Justin Cutting Grass

Justin dented my car by being a nut (surprise)  I fixed it but his payment is cutting the grass for a month and picking up Jojo's jewels for a month.  He's never cut grass before, today was his first day:

Last year I put up a video of Adam cutting- now Justin-- they'll be doing it all summer!  Here he's starting it.

And here he's cutting.  I did the back, and he did the front.  He did a great job!  Cool for me.

Peter's Lake

When I was talking to you yesterday we were at Peter's Lake in McMurray.

Luke and Justin were with me, Adam is too cool to go there any more.  I took them for slushies then we walked around the lake.

The other lake pictures were Canonsburg Lake, this is Peter's Lake.

You've been to both of them.

At the shallow part of the lake were a bunch of clam-like shells- Luke got a few

Cute Justin with a stick-- they kept hitting trees with their sticks

Luke getting the shells

A pretty view of the lake- It looks like they dammed this up a while ago, I think this is were McMurray gets it's drinking water

What a great shot

Luke running

Years ago I told Adam and Justin to jump on that platform (the lake is behind them).  I want a picture of them in the air.  Here we are again doing that, now with Luke.  Here are some of those shots.

Between jumps

Great shot with both of them in the air-- tough to synchronize this.  Make the picture bigger and look at Luke's face- Looks like pure joy.

One up, one down

One up, one down- opposite

Saturday At Aldi And Other Things

We went to the clean store today- Amy, Luke and I and I'm going to include a celery update and a picture of Justin as well as a surprise.

Make sure you keep looking down, the next set of pictures are new pictures of outside, not the old ones.

Our beautiful and clean Aldi

Just arriving-- Luke being silly

The haul

Amy and I loading the car

Thumbs up, Luke

Goofy Justin got mud all over- he didn't want to vaccuume it up.

Luke with our celery experiment-- we named the celery Luke, too!

Growing

And here's your surprise!!!!

Hair Cut

A few weeks ago Justin REALLY needed a hair cut:

BEFORE

AFTER

Much Better!!

The Chicken Dinner

I had and idea for this chicken. I cut the whole bird up earlier in the morning.

I made a paste of fresh garlic, olive oil, thyme, basil, celery seed, paprika, season salt, and pepper. I rubbed that under the skin and outside the chicken.

Then I took onions, celery and carrot rubbed that with olive oil and celery seed season salt and pepper. I put a wire rack over that then put the chicken on the rack. Baked it at 450 for 20 min, then 300 for about 45 min.


(Unfortunately  when I went to temp the chicken and pushed the probe in, the entire pan fell out of the oven, all that delicious juice spilled in the oven and in that drawer under the oven- it was a MESS, and we lost the juice--SH*T!!!!)


 Here it is.

The rubbed veggies

Justin in the act

The wire rack

The rubbed chicken

A close up of the rubbed chicken

After the fall in the oven, dammit

The Dish

Labor Day with Grandparents

Grandma and Grandpa came over this weekend- here are pictures from the new camera

Who is this hot, old man?

The food

Luscious looking grandma

More of the food

Luke

Happy Grandpa

Good Justin

Justin's Spring Program

Justin's Spring Progam




Trumpet man!

Justin's Portfolio day

At the end of every year at Cannon-Mac school district there is "Portfolio Day." Throughout the year the teacher saves all the kids work and on that day parents come in for various things to see what their kids are doing in school, and then at the end pick 3 items to put in the kids' "portfolio," so in 8th grade, there will be a representative folder of the kids work from kindergarten on- it's a VERY cool idea.

This year for Justin's class they did a play, a scavenger hunt, and then finally Justin and I picked out 3 things for his portfolio-- here it all is.

Here's Justin

No words needed--- Just look at the intensity