blackberry cobbler y'all

   About this time of year, I turn into a freegan. If it can be foraged, I am all over it. It must be the long days of summer filled with, "Mooooom, I'm huuuuuunnnnnnngry." Well, Seattle provides, friends. All along our neighborhood alleyways are bushes heavy with perfect blackberries. Sweet and free for the picking.

  After we pick, I freeze half (for gray February mornings that beg for blackberry syrup on warm pancakes) then we usually make crepes with this lady's recipe. The boys asked for cobbler this time, though. I used this recipe. Easy, quick, delicious and all with stuff I had already.

Remember the berry post from last year? Well, the same circus act discussion came up again this year, too funny.

thanks

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, and confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."
                                                                                                                  -Melody Beattie

Isn't that a great quote? Love it. Today I am grateful for all my near & dear ones, a cool new way I found to edit photos, & I scored Adobe Photoshop last week online for just $45! So the pictures around here should be looking much better or maybe just funkier.

Pizza Party!

Most of you know that I have recently become addicted to couponing. (Yes, it's a verb!) Through one of the coupon blogs I follow, I signed up to host a Dominoes House Party. They supplied the pizza and we just had to add a few friends. Cool, huh? These are the pics from the festivities, sadly, none of the 6 boxes of pizza we are still polishing off.

Jayson & Nicole, they came even though Dominoes made them sign an intense release form. :)

Party injury, that's how you know it was fun, right?

Grant & Bobbi, I first met Bobbi in the 7th grade!

Collin, taking advantage of the soda that only shows up at our house for parties.

Police VS. Fire DodgeBall

Menfolk playing soccer.

Matt would not even ease up on the little ones!

Good times, we will definitely try this again!