What we ate for dinner tonight!

We ate another new freezer meal tonight.  A-M-A-Z-I-N-G-L-Y yummy!  We put them in the oven before going to the gym and then stuffed ourselves when we got back.  Here is the recipe if you want to try them!

Picture from http://www.kevinandamanda.com/recipes/dinner/creamy-chicken-enchiladas.html

Now it's time to listen to Lucy singing to her babies in bed and for us to watch 30 Rock. 

<3 Love <3

What we ate for dinner

I found this recipe for Garlic Chicken Farfalle and decided to try it on our last cooking day.  We ate it tonight and it was AMAZING!!!!

Picture from http://www.kevinandamanda.com/recipes/dinner/becky-higgins-garlic-chicken-farfalle.html

The one I made wasn't nearly as pretty as this picture.  Still tasty though! 

We will definately make it again.

Saturday Adventures

A few Saturdays ago, we had a fun day!  Matt was playing golf, so Lucy and I headed to Holland's Art in the Park in Centennial Park.  I called my mom while we drove over and she met us there.

Lucy got this new dress for her doll.  As soon as we saw this fountain, she didn't want to walk around anymore, all she wanted to do was look at the fountain.

Then she showed her baby the fish in the fishpond.

Do you see that french braid in her hair!?  She NEVER lets me do her hair and I somehow managed to convince her to let me braid it.  I was very happy with the results.  It will probably be another 3 years before she lets me braid it again.

We bought blueberries on the way home.  Lucy was really hoping she could eat the whole box.

In the afternoon, we walked around outside with the whole family, including Dilbert.  We tried for a picture of the 2 of them.  Neither of them have much sit though...

We have soybeans planted in the field around our house.  We went and looked at them.  Did you know that they get little purple flowers on them?  I didn't!  They were really quite pretty.

Dilbert checked for enemies.

Here is Lucy's grass mustache.

Dilbert loves me!

That is my kind of Saturday!

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This just in:  Lucy is helping Daddy with yard work as I'm writing this.  They are working on planting grass around our new patio.  Matt puts screens over the seed to keep birds (and Dilbert) off the seed. 

Lucy just picked up a big screen and said "I'm a hero Daddy!  I can pick up the big one!"

Bath time

Lucy in her "shower."  (Yes, we do let her take baths in her bathing suit)

She thought it was pretty cool to wear a towel like this and sing as loud as she could.

Such a silly girl!

Loving the Outdoors

Matt loves it outside and he has passed those genes on to his daughter.  Matt loves his landscaping and has been teaching Lucy how to water the flowers.  One night when we were hanging out outside, Lucy grabbed the hose and started to water.

To tell you the truth, I see visions of a girl with a power washer in her future!

Matt has some beautiful flowers around our house.  Here are a few:

Lucy wanted to try out the camera and we thought "Maybe we can get a good picture of the two of us with it not being a self shot!"  HAHAHA  Here is Lucy's best attempt in round 1:

Then in round 2, Lucy tried for just me.  There were a lot of terrible pictures.  Here is the best one:

And then Matt had to make a silly face for the one where we were both in the picture... sort of.  Some day...

I love this picture of Lucy.

It's been a beautiful summer so far.  It's hard to believe that it is already mid August!

Forts

I have many memories from my childhood of making forts.  We would drape our comforters over kitchen chairs and pile books on the blankets on the chairs to keep them in place.  Now, I get to make those types of memories for Lucy!

We have made quite a few forts in our house so far.  Here is one example.  She made us go to sleep in the fort.

Before Lucy was even born, Martha Stewart Magazine had a cool idea for making tents outside.  The took rope between 3 trees and then draped sheets over the rope.  I have been waiting to make one of these for a long time and we finally did.

Unfortunately our trees are too far apart from each other and it was super windy.  But, here is what we came up with:  (the ropes are tied to 2 trees that are out of the picture.  The one sheet we just pinned across the two ropes to make the 3rd side)

Lucy kept forgetting that the sides were sheets and two of the corners were pinned closed.  She kept running right into them.  Eventually we just had a two sided tent which was fun too.

As we were picking the spots, Dilbert peed right in the center of one group of trees and then pooped right outside of the spot we picked.  I proceeded to step in the poop as I was heading back to the house.  I love having a dog...

I've also seen cute "fort kits" made by bloggers in blog land that are made from dollar store sheets and loops sewn on, along with ropes and clips.  A cute idea.  Maybe someday I'll throw something like that together for Lucy.  For now, we just use old sheets we have around.

Happy fort building!

Best Mother's Day Ever

Matt and I have always loved zoos and have gone to them together since we were dating.  For Mother's Day, Matt suggested that we go to John Ball Zoo in GR.  We had SO much fun!  It was probably one of the most memorable zoo trips we've ever had.

Lucy loved these bass that were outside the penguin house. 

The bears were really active and had been swimming.  When we got there, this one was walking around in the exhibit.

We kept hearing a cat making a bunch of noise, and when we finished watching the bear, we walked over to the cat exhibits.

This mountain lion was meowing at the snow leopard in the next cage.  The snow leopard just kept ignoring the mountain lion.  All through the zoo you could hear the mountain lion: "Meeooow meeooowww  meeoooww!"

Lucy played the drum outside of the lion exhibit.  The lions were super boring.  <nap time>

Then the best part of the zoo happened.  We got to the chimp exhibit and saw these guys:

Next to the tree here is a mallard duck that must have been sitting on a nest (read: would not move). 

The chimp was not a fan of this duck in his area.

First he tried running at it. 

The duck didn't move

Then, he threw sand at it.

The duck didn't move

Then he went to the edge of the cliff thing he was on and turned his back to us.

He put his hand by his bum and pooped in his hand!!!!

Then he pooped in his other hand!

Then with a mighty throw he pitched to poop 1-2 right at the duck.

The duck still didn't move.

We were all like "Did that really just happen?"

Then the chimp ran up to the level above the duck and started to throw sand down on the duck.

The duck still didn't move.

After a little while, the chimp gave up.

As soon as that chimp moved away, another chimp jumped up and did a really crazy chimp dance.  It was unreal!

As we walked away from the exhibit, Lucy said "Monkey poop in his hand!  (while squatting and putting her hands between her legs)  And throw it at the duck!  So naughty!"

She said this over and over and over again all through the rest of the zoo and part of the car ride home.  And then for the next 3 weeks at any mention of zoo or monkey or just whenever it came to mind.

After the chimps, we were about done with the zoo.  Here we are in front of the spider monkey exhibit.

Here are Matt and Lucy in front of the penguins.

Ehinger family self portrait:

It was a fabulous day. 
I'm so happy to be a mom.