My Bubbie Min

My Bubbie Min (my Dad’s mom) came to visit for Hosea and Micah’s birthday and stayed a week. It was so good to see her. She lives in Arizona, so we don’t get to see her very often. But she is an avid 50 sticky fingers reader, and always sends me beautiful comments in my email. We had such a good time with her that I wanted to share some pictures of her.

Bubbie Min with Josiah at Hosea and Micah's birthday party

Bubbie with Me and my brother Judah and my nephew Solomon

Micah and Hosea playing on Bubbie's walker

I think we wore her out! But she was very happy to be here and boy were we happy to have her here!

She also was very tickled when she found out about my blog’s name being "50 sticky fingers" because she had a recipe that she always made/makes that she loves and calls “sticky chicken” because it always made all her kids fingers sticky too. So I thought I would share her recipe with all of you.



Bubbie Min’s Sticky Chicken

Wishbone Italian dressing

Your favorite BBQ sauce

Chicken (we used wings and drumetts – any kind would work I think)

Marinate in wishbone Italian dressing overnight

With the oven at 375, brush the bbq sauce onto the chicken, cook for a while, turn it over and brush more on the other side, continue to do this for an hour and 20 minutes or until chicken is done.

Enjoy and make sure you have lots of napkins.



Love you Bubbie!

{Embrace the Camera}

So I know I haven’t blogged much this month. But I’m going to just jump right back in. I am starting something new for my blog. It isn’t my idea, I am stealing it from a blog I stalk follow. She calls it {Embrace the Camera} and you can read all about it on her blog here http://andersonfamilycrew.blogspot.com/2010/05/embrace-camera.html

In case you don't want to read her blog about it, basically it is about taking pictures of yourself with your children so that when they get older they will have pictures of you. If you are like me you love looking at pictures of your parents from when you were a child. While taking pictures of myself is not one of my favorite things to do, I wish that my mom had more pictures of herself, so I am going to do it for my kiddos.


She does hers on Thursdays but I already have “Three Things Thursday” so I’m going to do mine on Fridays. I don't think she'll mind.

Me and Micah enjoying some pizza after a long day at the pool

Hosea and Micah (can't have one without the other)

and with Miss Avrah

I hope you enjoy and that you also {embrace the camera} and if you do, leave me a comment so I can come see.

3 Things Thursday

My three things today are three things that grew in my very own garden

1. A huge zucchini
2. A huge yellow squash
3. A jalapeno

I had a picture of someone holding them so you could see how big they really are (which is big) but I just couldn't get it to look right. So here ya go

Veggies In A Chair

3 things Thursday

Three things Thursday


I’ve been really busy lately. So my three things today are my three excuses for not blogging lately.

1. It is summer now, well at least in theory. All the kids are out of school, but for me that means we get busier. Where are these so called “dog days of summer”?

2. I am taking two summer classes; I thought that I was taking a “light” load. I am taking medieval history and biology, my biology class hasn’t started yet so I don’t know how hard that one will be but this history class is really taking it out of me. It is a fast track class and is only 4 weeks so that makes it a little bit harder. I think my new least favorite thing is writing essays from memory. However I aced my test I took today so yeah!

3. I’m too tired. More so then usual. I have been waking up at 5:30 in the morning so I can go run, before Jeremy leaves for his work out. So this makes me go to bed much earlier, and since I usually do the blogging at night after the kiddos go to bed, I just haven’t had it in me. But I will do better in June.



Those are my three things and here are some fun pictures from today.

These were from this today from our morning bike ride. So much fun now that everyone can "ride"

Judah

Josiah

Avrah

Micah and Hosea

What are your three things?

Three Things Thursday

1. Cleaned out the fridge- apparently I couldn’t wait for Mr. Vargas to build a composter, and I started one in the veggie drawer. No fear it is all clean now.

2. Had friends over for dinner, but didn’t do any grocery shopping this week so we kind of threw it together, Mr. Vargas made Mexican inspired Asian chicken (chicken thighs w/ an Asian marinade that he made up, grilled…Mexican because he is.), white herbed beans (super yummy), and a broccoli slaw.

3. Big boys now know how to ride bikes without training wheels. Guess I just needed to find the right motivator. Their computer died a couple weeks ago, so I told them when they both learned to ride without training wheels we would buy them a new one. Didn’t take them too long after that. Oh and P.S. on this one Judah crashed tonight and has an awesome stomach wound now (nothing too major)



What are you three things?

Accessories

Today we went and picked up some new accessories for the big boys.


Look at these handsome boys.

doesn't he look older.

He really is VERY happy about his new glasses

Loving his new specs

The little boys are sporting some new accessories these days too.

They love their new amber anklets

And here they are cheering on “The Map” from Dora the Explorer.

And the winner is....

I know you are all waiting patiently to find out who won my first give away. In case you forgot what the prize was it was an amber teething necklace made by the lovely Ashlee see her etsy site at http://www.etsy.com/shop/tweetbabydesigns.

AND NOW....Drum roll please...

The winner picked by the random number generator is....

suburban hippie mama

who just happens to be another twin momma and you can go check out her blog http://surviving4kids.blogspot.com/

CONGRATS Dana. I'll hook up with you when you get back from your very fun sister's weekend.

IF you didn't win, don't forget to go by Ashlee's store and buy something. I know I will be.

Thanks again for playing.