Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Visit With My Sis and Nephews

My sister and her three boys came to visit us this week from OKC. We had such a great time together!

The girlz and I got our baby fix...

We had a fun time at the Collinsville Splash Pad...


We ate at one of our favorite BBQ restaurants...

We had more wet fun at the Nienhuis Water Park in Broken Arrow...

And Grand MaMa joined us for pizza the last night we were all together...

Grand MaMa's sweet dog, Fifi...


More baby fix...




What a sweet mess...

Blackberry Cobbler Recipe - Pioneer Woman style

I just made the Pioneer Woman's Blackberry Cobbler and it was fantastic! Here's the recipe...

Pioneer Woman's Blackberry Cobbler
Makes 6-8 servings

1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup while milk
2 cups fresh or frozen blackberries

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and grease a 3-quart baking dish with butter.

Rinse the blackberries and dry on a paper towel. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, stir together 1 cup of the sugar, the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the milk and combine. Add the melted butter and whisk until smooth. Pour the batter into the greased baking dish. Scatter the top with all of the blackberries. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of sugar over the top.

Bake for approximately 1 hour or until edges are crispy. When 10 minutes remain of cooking time, sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons sugar.

Serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream, or both.

Tea Party Celebration in the Country

I took the girlz to a Tea Party Celebration in the country this past weekend. Steve's mom went, too, and we had a really great time.


The Tea Party was hosted by Debra Honn, author of Let's Have Tea, a sixty-lesson, five-year tea party planning instruction guide geared toward young girls. She spoke about raising girls to have good manners and to have godly character. We had fun eating cookies and drinking "tea", making a craft, going on a hay ride, touring a log cabin replica from the 1800's, participating in a relay race and cooking hot dogs over a fire. Here's a few pics from our fun day.

The Tea Party was held in a barn at Firey's Mountain in Sand Springs...


Pics of the hay ride and educational tour of the log cabin...

Friday, July 16, 2010

Art Camp 2010

The girlz just completed a week of Art Camp at the Owasso Community Center and they loooved it! Of course, they love any chance they can get to paint and draw. They come by that naturally, I suppose ;-) Their teacher was Mrs. Kuhns and she did a FaBuLoUs job! The girlz learned so much and hope to attend next summer, as well.

Here's "M" and her artwork...

Self-portrait entitled, "Miss Independent". (Hmm - should I be concerned?!)...

"Friends of Fruit"...

Leopard in the bushes...

"Going Down the Track"...

And here's "A" and her artwork...

Self-Portrait #1, "Are you done yet?" - Referring to Steve and me painting her bedroom ;-)

Self-Portrait #2, "Thank you" - Referring to when Steve and I finally finish ;-)

"Going Down the Track"...

Topiaries...

Log cabin...

Landscape...

Lizard...

And here's a few more pics from class...

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

4th of July 2010

We had a great time celebrating the 4th of July this year! Our first celebration was at the Stone Canyon Concert Series this past Thursday night. There was a ton of people there, lots of food and beverage vendors, great music, fantastic fireworks and fun friends!


The following morning, our homeschool co-op came over for a little 4th of July bike parade and picnic. The kids were so cute riding their decorated bikes and scooters.







The next night we went to a friend's house to watch Owasso's fireworks which were set off at the high school close by.

Then, on the 4th of July, we went to Steve's parent's house for our annual 4th of July celebration.



And finally, after we got home, we watched fireworks from on top of our roof. We started this tradition last year and the girlz love it!






It was a great time to reflect and thank God and our veteran's for the freedoms we enjoy.