Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Swimming Time!

My kids are almost through with their swimming lessons, and we have been able to swim at my parents' house as well.  We all just love the water!  Well, possibly with the exception of my hubby.  He is learning to enjoy it, but he tends to view the pool as a big petri dish.  I understand that about public pools (no one likes pee in the pool!), but I feel like backyard pools are different especially if they are well-tended.  There is nothing like sparkling blue water full of your family's smiling faces!

We are planning a lake trip this summer, but we don't do too much swimming there.  The water is just too chilly to go out too deep.  However, one of the fun things we enjoy is going out on a boat and that means life jackets.  I love the safety but definitely think the look could be vastly improved!  Drum roll, please...

Check out these adorable life jackets I found on Gilt today.  I love the fin on the back; it is so precious!!  I could just see my kids wearing these in the boat and even while they are playing in the shallow beach area!  Too cute.  Here are my favourites:

SwimWays Angel Fish Life Jacket 
yellow angel fish

SwimWays Clown Fish Life Jacket 
Nemo!

SwimWays Pink Dolphin Life Jacket 
pink dolphin

SwimWays Orca Life Jacket 
orca 
(this would be my son's choice)


Don't these almost make you wish they came in adult sizes??  Swoon!  :)  Let me know if you purchase one of these sweet life jackets!  Unfortunately, my online shopping is currently on hold.  Darn eBay addiction...  {wink, wink}

If you need an invite for Gilt, click here!

Monday, January 2, 2012

Piña Colada Smoothie

After a green Christmas and a green New Year’s, our weather has finally decided to be normal and bring on some snow.  Hubby is outside shoveling for the second time today, and I am sure it is going to be all hands-on-deck shoveling in the morning if the weather channel is right.  So I guess that means a 50-50 chance, right? Ha ha!

Even though it is the middle of winter, I wanted to feel a bit of summer today and, as such, decided to whip up a smoothie reminiscent of hot summer nights!

INGREDIENTS
1/2 banana
1/2 cup pineapple
1/4 cup vanilla yogurt
1/2 cup coconut milk
6 ice cubes

DIRECTIONS
Pulse in a blender until ice is crushed.  Super yummy!


Linking up with some great parties!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Blueberry Picking!

I am sitting here typing with one hand as I scarf down blueberries with the other. Wow, I love those little things!

Took the kids out blueberry picking today for the first time (them, not me), and they thought it was great! We were the only ones there for the first half of our picking time... guess it was too hot for everyone else! Oh well. More for us!

Now I am searching for out-of-the-ordinary blueberry recipes to use up my 20 cups or so of blueberries! (Did I mention they are super ripe and need to be used or frozen pretty much immediately? Yeah. Lol!)


See that full pail on the ground? There's another in the stroller seat and it is even more full than the first!

The entire field is covered in netting to keep the birds away.


We saw this interesting-looking bird on the way home, just walking along the road. Aren't those polka dots crazy? We were thinking this might be a grouse...

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Garden Update

Long time, no update and since a picture is worth a thousand words, here we go!

Please ignore the grass. It is the bane of my existence. In our city, we are prohibited from using any form of chemical weed control. Ask me how I feel about that! Ergggghhh. Anyway, the planter box on the left is the herb garden and the herbs are ginormous! I have got purple basil, regular basil, rosemary, mint, parsley, chives, and cilantro. Loving it!!


The planter box on the right is full of mostly cherry tomatoes.

How come no one ever told me that tomatoes from your own garden (or planter box!) are way better than any other tomatoes?? Well, they are!! These plants are definitely wild growers. Next time, I will have to use the wire teepee-looking things. You know what I mean, plus I have no idea what they're called...


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