Beautiful Homes & Garages near Briar Cliff Village in Kansas

Doing some drive by shooting...camera shooting that is!!

Here are some lovely homes near the Briar Cliff Village in Kansas.

Look at this neat walkway bridge...a flowing stream is below it. Love all the stone work.



Look at these stone arches...beautiful!

I love the architectural details in this front facade of the home.

Love the small brick arches over the windows of this garage. This garage reminds me of a carriage house. I love the brackets on the front of the garage under the roofline. The iron brackets on the garage doors make it look more carriage like.

Got a few spare windows?

If you have a few spare windows lying around..why not hang them!

Here they are suspended on picture hanging wire.

One is used for the shelf with which to put all sorts of pretties on it. Love the white birdcage!

The second window is hung as the vignette's backdrop.

summer fun

It's Mosiac Monday...Join us the Little Red House

It's so juicy Mom!

Crystal Lake Camping Trip

Crystal Lake, Iowa
World's Largest Bullhead!























Anna freezing after getting out of the water.




















Photo 1: Chase, Tjaden & Anna building a pirate fort on the beach.

Photo 2: Crystal Lake at dusk...isn't it peaceful and pretty?

Photo 3: Anna getting ready to watch the fireworks.

Fruit Pizza

On our recent camping trip to Crystal Lake my mom and I made fruit pizza.

It was a great refreshing treat on a hot summer day.


See recipe on bottom of post.







Here it is all dressed up with a small flag.


























FRUIT PIZZA

1 roll of sugar cookie dough
8 oz. cream cheese
2 Tbsp. milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups Cool Whip
Assortment of fresh fruit like kiwi, grapes, strawberries, blueberries

Press cookie dough onto a round pizza pan and bake as directed. Let cool.

Next beat cream cheese, milk, sugar until creamy. Fold in Cool Whip. Spread this mixture onto cooled cookie crust and then top with fresh fruit.

Drizzle glaze over fruit to help keep it from browning and to give some added flavor.

GLAZE:

1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup lemon juice

Cook above 3 ingredients until thick. Let cool and spread over fruit topped pizza.



NOTE: any type of fresh fruit works. We also love bananas, pineapple, peaches. Mix it up or use what you have on hand.

My little boy's accident

Tjaden, age 9
Tjaden suffered from heat exhaustion 2 weeks ago. He passed out on the walking across the street of all places!

Luckily my nephew was nearby and scooped him up quickly and brought him to me. Tjaden had been at the pool for 2 long HOT days and got dehydrated.

Took him to the doctor, actually carried him as he was so weak. Dr. Osgood did some blood and lab work and found out he was severely dehydrated and fighting a virus. They hooked him up to a I.V. and started fluids right there in the doctor's office...I didn't know they did that there...thought you had to go to a hospital.

After a bag of fluids and rest, he was released with strict orders to REST, DRINK & NO PLAY for a few days!

I guess now we have to watch him carefully around the heat as he can easily get it again. Once you get heat exhaustion, it easily comes back.

He had a nasty road burn on his shoulder but I didn't get photos of that. Poor little guy!