Happy Birthday To My Mom

Last night we celebrated my mom's birthday. I decided to have everyone over at my place for cake. We met at a local restaurant which has yummy food. My favorite is their broasted chicken, which they give you four pieces of plus too sides. Logan ate off my plate, plus everyone elses around the table. I am sure if Madison had been any closer she would have been sizing up my plate too. After dinner we decided to head out to my school for a little playtime on the playground.  Thank goodness it has cooled down for a few day so we can get a break from the heat.  After that we came back to my place, where were hit by the wall of heat as you walked in my door. I have been having trouble with my air conditioner and I think it has finally bit the dust. The maintence guy came over this morning and comfirmed that it has, so I will be getting a new one in about 2 weeks. I made a butterfinger cake using the recipe from here and was so good. I had it in the fridge which meant it was nice and cold, which hit the spot in the oppressive heat.  My mom opened her presents, with a little help from Logan and then we headed outside to cool off, how crazy is that. It was a good night. Hopefully next time they all come my house will be nice and cool.

Looks like wild ride

Just hanging out on the playground

Me with Madison and my mom

Butterfinger Cake

The table set

Logan helping me with the candles

This was about the 5th time that I lit these candles because someone kept blowing them out!

Madison decided she wanted some cake too

Logan enjoying his cake

A little play time on the floor

                                                      Logan had to help open the presents

Wordless Wednesday- My Favorite Toy

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream

Logan and I took my grandma to Young's Dairy Farm to spend the day. They have a nice restaurant and ice cream shop as well as lots of activities for kids and adults. We had a yummy lunch in the restaurant and they we headed out to explore the farm. We were there back in December so we had an idea of some of things that were there, but they have a lot more to do in the summer. Logan of course had to climb all of the tractors, but they were nice because the all had steps up to them, which saved me from lifting him up and down!  We checked out the barn and the goats. Then we headed over to their play area. It was a great deal because for 3 dollars Logan got unlimited play time and it was fenced in so he couldn't go anywhere. He had fun going from activity to activity and I got to relax with my grandma on the sidelines. We spent about 2 hours in there and then Logan wanted to ride the wagons, so he did that. After all this fun playtime we had to stop for some of there yummy ice cream. I have decided that Logan and I must have similar taste in ice cream because he won't eat anyone elses but mine. He turned his nose up at my grandma's chocolate brownie sundae but was all about my fresh strawberry sundae! I'll admit I would eat fruit on my ice cream any day over chocolate. If you are ever in the area of Yellow Springs, Ohio, I would check this place out.

Yes-This is a manure spreader full of flowers. This kid has a fascination with manure spreaders and spotted this one as soon as we pulled in the driveway.

Steps on the tractors save Aunt Court's back!

Checking out the Jersey cows

Bike Races with the girls

Coming down the slide in the bounce house

Playing in the corn

Going for a ride

Ice Cream-YUM

Happy 10 Month Birthday Madison

Madison is now tell months old. It is hard to believe that her 1st birthday is only 2 months away! I guess that means I need to get started on her birthday banner and finish her scrapbook. She is now a speed crawler and can get anywhere she want to within seconds. She is also pulling herself up on furniture and cruising around on it. I am sure walking is not too far away. She waves hi and bye and says hi. She also does patty cake and will say the word patty. I guess she figures she has to talk to keep up with her older brother.  She has four teeth but she will never show them off for the camera. Overall she is happy and healthy!

4 Wheelin

Logan got his new four wheeler for Christmas but it had remained in my grandparent's basement all winter. Sometimes he would ask to go ride it but we thought he may have forgotten about it. NOT! He started asking late in June if he could take his 4 wheeler outside. We decided the time was right and went over all the rules. Aunt Court had to haul it out of the basement (not a a pretty sight folks) and it was up and running. I am not going to lie, the first night was a mess, the boy tried my patience way to many times, but we have come to a compromise and I have realized that boys will be boys and as long as he is not hurting himself they I just have to let him go. So everytime we are at my grandma's the four-wheeler makes its way out of the building( much easier than getting it out of the basement) and Logan takes off. For the most part he has become a better driver, however last nights conversation was on how he could do wheelies! BOYS!

