Poppers

Look at my precious boys, I just can't resist them.  So this post is actually about poppers, you know the ones we used to buy at the Trading Post or Diamond Dot (for all of you readers from Queen Creek)?  Well, Aaron went out on our famous morning milk run before work the other day and came home with milk, coffee, and poppers.  Not just a couple of poppers but a giant box of poppers and confetti poppers.  Remember how fun it was to throw the little tissue paper ones on the ground, just to hear the popping sound over and over.  Well poppers and any sort of firework type of toy is music to Aaron's ears. 

He is really fired up that they might become legal here in AZ. 

These poppers seem to be our nightly routine lately.  The boys love them.  I actually have fun too, I just don't enjoy the clean up.  Does anyone else let their 3 year old and 18 month old play with poppers,

or are we just crazy?

Delish

This is a bit silly to blog about but we felt it was "blog worthy," as we say.  Aaron whipped us this phenomenal burger on Memorial Day before I had to head off to work  It had a portobello mushroom, feta cheese, cilantro, organic beef, and some crazy sauce he created.  It was amazing. 
This will definitely be revisited someday, probably soon.

Sign Project

So here was my dilemma...for some reason whenever someone came by the house, whether it was to drop off something, visit, or even the UPS guy, it always seemed to be during nap time.  You understand if you have children that still nap.  The doorbell rings or there is a knock, the dog barks, and it is all over.  Everyone is awake, sometimes upset, and the hour of free time you might have had, over.  For the past couple of years I have strategically taped a scrap piece of paper over the door bell, hoping the person would quietly leave the package or perhaps call if the visit was unexpected.  For some reason this didn't always work for me.  After this long, I decided to finally make something that will hopefully last outside and keep the noise level under control.  So here is what I did. 

I gathered up some supplies and began to create my shh... nap time sign.  I had the paper all printed and was painting the board.  As I was getting ready to apply the paper, I realized something.  Why is my house so quiet?  Zackary was asleep, Aaron was on the computer, but the baby (my 18 month old that I still feel I need to call my baby) was extremely quiet, where could he be?

Oh... there he is happily marking up the wall and door with the markers he had just found is the craft tote I left out.  Little did I know that there was about 20 markers that needed to be tested.  This was just a slight setback I had while trying to complete my project I was determined to get done.

 

Here are the final nap time signs.  I made a couple of extra for friends that have the same issue I have been experiencing.  And really, the scrap paper taped to our door bell is pretty lame.

Here is before, wow that was really bad!

And After!

Beer Making Saturday

Aaron and his buddy Scott have recently become, as they call it, brewmasters.  They began last October when Aaron received his brew kit for his birthday (what was I thinking?).  The process used to start with a simple kit and 2 buckets.  Now all of this and more... is involved.  They are now coming up with their own recipes.  No more simple kits and buckets, there is new technology (that they created), turkey frier's, kegs, etc.  I don't even know what everything is or what its purpose is.  But who cares, they are having 'man time' and fun with the whole process. 

And in the end, they get to drink beer (no sharing involved because I'm not a fan).

Just think of all the goodies that are stored at our house.

Sunflowers

I know this isn't the most exciting thing to read about but we are very proud of ourselves (Zackary and I) for growing a giant sunflower from only a tiny little seed.  Oma gave us a package of seeds to plant somewhere, I came across them and decided it would be a fun activity for the boys and I to do.  We found the little shovels and started digging.  They didn't have much of an attention span for digging through rocks so we just started shoving them in the ground.

All of the sudden we noticed some little sprouts and began to try to remember to water them.  I read on the package they needed a lot of water, but didn't plant them where there was much, thinking aah, they probably won't grow anyways.

I tell you everyday we go outside they are even bigger.  Out of the whole package we planted only about 5 really thrived.

 

Now we have a huge sunflower that is beautiful.  The only problem is...it faces north, high above our fence so we really don't get to enjoy the beauty.  We can't figure out why it doesn't face the 'sun'?  We have another that should be blooming soon, hopefully facing the 'right' way.