Watermelon Pie for Saint Anne

I am very excited to eat this tonight -- lime, pineapple, and raspberry sherbet with chocolate chip "seeds"

http://catholiccuisine.blogspot.com/2010/07/watermelon-pie-for-feast-of-st-anne.html

Feast Day Celebrations

We celebrated the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel with these scapular brownies and Our Lady of Mount Car-a-mel Milkshakes :)

Yesterday we had Magdalenenstriezeln for the feast of St. Mary Magdalene. As far as I can tell, these are supposed to represent her fingers. Why fingers? My (very brief) research seems to show that her fingers were venerated because they touched Our Lord when she washed his feet with her hair. We ate these delicious cookies with San Sebastian Rosa wine (neither red, nor white since she was neither martyr nor virgin) -- that was a little stretch, but it was a good excuse for one of our favorite wines.

And of course, what is a feast day with out some Settlers of Catan! :)

Just for the record, I don't think up these ideas! I find inspiration for most of these things at Catholic Cuisine (GREAT blog!)

http://catholiccuisine.blogspot.com/search/label/Our%20Lady%20of%20Mount%20Carmel

http://catholiccuisine.blogspot.com/2009/07/magdalenenstriezeln-st-magdalen-fingers.html

Boating Fun

Eric and Benedict

Justin and Benedict

Amanda and sleeping boys

Grandpa and Dominic

manatees at the dock

Benedict's 2nd birthday!

The night before his birthday, we saw Toy Story 3 at the theater. The boys were riveted until the very end!

Benedict had a Buzz Lightyear themed birthday party.

Grandma and Grandpa got him a Buzz. He hardly wanted to open his other presents after that!

"TO INFINITY, AND BEYOND!!!"

Such an adorable little boy! We love you!

Benedict blew out the candles on his spaceship cake like a pro! He loves to blow out candles!

Grandpa and Benedict

4th Anniversary!

We went out to play mini-golf with the boys for our 4th anniversary.

Dominic (3) and Benedict (2) are growing so much!