Come What May and Love It

So refreshing on a hot august day! This is so much easier to make than it seems. If you do not already have a little hand juicer they are real cheap at Wal-mart. 4 lemons fresh squeezed 1 cup sugar 1/2 gallon water. mix and enjoy!

In about January we started talking about our summer fun. We talked about going far away, or maybe somewhere that we could fly. We had a limited budget for our trip. I looked at airplane tickets and at the time the cheapest flights were to Denver Co. for $250 per person. Now that is not much per person but when you times that by 5, I knew that would be over 1/2 our budget. We still wanted to take the kids on a plane ride but did not know what to do. Leif and I talked about it and decided to stay local and bump it up. We decided to do things within driving distance and use our money for fun things that we never do because of no money. There were many many things that were on the list but we narrowed it down to the following: The first thing was we booked a 1 hour flight for the kids to fly around the Teton Mountain range. L sat in the front and flew the plane for a few minutes. That was thrilling for her. That night we went to Bar J Chuckwagon. I don't love the fo...

I really like Sloppy Joes. They are yummy. In fact I do not even mind the Manwich brand. However my oldest has never ever liked manwich's. About 5 years ago I got a ward cookbook and a lady had submitted a sloppy joe recipe that I thought I would try. L loved it. She now says she does not like anyone elses sloppy joe's. Only mine. :} 1 large chopped onion 2 lbs ground beef cook onion and beef together then add 1 1/2 c catsup 1 tsp mustard 1 tsp vinegar 4 tsp sugar (I do use only 2 tsp) 1/2 c water 1 tsp salt 1/4 tsp pepper 1/2 tsp chilli powder simmer for 10 minutes. put on buns add your favorite toppings, lettuce, cheese, pickles, or nothing at all, enjoy.

A Thomas family Tradition. This is a salad that my mom use to make for family gatherings. It is now one of my family's favorites. Cabbage Salad 1 head of cabbage 3 green onions sliced. some sesame seeds and almonds. (you can use cashews also) dry ramen noodles (to be put on later) Dressing 1/2 c sugar (I use a little less) 1/2 tsp pepper 2 tsp salt 1/3 c rice vinegar ( rice vinegar has a mild flavor I have used white and red also) 3/4 c oil. Mix the dressing till the sugar is dissolved. If I am taking it to a gathering I usually leave the dressing in the bottle. When I am ready to serve I pour the dressing over the salad, crumble 1/2 package of ramen noodles mix and serve.

Photo fun #5 Day 21: Micro , Upclose. I tried to take some photo's of up close things. I went around the house and took of knobs, and corners and you name it I took it. I did not like how any of them were turning out. So I gave up and just posted a photo that was a close up of a bird. So yes I gave up. But it was still in the back of my mind. I still took a few more photo's of close ups. In the end I like how this one turned out. Day 22: Landscape I really wanted to find a place to take a photo of the Tetons with a cute old farmhouse. I told my family I wanted to go on a sunday drive. We got in the car with my husband at the wheel. He took off in farmland. He pointed out some landscape that was interesting and I said yah I like that, but he kept going. After about 4 times he said well where do you want to stop. I said I thought you would stop at the last 4 places. He said you did not say stop. lol I guess me agreeing with him that places looked good, it was not good enough. So...

Here I go again on #4. Day 16 Glass Jar . Okay so it is suppose to be a mason jar or jelly jar. I have these antique jars that I love. I decided to use them instead of finding a mason jar. I lined them up in my kitchen window and liked the effect. The first jar to the left is a coffee jar that came from my Grandpa Jacobson's house. The second photo is a little mustard jar we found on a trip to Utah. The third jar is a really cute milk jar. You can't see it really well but there is a picture of a cow being milked, in the glass. The last jar was a really cool glass jar that we found in Oregon. It has a few words on the bottle. I came home and looked it up and it is a perfume bottle. I meant to only get kitchen stuff but oh well it is cool looking anyway. So it sits with the rest of my kitchen antiques. Day 17: Bokeh When I read that word I had no clue what that even meant. I had to look it up. This is what I found. It is a homemade filter you place over your lens. I watched a ...

I hope you are not getting tired of these but I am going to be deleting them from my FB page so I thought I would save them and the story of each, here on my blog. Day 11: sihlouette This is a photo I took last summer when we went to Oregon. When I took the photo, you could still see the kids in their clothes. After I got this challenge I worked on making them a little darker. I like how it turned out. Day 12 Sun Flare I had no idea what a sun flare was when it pertains to photography. I had to look it up on the net. Then I did not want to get a purple streak across my camera lens like I have in the past. So I looked it up on the net how to do it in a correct way. So this is what I came up with. I think it looks pretty cool! Day 13: Reminds you of your childhood . Black Cherry Koolaid reminds me of my childhood and my Grandpa Jacobson. But how do you take a photo of a package of koolaid?! So I went to my childhood home looked around and did not really find much. There...