Zucchini Pancakes

I am a simple kind of girl and so are these pancakes. They are made from a box, if you so choose you can use your favorite homemade pancake recipe, just add zucchini and cinnamon.

1 cup buttermilk (just add water) pancake mix
2/3 cup chopped zucchini (chop raw zucchini in food grinder or food processor)
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup water

make 4-6 pancakes

Mix in batter bowl the pour onto hot greased griddle. Cook until bubbles in middle or golden brown, flip and let other side become golden brown. Serve with butter (real butter not margarine) and warm maple syrup.

Day of Concrete

Today we poured 45 or more yards of concrete on the farm in front of the north side of our new building.  I say we because I did help. The girls and I went out to watch, take pictures, and give moral support but the longer I watched the further the concrete got away from us. So I picked up a float and pitched in where I could. My mother-in-law came to pick up the girls, then I was committed. My Dad is a do-it-your-selfer so it wasn't the first time I helped do concrete. If you have never poured concrete for a rule of thumb, you have to move quick, take no breaks and sweat you bum off. I have never been involved in pouring concrete on a day that is cool and breezy. It has always been beastly hot and the  hotter it gets the quicker the concrete sets up and the faster you have to move. It is exhausting and you only have one chance to do it. LOL It is what it is.. So in the end it took 6 men and 1 woman to do a half-way decent job on our north concrete pad and all in a days work.

July 4, 2012

If My people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV

My great concern is not whether God is on our side. My great concern is to be on God's Side.

-Abraham Lincoln

Sorry it's been a week and I'm just now posting about Independence's Day. We had a wonderful time with friends and family celebrating the holiday. I am so thankful that our "God Fearing Forefathers" were nothing like our government today. They were brave, hardworking, honest, loyal, and God fearing. I often think that Americans today don't really know what our forefathers had to sacrifice for us to freely live today. We take our freedom for granite and America is not on the path they laid for us. But honestly it's not to late if we heed to 2 Chronicles. This year is a big election year and I pray that the Christians of this great nation will fast and pray so they will do God's will in this election. I'm afraid that if we don't were going to suffer the consequences. So let this be an encouragement to every American to study and pray about your candidate before you fill out that ballet. The future for your children and this country depend on it.

St. Louis, MO

We took a quick couple of day away from home. We had a great time in the city of St.Louis. The city is a great place to visit and we had alot of fun, but I'm so country it's alway good to be home. I hope you enjoy the picture from our trip.

 The Butterfly House

An evening under the arche.

Running and playing on the lawn at the arche. 

Maylee can now stand up all on her own.

She is getting so big. 

 

St. Louis Childrens Museum

The Magic House 

Thanksgiving in pioneer days. 

Madalynn is pretending to be a vet. 

Checking out books at the pretend library.
She was a little dissapointed when I told her the book had to stay.

Corn On The Cob

We enjoyed home grown corn on the cob this evening. Madalynn wants a big one with peanut butter. She loves peanut butter but means plain butter. Leon (my husband) asked her if it was good and what it tasted like. She said it was good and tasted like peanut butter and jelly, whatever that means. Haha

Family Fun Day

Leon was able to sneak out of the field for a couple of hours so we could go to the Mitchell Museum for Family Days. Today the kids made Father's Day plaques out of self-hardening clay. Then Madalynn wanted to swing so we went to the park which was very HOT! So of course we had to have ice cream, can't be a family fun day without ICE CREAM.
(Sorry all of the pictures were taken on my phone and aren't very good quality.)

She prefers sisters cup.



Note the rubber boots.

Sunshine Tea

Madalynn is a book worm and received Fancy Nancy Tea Parties for her birthday. In the book there is a recipe for Sunshine Tea. She and I made it. She had alot of fun and it was very simple. This book is filled with lots of great ideas that you and your little girls can do together. You can purchase this book at http://www.amazon.com/Fancy-Nancy-Parties-Jane-OConnor/dp/0061801747/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1339783881&sr=8-5&keywords=fancy+nancy+book.


Sunshine Tea a la Nancy
Place four to six tea bags in a pitcher and fill it with two quarts of water. Cover the pitcher so that nothing can get inside. Place the pitcher outside in the sunlight and leave it there for three to five hours. (as the sun moves make sure to move your pitcher too!) Then put the pitcher in the refrigerator. Before you serve the ice tea, add sugar. A little orange juice in it is very tasty too.
                                      Fancy Nancy Tea Parties by Jane O'Connor
                                      Recipe page 9

Beauty Can Come From The Ditch

The children and I were driving home this evening and I spotted this sunflower in the road ditch. It was an unexpected beauty and made me think of God's grace. How such a horrible place like a ditch can have something so beautiful in it. I have heard people say they were not worth anything, would never become anyone of value, they're living in the "ditch". But, with God's grace, you can be covered with his blood and with time grow up out of that ditch. You will be as beautiful to him as this sunflower was to me.

Salon Day

Madalynn and I spent some time in the salon this afternoon. She got a haircut,yes her Daddy approved before I cut it,and a pedi complete with pink toe nails. Maylee even got in on the action and got her hair blow dried by Madalynn and pink toes (not by Madalynn haha).

First Ripe Tomato

 Maylee eating the 1st ripe tomato.

I discovered the first ripe tomato tonight while watering the garden.  I laid it on the concrete to return to it later, but Maylee discovered it first. She has always spit tomatoes out but the taste of a home grown one right off the vine was to good to pass up.