Beach Weather

Richard's nephew Austin and Austin's mom and sister are visiting us for a few days. They traveled down to San Diego to say goodbye to a relative who is shipping out stopped by our house on the way back home. Yesterday I took them around town a little bit and we stopped at the beach. The beach at Long Beach is not very exciting, but yesterday ended up being a much prettier day than was forecasted.

We were just going to put our feet in the water. Some of us got a little wetter than intended.

We had a good time and Alyssa, Austin's sister, got a good dose of the beach.

While Joshua got a good dose of the beach in another way.

Motherhood is a thankless job

I try, like I'm sure most of us do, to make meals that taste good and are good for you. I have a recipe for Beef and Broccoli that I really like. I've made it before and got a lukewarm reception from the boys while Richard and I really liked it. I had some leftover beef from earlier in the week and some frozen broccoli. It is a quick recipe so I figured that it would be good for tonight. Well, Josh wouldn't even touch it and Nathan and Randy just had the minimum. I can't figure it out; if I had served it in a Styrofoam container with little packets of soy sauce, they would have eaten it up. I know what I'm eating for lunch for the next week.

P.S. I know that it was kind of a boring post but I wanted to try making links and needed something to link to. Check out the recipe though; I never would have thought to use tomato soup in beef and broccoli but it really does taste good.