We are 5 days into Easter vacation and only making each other slightly crazy. We have been pretty busy. Saturday we did stuff around the house. Sunday was church, which we woke up way too late for the 9 am service so we ended up going to the 11 am service. The only problem with that is that by the time we got home (after stopping at Kroger for some groceries) I was starving and grumpy! Not a good combo. It was rainy all Sunday afternoon so we didn't do anything too exciting.

Monday came and we were going a bit stir crazy so we ran out to Home Depot to get some flowers and tomato plants. We are going to freshen up the yard so it looks good when it goes on the market in a couple weeks. Yup, we are officially starting the whole selling and moving process. It will probably be another year before we head up to Ft. Lee, but we want to give our house time to sell and (hopefully) get a good price for it. It will be sad to let it go but it's time to move on. We had a company FRG meeting at Cici's Pizza. Bad turn out but a good time talking to those who did come. Only another 2 months and I am DONE with being an FRG leader. Which will be nice so that I can concentrate on being a Mommy to a newborn and a 4 year old! After dinner we walked over to Bed Bath and Beyond, got some more coffee and got back massages in the tester chairs. Then we walked over to Toys R Us and walked around a bit, got a cute outfit for Henry, some socks and Wesley got a Zhu Zhu pet. It's a hampster that rolls around and make noise. They are evidently all the rage. I just though it was better than a ready one since it doesn't need it's cage cleaned out and you can turn it off! Wesley loves it, the cats are still leery but I am waiting for them to try to attack/catch it.


Tuesday we went to Target and did some shopping. There was a big sale on baby clothes so we got some cute outfits for Henry and a couple things for Wesley. We also picked up "Uno Moo" because it was on sale. Wesley is still learning the rules and cheats horribly but we have had fun playing. He will get it eventually.

We got the phone call on Tuesday that our pottery was ready so we drove over to Midnight Star Pottery and picked it up. I forgot to take a picture of Wesley's dolphin, I will have to add that later but here is the rest:



Today we went to-wait for it-Panera! No surprise there! :) Great lunch then we got a dozen bagels with cream cheese for breakfast tomorrow. Then we went  to Kroger to get some last minute food items, flowers and gas in our car so we are ready when Mom, Matt, Brad and Lauren arrive. It should be a fun weekend, we have lots of great stuff planned. We came home and did some cleaning and baking. We have home made BBQ sauce ready for the pork BBQ in the crock pot tomorrow, pasta salad, Chex Mix and Basil Lime shortbread cookies. Because these are so awesome (and will be fantastic with some iced tea out on our deck tomorrow afternoon) here is the recipe, you have got to try them!


Basil Lime Shortbread:


3/4 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh basil
2 tbsp fresh lime zest


1. In a medium bowl and using an electric mixer at medium speed cream the butter and confectioners' sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla extract and salt. 
2. In a small bowl toss together the flour, basil, and lime zest. With the mixer at low speed, add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until the dough just comes together and forms a ball. Remove the dough from the bowl, wrap tightly with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 2 hours. 
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. LIne 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside. 
4. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out to 1/8 inch thickness, and using a 2 inch round fluted cutter cut cookies (ok, you can use any 2 inch shaped cutter you want). Place on prepared baking sheet, and bake for 8-10 minutes (I actually find I have to leave them in there for almost 15 minutes) or until edges begin to brown. Cool on wire racks before serving. 


Enjoy! 


Now the Fam is on their way down and Wesley is making me absolutely crazy asking we when they are going to get here. I can't wait for him to go to bed! It's almost worse than "Are we there yet?" in the car.

To leave you with a smile: Smokey in a bag. Stupid cat did this to himself.