If Life Gives You Lemons...

Or, if a friend gives you fresh lemons from her mother's tree in California...

You enjoy them in however many ways you can!!

We loved lemon bars, lemon chicken, lemon blueberry bread,

lemon cupcakes, guacamole (hint hint on those avocados...), and more that I can't recall.

Thank you, Cynthia!!!

March

Both Lauren and Barry have March birthdays, so that's always fun. We're still hoping that Lauren will be blessed with hair one of these birthdays...

blowin' out the candles

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We celebrated with green eggs and ham.

It sounds better than it looks.

Barry got to experience the thrill of racing a pimped out Mustang on a real racetrack for his birthday. He now thinks he needs to own some kind of sports car ("I deserve it").

Cute girls

Cute Lauren

We made some new hair bows/flowers.

Addy, with some friend help, tried them all on. At once.

Indoor Campout

Working with the scouts, Barry is required now and then to endure exciting campouts in all kinds of weather. So, while he was freezing his booty off outdoors sometime in January or February, the girls and I decided to have a cozy campout in the warmth of our living room.

complete with s'mores (chocolate-flavored cookies and mini marshmallows)

(loved the marshmallows...)

and a princess tent!

And like true scouts, we even got up early... argh

January

We had our kitchen renovated!! Other than the tattiness of that fridge, it was really fine, and functional. People always seem to redo their kitchens before they sell their homes, in hopes of upping the price or something. Well, we plan to be here for a long time, so we wanted to LIVE in a kitchen that we LOVE. With money and space constraints, you see the (nearly) final product. We like.

Before...

During...

After!

And more after!