You know what’s silly? I am. I’ve been making a new banner. And I get caught up in these tiny little details that you cannot even see, like our hair. Or the wine and french bread in our basket. And then I neglect things like the placement of our hands, they look a little funky.

So, I decided to just stop and put it up since I’m focusing on the wrong things. Done. New banner.

I was so busy working on my new banner that I didn’t share what we did this weekend. On Saturday we went to a kite festival in Berkeley. The last time we went was three years ago.

It was way busier last time around. See:

And it seems I am again finding it hard to find anything to say. Sigh.

Maybe it doesn’t help that as I’m writing this all I’m thinking about is Nathan. Nathan and how I should be helping him go to sleep. And how I haven’t had my shower yet and I always have a shower before the kids go down.

But instead I’m sitting here at the computer while Alan is helping the kids go to sleep.

So, I’m trying to rush and get a video edited. The pictures don’t take anytime at all. But the video? Video is so much harder for me.

If I breeze through editing a video, I get stuck on music. That’s why I don’t usually add music. It’s too hard to choose something. I can never find something quick and easy. But this time around the wind noise from the video was so distracting I wanted music.

How do other people find music for vidoes? Do they choose something that goes with what’s happening in the video? Or do they go with something they like listening to? If it’s the second choice, what if it has nothing to do with what you’re watching?

Acck! I’m thinking too much about it. Maybe that’s why I just chose something random this time around. In the back of my head I was thinking tick tick tick Nathan is waiting and you’ve been trying to decide for the longest time so grab anything!

Video on Flickr

Ok. Enough typing. Off for my shower and Nathan.

Rushing. Nathan is crying in the other room. Alan is trying to put him down. Again. And I have not had my shower yet again.

My friend Olinda came out to celebrate her birthday with us.

We watched a movie and then went to the park.

Isabelle took this picture.

Have I mentioned lately how much she has been enjoying photography. Like her mama. I’ve really fallen in love with instant photography. I took this with a Polaroid camera. And I’m getting a new, well old from Ebay new to me, Poloraid camera in the mail.

Ok. What was I saying? After the park we went back home to make salt and pepper pork for dinner (I will have to share the recipe one of these days, it’s yummy) and carrot cupcakes!

Mmmm yum!! Cupcake. Ok. Off to shower and soothe my little boy.

Months and months ago I took some pictures to share the steps in this recipe. But I missed some steps so I put it aside. A couple of months went by again and I took pictures of the missing steps.

I uploaded the pictures and thought I’d share this recipe for July 4th. Ummm…that didn’t happen.

So, why don’t I share it now since the photos are already online and I am procrastinating from editing other photos.

Start with some finely diced up onion. Add a squeeze of lime to this.

Roast tomatoes, garlic, and jalapeño pepper.

While those are roasting, grab some cilantro and chop it up finely.

Your roasted garlic, jalapeños, and tomatoes should be a bit blackened.

We seed the jalapeños but leave them if you like the heat. Then pulse the tomatoes, jalapeños, and garlic up in a food processor. Add the chopped cilantro and salt to taste.

This is a yummy roasted tomato salsa.

But we like guacamole.

So we get two avocados.

Smoosh that up nice and good.

Then add it to the salsa and there you have our roasted tomato guacamole.

Isabelle is right about to go off for her swimming class. She’s finishing her lunch so I thought I’d get on the computer to edit some photos and post really quick.

When I opened Adobe Bridge the first folder that opened happened to have these pictures in there.

So, I thought I’d share them, instead of the pictures of the new item I sewed. The kids crack me up. I love seeing them playing with boxes. How many posts have I done with boxes and the kids now? I should make a new category for it.

That way it’ll be easier to find pictures of my Super Box Girl. Oh Super Box Girl and her sidekick Box Boy.