We're having a heat wave!

So for those of you who live in the NW, I'm sure you are well aware of the HOT weather we are having, for those of you who don't we are in the midst of a spell of hot hot days. Today is supposed to be the hottest I believe at 104 degrees. Yesterday is was cooler, if you can call it that at 103 degrees and tomorrow is supposed to be somewhere in the hundreds as well. We do get hot here in Oregon, however it's not typically for multiple days straight. Needless to say we stayed inside most of the week.

I was busy cleaning up in the kitchen and had let the girls watch their current favorite movie Cinderella. When I peaked in to see what they were actually doing because they were so quite I found them snuggled in their chair together actually watching the show. Taylor was mad because I was trying to get her to look at me instead of the movie she was engrossed in so her expression didn't turn out so well.Later in the afternoon I was trying to kill some time so that we could actually sit down and eat a meal with dad so I took the girls on a wagon ride down the street and back. They LOVE riding in the wagon.Today we did some bargain shopping at the local garage sales before going to the grocery store and managed to find a slip n slide. We already had plans to hang out at the neighborhood pool, (The Rae's kiddie pool) So we brought the slip and slide along and had a great time beating the heat.
Taylor wasn't a huge fan of slipping on the slip n slide but she did like walking on it and trying to drink the water. We did convince her to go down once with the two girls but as you can see she was still thirsty.

Enjoying the river

Most of you know we live on the Molalla River. Although we have been here for well over a year yesterday was the first time that I took the girls down to the river for fun throwing rocks. Thanks to my wonderful neighbor Rhonda who I would go insane without out here, we all headed down to the river for an eventful morning of rock throwing. It's a rare occasion with all the maintenance and work on our house that I take time out to do things like this and just let the girls have fun and relax for a half hour so I was grateful when Rhonda called with such a fun idea.

The kids sitting at the waters edge throwing rocks. Holly and Hunter are two of Rhonda's kids.

The crew snacking on cereal thanks to Rhonda. Taylor and Jade were so mesmerized by the river I had a tough time getting them to look at the camera.

Taylor and Holly hand and hand headed back to the house. Taylor of coarse couldn't stay out of the water so she is in her frilly undies.

Bunco anyone?

So some of my long time soccer buddies and I had been having a hard time staying in contact so we came up with the marvelous idea of starting a bunco group. There are 12 of us in the group and it consists of half of us girls and the other half our moms. What a great time we all have bouncing around to each other's homes eating great food, visiting and of coarse playing bunco. There are some of us who are more competitive then others. Joene, who brings lots of excitement to the group not only when she is winning but when anyone around her gets a bunco we all know it. We all have a great time.

So this month I hosted and I had had a dessert recipe for literallyyears that I thought was so fun but I never really had the right opportunity to try it out. I figured bunco would be great since I knew exactly how many people were coming and had help from others (thank you mom and Melanie) who brought some of the food. So I did finally create my little Martha Stewart desserts and if I don't say so myself they turned out great. I have to admit I hated eating them because they were so cute and most of the gals thought they were just little plants set up for decoration. My friend Melanie talked me into taking these pics so I figured I'd throw them up here for all of you to see. They really weren't that tough so if anyone is interested in the recipe let me know.