Yummy salad dressing

This is a good salad dressing to make with a steak dinner.

1 cup light sour cream
4 oz. gorgonzola cheese
1 lemon zest and juice
3 slices bacon cooked and chopped
Olive oil
Pepper

In a blender mix in sour cream, cheese, lemon, bacon and pepper. You want to stream in the olive oil until you get the consistency you like. If you do not like blue cheese dressing you may not like this, but I love blue cheese and thought the bacon gave it a smokey flavor and I like sour cream instead of mayo.

I added bacon crumbles to the top of my salad too. I know not the lightest dinner, but tasty. I make steaks about 1-2 times a month, so I don't feel bad and I split my steak with the kids.

And Costco sells Artisan lettuce for $2.99 for a huge package with 3 types of lettuce!

Pictures from our vacation

This is only 5 pictures out of the 188 that I took. Our kids love to look at the pictures, so a lot are to look at on the computer, but will never get developed.

This is little man pretending he is a mail man. He knows our mail man personally and waits for him every day. He loves that he can play mail man at the SLO's Children Museum.

Little missie wanted to dress up like a princess but was not happy that there were not any shoes for her!

Little man had fun collecting sand dollars on the beach. He found 10 then put them back so they would not die.

It was such a pretty night to be on the beach. I loved the shadows and the way the sand looked.

I love capturing the profile so we can see their cheeks.

We had good times this year. Lots of swimming in the pool and in the ocean. We went to our favorite spots, Avila Valley Barn, Klondike Pizza and Doc Burnstien's ice cream parlor. Hubby's cousin and family came while we were there so we spent one day with them and 2 days on the beach with some of our other friends. The kids love going to the beach and they love that they know what to expect. Lots of family memories are being created. We go about 3 times in the summer and atleast once in the fall. I know as they get older we will take other vacations but I think we will always go back to Avila Beach since we have created some family traditions there.

I'm winging it this week!

Yeap, no real plan for dinners this week. Tonight I am making spaghetti and turkey meatballs. I have lots of veggies for salads, stocked up on fruit and may run to get corn and a couple of items to make easy meals. Maybe BLT's will make an appearance this week? Who knows, but it is too stinkin hot to cook!

Hot weather and cooking!

I am not inspired to cook at all when it gets this hot. I usually cook the basics trying not to heat the house up too much. All I want to do is sit in front of the fan and drink my ice tea. Tonight I bought a rotisserie chicken, making some pilaf, salad and hummus and flat bread. I don't even want to BBQ when it is this hot.....blahhh.....I need to come up with some salads this week to make and eat lots of fruit.

If I had an iPhone....

I would show you some pictures, but I don't have a iPhone. I took some great pictures of the kids tonight on the beach. Little man found 10 sand dollars and he put them back because he wanted to keep them alive. My nose is sooooo sun burnt even though I put sunscreen on it 20 times a day. Tomorrow I need to find a bigger hat, guess my hat is not cutting it and we are back to the beach tomorrow.

I have been doing my workouts every afternoon, but I can't jump very much since we are on the 3rd floor and I don't want to wake up little missie. I even skipped ice cream last night, though I ate too much Klondike's pizza since it is my favorite pizza ever!

The kids are looking at themselves in the mirror right now in their jammies. We have been all sleeping in the same room and we are all sleeping until 8:30 am and not getting out until 10am which is a nice change. I think the kids are having a great time and we are enjoying ourselves too.

So far so good!

This morning we went on a bike ride down the Bob Jones trail to Avila Valley Barn. We fed the animals and got roasted corn on the cobb....yum! We rode back and got ready for the beach. We took the trolley down to the beach and played a couple of hours until little missie was beside herself. We are waiting for her to wake up and then we will head out to Mei's Chinesse food and then swimming until bedtime! Today has gone by too fast!

San Luis Bay Resort

San Luis Bay Resort in Avila Beach is a fun place to stay! They have a pool, kid pool, activities center, activities you can sign up for like a bonfire at night, which we are going to do. It is walking distance to Avila Beach and the park. I think we are going to have lots of fun this week! Tomorrow we are heading to the beach to dig in the sand and soak up the not too hot sun!

We took a boat ride today at Morro Bay to the sand dunes and little man went into the water thinking it was like the beach, but it has a drop off a couple of feet in and he went in the water face first fully clothed. He was startled and cold, but he got up like a trooper and laughed about it. Wish I had a camera for that moment. Note to self, always have your camera with you! I am sure we will have lots of fun moments to come this week and I will be taking my camera with me!