Happy Monday!

Happy Monday dear ones! We had a really nice weekend. The weather was beautiful. It was sunny and clear but not too hot. Mary and I visited our neighbors across the street who were having a garage sale. I'm so happy the weather has warmed up because that means deals at garage sales. Yay! I spent a whopping 75 cents. I bought Mary 2 shirts and she picked out a pair of bright green sunglasses with orange polka dots. She loved them. I know she has a tendency to break glasses because she bends the bows too far out when she is putting them on or taking them off, so I figured 25 cents was worth several hours of fun for her. Later on in the afternoon, sure enough, she broke one bow off. She came running up to me handed the glasses to me and told me to not to break them! I just laughed, she is such a character. It didn't take her long to get the other bow broken off and during her nap, I just put them in the trash. This morning she woke up and was asking for her glasses. I told her they were no good anymore and they were in the trash. She got this distressed look on her face like, "What after I told you not to break them?!" She didn't worry about it too long and went her little happy go lucky way playing with her other toys. Saturday Rich pressure cooked a rack of ribs and then soaked them in barbecue sauce over night. After church he grilled them and we had his folks over. Mel made a delicious pea salad and a potato salad. Rich also made bread dough and I made them into rolls and we baked them in the oven. For dessert I made my twist on Napoleons. I bought puff pastry and cut it with a heart shaped cookie cutter and baked the heart shaped pastery in the oven. I mixed up some sugar free pistachio pudding. When the puff pastry had baked and cooled, I split them open and put the pudding in the center. I then topped them with whip cream and drizzled chocolate syrup on it. It turned out pretty good and was a nice sweet, but light, dessert after dinner. We love having Mel and Dan over as it gives us an opportunity to cook up something special for them. I have included some pictures of our weekend. I made Mary a little scarf for her head and she wore it on Sunday along with a denim jumper that my sister, Linda, gave her. Rich snapped some pictures of us before we left for church. The other pictures are of the dessert I made on Sunday.