happy father's day weekend

happy father's day weekend to all the dads!

love, laurie

an afternoon at lakeland

after picking strawberries, we spent some time at lakeland doing all of noah's favorite activities.  he's going to run this place soon!

love, laurie

strawberry picking at lakeland orchard

it's strawberry season at lakeland orchard and we're very excited about it since we missed the strawberry festival last year.

on sunday morning, we got to the orchard as soon as they opened to go strawberry picking.  we're so glad we did because they ran out of ripe strawberries for the rest of the day shortly after we got ours.

noah was in his glory because he absolutely loves strawberries.  it was a lot of fun and the strawberries are delicious!

love, laurie

another dance recital in the books!

the dance studio that i teach for had their dance recital this weekend at the theatre and it went great. the show was "british invasion" themed so we had a lot of fun british-themed props.  noah really got a kick out of the little british guard that was his size!

love, laurie

his royal highness

the whole house bows down and worships his royal highness, sir leko, who truly does believe the entire universe revolves around him, and who has the least amount of patience of any cat in the world.

love, laurie

national doughnut day

today is national doughnut day!  did you know that national doughnut day started back in 1938?  a young doctor was sent to a military base, and on his way there he stopped at a bakery and picked up 8 dozen doughnuts.  the doctor gave a free doughnut to each wounded soldier that he helped at the base.  a lieutenant general that was helped by the doctor decided to make a fund raiser out of it.  the lieutenant general gave every wounded solider and the needy a free doughnut.  the fund raiser was joined with the salvation army and became national doughnut day!

if you're interested in making homemade doughnuts today, here are some great doughnut recipes:
- baked mocha cake doughnuts with coffee cream cheese glaze
- baked strawberry cake doughnuts with strawberry glaze
- baked pumpkin doughnuts with brown butter and apple cider glaze topped with pecans
- baked apple cider doughnuts

if you'd rather not take the time to make your own doughnuts, krispy kreme is giving away free doughnuts all day today and dunkin donuts is giving away free doughnuts with a coffee purchase today too!

have a great weekend!

love, laurie

noah's play zone

we've been spending a lot of time at the theatre lately with so many shows.  that's means noah has had lots of opportunities to play in his favorite play zone: mom's office.  he sure has a variety of toys there to keep him occupied!

love, laurie

up close

noah and i were playing in the basement recently and we were surprised to find a deer right outside our basement door munching on some greenery.  we admired him through the glass and were really shocked to see him so close by!

love, laurie

too many shows

oh my goodness, it has been one show after another at the theatre lately and this weekend alone we had 5 dance recitals!  exhausted isn't even the word!

this tiny little man runs the whole operation.  he loves to be on headset and be right in the middle of the action of his "big shows."

love, laurie

like father, like son

ryan loves hardware stores and let me tell you the apple did not fall far from the tree because noah absolutely looooooovvvveeessss hardware stores too.

we had to run into lowe's recently and he had to inspect every power tool for sale and then try out all of the riding lawn mowers (which he calls "lawn mow-mow").

he has good taste, because he always picks out the crazy expensive ones!

love, laurie