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Granola & a New Game

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We snagged a recipe for granola from my mom last time we were up visiting Camp Janet and it is SO, SO good. Our favorite snack is some granola with delicious greek yogurt….yummers!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Most days after work Barry comes home and topples his granola and yogurt with some fresh fruit. Maggie spots his snack and drops whatever she is doing to go mooch some bites off his spoon. Lovingly, Barry always shares, which is nothing short of a miracle because he loves his snack.

When we installed the Sandy Lagoon (without any sand) I was convinced that summer was about to arrive. I was SO wrong. My dad and grandma love the weather and so I’m sure they’re having fantastic conversations about the tricks Mother Nature is playing on us lately. I seriously left the house yesterday with an umbrella, but by the end of the day Maggie had shorts on and was hanging by the Sandy Lagoon (without any sand).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last week while the sun came out and stayed Maggie invented a new game which involves her two favorite things: rocks and our potted plants.

The directions are fairly simple, I’ve included a step-by-step for those of you’re interested in playing.

1.  Find a rock that you love and act like you are placing it in a potted plant.

2. After sneakily acting like the rock is hidden, pick it up and move it to the other pot.

3. Nestle the rock in the other pot and make sure it is secure.

4. Remove the rock from the second pot and return to the first pot.

5. Repeat and enjoy!

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Brag Talking and Photo Bombing

I don’t really like it when people brag-talk about things they’ve done or things they are going to do, or at least I don’t like it some of the time. So, I am warning you there is a bit of brag-talking in this post. Stop reading if you don’t like partial brag-talking.

Lara and I did a 10K run this weekend and we may or may not have placed first in our age division!

We also may or may not have placed last in our age division.

The run/race wasn’t large by any means (like there was NO way to get lost in the crowd…) and minutes before we were to begin running we had a moment of freaking out because, as we looked around, we noticed that almost everybody (everybody = non professional looking runners) was doing the 5K. After having a shared mild panic attack, we just decided to stick to our guns and do the 10K. I’m glad we did. Our time was awful, the weather a bit foul, but we did it….we finished.

And we signed up for another one in a few weeks, hopefully our time will be better, the weather a bit more rosy and we’ll be able to get lost in the crowd. It felt good to have a friend to run with because running with Barry I tend to feel a bit out of my league. We’ve gone on a few “family” runs lately and I’m usually sucking in air and hoping he’ll stop talking to me and he usually looks like he’s walking and hardly breaking a sweat. So it goes, so it goes.

End of brag talking.

Onto photo bombing. Photo what?

Anyhow, I recently learned a new term: photo bombing. Basically when somebody photo bombs, it means that they are intentionally ruining somebody’s photo. I must say that I think that Sydney The Tubby Puggy might be the master at photo bombing. I don’t realize how close she sticks to us until I get a chance to look at my pictures waayyyyy after I’ve taken them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Granted, sometimes Syd’s face is hard to read, but I’m pretty sure that she plans it out to be in most of the pictures we take around here. For example, a few weeks ago when Thomas came to visit and him and Maggie were enjoying some time outside on the bench, guess who showed up? Oh, yeah! Miss Photo Bomb herself!!