A Little Taste of Summer And an EASY Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

I love Memorial Day Weekend.  I love it because it is a great time to get together with family and remember the people that made our country's freedom a reality.  My Grandaddy Beam and Grandaddy Fuller both fought in WWII.  What an honor it is to be their granddaughter.  Grandaddy Fuller is with the Lord now so I have quite a tender heart on days like this.  I am so glad that we have Veterans' Day and Memorial Day to stop everything and remember.

Memorial Day also gives us a little taste of summer every year...swimming, watermelon, and hamburgers cooked on the grill.   We have 3 more days of school with kiddos and Friday is a workday.  I think I can.  I think I can.  I think I can!  Summers are just such a treasure at our house.  We live such a hectic life from August to May.  It is a complete blessing for us to have 8 full weeks of family time. 

We started off the weekend with a visit to "Tractors, Trucks, and Heavy Equipment Day" at the Farm in town.  It was awesome!  I have never seen so many little boys in one place in all my life.  Nathan and Jordan loved all the trucks!  It was a little boy's dream!

The Antique Fire Truck!

The John Deere Tractor!

The Dump Truck!

And FRRAAAANNNNKKK!  (just like in the movie, "Cars.")

Little toy tractors!

And the best for last....the FIRE TRUCK!

Then, we celebrated Brayden and Bryce's 4th Birthday at Chuck E. Cheese.  So fun!

The Birthday boys!

The Ticket Blower! 

Today: a cookout at Gram and PaPa's for lunch. 

Tonight:  a cookout at MiMi and Grandad's for supper!  Bryan's birthday is on Wednesday so we were able to celebrate him today. It's always special to celebrate the one you love. He requested peanut butter cookies for his birthday treat. So, I have to share the fabulous Paula Deen recipe...

1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
Mix it all together and form into balls the size of walnuts. Bake them at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes. Sprinkle them with sugar while they are still hot. They were delicious and so easy!!
Remember the dress-up clothes MiMi gave the grand kids for Christmas?  They have provided lots of fun over at MiMi and Grandad's house!

Nathan was a football player today.  Isn't that helmet hilarious?  He was playing catch with Aunt Jenn.

Jordy thought he would be Santa Claus in May.  He does request Santa Claus stories for bedtime quite a bit!  HA! 

"I sing for joy at the works of Your hands!"  Psalm 92:4

Weekends like this make my heart just overflow with praise.

It's Potty Time!

Well sort of.  Jordan has been so interested in all things "pottyish" recently.  He wakes up in the middle of the night and early in the morning asking us to change his diaper because it is "wet."  He lets us know when he is stinky.  However, Nathan has not shown any interest at all.  So, we bought the coolest toddler potty we could find in hopes that it will keep Jordan's interest and eventually attract Nathan's interest.  We plan on having a serious potty intervention in the late summer or fall...just whenever we think they are both ready.  But, these boys sure were excited about their new potty tonight.  Jordy cried big tears when I made him get up and go play.  Wish us luck!  And, if you have any great potty pointers, please share!

Oops!  I guess we might need to get a second potty!

What is better than the swingset PaPa built for the boys in his backyard?

The box it in which it came!!!