Happy Memorial Day!

First and foremost, I would like to thank all the men and women who have served & are serving our country in order to protect our freedom. Thank you for your service & your sacrifice.

Sunday afternoon:

1st day at the pool

taking a break for a snack

"Mommy, I'm tired of you & your camera. 'Cheese' already!"

Mega "Cheese!"

Monday morning:

Making brownies for the 1st time - fun for her, food for me :)

And apparently this is how we make brownies.

She got her own bowl & spoon to "make" brownies.

Helping stir the real ones.

Looking like she wants to fling it across the room.

Ta-da!

Oh, these faces keep getting better and better.

We also made a healthier snack for Josh & Tillman. They are frozen yogurt drops. (from Pinterest) Very yummy, healthy, & super easy!! I added a few real blueberries to the blueberry yogurt drops.

I'm not kidding when I say the brownies were just for me. Josh doesn't like chocolate & Tillman is not getting brownies.

Here is the first batch of strawberry-banana yogurt drops, already frozen and ready to consume.

Josh making progress staining the deck.

Tillman actually took this picture. I decided it was good enough to use, better than some of my own, actually.

Tillman took this one too. I like it.  :)

This has been our morning/afternoon so far. I accidentally threw off our morning when I went & got T out of bed, thinking it was 8:30. Turns out it was really 6:30; I can't read the alarm clock very effectively without my contacts. So, we've been up & going for awhile now. She & Josh are actually both napping right now. When they get up, we'll be headed to the pool for day #2.

I have to admit, this has been a very nice, relaxing 4-day weekend. It's kind of a tease though, b/c now we go back to school for 3 more weeks. This little taste of what summer holds will surely have all the kids (& teachers, too) longing for the offical end of the school year. I have a really great group of kids this year, though, so I'm going to enjoy it as much as I can.

Again, Happy Memorial Day!! & Thank you to all those who've made this day of freedom possible!