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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Did you know...


...that you can add spinach (fresh or frozen) to a smoothie and your kids will still drink it? We've been making them with vanilla yogurt, orange juice, frozen berries, frozen bananas, spinach and wheat germ. Considering the rest of our diet this week has been strawberry pop tarts and hotdogs, I feel pretty good about the smoothies.
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

WFU

My friend Jen came to town last week and we met on Wake Forest campus to visit and let the kids run around. Its hard to get 5 kids looking the same direction at once...sorry we can't see your face below, James!
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Monday, July 13, 2009

Lobster Gram!


"What are you lookin' at?"

Our friend Bobby came with his daughter to stay with us a few weeks ago. We had a great visit, eating, canoeing, eating, swimming, eating and eating. Then last Friday afternoon, this guy and his buddy arrived on our porch. Thanks Bobby! It took me and Matt back to our days in Manchester, MA.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Summer bounty

Every time I post a blog entry I have to re-learn how to do it...passwords, formatting pictures and text. Sometimes I can only manage to do one thing at a time. Pictures one day, text the next. In case these pictures don't explain them selves (like the one below), I'll walk you through.

Above is one of the first decent harvests from the Chambers Family Veggie Patch. Its been relocated and expanded in 2009. Earlier in the summer we had great luck with lettuce and peas, and now we are loving the early tomatoes! Do you recognize the fruit at the very top? A fig! Thanks to Mrs. Dobbins we have several bushes full of fruit, but this was the only one anywhere near ripe for now.
Sangria for a baby shower with the neighbors. We have great neighbors. And this was great sangria.
Ice cream cone cup cakes on the back stoop with some of said neighbors (not the same ones the who enjoyed the sangria).
This isn't the greatest photo, but we had such a fun time that I wanted to document it. A couple Mondays ago we went to Pilot Mountain. Within the first 10 minutes, B discovered a "hideout" and rejected all encouragements to hike anywhere else. So we stayed on this outcrop all morning, blowing bubbles, snacking and playing The Three Robbers. The best part about the game was that A's Baby got re-named Tiffany, from the story, and now A calls her "baby Sniffany."