188/365

Today we...
stayed in jammies until past 11am
played and played together
changed right into swimsuits
went to the pool with Daddy
watch a little tv (SpongeBob + iCarly)
hit some balls + fielded at CHS field with Joe
ate pasta for dinner
played outside
rode bikes
visited the park

187/365 - Cincinnati Zoo!

We took Grandma with us to the Cincinnati Zoo today. A visit to the zoo, either the Columbus or Cincinnati is always on our list of things to do in the summer so when I read that we could see the baby tigers I was excited! Baby animals, well babies of any kind are cute and fun to see. We went online and the zoo had a little video of them we could watch and the kids were just as excited as me! On the way we talked about what animals we wanted to make sure we saw - for me it was the tiger cubs, for her it was the elephants, and he wanted to see gorillas. We made our way around the zoo and ran into several volunteers with little animals out and about - really cool!

186/365

More baseball today, but just one game. She opted to go to the pool with Daddy while he opted to stay home with me. He got a McFlurry + I got sweet tea. We went on a nice bike ride around the neighborhood and just hung out. After dinner we make a trek to Trader Joes to spend a gift card on some yummy stuff including Clif bars!

185/365 - Happy 4th of July!

How awesome is it to live in a place where we can ALL do whatever it is we WANT to each and every day!!


Whew!! What a great day!
We started out with the Americana parade that we watched and he walked in with his baseball team. We then had lunch at our house before headed to the Sting Summer Smash baseball tournament. He had two games. Made it through the first one with just sprinkles the whole time, but during the second one the rain became more steady. Then we headed to Grandma + Grandpa's to have dinner and hang out before the fireworks. Aunt Tracy + Uncle Matt brought sparklers + camping gear. We grilled out and made smores. Then watch the fireworks on the a patio.

184/365

It's Friday - we lose sight of the days of the week in the summer. The kids and I headed to Cox Arboretum to check out the butterfly house today. The coolest creatures we saw were moths! We did see some tiny butterflies, caterpillars and cocoons + some pretty flowers too!

183/365

Baking day...
One good
One not so good!

At school a mom brought in these chocolate chip cookies that just looked beautiful and tasted fine ( I only got one bite.) so she shared the recipe. I'm always looking for that perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe where they look beautiful and taste awesome. These looked great, but I didn't think they tasted great. The kids + my dad liked them fine. The recipe used oil instead of butter or Crisco shortening. I couldn't get over the consistency of the dough.

The others I modified my oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe to make a red, white, + blue version with crasins, chocolate chips, + sweetened dried blueberries. YUM!!

182/365 - Hello July!

More camp fun. Luckily this year it's been on the cooler side and you guys didn't just bake. But you were both a bit sad not to spend more time in the creek. She and I met Grandma for lunch at the Greene where we ran into this frog guy. Today I finally got a pedicure while you both were at camp + daddy golfed!