Making brownies.....Yummmmm!

Yeah, this is not because Halloween is coming up - this is because Madison is a Princess EVERYDAY :)

Our neighbor put up a pool for the kids. Madison couldn't wait to go over and check it out with all her friends :)

New Dora Watch

So excited, I found this new little watch for Madison that has Dora on it. I knew she was going to love it. I gave it to her when I got home and I was right! She's never going to take this thing off - which is great! If I had noticed it didn't work!?! Ugh! Bummer! Now what? She won't take the thing off so we are running around with a broken Dora watch! LOL

Good thing it was only a few bucks :) You get what you pay for!

Busted Up!

Oye! Seems our little darling had a battle with the pavement at school yesterday while playing outside :( The concrete won :( Can't tell but her whole lip, etc is busted up! Poor baby - I like her face how it is so I'm hoping she's more careful in the future! xoxoxo

Let's Go Swimming!

All dressed and ready to go!!!

So Helpful :)

Check out Madison reading to our neighbor's little girl, Vivian :) They were catching up on Toy Story!!

Family day :) Chip started all of us playing games together. It's fun. Madison always win and each game is like the speed round. We are working on her attention span and patience but for the most part, it's fun :) This is Madison, playing Hungry, Hungry Hippo and Candyland! And of course, showing me her friends made from Play dough!

Ugh - Pizza disaster! It's a RARE occasion when I get excited about cooking so it's sad that it always seems to turn out this way for me!

On Saturday, Chip and I decided to get the neighborhood kids together and let them play in the water and grill pizza's. I went to a friends house a few weeks back and she grilled pizza's that were amazing and surprisingly, diet friendly! I asked her for the recipe and went and got all the stuff to make the most gourmet pizza's Chip and I could come up with. Saturday morning arrives and I attempt to make the dough 3 times. It's like cement! It's horrible! Not only is it not edible, it's like ripping the skin and hair off my arms. Although discouraged, I take a break and a few hours later, I decide to try again. Same results. This time, instead of playing and kneading the stupid thing by hand, I just toss it out. 3rd time - again. At this point, I walk outside almost in tears I'm so frustrated and tell Chip to just order pizza's.
Just then, our neighbor, Pizza extraordinaire comes to my rescue. He has a fancy machine and whips some dough together in like 5 min! Angels are singing! I take my dough back to my house and let it sit. I start chopping all the veggies and meats you can imagine to make my magical pizzas then I receive the worst news! Our neighbor comes in and tells me the wheel on our grill collapsed and the grill went slamming down onto the concrete. To make matters worse, my chef, Chip, burned his hand badly trying to catch it from falling. By this time, it's late, the kids are tired and starving and I finally give up on my pizza making. What a nightmare.

The silver lining, I walked out the next morning to find the grill, upright, sitting on a brick. I laughed to myself and thought, you know you live in a bad part of town when they put your grill on blocks :) So funny!

Cheese! Look at my new earrings!!