Monday, June 29, 2009

more blueberries

....and with more blueberries
....come more blueberry recipes....
and this one is yummier than the first.
as a matter of fact..dont cook the first one
do this one :)
there is one ingredient that could easily scare you off
dont let it. i promise it is so yummy!
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blueberry crisp
*4 cups fresh blueberries
*1 cup all-purpose flour
*3/4 cup white sugar
*1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
*1/2 cup mayonnaise
Preheat the oven to 350
Place the blueberries into an 8 inch square baking dish.
In a medium bowl,
stir together the flour, sugar, and cinnamon.
Stir in the mayonnaise
until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Sprinkle over the top of the berries.
Bake for 35 to 40 minutes
in the preheated oven
until the top is lightly browned.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Thank you Aubree...

Thanks to Aubree, we will be having some delicious Blueberry Cobbler tonight.
She went with our neighbors this morning to pick blueberries
and brought back half-a-grocery-sack of the yumminess!
Here is the recipe I am going to use.
I got it from Meredith,
who got it from Brett...
It is so yummy and SO easy!
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4 cups blueberries
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1/2 of a lemon
1 egg
1 stick of butter, melted
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place blueberries in baking dish
squeeze juice of 1/2 lemon over berries
mix egg, flour, and sugar
drizzle melted butter in to mixture
pour over berries
bake at 375 for 30 min.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Here are the pictures from this weekend.

Griffin LOVES the water.

Great-Great Grandaddy John Houston Taylor. Zach and Griffin's namesake. Possibly the sweetest man on earth. Can you believe he is 92?!?

5 Generations of Taylors.



Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Our Weekend

we had a great little weekend here at the taylor house.
friday night we had dinner with zachs family for an early fathers day since his grandparents were heading off to the smokies on sunday morning.
it was soooo yummy. we had grilled salmon with a ginger glaze, oven roasted potatoes with rosemary, and fresh beets with homemade raspberry cobbler for dessert.
ahh, it was so good!
saturday we woke up and zach got to work in the yard.
he was tired of being murdered by tree limbs as he cut the grass!
i decided this sounded like a great time to take the kids and go swimming :)
after we spent a few hours at the pool we came home (exhausted) and i couldn't believe all the work he had gotten done! the yard looks much much better.
saturday night was also his parents wedding anniversary.
they invited us to join them at the melting pot.
y-u-m.
it was our second time there since it opened in huntsville and we haven't been disappointed yet! by the time dinner was over we were both so tired
and full
and miserable.
even though we had a babysitter for the night, we decided just to head home.
sunday was fathers day.
let me just say, i have loved my husband since i was about 15 years old, BUT i love him more now because of the dad he is.
this is nothing against zach....but i had NO CLUE that he would be such a good dad.
he had like zero kid experience when we had aubree but he just jumped right in and he is so awesome.
i love him so much and i am so glad he is the father of my children.
anywhoo...
the weekend before he had gone on like a super shopping spree and got him some new fishing lures, and a rod and some line so we decided we were pretty much set in the gift department. our big fathers day event was at his parents house for dinner.
we had a good `ole' fish fry.
i made my homemade tartar sauce (yum) and we swam and took some five generations pictures with his grandfathers.
ill post those up once they get emailed to me.
all in all it was a great weekend.
hope everyone else enjoyed theirs as well.

Another Giveaway..

this time a tote and Yankee Candle...check it out!!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Fab Giveaway!!

Ok, you must drop everything and check this out!!!
Little Miss Southern is having a giveaway on her blog.
Trust me, just go.
Its adorable!

new look

i love my new background!
i just wish i had a better header...im working on that :)
visit this site!
she has lots of cute stuff!!!

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Carrots...


..are yummy, just ask Griffin :)

(picture quality is bad, zach had my "good" camera)

He went to his 4month checkup today and we got the green light to start introducing baby food on top of the cereal he was already getting.


His stats were:

Weight: 12lb 2oz -7th percentile

Length: 23 inches -3rd percentile


The doctor was very please with his developmental skills and said there is no reason to use an "adjusted age" with him so far because he is doing great.


He has a few hemangiomas that we have to keep an eye on, but more on that later!

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

guess who...


is 4 months old today...
he is getting so big!!!

he laughs at everything and always has something to say!


he rolled over for the very first time today too.

what a great birthday present to himself :)


its hard to even remember that terrible two weeks

when he was here but i couldnt hold him in my arms.

i am just glad he is here now and doing great.


he goes for his 4 month checkup tomorrow so

i'll post all of the stats from that visit later!

Oh, its been a while...

well, i dont even know what to say.
so much has happened in the 3 weeks since i last posted.
ill try to ramble on til i get it all in here.
first of all, cotton row run. i did finish. i was not last. yay, i win

then we had a camping trip. here are some photos


thank goodness for self timer

cant go anywhere without miley



she fell asleep in her tutu and boots


picture of the old boat and dock


next, we tagged along with zach on a business trip to the cape.

why, did we tag along?
because this is where we stayed!



ahh, paradise!



he is a natural born beach bum.





so is aubree...




such a daddy's girl




napping together after a long day on the beach!




we had so much fun!
it was a long drive down, but the kids did GREAT!
we left home about 10pm. we had to wait for aubree's dance recital to be over.


here is a picture from that.



she looks so grown up. i had to pile on the makeup so she could be seen onstage.
of course, she didnt mind!