Yummy Cheesecake

My hubby is a big, big fan of cheesecake and I was lucky enough to come across this great recipe from Angie over at Just Shy of a "Y"

It was such an easy recipe and it tasted so good. Because this was so easy, the next time we make this I am going to just hand the recipe to one of the kiddos, not my 3 year old of course, and tell them to go for it.

The Best Thing a Mom Can Do

The Best thing a mom can do to keep her sanity is to go to the grocery store at night. I went tonight and it was wonderful. 1. No kids. 2. No hurry up and get home to make supper. You can just take your sweet, old time. 3. I also seem to spend less money when I go at night because I have time to comparison shop.

Tonight I found pastina. I was so excited. My Nanny (grandmother) used to make it for me all of the time with butter. In my little MN town they have never carried it. Besides me, there aren't a lot of Italians around here.

Another Best thing a mom can do is to take showers at night. 1. No kids around 2. No worry about running out of hot water 3. After a long day who wants to wants to climb into their nice clean sheets with a dirty body. Ishy.

6 Word Saturday

For some reason today I can't get my loading of buttons to work so I am just posting the site I got this from.

This my first six word Saturday. If you would like to do it to you can go here

http://www.showmyface.com/

My six words are

Be Positive and Keep it Simple.

I always try to have my cup half full. My kids would probably argue with that sometimes, but it do try. Life is so much easier if you look for the positive in everything. Plus the less you stress the longer you will live.

I am working on Keeping it Simple too. I really need to do some decluttering. It is just so easy to justify keeping things.

Brotherly Love

Even though they are 8 years apart, they are still best friends.

My Monkeys

It looks like they even wrestle in their sleep!

It gets the job done!

Ok, so, I am not a big time sewer. That's so-er, not sue-er. At least I hope I am not a big time sue-er. Anyway, this is my idea of a clothes pin bag. I really have been trying to hang clothes on the line as much as possible this year and even though I don't have my own clothes line, my awesome neighbor allows me to use theirs. There is just something about the smell of clothes that are dried on the line. Ahhh. Plus it helps mother Earth.

So, I just took an old hand towel and sewed a hanger in it. I think it needs some work but it will do for now. I so wish I could sew. I know I would love to quilt. Just not sure how to start.

Friend Makin' Monday

This is only my 2nd time doing Friend Makin' Monday since we were gone on our road trip for to weeks. So, it worked great for me that the topic is vacations.

Friend Makin' Monday is being hosted by Jolanthe at No Ordinary Moments this week because Kasey is still on vacation.

If you would like to take part in FMM, just click here for the details. Now for the the questions:

1. Tell us about the best {or worst} vacation that you've ever taken.
2. Tell us FIVE places/vacations that you would like to take at some point your life. It doesn't have to be next year...maybe it's the vacation of a lifetime or somewhere you just dream of going years from now.

So
#1 Well I really would have to say that the trip we just took was my favorite. We left our home in MN and went to Mount Rushmore, then to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, then on to Salt Lake City. The Lake was nasty. I don't advise swimming in it. Ishy. Then we were on our way to Reno and from there to my parents in Santa Rosa, CA. We spent 4 days there taking day trips to the beach, the Redwoods, Sonoma, and San Fran.



After we left, we headed to Yosemite and then on to Vegas. My daughter and I went to see Lion King and it was awesome. After Vegas, we went to the Hoover Dam where it was 116 degrees. So, needless to say we didn't stay long and then continued on our way to the Grand Canyon, which was a beautiful site. The next day we stayed in Moab, UT and went to Arches Nat. Park. Now that was a neat place. After that we headed towards Denver and stayed over night in Thornton, CO and our plan was to go to Rocky Mt. Nat. Park but we were all pooped so we decided to head home. We were going to spend the night in Omaha, just to take a break from driving, but we figured we might as well drive the last 5 hours home. We got in about 3:00 am. Whew. That was a trip.


#2. I would love to go to Italy. I am 1/2 Italian so I would love to go and explore the old country. The other 1/2 of me is German so I would also like to check out Germany. Besides that for some reason I always wanted to go to Ireland and Australia.

Yellowstone

After our wonderful pancakes in SD we got back on the road and headed for Yellowstone. From this point on in the trip none of us has ever visited any of our destinations. The park was everything we imagined. It was so beautiful. We spent about 10 hrs checking out the sites. This was the view from our campsite. So beautiful. However, we thought it was cold in SD. That night it got down to 35 degrees. Seriously. Crazy, isn't it? I slept in my sleeping bag, with an additional blanket inside and I wore sweat pants, socks, a T-shirt, a sweatshirt and my coat and I was still cold. Part of the problem was that our tent is so big that the heat the five of us generate just doesn't get trapped. BURR. Before we called it a night Ryan got a touch of altitude sickness. He had the chills and was nauseous. But, the following morning he was back to normal. After Yellowstone we headed south to the Grand Tetons.

Ryan is pointing out the snake to D.