Homemade Lemonade

Savannah and Xander had so much fun squeezing the lemons! I love cooking with them!

For Savannah and Xander I fill their cups up with water and poor in just enough lemonade to make it yellow and give it the lemonade taste! I know I'm mean, but they don't even notice!

Homemade Lemonade ( Adapted from Simply Recipes)

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Splenda
  
• 1 cup water (for the simple syrup)
• 1 cup lemon juice
• 3 to 4 cups cold water (to dilute)

Method

1 Make simple syrup by heating the sugar and water in a small saucepan until the sugar is dissolved completely.

2 While the Splenda is dissolving, use a juicer to extract the juice from 4 to 6 lemons, enough for one cup of juice.

3 Add the juice and the Splenda water to a pitcher. Add 3 to 4 cups of cold water, more or less to the desired strength. Refrigerate 30 to 40 minutes. If the lemonade is a little sweet for your taste, add a little more straight lemon juice to it.

Serve with ice, sliced lemons.

Yield: Serves 6.

This is the best Lemonade recipe ever! You can't even tell that there isn't sugar in it!!

Grandma Love's New Deck

A couple of weekends ago, the guys rebuilt Grandma Love's deck!

We made homemade lemon aid for them! ( Recipe to come!)

It was so much fun for the Savannah and Xander! They love it when they get to play with their cousins! I can't wait until my sister-in-law's girls are a little older! They are the best babysitters and Savannah and Xander just love them! They are the sweetest girls!

I set aside my little stash of wood scraps for my crafts! Do you think I have enough? Court wouldn't let me save anymore! LOL

Even Savannah helped!
My little runaway boy!
Such hard workers!
Don't you just love Savannah's 3 party hats that she had to wear!!

Yes, There is even a slide!!Savannah calls it her playground! They love it out there!This last weekend we had our first family party on the new deck! And, many more to come!
It was so much fun!

Healthy and Fresh Snacks For Kids

These are my Healthy, grab and go snacks for Savannah and Xander! I try to have fruits and vegetables measured out into 1/4 cup baggies ready to go. Instead of having crackers or cereal in my purse, before I run out the door I just grab a couple of these!
Grapes
Strawberries
Apples
Bananas
Carrots
Celery
Cucumbers
Bell Peppers
Weight watchers cheese sticks has the fewest calories!

I Love Being a Mother

Having children changed my life forever. I love each of my children unconditionally. I'm not the perfect mother, however, far from it really. But, I wouldn't trade my life for the world, because even if I'm not perfect, my life is pretty darn perfect just the way it is! With my loving husband by my side and my two wonderful kids I feel pretty blessed!

Yes, my life as a mother of special needs children isn't always easy, in fact it's pretty hard. So, yes, I am like a crazy person, juggling a whole lot of therapies and doctors appointments for my children. But, I am so lucky to have all of these amazing doctors, teachers, and therapist who have become my friends, who really care about me and my family. My children teach me so much and are great examples each and every day and I get to be a part of their beauitful little worlds! That is pretty amazing to me! I have met so many inspiring and good people, who I never would have met!

I love being a mom!! I love all of the little things! Like, sitting on the kitchen floor hitting buckets with kitchen spoons with my kids and singing songs, again and again! I love playing hide the treasure chest with Savannah as she hides it in plain sight but, is so excited when we find it, even for the 8th time. I love making stars and flower shaped peanut butter sandwiches and fruit and watching their faces light up full of glee! I love driving down the read singing along with the radio and Savannah at the top of out lungs This Kiss, by Faith Hill! Even though Xander is a cute little monster, I actually, love taking pictures of all of the naughty things he does! I love cleaning the kitchen while Savannah and Xander have their little mini cleaning kit out, Xander trying to sweep and Savannah emptying the silverware into the drawer in her own little organized way! And, I love it when they make each other laugh! It is the most sweetest thing. I love how when Court comes home Savannah has to have him chase her and Xander around the kitchen island, and they just laugh and laugh! And, I love it when Savannah gives Xander, "Many Kisses" and hugs good night! It just makes my heart melt! I love being Savannah and Xander's mom!

Easter, 2012

Easter sugar cookies!




Easter Crafts!! We had fun with these all last week!! And, Savannah wore her bunny ears that she had made at school every chance she got! It was so cute!


This is what the Easter Bunny brought Savannah and Xander on Easter morning! Savannah and Xander just love being outside and they really love watering flowers and playing in the dirt!!
Love Savannah's morning hair! Does anyone know where there are a lot of butterflies to catch?


Savannah was so excited! This was the first Easter that Savannah has sort of understand about the Easter Bunny!
Xander just wanted his mommy to hold him.
I only set him down for a few seconds!


The sun was in our eyes so we didn't get a very good family picture.
Savannah couldn't wait to water the flowers!






The next day, we planted Savannah and Xander's flowers! I love his hat!

Savannah had so much fun!Then she watered the sidewalk chalk!She did a great job, didn't she!!
Happy Easter!!!