A week of silence and I've found something blog worthy! Wouldn't you know it's food related. I thought I'd share my favorite summer recipe with you. I made it for the first time of the season (I'm getting an early start) to bring to a friends house last night. I even doubled the recipe so I could be sure to have leftovers. I could literally eat this for breakfast, lunch, dinner (and my 10 intermittent snacking periods).

My mom gave me this one. She's an amazing cook, so pretty much anything I know how to cook is because she passed it along. 

                                                             (not my picture)

(I've never had a good reason to take a picture of it, so I borrowed one that looked real similar)

1 ball of mozzarella cheese

1 hand full of basil

5 Roma tomatoes

balsamic vinegar

olive oil

french bread loaf (the crusty kind)

 Just dice up the tomatoes, cheese and basil; mix together; drizzle balsamic vinegar and olive oil over top to taste. 

Let me just mention that I do not like tomatoes. I've never liked them. However, when drenched in balsamic vinegar they are a.m.a.z.i.n.g

I guess I do have one other thing that is pretty blog worthy. 

This little guy....

I wanted to take the boys to the animal shelter this week because Lincoln loves animals. Dogs,cats,goats, Black Angus....he doesn't discriminate.  It's a lot shorter of a drive then the pet store so I thought it would be a fun FREE family outing. (It was fun...just not free) When we got there we met this little guy. He had been dropped off on the side of the road and brought to the shelter. SERIOUSLY?  Look at that face.....you know you would have done the same thing. Even Brandon thought he was cute. (Plus, I have a thing for wiener dogs so I'm pretty sure he was suppose to be mine.)

Lincoln loves him so much. He has probably repeated the phrase, "He's a great doggy" and "I love my doggy" 600 times in two days. 

We named him Leo because we just really love that name. We almost named Kingston, "Leo". We didn't because Brandon wanted his full name to be Leonidus...honey, this isn't 300 and I'm not wearing a sheet. Sorry. 

It works for the pup though.

Kelsie