Gary's Smoothies

As I sit here enjoying the fruits of his expertise, I wanted to share the recipe for Gary's new thing with you guys: smoothies. Start by running warm water in your blender pitcher. Empty that out and add 12 oz of liquid. Gary uses a can of Sunny D, but almost any juice or juice drink will work. Add frozen fruit until it is about 2 inches above the liquid. We buy the bags of Dole mixed fruit, mango chunks, and blueberries at Sam's and Walmart. We like mixed fruit with a handful of mango or blueberries, but you can experiment according to your own tastes. Blend on high until the blender starts to slow down due to the thickness of the blended fruit. Stop the blender and poke a whole banana in the center of the pitcher until it touches the blades. Blend on high until smooth. Using the banana to break up the frozen fruit in the final step is the real secret. We have a pretty powerful blender. If yours can't handle the fruit completely frozen, you may have to partially thaw it first. Beware, these are addictive! Enjoy!

Fw: pics of Averey Jade

Hey All!
These are pictures that Tana has taken of Averey in just the last several
days... I can't believe our babygirl turns ONE on April 20th!! Isn't she a
CUTIE?!
She's got 5-1/2 teeth now (2 bottom, 3-1/2 top).... she's just under 18lbs -
really slimmed up when she started crawling... she's started walking really
well over the last week or so (seems like she really hestitated to let loose
cuz she could move so fast by crawling!) and is just having a GAS! She
certainly brings smiles to our faces... she's such a happy kid!
thanks for letting me gush -
oh by the way - Kellen & Tana are doing great, too :-)
donna

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Katie! Hope your day is wonderful!!
...and Happy late Birthday Mel. Hope yours was special as well!!
Sarah

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KATIE

Hi Katie.....hope you are getting over your jet lag and having a wonderful day and that Mike sings Happy Birthday to you :-)
Love you lots...........

Happy Birthday to Katie!

Happy Birthday Katie! Here's hoping that your day is everything you want it to be. Don't you just love having an April Birthday? I've always thought that it was the perfect month for a birthday. I am glad we share it!

EASTER

Happy Easter, everyone....
I've been thinking about past Easters.....Mike, Anne, Steve, Donna, Gary....do you remember when you were little..I would have Easter baskets fixed up for you when you woke up....you would be so excited to see what was in them....then we'd get dressed up ....you always looked so cute.....and go to church. You always had fun looking for eggs in the yard (the big yard on Eddy was perfect for that)
Chris, Bryan, Kevin and Colin ....I missed not getting to be with you on Easters when you were growing up. Shawn, Steph, Shelby, Sarah, Kellen and Alyssa..do you remember hunting eggs and having fun witht he confetti eggs?
This morning I' m looking out at snow thinking....is it really Easter....sure would be too cold to be looking for the eggs today.
Our little Averey is a bit too young this year but next year should be fun!!!
Lets not forget the reason we are celebrating today!!!!
Love ya'll

Show us your snow!

I know some of you have better snow pictures than we do today, but here's ours. It is so weird to have this happen so late down here! We have 3 cabins full of Houston people. Not sure if they've ever seen this stuff.

Happy Birthday to Mel

We wished Mel a Happy Birthday on Chris's blog (http://www.ctclark.com/), but it seemed appropriate to wish her well on mom's blog as well.

Mel, we love you and hope your new year is better than ever!

Love,

Steve and Barb!

hello

Hello everyone,

hope you are all doing well. Hope everyone has a great Easter weekend. This is our sweet puppy, Samson. He turns one this month, and you are all invited to his birthday party ;) Just kidding! (Yes, we need a life) I will write more later...

sarah