Today we are headed to a local discovery museum, which should be a lot of fun. Currently Logan is snoozing in my bed, which means I got kicked to the couch last night. The best part about that was I got to sleep on my NEW couch. It was delivered yesterday and I love it. This is my first new piece of large furniture, as everything in the past has been hand me downs. So I am very excited.

Happy Friday!

Riding off into the sunset

Wordless Wednesday- Sweet Corn

Family Reunion

Last Saturday we had a family reunion for my dad's side of the family. It was lots of fun to get together with people that I have not seen in years and catch up. Thanks to Facebook I will be keeping in touch with many of them more often.  It was a perfect day, no rain and cool temps(in the high 80's) compared to the 90 degree heat we dealt with the rest of the week. We had fun talking, eating, swimming, eating, playing and more eating. I made a new corn dip recipe and it was really good so I thought I would share it with you.
Mexican Corn Dip
•4 cans (11 Oz. Can) Mexicorn, Drained


•1 cup Hellman's Mayonnaise

•8 ounces, weight Sour Cream

•3 whole Large Jalapenos, Seeds Removed And Chopped

•1 bunch Green Onions, Chopped

•1 bag (8 Oz. Bag) Mexican Blend Shredded Cheese

•1 teaspoon Cumin, Or To Taste
 
Mix all the ingredients together and serve with Frito Scoops. YUMMY!
 

Happy National Chocolate Day

Logan has spent the last two days at my house. So this morning before he got up I was checking my Facebook updates and KLove was annoucing that today is National Chocolate Day. Well I knew we must celebrate and blog about because there are only a few more hours of this important holiday and you all must get out there and celebrate. Well luckily I had a brownie mix, chocolate frosting and some leftover 4th of July sprinkles. So after Logan got up we started baking. Being the awesome aunt that I am (and because he is going home tonight) I let Logan enjoy the licking the yummy batter, which may or may not have been his breakfast! Do not worry I balanced it out with some watermelon at lunch. So after we finished baking we got dressed and headed to the pool. As you know the pool makes you very hot and hungry so in honor of National Chocolate Day we stopped at Wendy's for some Frostys!! I am really loving this holiday and can't wait to celebrate it next year. I am betting that Logan will be begging to visit my house on July 7th and he may let Madison in on this little secret.

I was going to do a post on the family reunion but that can wait till another day. Get out there and celebrate today!

Happy 4th Of July

I am sure everyone is enjoying this holiday weekend. I have been busy since Thursday and don't have much planned for today, so it will just be a day to rest and relax a little.

Every year I make a visit to my hometown for the Festival of The Bells. There is food, entertainment, and rides. Before the festival starts the firefighters hold a parade with lots of fire trucks and other floats and walking units. It is amazing looking at the pictures and seeing how much Logan has changed. We went from sitting in a stroller because he  couldn't walk to a little boy being independent and walking up and down the sidewalk on his own.  Before the parade started, the firefighters were called out on  fire run so they went racing by. Logan looked up and me and wanted to know if that was it! He also thought their sirens were a little loud as shown in this picture!

The parade finally began and after it was over we headed to the uptown area to take in the festival. Of course it was dinner time so we had to enjoy some festival food.

We figured this year we were not going to be able to avoid the carnival rides. Luckily Logan was happy doing one game and one ride. He is at a hard age because there was not many rides he could do yet. He chose the horses which was accompanied by a few YEE HAWS! The game he did was the fishing game but of course the boy in him had him reaching his hand in and splashing the water!

By the time we finished this Logan was getting tired. We finished checking out some of the booths and talking to a few people and then we headed home.