My Photo Blog!

As a new hobby and maybe someday an extra source of income. You know, money I can go shopping with. I am learning portrait photography. I have only done one photoshoot so far but you can see some of those pics on my photo blog. It is www.KreativePix.blogspot.com. I would like constructive criticism. I am just learning and need all the help I can get. There is a link in the right hand column of our family blog. Enjoy.

Spinach Smoothie Recipe

I know, sounds gross huh. But its not, if you make it right. I got this recipe at Enrichment night. Zayne and I share one every morning. It has a ton of spinach and is so good for you. Especially for all of us who don't get enough green veggies everyday. You can probably get your kids to eat it also, just call it Green Candy, but don't tell them what is in it.


3 Cups vanilla soymilk
Spinach to fill 3/4 blender
3-4 frozen bananas (broken up in chunks)
Cinnamon and nutmeg to taste


I make it in my Bullet blender, so I make about 1/3 of the recipe. What it means by fill blender 3/4 full is, pack the spinach down into the milk until the milk and spinach fill the blender 3/4 full (Yeah, it's several hand fulls). Make sure your bananas are ripe, like when the peel starts to get brown spots. If they aren't really ripe, they aren't sweet enough to cover up the spinach flavor (I made that mistake). Also, don't leave out the cinnamon or nutmeg. If you don't have those spices, go and get them. I left out the nutmeg because I didn't have any, and it tasted very green and spinachy. Enjoy!

Zayne's Bday Party

Zayne's Birthday party was a lot of fun. We had a BBQ at the pool and swam. We had a bunch of our friends come. Jason's Mom and Dad were also in town. Although we don't have any pictures of them at the party... Well not any Margo would let me post. :) They helped me make Zayne's Turtle cake. It took 3 of us about 3 hours. Thank goodness I didn't try to do that on my own. Now I know you have to color the fondant ahead of time, like the day before. It turned out really cute though. Zayne missed his afternoon nap because of the party. So when it was time to eat his cake he wasn't in a very good mood. I shoved his hand in it to get him started and he started to cry because he doesn't like to get his hands dirty. He was flinging frosting everywhere. I should have given him a fork to begin with. He would have had more fun. His friends came over and helped him eat his cake though. It was cute. He got tons of cool presents. THANKS EVERYONE! He loves them all. All in all it was a pretty Awesome Day! Except the poor little girl that was swimming in the pool and swam right into Zayne's little Torpedo Penguin and got it's propeller twisted in her hair. We had to break the toy to get it out. (the slideshow below can be viewed in fullscreen for a closer view)

Zayne's Cake

Here is a close up of the cake, for those of you who wanted to see it. Click on it to make it bigger.

Our Baby isn't a Baby anymore

Yep, its true. Zayne will be 1 on Saturday, May 24th. He is at such a fun age. He has his own little personality. He talks non stop. None of them are words we can understand except "DA DA". He says "MA MA" but only when he is tired. He also tries to "Meow" like the cats. He is always happy and smiles all the time. Our little baby isn't a baby anymore. :( We can't imagine our life without him though. We can't even remember what it was like before we had him. It must not have been very exciting. Ha Ha! :) This is the invitation I made for his party.

Our Little Monkey

We are raising a monkey! He climbs up on top of everything. I walked into my bedroom to see what he was up to, because he was very quiet, and found him up on top of the cat tree. I don't know how he got up there. Then while I was typing this post I turned around and found him on top of the coffee table. He just learned to walk a month ago and now he is climbing! He is so proud of himself when I find him on top of something. He grins from ear to ear.

Mommy's Little Helper

Zayne has a thing for cleaning lately. He finds the broom, the fan duster, the swiffer or whatever and starts sweeping the floor. He walks all through the house sweeping. He thinks its fun now, wait till he has chores. He will change his mind. Here is a little video of him using the fan duster to sweep my bedroom floor and a picture we took with him using the swiffer. Jason put a handkerchief on his head to be funny.