Breakfast Frisbees

There's a local diner in Farmville called Merk's Place that we love to go to! They have an especially delicious breakfast menu. This past weekend while family was in town for Noah's birthday, we made a trip to Merk's for breakfast.  On a menu that I've never seen changed the last four years, there was a new item listed this past week!! A breakfast frisbee! Basically it's a breakfast pizza on a tortilla.  Josh decided to get it and fell in love. So I wasn't surprised when he requested it on this week's menu plan. :)

Bee bow party

Thanks for being patient with us as we worked through August and the business that comes along with it. Now back to our regularly scheduled program: gushing about our little one!

Brief hiatus

For those of you wondering where the Adventures of BB have been, we're taking a brief break. August has truly taken over and we're having to focus on some things at home and at work. 

In the meantime, why not check out some of our past entries by clicking on the convenient categories to the right?

GQ has a picture spot

So thanks to the first day photos from the other day, BB now has a photo spot in the house.

This morning we found BB "reading" a newspaper.

Our little GQ BB

Today BB started at his new school. Some of you may not know that his last school ended up closing due to finances. God works for good in all things, of course, and so some of the teachers from there began their own! We are so excited for BB to be at KidzRUs. After the jump are some photos of our little GQ BB in his "handsome shirt" for his first day.

What's For Dinner?

Noah isn't old enough to ask that question yet, which is great because I ask it of myself plenty enough!

It's a Mickey mug kind of day

For those of you that don't know, we've been having a sort of rough week around the Blakely household. We've had a broken phone, a leaky roof, an explosive dog, and an adventurous baby boy. That means that this morning was a Mickey mug kind of morning.

Pavement 2, Blakelys 0

Well this is just not our week here in the Blakley household.  To add to our woes of a leaky roof, yesterday evening I was pushing a cranky toddler in the stroller and holding an excited dog on the leash at the same time, and as the cranky toddler screamed and the dog pulled me forward we hit a bump in the sidewalk in just the wrong angle causing my three month old iphone to be launched from the stroller and land perfectly screen down onto the pavement. Now it looks like this:

Water, water everywhere!

This morning was rough. The soggy weather outside meant that none of us wanted to get up and going this morning. Our little boy slept until almost 7 (practically unheard of!) and the pup was content to doze in the middle of our floor a bit longer than usual. Thankfully, this meant we were running way behind and discovered the leak in our ceiling!

Vegetarian Makeover

Josh and I have been vegetarians for almost two years now (Noah's always been a vegetarian).  It was such an easy switch for us that sometimes it's hard to remember ever eating meat.  Occasionally though, one of us craves a dish from our former carnivore lifestyle.  That's when we get creative and come up with a vegetarian makeover of the recipe.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't....and sometimes it's even better than the meat version!

Noah's First Haircut

Well, it was time.  The baby mullet had gotten out of hand.  As much as I adore those blonde curls, the sweaty mess of hair that was coming home from daycare every day needed to be taken care of.

Half naked in the Tractor Supply parking lot

Well if that doesn't get your attention, I don't know what will!

It's August, so you know...

It's August, so you know, life is a little rough around most college campuses. It is no different where I get the privilege of working. Most of you know I'm in residence life which means we get started up even earlier than most because student staff returns even earlier. Let the full out sprint begin and we'll all come up for air in September.

Blueberry Compote

We often find ourselves with leftover sandwich bread here in the Blakely household.  Josh and I will eat PB&Js and pimento cheese sandwiches, and we all love a good grilled cheese, but we just tend to eat things other than sandwiches most of the time.  So tonight I realized we had a whole loaf we had yet to open and I really hate wasting food.  I knew we also had eggs to use up, so french toast for dinner it was!

"Do all the good you can..."

I teach the Youth Sunday School at our church and have had the summer off from lesson planning in favor of some hands-on mission work. Today is my first Sunday back in full out teaching mode and I'm pretty excited for the topic this week: the relationship between faith and works.

We made it!

Lyndsie made it home from her week long mission camp. They had a blast building a ramp for an older woman to get in and out of her home. I wish I could have gone but I had a fun time with my family around our house. They were so helpful in watching Noah, working around the house, and keeping me sane. Although it started out a little rough, the week ended well!