Happy 4th!

What a great day! The weather was nice, we went with my sister to her church, and they were having service and picnic in a park today. It was fun and the food was great.
However Hosea has started a new thing that is not fun or great. He has started throwing fits, knock-down, drag out fits, where he literally throws himself onto the ground and screams. And of course everybody stares, and we the adults (and Micah) try to figure out what is wrong and why he is acting this way. I am hoping that this is short lived and may be caused by his lack of sleep and disruption of his schedule. Keeping that in mind all the things we did today were peppered with fits from Hosea, we did our best to ignore it and have a good time anyway. This was easy since the company was nice and the views were even better, more on this later.

After our picnic we were going to go to the mall (for those that don’t know that is what they call the area between the white house and the Washington monument), but decided that it would be better to go home and take naps.

After naps we went to the Air Force Monument. Mr. Vargas and I got separated from John and Anna’s car and had a nice little tour of I395 South and then back North, but we did finally find our way to where we were going. And aside from a couple more tantrums from Hosea and Josiah wanting a hotdog instead of the sandwiches that we packed, the kids did great. We had a great view of the fireworks and they were just far enough away that they weren’t loud enough to scare anybody.

at the park (notice who is grumpy)

Micah eating hummus with a spoon (YUM)

Avrah pointing (not sure what at)

The Air Force Memorial

cuteness

Me and Avrah waiting on fireworks to start

Posing for Daddy

Conversations over goldfish

Our view (see the washington Monument on the left and the white house on the right)

Fireworks (didn't photograph so well, but were awesome)

Hope you had a safe and happy fourth.

Tomorrow we invade the beach…

Vacationing

For those of you who don’t know, I am on vacation. No not vacation from my blog, although it would appear that way. But no, I am on vacation with my family. We are in Washington D.C., and instead of tell you about it in one big blog when I get home, I am going to try and keep you updated nightly (maybe).


We left on the first after Mr. Vargas got off work, I had the van packed and ready to go and the house clean and the kids fed and waiting. We were able to pull out of our driveway at around 6. Since it is about a 20 hour drive from Tulsa to DC, we decided to stop and see some of my family in Tennessee. To make it easier on the kids, we decided to drive straight through the night so that they could sleep. This worked out great. Also the portable DVD player (Thanks Gramma) and the boatload of DVDs (Thanks Miss Dana) that we borrowed helped to keep our sanity while the kiddos were not sleeping. We made excellent time to Tennessee and were able to stop and take showers and let the kids run around and eat lunch with my Aunt and Uncle and their beautiful children. I think my camera was packed away for this part of the trip so no pictures of that.

After that it was about a 7 hour trip from Tennessee to DC, I tried to catch up on some sleep from driving the night before and Mr. Vargas got us there, making great time.



Today the adventure began.

We played at a park.

We went on a boat tour/ride to Georgetown

"on a boat"

Our view of the capital

We ate at Haagen-Dazs ice cream in Georgetown

yum

We took another boat back. (loved this pic)

Exhausted by the day's adventure (the big boys rode with AntAnna and Uncle John)

We went to dinner at Marrakesh- A very yummy Moroccan restaurant.

eating on couches with your fingers, every child's dream

After we ate we were entertained by a belly dancer,

 she was great.

Tomorrow looks like a busy day for us, among other things there is a picnic, going to the mall (not the shopping kind), seeing the Air Force Memorial and possibly a pentagon Memorial tour. Also I’m sure we will see fireworks of some kind. Hope you all have a safe and happy 4th!

OH and a big shout out to our house sitter, love you muchly!

{Embrace the Camera}

Today's pictures were taken by:

Judah and Josiah Vargas

Because even though you are 6 1/2, you will ALWAYS be my baby!

Because sometimes I still need to pick you up, to show you I can.

Because it's artsy and I like it!

If you decide to do this too, please link up so we can all come see and comment, everybody loves comments, right?

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day

To the man that has made all my dreams come true and made the life I live possible.

Thank you

For being the best Daddy to our children

I love you.

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