Samantha-Lee

It's my second Mother's Day! We didn't do anything special. I just got me and D all dressed up to take some cute pictures. We were going to have Applebee's for dinner, but my mom offered to make my favorite BBQ chicken instead, and I totally couldn't turn that down!

Look at how much my baby has grown in just one year!

Mother's Day 2010:



Mother's Day 2011:











This one came out SUPER blurry and I tried to fix it.. but I didn't do a very good job, haha. :(



Homemade BBQ:




Now, my face:

Very late post, I know! Easter was a couple weeks ago. But better late than never. We went to visit my Dad and took him flowers. Then we stopped by Dawson's Nana & Pop's house for a while and went to the park so he could swing & slide!





I told him to make a bunny face, and this is what he did:





The sign made me laugh. & Dawson is running around with the pinwheel we got for his Papa!






Being a goofball with his Nana





Wearing his new backpack for school!





His bunny cup!







Check out all the goodies he got!
*And yes, he got socks. 12 pairs of socks, to be exact! Why? Because he always manages to lose them!









After we got home that night and I looked through the pictures, I realized I didn't even get one of me & Dawson. I was sad! It sucks always being behind the camera.. However, I did manage to get one of myself.

I've been trying to get healthy, so I've been on a bit of a fruits and veggies only diet. It's been tough, especially with all of my baking going on.. I'll admit, I cheated on this diet quite a few times.. But I have been enjoying the healthy stuff too. Here's everything I ate on a good, non-cheating day!

Steel cut oatmeal with fresh cut strawberries




Broccoli and cheese for lunch


Strawberries & bananas for snacks


"Healthy" Mac & Cheese with Chicken chunks.

I had this idea to make pretty, colored cake balls for Easter! So, I mixed the batter for two cakes, and split each batter in half. Making 4 different colored cakes, which meant 4 different colors of cake balls! Also meaning that I had a TON of cake balls on my hands, lots of left overs. Oh well, I had fun decorating them!

These past couple of weeks have been a blur.. a baking, schoolwork blur. I've made cookies using the same recipe about 4-5 times! I also made the dough, split in half, and made white macadamia nut cookies with one. They were super delicious.
Dawson and I have been loving fresh fruit these days, and we especially love combining them into smoothies along with some coconut milk and a little bit of yogurt. Delicious. Here's some pictures:

















Yeah, the cookies were left in a little bit longer than intended.

This past assignment was to pick a topic and write an "article", and take pictures to support it. As much as I would have loved to write about the tornadoes and weather, I couldn't exactly travel down to Tuscaloosa and capture the damage. I couldn't even really be "on location" for anything, being a single mommy. So I stuck to what I had in my backyard - plants. I wrote my article on "Why leaves change color according to seasons". During the winter, these particular leaves turn into a dark maroon color. But since it's spring (nearly Summer), they have changed shades.