When dad's in charge

I was just browsing through our summer photos and this one made me laugh. I'd left the kids with their dad while in town so I could do some quick shopping and this is what I walked back to...two children with blinged out caps, one of them eating blue ice cream! It's not unusual for Dylan to have his ice cream all over his face, I actually think he thinks it's a necessity. Thank God he wasn't eating chocolate ice cream! As for Emily, I remember her being particularly ratty later that day, I wonder if that blue ice cream had anything to do with it. I'm am thankful though because I did get a chance to get some shopping done without two kids trailing behind me touching everything and moaning loudly, and, the caps are still worn regularly. Blue ice cream however will NEVER be bought again.

Summer is here!

My little Emily on holiday in Spain 2007

Yesterday was the first day of summer.

Hooray.

I LOVE summer.

Beautiful sunny days, green leafy trees, berries growing on bushes,

grassy meadows, happy kids playing outside, vacations.

You can imagine my disappointment when I opened the curtains and

was greeted by a grey, rainy, thundery morning.

Hmmm, not my idea of summer at all.

What to do on a day like that?

Why bake cookies of course.

These were so easy to make as they dough came ready made. All I had to do was roll balls, stick some chocolate on top and bake.

Delicious!

Dylan the cookie monster

I smeared some peanut butter on top my cookie...

Oh yes and it was heavenly!

While I am on the subject of cookies I have to show you these

We made these a few years back. Dylan was in his Ben 10 phase judging by the t-shirt

we made him. No idea why I was wearing see through pants and Simon was naked. Hahaha.

I just love making gingerbread people.

 Definitely something I'll be doing again soon.

Oh, and before I finish this post I want to say a huge thank you to

Dana from Simply you and me

who awarded me the Versatile blogger award

Isn't she the sweetest.

I'll have fun passing this on next week.

Until then, have a fantastic weekend.

Send some sunshine my way OK.

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