AMAZING Strawberry Vinaigrette

I LOVE the Strawberry Vinaigrette at a local "Gourmet" sandwich shop, Zupa's. Jeff is not a big fan so I don't get there too often. So I decided to take matters into my own hands. Here is a Recipe for a VERY easy Strawberry Vinaigrette that tastes exactly like Zupa's. Try it out!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup red wine vinegar
• 1 cup canola oil
• 4 strawberries (Hulled and chopped)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup sugar

Directions:

1. Mix the strawberries, salt, sugar, and vinegar. Blend well in a blender.
2. While blending slowly add in all of the oil, blending until smooth.
3. Makes about 2 1/2 cups

Arts Festival



All stamped and in the fest



 Jeff and I have gone to the Utah Arts Fest as long as we've been togther. We used to stroll hand in hand enjoing the art. Now we spend more than half the time in the kids yard and hurry thru the "boring" art part. How times change. We all had a great time and had to pry Alexander from the Kids "Art Yard," He must take after his Daddy!

At the "Mad Hatter" tent with his creation



"Balancing" art and fun!!




Enjoying the day






Listening to the kids sing-along



Adding his mark at the kids yard



Our budding artist





 

Word Art Canvas - a tutorial

I don't know about you but I love all the new "Word Art" canvases that are popping up everywhere. What I don't like is the prices, I found one with a cute "grandma's house" saying that I loved for $35! YIKES!! I knew I could make it much, much cheaper and in the colors/ designs that were perfect. What do you know, using stuff I had around the house (Less than $5 if you were to buy everything) I created a canvas word art that worked out perfectly.

Check out the step-by-step and make one yourself!

 (Finally a fun and easy way to display all those fun quotes you see!)

I started out with a blank 5x7 canvas in a nasty green that I got on the cheap sometime
 (color doesn't matter because it will all be covered)

Apply a layer of Mod Podge all over the canvas

Add scrapbook paper, wrapping paper, any type of paper in a pattern you like to the front and once again Mod Podge the whole thing, Now let it completely dry (overnight is best if you can stand the wait)



Now create your saying with vinyl stickers or a paper cutting tool and adhesive vinyl, Once again the color doesn't matter as this will be covered
 (I used my cricut with the gypsy...if you need help with this shoot me an email!)



Now carefully stick your saying on your dry mod podged papered canvas

Next Spray paint the entire canvas (sides, top, over the lettering, the whole thing)
then let the whole thing completely dry (again?!?! sigh!)
*I used hammered brown spray paint*

Now carefully peel up the vinyl (your paper will show thru underneath)

Voila!
Fun (cheap) word art!

At 2am Saturday night...

It's 2am on Saturday night...I'm still up... I should be cleaning the house, logging into work, getting Fathers Day crafting finished up, catching up on blogging ;) ( Oh I have so much fun stuff to tell you about!!). What AM I doing??? Watching an episode of "Breaking Bad".  I'll be catching up here very soon with new recipes, tutorials and filling you in on all the fun/work we've been up to. Right now however I'm going to hang with "Walt and Jessie!"

Little Boys in Little League

I've heard so many horror stories of parents trash talking at little league games that when I happened across this poem I thought it was such a nice reminder to all parents about the "kids" who are playing the game. I decided that it would make a GREAT hand out to parents on your little league team. Here is a FREE PDF Printable I created... http://freepdfhosting.com/c6a13b7b02.pdf ... Think about printing some to hand out at your next game.

Graduation 2012



Dad Receiving his award (Photo Taken by BigA)



The Family there to cheer on Dad

 We all attended commencement at the University of Utah this year. We are so proud of Big A, recieving his Doctora.... wait it's still a little early for that maybe in 2032???, but we did attend graduation because Jeff's Dad was receiving an award and we all wanted to be there to cheer him on. Congrats Dad!!

Dad on Stage

 

After 1 1/2 hours of commencement



At Hires after commencement





At the after party at Dean Irelands house























The Dentist

The first trip to the dentist. Big A is old enough now to be going to the dentist. I checked into it and found a well respected pediatric dentist. I made an appointment. I told Big A how "awesome" it was going to be and what a big boy he is! Then I fretted. Being the queen of cavities (not from lack of brushing mind you) I have always dreaded the dentist, even just cleanings so I was feeling like a big hypocrite trying to build it up for the little guy but then I didn't want him nervous. I also promised a fun surprise after if he was a good boy (Bribery? really...I know but this was the dentist!) So we went to his appointment and ... everything went great. The assistant was so nice, the Dentist kind and thorough, the waiting room had a slide! What was I worried about?? After the "fun surprise" a trip to the merry-o-round at the mall, Big A asked "So Mom, now can we go back to the Dentist's?"...and I was worried?!?! 

In the chair

Ready for X-Rays

Mr laid back..what was I worried about?

With Dr. Stewart

Getting X-Rays

Getting his first cleaning

Showing off those pearly whites

At the Merry-Go-Round