Instead of blogging…

here are 5 things I should be doing right now.

1) eating breakfast. I know it’s good for me, but unless I’m on vacation it just doesn’t interest me. I’m not sure why.

2) Putting away laundry. A task that is never done. The girls have 2 laundry baskets full upstairs, and we’ve been pulling clothes out of them to wear. Why do I hate putting away laundry so much? Sorting, soaking, washing, drying, folding – no problem. Putting it away is like pulling teeth.

3) Packing for Disney! We leave in 5 short days and I haven’t even started packing. I know I’m behind, but the laundry baskets are in my way. Humpf.

4) Coloring my hair. I went brunette for a while and I really liked it, but apparantly I’m the only one. I caved and went back to my natural blonde – sort of. Removing dark haircolor is hard! What I have now is more golden that it really should be, so I’m still trying to get it back to normal. And yes, I do it myself. I’m cheap.

5) Baking banana bread. We’re taking a loaf over to my parents later (Mom and Dad, if you read this just pretend to be surprised, kay?)

Now that I think about it, that last one sounds like fun. Maybe I will go and do that. And if Catie and Lilly can tear themselves away from the dress-up clothes, maybe they can help too.

Have a productive day!

PS) 5 hours until we can pick up Annie

County Fair!

The girls entered a few things in the fair again this year, and tonight we learned the results. A very successful year!

I say ‘the girls’, but actually only Annie entered last year. Sweet Catiebug is only 3, but she has to keep up with big sister so she was very excited about entering things her OWN self.

Catie’s cornbread won a blue (1st place) ribbon:

Not that you can really see the detail, but in the back there is a coloring page that she did – a little cheerleader girl. This won a white (3rd place) ribbon:

Annie and her cousin Erin made these patriotic rice crispy treats, and they won 1st place as well:

Annie and Erin also teamed up for this Peanut Butter Fudge, which not only won a blue 1st place ribbon, but it also snagged a purple Grand Champion ribbon! This is the second year in a row Annie’s made prize winning fudge, and she’s pretty darn proud of herself.

Here are Annie’s super-duper chocolate chip cookies, on a stick, and dipped in chocolate. I have to say that I’m really not a chocolate lover, but these are pretty good. Just the regular cookie though, I can’t do the chocolate coated part – that’s just insane. (But if Aunt Amy were here, I know she’d be up to the task!) These also took 1st place:

Again, very hard to see detail. At the corner where the tables meet is Annie’s coloring page with Jasmine, for which she won a red (2nd place) ribbon. Two pictures up from that is her drawing, which won a red ribbon as well. She drew herself, her cousin, and her sisters all in a flower patch.

And finally here is Catie’s banana bread, which also won 1st place. I have to say I’m shocked that this didn’t also get a purple ribbon, as it is hands down the best banana bread I’ve ever had in my life. If I do say so myself.

So sorry I haven’t been blogging lately! As I mentioned above, our very dear cousin Erin and my sister are here visiting, and we’ve been so busy having fun that I haven’t found time to blog about it! I’m taking lots of pictures though, so hopefully we’ll be up and running again soon!

Thanks for letting me brag about my girls. They are such fantastic little people.