The Summer is almost over.....

*Sigh*
I am usually looking foward to the end of summer. The girls go back to school, I get biggwrl all to myself. I get some quiet time. But this year... it seems like the summer has rushed past this year. We started out with Middlest's birthday and ran straight into our big family visiting trip,  then Eldest went on her big trip to Virgina, Big Daddy got laid off, we went on vacation, Pookieboo had knee replacment surgery, Mommy and Me camp, and Aunt Oregon visiting.. and here we are at the end of the summer.
Doesn't seem like so much now.
We only visited 13 states
an ocean
the Nations Capitol
Tom Sawyers house
Lincolns tomb
Met TONS of family
got to see what live chickens look like
did a TON of hiking
we had so much fun at Sumatanga
Went swimming at the river
saw soo much stuff
Its been a great summer. I cant wait to see what we can squeeze in this last week.

nightmares

Middlest and I had a full day today. FULL. Aunt Oregon is visiting right now and is spending time with each girl before she has to go back. Since Eldest was at her mothers that meant Middlest and I had the WHOLE day to ourselves. We had Hot Dogs for lunch, then vegged out and then went window shopping. So much fun! Anyways the poor baby has been having nightmares all night tonight. I blame the crappy hotdog restraunt. The first one was about a shark swimming on the beach and eatting her and then she had another one about being trapped in quicksand and mommy wasn't able to save her. :(( poor little girl :(( So after the second nightmare. We went and took a bath in mommy's tub ( which is sooo big so it's special) and we "washed those dreams right out of our hair" MAN am i a good mommy or what? First of all I thought to do it and Second I remebered all the words and managed to switch them to dreams. Oh and she also remembered the song! So HOPEFULLY singing a special song will help her to block out the bad dreams. She asked what Gramma would do for us but I couldn't remember.. i felt so bad. So I had to explain its been a long time since I was a little girl. Luckily she bought it.

The nightmare song

I'm gonna wash those dreams right outta my hair x3
If those dreams dont understand you..
If you fly on seprate beams...
waste a time make a change
Ride those dreams right off our range..
rub them out of your roll call
and drum them out of your dreams...
woah hoah woah hoah
i'm gonna wash those dreams right outta my hair x3

30 days of popcicles day 5

Today was Verners float pops.
We mixed Verners Gingersoda and Vanilla yogurt. ( We used yogurt instead of Ice cream)
It tasted a little like the melted leftovers from your float.. you know when the Ice Cream and soda are melted together? But it had that distinct yogurt tang to it. It was good Eldest really seemed to enjoy it I however didn't care to much for it. It wasn't the best but it wasn't the worst either. Just not my cup of tea.
I could tell Biggrl didn't care much for it either because she didn't say it was the bestest pock cicle in the whole world. Gotta love the transparancy of children.

Whale Wars

Do any of you watch Whale Wars? I LOVEit!! It's a love hate relationship. I know why these people are doing what they do and I respect thier dedication. I think Paul Watson is a little off. But thats my opinon.
This weeks episode one of the Shonan Maru ships rammed the Ady Gil a boat new to this season. Holy cow if you watch the show you know how much smack is traded back and forth in the media and such.
The Whaling fleet says one thing
the Sea Shepard says another.
this time it's no exception

This is a repersentation of the Shonan Maru 2

a "research" ship in the whaling fleet.

This is the Ady Gill.

One is a lot bigger than the other.

The Shonan Maru 2 and the Ady Gil were involved in an altercation.

They (AG) were supposed to be annoying the Shonan Maru. The Shonan Maru hit them as in BROKE THE BOAT.

The Whaling fleet says the AG tried to ram them. I mean seriously come on. I know there are two sides to every story but look at the two boats. No one in their right might would do that! Freaking Crazy!

I cant wait for next weeks episode. no matter how dumb :P

30 days of popcicles day 4

We made vitiman water Ice pops last night for our popcicles today. This was eldests choice for the pops this week. They were good. Great flavor. We thought that they needed somthing else perhaps berries.
tonight is Middlests turn for what to make for tomorrows pops... be afraid be VERY afraid.

Ps. Todays popcicles are Verners float pops

30 days of popcicles day 3

We in the Crazy house are always looking for crazy ways to incorperate diffrent skills info every day things. Our latest project is 30 days of popcicles (it will not be everyday) just 30 diffrent types of homemade creative diffrent kinds of pops. Our goal is to show that desserts can be fun, inexpensive, and YUMMY.

Coconut cream pie pops.

Three words : OH MY GOSH!
 Ingredients: Coconut Cream Pie pudding, Toasted coconut, and Grahm cracker crust

There is no picture because well we ate them to fast.

even Eldest who hates coconut liked the popsicles.
Ohhhhhh soooooooooo yummy. Sooooooooo good.
Order of layers... toasted coconut, pudding, crust, coconut, pudding, then crust then bang to settle and mix everything down
Now next time we make these and there will be a next time.. i'll put pudding on the bottom of the mold instead of coconut.. though it did make it easier for them to come out... hmmmmm

30 days of popcicles day 2

We in the Crazy house are always looking for crazy ways to incorperate diffrent skills info every day things. Our latest project is 30 days of popcicles (it will not be everyday) just 30 diffrent types of homemade creative diffrent kinds of pops. Our goal is to show that desserts can be fun, inexpensive, and YUMMY.

 Day 2

We have a ton of sugarfree stuff so we all agreed we would try a few so that Bigdaddy can have some fun too.  We decided to make Chocolate pudding pops with Marshmellows!!!  Once again we made the pudding according to directions ( we always use 1/4cup of milk LESS than directions say if you make a double pkg it's 1/4cup PER same with jello) while it was setting we smooshed mini marshmellos into the pop molds then layered pudding and marshmellows again ( it only takes 3 to 6 mini marshmellow)
Then freeze during the day.

The chocolate pudding expanded around the marshmellows. the Verdict:

The frozen pudding was creamy and yummy.. the marshmellows were a wierd texture though.. but still yummy.

Tomorrows: Coconut Cream Pie Pops