Peanut Butter Cookies

I had some baking to do on Tuesday night, since Tuesday nights are one of the nights a week that Wes is at the Fire Hall, it was just me and Kassi. We were in need of a gluten free recipe for one of the people I work with and I wanted to make something fairly easy and quick so Kassi's patients did not run out. I remembered a recipe I found in a parenting magazine a few months ago for the easiest peanut butter cookies that don't take any flour. So that was what we decided on. (When I say easy, I mean easy - depending on how many you want you use 1 cup peanut butter, 1 cup sugar and 1 egg, bake at 350 for 8 minutes and walla you are done!)

Kassi of course was the biggest help in the mess, and clean up departments. She helped clean up the spoon and spatula used to gt the peanut butter out of the tub, got peanut butter everywhere and then grabbed the kitchen towel and cleaned it up.

1st Camping Trip of the Summer

This weekend was our first camping trip of the summer. Other than the water heater not working in our camper and it pouring down rain on Sunday we had a really great time. Family picture time! Kassi was having too much fun running around to sit still for very long, but she did take time to help me set the camera up.

Kassi got into the true spirit of camping and was covered in dirt from head to toe on Saturday. That night we also let her have her first smore. She took a few bites then gave it back. You see as much as she likes to play in the dirt she does not like it when her hands get real dirty and especially when they get sticky. I bet she asks to wash her hands at least 10 times a day.

First Bubbles

One of the neighbor boys came over to play with Kassi this afternoon and he taught her how to blow bubbles. It was really cute. She would blow some and then chase after them saying "catch" and "wow".

Mother's Day

On Sunday we decided to take a drive and ended up in Yellowstone. When we decided to go I said I had better pack a bag. Kassi decided she did not want to wear diapers so she brought me pull ups and a few other things. Then Wes said to look over at her, and when I did she was packing a bag as well. She had some soup, malted milk, pull ups, ponies, tomatoes, coco powder, potatoes and a book.

This was Kassi's first trip to Yellowstone. We saw about every animal you can in the park with the exception of a wolf. Unfortunately not many of them were in good camera range.

There was a lot of snow still up there. In many some places where they had plowed it was deeper than the pickup is tall. Kassi kept wanting to get out and play in the snow. She did really well being in her car seat for as long as she was and kept resisting falling asleep so it did end up being a short nap day.

We stopped at Fishing Bridge and ate lunch. Kassi even ordered her own meal and said please and thank you to the waitress! Then we bought a few trinkets for her and we headed off to Old Faithful. She had a lot of fun there. This was one place that was fairly clear from snow and there were not many people so she was able to get out and run for a little while, more like 2 hours! When the geyser went off she was saying ooh and pointing and smiling. After this we ate the supper we had packed and headed home.

It was a great day and I couldn't have asked for any better present than the time I got to spend with my family!

Getting ready to go to Yellowstone!

Really deep snow! Notice in the next pictures Kassi is wearing different pants...she decided to sit in the snow and the puddles!

Old Faithful

Watching Old Faithful with Daddy.