More rain and more outside activities planned. But we soldiered through with our original plan to go to the annual Priory Alumni Picnic at Grant’s Farm and the rain stopped just long enough for us to enjoy the whole thing nice and dry.
The girls love the picnic, especially getting their faces painted. It’s the first thing they do there.
The second thing they do there is make a request from the balloon animal maker. The choice this year was “magical wands.”
Trent’s favorite thing is to get a tour of the Busch home. It’s absolutely spectacular. This year we even got the tour from Billy Busch, pretty fancy! Can you imagine the entrance you get to make on those stairs? 16 year old Jenny would have loved that on dance nights….well to be honest 34 year old Jenny wouldn’t mind it either. :)
For dinner I made Rachel Ray's Pasta with Trees. It’s really just pasta with broccoli and ricotta cheese, but in her childhood her mom called it pasta with trees to get her kids intrigued enough to eat it. My kids didn’t fall for it one bit. But it’s a really easy meal to make and it’s easy on the pocket book too.
I boil the broccoli and pasta in the same pot of water. I break up the ricotta with some pasta water for the sauce and then toss together.
Rachel Ray tops it with raw cherry tomato halves, but Trent won’t eat raw tomatoes unless it’s in a salsa, and even then he’s not happy if it’s chunky salsa. So I skip that step, but I bet it would be good. I was actually pretty distracted at dinner because I knew what was looming after dinner….bath time and washing the face paint off. As I thought, there were dramatic tears. But it’s still worth it, they had a whole day of pretending to be “enchanted princesses” with their faces painted instead of just regular ol’ everyday princesses.
1 comment:
It was pretty fun to be hobnobbing with a Busch - and the house was incredible! Thankfully we were able to keep Sydney contained enough so as not to break anything!
Post a Comment