Beach

We went over to the coast to visit some friends of ours. And enjoyed a beautiful day at the beach but still cold enough to wear your clothes into the water...

Pearson Air Museum

Last week I had to go to Fort Vancouver- which is more of a historical place than an active military post but has the capabilities of getting my new military id and to wow the kids. There is a neat museum in the same area: Pearson Air Museum and it has many cool things to see and even do and right now there is a special exhibit: Snoopy As the World War I Flying Ace. There were a couple of the Snoopy as a Flying Ace comic strips to read and look at which the boys loved as they really got into Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and gang this past year.

Weekly Menu

Yikes- been a while since I posted- hope you'll forgive me and here is my weekly menu plan a day late:

Monday [Happy Memorial Day]: We had bbq chicken, grilled asparagus, salad, and watermelon-lemonade to drink.

Tuesday: For lunch it'll be leftover shredded chicken over green salad. Dinner is lamb kabobs, rice, and asparagus.

Wednesday: [Solomon has a field trip today and requested pasta for lunch but I'll make this Tues night] Lunch: Pasta [goat cheese, bacon, aspargus, and roasted red peppers] and watermelon. Dinner: Lox over green salad with garlic bread and lentil soup from freezer.

Thursday: For dinner marinated with an apricot chutney lamb, hummos, veggies, and flat bread.

Friday: For breakfast we'll have a hearty Farmer Skillet- potatoes, veggies and eggs. Lunch and Dinner will be eaten out as we're on a day trip.

Sat: French Toast. Lunch will be leftover lamb in pita sandwiches and for dinnerwe'll have Osso Buco with red sauce over pasta and veggies.

Sunday: Breakfast will be waffles with warmed fruit and lunch will be deviled eggs, veggies and hummos, and any leftovers in the fridge. For dinner, it'll be Roast, potatoes, wilted salad [kale, mustard greens, etc] and asparagus.

Monday: Lunch will be leftover roast on salad- done asian style. Dinner: Taco Salad [ground beef] for me and regular tacos for boys plus pineapple salsa.

Tuesday Dinner: Black bean soup, cornbread, and more pineapple salsa.

Happy Armed Forces Day!

We went into a Build A Bear place and they had camouflage teddy bears which the boys instantly fell in love with. I got them for the boys so they could cuddle with them instead of Dad.
After that I asked the boys, “How are you feeling about Papa being gone?” and Solomon replies, “Fine. I like the Army. I like my Army toys and my Army bear.” So far they seem to be dealing with it okay, we’ll see how it is in a few weeks…

Solomon named his bear “Sarge” for Papa and Cyrus named his “Seesaw” but I have no idea where or how he came up with that name.

This is a story of a man who asked out a woman [they looked a lot like the people in the picture above but skinnier, girl had shorter hair, and the boy had longer hair] and they dated until they fell in love with one another. The PG rating of the next part of the story is that their love spilled out and made kids.



Thing Two and Thing One

and I now get to celebrate a little holiday today: Mother's Day so Happy Mother's Day to the mother in your life... And a special thanks to my husband and boys for allowing me to be the coolest mom that I am!



In other news: today was my last day at work and I will miss my kiddos there *sniffles* but it will be nice to have Sundays with my family...

This is from Dan's Moblization Ceremony that we had Monday and this late afternoon is when he leaves for additional training over on the East Coast and from there he will head over to Kuwait and into Iraq. We'll see him in a year or so... How we're doing? The boys and I are okay. I'll let you know how it goes...

BBQ

Something that we all wanted was a bbq and we got one and while it was rainy most of the past week- we did use it three times and loved it.

It takes one dad and one grandpa to put it together and another grandpa to record this so thanks for the help guys!

Dan mastering the grill:

May 2nd

On May 2nd was Cyrus's 5th Birthday! Happy Birthday kiddo!

Every birthday boy needs a party hat and a Dr. Seuss fan needs a Cat-in-the-hat Hat.


Finally after a year of him talking about Batman for his birthday- he got it.