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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Chris's Birthday


Chris turned 39 with a quiet evening at home.


Mimi brought the best cake ever!


Starting the countdown to the big 4-0!

Mimi's 30th Birthday


Mimi turned the big 3-0 in August!


Big family turn out, including cousin Vanessa who just moved back to town and Uncle Fabio who made the trip with her.


Vanessa had some great stories from some recent travel.  She had us in stitches!


Melanie and Ansel


Big Benny showing off his gummy worms from Uncle Fabio.


Patiently waiting for ...


the cake!


What's this???


Surprise!!!

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Making Pie


The boys had two days off of school mid-August between the Summer session and the start of the new school year.  One of those days we went to the pool and made a pie when we got home.


Sam has always loved to cook and was very excited to try something new.


It's harder to cook with two helpers.  You have to make sure that each one gets a turn doing each step and you have to make sure that they take turns going first.  Well, at least that's what I had to do to try to stay sane.


Ben loved helping.  Sam was no so thrilled with sharing.  The pie was awesome and we finished it in two days.  They had so much fun making the pie that we made it again for Pops when he came to visit the next week.  

Here is the recipe for Giada's Peach and Blueberry Crumb Pie.

Aunt Sharon and Lulu Visit


I'm going to have to make a big effort to try to get caught up on these blog posts!  I'm still posting stuff from July and eventually I'm going to have to go back and post some great pictures from April/May.

This photo is from the end of July when Aunt Sharon and Lulu came to visit.  The boys were in heaven!  They especially loved the scavenger hunts with a prize at the end.  Sam loved playing hours of Lego Batman with Lulu.