All in a days work

Well, actually these photos are from the past week...but the story is a typical day off. JMS filled up his bookbag with all of his hot wheel cars...knock offs...Cars cars...and then dumped them out on the kitchen floor. SAFETY HAZARD. And of course, he says, "uh oh mommee."
Then we have my latest experiment...well, I actually followed the recipe, but because we've never tried it before it is considered an experiment in our house. Shown below is the Cheesy Potato and Wild Rice Soup and a simple side salad (no recipe needed).

Recipe is: Prepare 1 package of fast cooking long grain and wild rice mix (mine took about 25 minutes to fluff) while in a separate pot pour in 4 cups milk (I used whole milk b/c that is what I had on hand), 1 can of condensed potato soup (10.8 oz), 8 ounces of Velveeta cheese cubed - heat this on medium, you do not want it to boil. You want the milk, cheese and potato soup to simply melt and blend together. Now you want to cook up 1/2 lb of bacon (KIM...another bacon recipe). Let this cool and crumble - this is the garnish...haha...or just another part of the soup for those bacon lovers. Add the rice to the milk pot and heat through. Serve with bacon sprinkled on top. Mmm...good. Ok, Campbells already has that slogan. But, it was truly great! Serves 4.

Then we have JMS's latest injury that I mentioned in a blog a few days ago. This is his rug burned nose.

Today we went to Lowes and bought the first flowers of the season...I know, its not even Easter yet, but they were available, it was a gorgeous day and it was a good excuse to get JMS outside. So, he found a corner of the yard, and I found a corner of the yard and these photos are the fruits of our labor. As you can tell he was planting the "pretty pictures" (garden markers)