Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Catching Up June 2025 part something or other

Who needs pictures of people when you can have pictures of food? 
We're still using A Season of Family Meal Plans by Jordan Page. Love those cookbooks. We had Sausage Potato Hobo Packs and made cornbread (a recipe I have in a recipe box) for a side dish. Yumm. 
We decided to have a barbecue and spent money on some things for it. We had Polish Sausages and Jeremy brought home some marinated veggies (mushrooms, zucchini, onions) from Marcus' barbecue which we put on skewers and grilled. For dessert we bought waffle cones to make waffle cone s'mores. One of the activities for library Summer Reading was "make something tasty together for a BBQ." A friend stopped by and joined us for a while. It's nice to share.  
We tried some new Spanish appetizers. We had a different version of Pan Con Tomate. We had Orange and Avocado Salad. We had Spanish Garlic Cauliflower. 
We had vanilla milkshakes but with chocolate powder and peanut butter in them, so our usual woo-woo drink. I also told people they could make fluffernutter sandwiches with whatever bread they could find since it was the Summer Solstice. We had baguettes left over from our tapas.
I didn't take any selfies that day. I was planning to celebrate, it just didn't happen. 
I wore my bow earrings. I did not wear my pirate ship necklace because I couldn't think of any pirate movies she was in.
June 22 was also National Kissing Day. Jeremy and I celebrated. 
Detroit Style Pizza is kind of like upside down pizza. The sauce goes on top after the cheese and toppings. 
We kept it simple with Easy Fairy Folk Tortilla Pizzas from The Fablehaven Cookbook

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Jugglers BBQ

We went to Marcus' annual jugglers BBQ. This time we brought a friend.
This is Library Sam. 
He visited us from Provo Library and got into the juggling experience. 
Lucky wanted to learn to juggle but Jr. Jr. got a hold of the balls and really went at it. He has been practicing and practicing and juggling ever since. He is at the point where he can do some tricks now. Pretty awesome.  
I need to find the time to make more juggling balls (it's been a while and we can only find a few right now) so Lucky can practice, too.

Monday, August 11, 2025

Father's Day

June 14 was Flag Day. I didn't get a flag selfie that day. Oh well.
 
June 15 was Father's Day. I also didn't get a flag selfie but there wasn't a flag on our lawn that day. 
We did get a picture of Jeremy and Jr. together while Jeremy wore his tie that Jr. gave him many many years ago.
Jeremy requested taco salad for dinner and the kids made him a card.
Nichole created the front. I just love how adoringly the little penguin is looking up at his Daddy.  
 
June 15 was also National Electricity Day. Jet went around pretending like he was shocking everyone (electricitying them). He's so cute.

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Summer Reading Kids Art Gala

Orem Library had a Kids Art Gala during the Summer Reading Program. Jeremy and Lucky volunteered and taught simple balloon animals to people there.
Here's Lucky with one of the librarians teaching her how to make a flower.
 
In order to prepare, we had balloons all over our living room and Jeremy had a big balloon box that worked like a tent for Jet. He and I had some fun playing in it and reading books. 

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Beach Party!

When I told the kids I was planning our Tea Party (see what I posted on June 30, 2025), Jet told me he wanted a Beach Party. 
Eventually we got to his Beach Party. He let me know he wanted smoothies for the party. He was content with milkshakes. 
Other things we did for the Beach Party:

played with a beach ball (with a background beach scene), pretended to be crabs, put on music and danced, yelled, "Beach!" in our best Bluey voice, enjoyed a nice "beach read," ate s'mores, watched a movie that had beaches since June 13 was National Movie Night
We ran out of time so the next day we played MarioKart and chose beach courses.
 
The day before, June 13, was also Kitchen Klutzes of America Day. Sure glad I cleaned the table so my youngster had a place to smear his cupcake crumbs (after taking the cupcake off the plate it was on).

Friday, August 8, 2025

The KAT's Meow

Jet decided he wanted to name the Polish sausage Jeremy was cutting up. He named it "Meg." 
Jeremy: Next time I do mountain man breakfast and I use Polish sausage and bacon, I can say I used Megs and bacon.
Jet then decided to speak for Meg: Oh no. Don't cut me up. Noooo.
 
 
 
In Primary, the children were singing, "To Be a Pioneer." Jet kept singing, "To be a pirate king."  

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

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