Happy Independence Day!

Hopefully everyone is enjoying the long weekend.  Our plans have been somewhat disrupted because Joseph has had a fever all weekend.  He woke up with a fever on Friday morning and he hasn't gotten rid of it.  The highest it has reached is 101, but it has been around 100 the whole weekend.  He is coughing and has a runny nose too, but other then that he is acting completely fine.  He is running around and not even acting sick.  Samuel has a bit of a cough too, but is also acting coming fine.

They are both napping right now, which both Dave and I needed desperately.  They have been waking up at 6 am.  What is wrong with them?  How do you get kids to sleep in later?  Joseph goes to bed between 6:30 and 7 at night (we can't get him to stay up any later, he literally can not function by 7) and Samuel goes to bed between 7 and 8 depending on if he took a nap or not.  They do go to bed at a reasonable time, but my gosh can they not sleep in later.

Other then not much sleep and dealing with wild children all weekend, I have been cooking up a storm.

On Saturday night we had grilled Bone-in Rib-eye (which was absolutely delicious), crab cakes, roasted fingerling potatoes (oil, garlic, rosemary, onion powder, cayenne pepper, pepper and salt all tossed with the potatoes and put on a baking sheet at 400 degrees for about 20-30 minutes), grilled zucchini, squash, and portabella mushrooms.

On Sunday night we had roasted turkey breast (cooked in the oven in a roaster with celery, carrots, onions, rosemary and brushed with oil, seasoning salt, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper and parsley cooked at 325 for 2 hours), garlic mashed potatoes and fresh green beans.  It was super delicious.  We had a lot of leftover turkey, so I sliced that up and we will use it for sandwiches for the rest of the week.  Yummy.

Tonight I am making Vegetarian Stuffed Bell Peppers.  I am going to post pictures and the recipe at Table for Two.

From now on I am going to try to post all my food related items at that blog.  It is easier to keep it separate from all my family stuff.

Here are some pictures from the last few weeks:

Every night Joseph wants to lay down with Samuel on the couch.  They are so cute together.

On the train at the Museum of Transportation

Joseph isn't much of a hugger but he loves to give Samuel hugs.  I LOVE this picture of the boys.

Check out that height difference

More hugs!