Happy Fourth!

I love the 4th of July! Josh has to work today, but that won’t stop me from grilling some good food for Sydney and I. I also plan on making this Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie recipe from “The Pioneer Woman Cooks” blog.

I’m not a huge peanut butter fan, but this looks delicious AND I plan on using my brand new

!!!!!!!!!!!! You won’t believe what I paid for this. The customer service lady at Kohls was shocked and freaking out too. I got this mixer for under $30! So excited! Now I need to find a ton of recipes to try. Anyway, sorry to rub it in, but I’ve wanted one of these for years.

We are planning on watching the fireworks tonight at La Paloma. We have gone there a couple of times before we had kids and it was always fun, so I’m putting my brave hat on and taking the kids to see them. We’ll see how that goes. Hopefully it doesn’t rain like it did last night. It poured while I was out shopping last night so hard that I had to buy an umbrella. Luckily I found one on clearance. :

In other news Sydney officially made the biggest mess in her room today. Last night when I came home, I went into her room, told her goodnight, and she told me how clean her room was in a proud manner. Then, this morning Josh tells me to look in Sydney’s room and I see this. So, within 9 hours, her room went from fairly clean to THIS.

Look she’s all tired from making this mess. So, we will be spending some time today organizing things and discussing some ways she thinks she can keep her room clean. What’s really bugging me are all the tiny little toys she has. The little princess doll outfits with shoes the size of my pinky nail, the happy meal toys, and the random things she keeps to play with, like deflated balloons and pinecones. Ah well. We’ll get something worked out so we can all live in peace. I’m just glad Easton isn’t going around and making messes just yet.

Speaking of Easton…Isn’t he cute?

So, I don’t have time to make a lengthy post about what we’ve been doing, but I did want to get some photos up. Here’s some I took yesterday of the kids having lunch together. Aren’t they cute together. Sydney loves sitting next to Easton and trys to push her chair as close to his as she can. He loves watching her. It’s almost like he’s studying her with the faces he makes. I made this peanut butter and jelly sandwich for Sydney. Isn’t it fun? I found this sandwich cutter in the Target dollar spot. I don’t want to use it everyday though because I want Sydney to eat the crust, but it’s still pretty cute to have a butterfly sandwich.

Poor Easton scratched his eye during the night. I clipped his nails, but they grow just as fast as he does.

I love this photo of the two of them.

I hope to get some photos today, but we’ll see how that goes. Enjoy this wonderful day!