Dec 10: naughty or nice?

Do you think Melanie has been good enough? I don't know, she doesn't let mom sleep at all these days.

Dec 9: cloud

I have no idea what kind of clouds they were but man were they weird. Rachel noticed them at school as well.

Dec 8: Libaray

Is there a limit to the number of books you can take? We took like 20!

Dec 7 cousin love

December 6 : Leftovers

Leftover are much more exciting when you re purpose them into something else. Saturday I made carnitas. very yummy but for it I cooked a whole pork butt. After feeding my family and my sister who is minus her hubby for awhile I still had lots leftover. It was all part of the master plan. In the freezer I had enchilada soup saved from a big batch and turned the leftover meat from the carnitas into taquitos to go with them. Rachel dipped them in the soup like you would a grilled cheese into tomato soup. The leftover get used but we didn't feel like we were having leftovers again. Yay!
You can fill taquitos with lot of different leftover meat like pot roast or shredded chicken.
In college I even used canned roast beef. Gasp! Rinsed off the gravy seasoned it a little and turned it into taquitos.

December 5 : Rain

Rain. We have been under flash flood warning all weekend. It was dry for so long. We have either been flooding or dry this year. No in between. I captured this image on the way to get Rachel from school it is actually a reflection of the woods overhead. The little blurry parts are leaves or things in the water.

December 4:lemon

The lemon tree is giving it's fruit. It is so crooked and only as tall as the backyard fence but it makes lemons the size of grapefruit! The kids were getting out the patio chairs to stand on to pick them. They loaded them up in a toy shopping cart and hauled a bunch inside. Some were still a bit green but that's ok. I appreciate their harvesting efforts.