For Michelle

Deluxe Cheeseburger Salad

4 sesame seed hamburger bun tops
1 small red onion, divided
2 plum tomatoes
3/4 lb 95% lean ground beef
1/2 cup finely diced dill pickles
3/4 cups ketchup
1 tbsp yellow mustard
8 cups thinly sliced romaine lettuce
1 cup (4oz) shredded cheddar cheese

1. preheat oven to 425. Slice bun tops into 1/4-in strips. Arrange in a single layer on cookie sheet; bake 8-10 minutes or until lightly toasted. Cool completely.

2. Slice half of the onion crosswise into thin rings. Remove and discard stems from tomatoes; cut tomatoes into quarters lengthwise and slice crosswise. Set onion and tomatoes aside.

3. Cook ground beef over medium-high heat 5-7 minutes or until no longer pink, breaking beef into crumbles. Chop remaining onion half. Finely dice pickles. Combine chopped onion, pickles, ketchup and mustard. Add cooked ground beef; mix well.

4. To serve, Arrange lettuce on large serving platter. Spoon beef mixture over lettuce. Top with cheese, tomatoes and sliced onion. Arrange hamburger bun croutons around edge of platter. Serve immediately.

This is a pampered Chef recipe ... it says it serves 6 but I think is serves more. Super yummy and easy and great for summer!

The Poops

Watch out Addie Mae has the poops ..... poor girl! She was up every 15 to 20 minutes last night until about 4:30 .... of coarse she is super dehydrated but doesn't want to drink (have you tasted the pedialyte drinks? ... they are nasty ... no wonder she doesn't want to drink it) .... she is still passed out on the coach ... she has an appointment at 11 so hopefully they will be able to give her something ... here is hoping that none of your kiddos get this "bug"

Summer Fun!

So it is FINALLY summer for us! Guhn's last day of school was not until June 18th! I know!!!! The kids and I have already gone up to grandma perkins and everyday I hear "can we go to grandmas to go swimming" Of coarse .... it is so stinkin hot .... what else could we do!?! Here are some pics from this morning! Jordan better watch out! I see a new #23 comming up in the ranks!

Nacho!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope everyone else is having a great summer!!!

General Tips

We have been in the car quite a bit the last few days and here are some tips all parent should know and we were reminded of this weekend ....

always have in your car:

10 times the amount of plastic bags you would ever think you could possibly use (you know the ones from when you forgot to use your reusable shopping bags)
1 towel per kid traveling in the car
1 roll of paper towel
package of wet wipes (it doesn't matter how old the kids are)
change of clothes

This weekend we had wet wipes and change of clothes (only because we had stayed in Taylor and still had all our bags in the back of the car)

Addison has been sick and needless to say it would have been soooo helpful to have had a few of the things off this list. Have you seen projectile vomit in movies and thought ohhh that is sooo fake..... well it is not .... I have seen it first hand this weekend and it is sooo real. Poor Eric has been barfed on more times this weekend then anyone would care to in a life time (sorry babe but thank goodness it was not me!!!)

Anyway we will now be prepared with these thing and hopefully we will never need to use them!

*kinda funny a week or so ago this was the conversation in the car on the way to school

Guhn: Hey mom, I know 3 different ways to say throw up
me: Really what are they
Guhn: throw up, regurgitate, and barf
me: oh and don't forget puke
Guhn: oh yeah puke too
me: Guhner where did you learn regurgitate
Guhn: Mom! I am almost out of kindergarten!

Really???

Go ahead and count them ..... SEVEN pairs of shoes on the stairs .... and this was on a good day! As you can see the funny thing about it is that I was a major contributor to this stairway art! The funniest thing to me is that within the last 3 months we have added a shoe rack under the coat hooks and a shoe basket by the front door .... and yet this is where the shoes like to hang out! I hope I am not the only one with stair art like this.

Way to go Guhner!

Guhner finished his jr. suns season on Saturday May 10th. He was very proud of his "real gold" trophy and said that it was him dunking like Michael Jordan! Good job Guhn we are very proud of you!

Hurray!!!

Finally I found our camera cord!!! It magically appeared right in front of my face .... imagine that!