan went out to play and I put on her rain boots for her because I knew it would be wet outside.  I was doing some work inside and watching her through the window.  I saw her cautiously approach the puddle and walk through it.  Then she started running, she pulled up her pants legs and started splashing around.  Then, she slipped and fell right in!  She loved it and I loved watching her.  I loved that she didn’t care about getting dirty, she just wanted to experience the joy of the moment.  It reminded me of playing at my grandma’s house when I was a little girl.  I used to play in the dirt without a care in the world.  Watching my little girl jump around in the mud brought me so much joy.  I wanted to share it with you too.  There are more pictures on Dylan’s page.  We should all take time to jump in a mud puddle once in a while.

-Kari

For those of you who know my husband, you know that he makes friends all over the world.  While we were living in England he spent a lot of time working in Saudi Arabia.  He met two wonderful couples and they just happened to both be in the states last week and in our area.  I had heard a lot about both couples and it was great to finally meet them.  We enjoyed a wonderful dinner at Lime Restaurant and I had a great time hearing about life in Saudi and all of their adventures.  My only complaint is that our visit was too short.  We hope you all can come back soon and stay longer.  

-Kari

I noticed our neighbor the other day just standing in his back yard looking up at his trees.  He heard us in our back yard and turned to me and said, “we have a swarm of bees”.  My first reaction was to scoop up the girls and run inside.  He said that a bee keeper was coming to remove it on Thursday.  I didn’t go over and investigate, but he seemed calm enough about it so we stayed outside a little longer and played just feet from this swarm of bees.  Jimmy took photos yesterday before the bee keeper came to remove the nest.  Here’s the photo.  Now if I had gone and investigated the matter the day before, we would have been inside immediately!  This doesn’t look anything like the Bee Movie!!