Rainy Randomness: Cozy reading in the rain, lego cars, GRAPEFRUIT SMOOTHIE, coloring!

Lots of rain around here finally!    

Here's a summary of what we've been up to indoors for the last few months.

The rain hasn't stopped my craving for Smoothies!  I saw a tutorial on a Grapefruit and Vanilla Muscle Milk Smoothie that called my name...but after going to purchase a can of Muscle Milk Powder and it was super expensive, I made up my own Grapefruit smoothie!

Depending on how many I'm making my smoothie for, I will alter ingredients...

but typically 

1/2 to whole grapefruit (I cut it in slices and cut the rind off...cutting to avoid seeds)

1 banana

1 vanilla yogurt

ice

tablespoon or two of ground flax seed

If for breakfast...I also add a handful of dry oatmeal.

YUM!

Also...oranges with mixed frozen berries works well.  Our dinner smoothies still always have spinach in them.

Ryan made this lego car...all on his own. It's a Ferrari.  

My grandma sent me a quilt she had that I loved!  We've been snuggling lots with it and it makes me so happy!  She found the squares all pieced together at a garage sale from a Nursing home...she snapped up the quilted pieces and finished it into this beautiful quilt!  The colors are so happy and the pin wheel  pattern is so cute.  After making the little rectangle quilt for Cade I have serious appreciation for quilters!  Here Kyle and I are snuggled up reading lots of Library books on a chilly rainy day.  Pretty awesome!

Coloring and water color painting.

Kyle has fallen in love with coloring.  He'll spend a long time at the table coloing...and he usually uses lots of colors...and he's a switcher.  He will use whatever hand is closest to the place he wants to color.  So he calls himself a switcher.  I used Picnik.com to make the coloring pages of my kids...fun, but picnik is closing!  Boo.

Ryan painted this.

Ryan drew these pictures of Tyreke Evans.

Sean painted this one.