My sweet life

Hello, Friends!  Once again, it has been a really long time since I last posted. I have a topic that I want to post about, but it will be for a later time.  It's one of those very opinion-laden topics, and I want to make sure I'm posting it with a clear head.  But, for now, I have several precious pics I'd like to share with you from the last few weeks.  I'm also including a super yummy recipe!

Bubble baths are the best!

Sweet Lynnie

Bry at his last awards ceremony at school

Notice how tall my kid is?!  I'm trying to teach him to be proud of the things that make him unique.

So proud of my smart boy!

Lynnie and Bry playing with their cousin Justin at my MIL's family reunion

Seriously cute kids.  I mean, seriously cute.

Silly boys!

My hubby is super handsome!

I asked Bry to keep an eye on Lynnie so I could get some cleaning done.  Look what I found when I sneaked in to check on them!  :-)

Sweet girl after bath time

 See the bruise on her bottom lip and under her chin?  She was in a shopping cart that flipped over on top of her.  She was sitting perfectly normally, but the cart flipped.  So weird!

We had a super fun morning at the beach!

She's a total Daddy's girl

Ready for the water!

Bry loves the ocean

My loves

Sweet sleepy girl

Doing a great job boogie boarding!

Go, Bry, GO!

And now on to the super yummy, super easy recipe.  Remember when I made the apricot jam awhile back? I mentioned that I wanted to try it in this glazed meatballs recipe.  It was great!  This is one of very few recipes in my arsenal that I did not alter at all.  I don't remember where I got the original recipe, but I've been using it for almost a decade now.  I memorized it early on because it's just so stinking easy.

Glazed Meatballs

1 cup apricot jam or preserves

1 cup salsa (I use medium, but you could use whatever spice level you'd like)

1 dash cinnamon

1 package frozen meatballs (Italian or regular, about 30 meatballs)

cooked rice 

Cook jam, salsa, and cinnamon in pan over medium heat.

Mix until well blended and jelly is melted.

Add frozen meatballs and coat each one well with jam/salsa mixture

Cover and cook over medium heat until meatballs are heated through, about 10 minutes.

Serve over cooked rice.

Seriously!  Could it get any easier???  And it's so yummy!

OK, it's becoming a habit to just recap my last several days since I'm not being a consistent blogger.  Today is no different.  Here ya go!

Frustrating:  This past Wednesday, I took my kids and a girl from church to Wal-Mart.  The girl is 11, and she is an amazing mother's helper.  That morning, she played with the kids which allowed me to get a TON of laundry done.  In fact, I had every article of clothing in my house washed, dried, and put away!  Well, we went to Wally World, and something crazy happened.  The cart that my daughter was in flipped.  Lynnie was sitting normally and not goofing off.  We think one of the wheels locked up and caused it to happen.  Talk about a fluke accident!  Lynnie landed directly on her chin, and the cart was on top of her.  There was so much blood.  Her lower teeth went almost all the way through her lip.  You can sort of see that bruise on her bottom lip in the pictures above.  I took her immediately to her doctor to see if she needed stitches.  She did not, thank God.  Her doctor did a full neurological work up to make sure there was no damage done since she landed on her face.  She was fine neurologically, and amazingly her jaw and teeth did not shift.  She's swollen still, and her lip is still healing, but she's doing amazingly well.  And my perfectly clean laundry room didn't last, of course.  I thought about making my family just wear the same clothes for a week so I could keep it up, but I figured that wasn't actually the best idea.  ;-)

Awesome:  Today was one of the best days I've had in a while.  Mike was off work so we had a great family day.  We took the kids to the beach this morning and had a blast.  Then we came home, and Rissa and her daughter Addison came over for dinner.  I don't see Rissa nearly enough, so it was fantastic to spend time catching up with her.  Lynnie said the funniest thing.  It's amazing how smart she is...doesn't miss a beat. Well, I was shucking corn to get ready to make it for dinner.  She came in and saw it and really wanted it.  She kept saying, "Corn!  Corn!"  I told her she couldn't have it yet because I had to cook it.  So she said, "Well then cook it!"  Hahaha!  Keep in mind she's not quite 18 months old!  Little sassy pants.  :-)  I love my family, even though Lynnie spends most of her time being a little diva!  :-)