summer food

I keep taking pictures of the yummy stuff we are eating this summer. The farmers market is FINALLY starting to have some good stuff for us, it has been kind of a slow start this year. But, we are happy to go and support the local farmers anyway, even if we only pick up a few things. Those guys work so hard to bring us food, I really love it that we can go and say thank you by having our money go to them. Here is a sampling of the good things gracing our plates this summer...

A big, yummy salad with red leaf lettuce, spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, celery, sprouts, avocado, carrots, tempeh, and asiago cheese, topped with balsamic vinaigrette.

Curry chicken with Almond Turmeric Potatoes from this book, wilted kale and baked beets.

Greek Salad with lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, lemon garlic chicken, tomatoes, brown rice, kalamata olives, and red pepper goat cheese, topped with a lemon garlic dressing.

Homemade bread and handmade raw milk butter. A staple around here, yum!

Gado Gado from the Moosewood Cookbook. The peanut sauce is so good! We did this with Chicken instead of tofu. It is on a bed a spinach, topped with yellow rice, zucchini, shredded beets, cabbage, carrots, baked chicken and hard boiled eggs. This was really, really good.

summer food

I keep taking pictures of the yummy stuff we are eating this summer. The farmers market is FINALLY starting to have some good stuff for us, it has been kind of a slow start this year. But, we are happy to go and support the local farmers anyway, even if we only pick up a few things. Those guys work so hard to bring us food, I really love it that we can go and say thank you by having our money go to them. Here is a sampling of the good things gracing our plates this summer...

A big, yummy salad with red leaf lettuce, spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, celery, sprouts, avocado, carrots, tempeh, and asiago cheese, topped with balsamic vinaigrette.

Curry chicken with Almond Turmeric Potatoes from this book, wilted kale and baked beets.

Greek Salad with lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, lemon garlic chicken, tomatoes, brown rice, kalamata olives, and red pepper goat cheese, topped with a lemon garlic dressing.

Homemade bread and handmade raw milk butter. A staple around here, yum!

Gado Gado from the Moosewood Cookbook. The peanut sauce is so good! We did this with Chicken instead of tofu. It is on a bed a spinach, topped with yellow rice, zucchini, shredded beets, cabbage, carrots, baked chicken and hard boiled eggs. This was really, really good.

beet popsicles

Yes, that's right, I made beet popsicles over the weekend! I mixed some homemade beet juice with a little papaya juice and voila! Beet popsicles! What I was after was getting E to eat a little more veggies than he has been willing to lately. What totally escaped these great plans was factoring in the insane mess a popsicle made with beet juice would make!!

The mess was totally worth it, because my little man LOVED them!!

And when it was eaten all up we headed straight to the bathtub!!

show and tell

Ta Da!!



I finished my very first ever knitting project! An adorable little wool soaker for Boop. I (kindof) used the Ottobre free pattern, but made adjustments along the way to make sure it would fit my chunky baby. I think I did a pretty good job if I do say so myself. It took me awhile, only because I didn't work on it everyday. If I would have, I'm sure I would have finished it a month ago.


It is still a little big on her, but we are good in the diaper department for now, thanks to E's hand-me-downs. But, she is so much bigger than he was as a baby. We never made it to the large sizes with him, so I am working on our large stash - we will be there very soon.



I am so in love with the colors of this yarn.



The whole time I was making it, I was super worried that I would not have enough yarn. I did, but just barely...

And here she is modelling it for us...

A little more show and tell...

I finally got my craft room all set up and unpacked! We moved into this house in March and this was the one thing that kept getting bumped to "tomorrow." Well, I dug in and got it done this weekend. I am so happy to finally have some "me" space. A place to create and chill. A place entirely devoted to the creative spirit. I am excited to see the things that get made in this room. More importantly, I am excited to see who I become out of spending time in here.

show and tell

Ta Da!!



I finished my very first ever knitting project! An adorable little wool soaker for Boop. I (kindof) used the Ottobre free pattern, but made adjustments along the way to make sure it would fit my chunky baby. I think I did a pretty good job if I do say so myself. It took me awhile, only because I didn't work on it everyday. If I would have, I'm sure I would have finished it a month ago.


It is still a little big on her, but we are good in the diaper department for now, thanks to E's hand-me-downs. But, she is so much bigger than he was as a baby. We never made it to the large sizes with him, so I am working on our large stash - we will be there very soon.



I am so in love with the colors of this yarn.



The whole time I was making it, I was super worried that I would not have enough yarn. I did, but just barely...

And here she is modelling it for us...

A little more show and tell...

I finally got my craft room all set up and unpacked! We moved into this house in March and this was the one thing that kept getting bumped to "tomorrow." Well, I dug in and got it done this weekend. I am so happy to finally have some "me" space. A place to create and chill. A place entirely devoted to the creative spirit. I am excited to see the things that get made in this room. More importantly, I am excited to see who I become out of spending time in here.

go boop go!

This little one is so dang cute! She surprised me by pushing herself up to standing on the steps by my desk. Oh my! Such a big girl in the making...

cooling off

Whew! It has been hot around here! I seriously do not remember Colorado being this hot when I was growing up. Maybe as a kid we don't notice it as much, but seriously, it has been hot hot HOT! Don saw one of those bank signs the other day that read 101. I think that is way too high, so that means there is really only one thing to do to cool us all down...

Run through the sprinklers!

And the thing that makes in our yard is MUD!

Lots and lots of glorious, wonderful mud!!

we love papa

Don is a great papa, I really do think so. This guy has so much love in his heart for these little people. He makes them laugh and giggle like no one else. And can go from being a big kid himself full of gusto and rambunctiousness to sweet and nurturing in an instant. Really he is both at the same time.

This blurry one pretty much sums up the level of energy these two have when they play.

Oh! And he loves to fish, he could spend all day everyday at the lake just chilling in the hot summer sun. Good thing about that is yummy fish dinners at least a couple of times a month!!

Look at him all proud!

And, he is great at putting our little non-napper down for a nap. How does he do that?

Like this...
Sweet, wonderful papa!