Move Over Grandpa Todd!

There's a new driver in town!

We went to check-out some new books from the bookmobile today and Charlie got to practice driving it.

Picking Raspberries

We went to Sekapp's to pick some raspberries today!  Charlie left with juice on both arms, his face, his butt and the back of one leg.  Awesome!

Making "Foffee"

Charlie was busy making foffee (as he calls it) today.

Rochesterfest Parade

The boys went to the parade while I went up to visit Carly and Samone for the night!

 Watching the parade!

Sour sucker!

Bye-bye Butterflies!

We went to the Butterfly Garden at Quarry Hill to let the butterflies go!

Awesome old and dusty fan piece!

If Charlie could caption pictures, they would sound something like this...

 Fun toys that I can ride on and play with?



Eh!  I'd rather play with this awesome fan piece and other stuff in the garage that I shouldn't!

Butterflies!

Three of the four butterflies are out!  One of them doesn't look the best :(

Chrysalids!

All four caterpillars are now chrysalids!

Baking Muffins

We did some early morning baking!  Here's the recipe for the delicious 58 calorie muffins...

Triple Chocolate Chunk Muffins

1 3/4 cup	Oats
3	Egg whites
3/4 cup	Unsweetened cocoa
1/2 cup	Unsweetened applesauce
1 tsp	Vanilla extract
1/2 cup	Plain greek yogurt (or regular plain low fat yogurt)
1/2 tsp	Cream of tartar (or 2 tsp. vinegar)
1 1/2 tsp	Baking powder
1 1/2 tsp	Baking soda
1/4 tsp	Salt
1 cup	Hot water
1 cup	Granulated Splenda
1/2 cup	Semi-sweet chocolate chips
Tip	Foil cupcake liners, remove the inner paper lining (because paper liners tend to stick to muffins!)

1.      Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 (12-cup) muffin pans with foil cupcake liners, or spray muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.

2.      In a blender, (or food processor), mix all of the ingredients together, except for the chocolate chips. Blend until oats are ground and mixture is smooth.

3.      Place mixture in a bowl and gently stir in 1/2 of the chocolate chips (set the rest aside). Scoop mixture into prepared muffin pans.

4.      Place muffins tins in the oven for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, remove muffins from the oven (but don’t shut oven off), and distribute the other half of the chocolate chips on top of each muffin.

*Note, you could skip this step by putting all of the chips in the batter, and baking the muffins for 12-15 min straight, but this method gives the muffins the traditional ‘VitaTop Muffin’ look with the chocolate chips on top!

5.      Place the muffins back into the oven and bake for an additional 2-5 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Cool and ENJOY!

Twins Game

Nick and I went to watch the Twins play the Brewers today.  The rain held off but it was HOT!

The best part was the frozen daiquiris!

Swimming and Pizza Night

We went swimming at Grandma's with Jarrett and Taylor tonight.  We took a break to make our own pizzas.  Yum, yum!

Enough said...

Dada's Little Helper

Busy, busy!

Charlie and I went all around town today (did I mention I love summer break?)!  We went to Target to get a t-ball set and pickup pictures for Dada's Father's Day present.  Then we went to visit the library to checkout a zoo storytime kit.  After that we played at Silver Lake Park with the geese and stopped at Hyvee to pickup a few things.  After ALL that we came home for some backyard fun!

Fun in the Sun

Another hot day?  Another water day!  Jacob and Charlie played in the pool with water balloons and other fun water toys :)  They even got a treat from the creepy ice cream truck!   Charlie loved the ice cream sandwich that Jacob picked out for him.

 

Grandma's Glasses

We went to visit Great Grandma Virginia this morning.  Charlie had to try on her glasses and ham it up!

SUMMER VACATION!

Today was the last day of school for this year!  SO excited to hang out with this cutie all summer long!



Look what came in the mail today!

Charlie got his caterpillars that will grow into butterflies in about a month!

Making a fort

Charlie made a fort to poop in.  Nice work buddy!