baking badge

healthy competition. i'm all about that! now that Cadets is in full swing, so is the rush to fill up their 'badge patch'. yesterday,we killed three birds (not literly) with one stone (or one mixer!) and got the boys their baking badge! yeah for them. we even were able to share our goodies with the cadets. brownies, cupcakes, sugar cookies. geez, no wonder i couldn't settle them down when they got home. can you say SUGAR HIGH!!?????

the cows are out.
again.
leave it to my boys to come at them with 6 foot poles.
thankfully, it worked and scared them back to the neighbors yard (the cows, not the kids).....

when the parents are away.....

a few weeks back, we had the privilege of getting our cousins for 3 whole days!! it's a wonderful bit of chaos!!

i'm blue.

it's amazing what a quart of blue paint can do for moral. i'm not a 'blue girl'. was never one of my favorite colors. however, my SIL has blue in her house and when i walk in her place, i instantly feel calmed. i had a tad left from my bathroom 'redo' last year so on a whim, i decided i needed a little serenity. (not to mention the fact that i had 7 children running around that particular weekend!)so a little splash here, a little dab there and WHA-LA. transformation. while i was waiting for the white cabinet paint to dry, out of the corner of my eye, i spot my drab looking black coffee table, BEGGING to be re-done too. so...i revamp. while my one eye was looking at the black coffee table, it wonders over to my black island. why not take off a few doors?? (watching Far too much HGTV) yup, that would look good. and IT does,thank you very much.