Oscar Stew

Our life has finally resumed it’s regular schedule, we haven’t lost ourselves in the depths of spring break blues, or in mourning Kelsey’s departure. While the men are at school/work we ladies have kept busy doing fun stuff around the house, while we “patiently” wait for winter to pull it’s claws out of spring…

Here is Domestic Diva Brinley, host of the next hottest show on Food Network – Gourmet Cooking for the Toothless. Here she is getting ready to add the goose-goose, er….couscous to the pear/broccoli gumbo.

We use all natural ingredients, including leaves and bark…This chicken noodle soup will have a crunch to it, that’s for sure!

Moving on to breakfast foods…peaches, oatmeal and some Wheat Germ for added brain power. Rowan might not be crawling yet, but watch her IQ soar!

Later in the week Binnie & I decided to go full throttle with the girl power and make a new church bag for her. Here Brinley is showing us how to apply interfacing – it’s easy she says…just look for the bumpy side.

I let my 6-year-old play with matches and my (almost) 4-year-old do the ironing. Rowan put down the blow torch!

Do you think Brinley is having fun yet playing with all of mommy’s big girl toys?

Forget the bag, she’s breaking out, making something on her own. Something. Next week we’ll work on sewing a straight line.

Look at that intense focus. She didn’t even sew her fingers together!

The finished product. Look for Brinley’s latest designs on Etsy. Watch out Martha!

Amy’s birthday was on Tuesday. I wasn’t able to be there, but the kids, our families, friends, a florist, and I made sure that the wonder woman in our lives had her day… 

Drew loves fireworks, sparklers, and all things that go boom. So it’s no surprise that being delegated the duty of lighting the candles was more than a cheap thrill for him. Sweet blue tongue dude! 

He’s a true pyromaniac, just like his father. That’s what every responsible parent dreams of. Mmmmmhmmm. Just to be on the safe side, we hide the matches in some weird places around the house.

The lady of honor. Make a wish! Props go to Drew for snapping this rare photo of the superhero behind the camera.

This is the best cake I never made.

A special thanks goes to all of Amy’s friends who made her day special when I couldn’t. Never before has she had a birthday that tasted and smelled so good! 

Happy birthday Amy! We love you!

The stars aligned themselves, the heavens parted, and we finally managed to get to the bank with the birthday check that Great Grandpa & Grandma F sent Drew weeks ago. With the check staring him in the face every time he went to open the fridge, Drew was sure to remind us that he had money and he wanted to spend it.

Since Drew has just started learning about money & coin values at school, we had the check cashed in smaller denominations. Drew felt like a wealthy man with the stack of $1 bills & quarters. First things first though – the dude took care of the 10% he owes to the man upstairs.

Signed, sealed, delivered, it’s not yours! This should keep the lights on at Church for a little while longer…

Mind on his money, money in his hand. Big spender comin’ through. But what will he spend it on?

He could get, like, a billion Legos! Ok, only 405. But that’s close to a billion!

Hey Drew! Why get boring boy Legos when you could get these sweet pink girl Legos?!

Is this a horror movie? Are all the kids gasping for air? All of them were caught up in the excitement of a new toy!

It’s been a while since the Cars movie came out, and it seems the tough economy is having a negative effect on the die-cast toys. $6.27 for Night Vision McQueen?! What a rip!

Here’s a recession-proof toy that’s an enduring classic. Interesting technique hula girl!

Don’t worry Drew, we’re sure you’ll find the perfect gift! Ro is here to cheer you on to victory!

So many choices. Drew’s eyes were quickly getting bigger than his budget. “All my life been po’, but it really don’t matter no mo’…”

How about a Light Saber? The force is strong with this one…but so is that chance that he’ll use it on his sisters.

Drew finally decided he wanted to get the Bolt DVD. It was a tough choice because it ate up most of his budget…

But there was still enough left over for Drew to get some tasty cucumbers for his buddy Edgar, with 4 bucks to spare! Nice work Scoob!

And with that, we were out like a hurd of turtles. We could get arrested by the cool police for having too much fun at Wal-Mart. true story…