Prayers and Pics

Rich's oldest sister ,Sherri Callahan (she is in the pink top), has pneumonia and was recently placed in a medically induced coma. Sherri has two children, Bailey and Madison. They just recently had to paralyze her because she was struggling with the tube in her mouth. She has shown signs of improvement but still has a long way to go. We need to continue to pray that God will heal Sherri, that He will provide clarity and wisdom to the doctors and medical team that treat her and that He will provide all those that Sherri loves strength and peace to be able to support her and her family best.

Thanks you.

Here are just a couple of recent pictures.

How cute is this picture!!!

My mom made these outfits for the boys. How sweet. It is getting harder to get them both to sit still together, George is moving all over the place.

Strawberry Dessert

So a few post back I said that mother's day was not the best. Everyone, but me, was sick!! Rich and George are still having a hard time. We had planned on having my parents over for Sunday lunch so I had already begun to buy things (on sale) to serve lunch. The dessert was going to be this Strawberry Dessert, mainly because strawberries were buy one get one free and the angel food cake was on sale. So I made it anyway but brought it to school Monday to share. It is so easy and looks so pretty I thought I would share.

So you want to get three pints of strawberries (you can you use peaches, I also thought about doing half strawberries and half blueberries for 4th of July). Cut up and sprinkle with sugar and set aside.

Your store bought angel food cake, how simple is that!

These are the ingredients for the filling: Whipping cream, sweetened condensed milk, and cream cheese.

To make the whipping cream you want to get your bowl and whisk really cold, so I put mine in freezer. Ok, so you see how disorganized my freezer is, that is a summer project. But you can kinda of see a blue bunnie above it. That is Boo Boo Bunnie. Anytime William thinks he is hurt he goes and gets Boo Boo Bunnie. It is a life saver. We just say, "You need Boo Boo." He goes and gets it, holds it on his hurt for a second and then he is all better. He even gets it for us if he thinks we are hurt. We got ours (or Smitty did) at Stein Mart.

When it is good and cold, I pour my whipping cream in bowl add a splash of vanilla and a few scoops of sugar and sweent to taste. Then mix really fast. It will take a little bit but it will start to thicken up.

While that is mixing, I tore the cake in half and then tore one half into pieces and put in trifle bowl.

Then add half the strawberries.

When whipping cream is ready, I then put in the cream cheese (softened) and sweetened milk and mixed that up really well. Then put half of that on strawberries.

Then repeat and you have a beautiful dessert!!!


Peach or Strawberry Stuff
from: Louise Jones

3 pints Strawberries, washed, pitted and sliced or
Fresh Ripe Peaches (She did not say how many)

Sprinkle Sugar over fruit, add Fruit Fresh if you are using peaches. Fruit Fresh keeps them from turning brown.

1 Angel Food Cake

1 8 ounce package Cream Cheese – let this soften
1 pint Whipping Cream – whipped
1 can Eaglebrand Sweetened Condensed Milk

Whip the cream in a large bowl. Then add softened cream cheese and Eaglebrand milk.

Layer ½ of the cake, then the fruit then the filing. Repeat. And there you have it! Keep refrigerated. Best made ahead of time. Louise uses a Trifle Bowl.

Chickens

Our friends Jeff and Meredith have chickens in their backyard. They went out of town a few weekends ago and asked if we would help feed the chickens. Well William loved every minute of it. Not sure the chickens loved him. The first day we went there were eggs and they were delicious. The second day, no eggs. William had terrorized them too much.





Let the fun begin!!!

William: "Come here little chicken, I want to hug you."

William: "I want hurt you I promise!!"

William: "No, don't run away."

I love this one, William was just going bananas chasing the poor chickens.

He did stop chasing them long enough to give them some food and water.

George just sat back, he was not to sure about the chickens.

Brothers

We got these pictures the other day but I am just now getting them posted. I will be back tomorrow with Mother's Day, which was not even mother's day but more sick day.

So I want to be really carefully about what I say or type here. ** But they had so much fun playing together that we had to share.

We did not put the "B" there it just happened like that. But PERFECT!!




**Sad that we cannot just share these moments without being afraid that some sick person out there will not turn it into something else.**

Mother's Day Tea

William's school invited all the moms to a Mother's Day Tea yesterday. It was so cute and sweet. They had tables set up with table clothes and flowers. We went inside and the children had painted paper circles with water colors. We then took our circles and put them on our heads and wrapped tape around them to make hats. Then William helped me decorate my hat. After the hat decorating, we went outside and had cookies and tea in cups that they had painted for us. It was so special. (Sorry for the quality of the pictures, I was taking them with my phone. Especially the one of myself.)

My lovely tea companion.

A baby and his dog