After school

 Mixed up a batch of

Monster Cookies

for an after the

1st day of school snack

 such colorful dough

 YUM!

Overall I think it was a

great first day of school.

MONSTER COOKIES
1 1/2 cups creamy or chunky peanut butter
(I used chunky)
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
8 T. unsalted butter (1 stick), softened
3 lrg. eggs
1 T. vanilla
4 1/2 cups quick cooking oats
2 tsp. baking soda
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup M&M's

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Preheat oven to 350.  Line cookie sheets

with parchment,or nonstick spray.

In a large bowl, or mixer, combine peanut butter

sugars and butter. Mix well. Add eggs and vanilla.

Mix together the oats and baking soda, then

add to peanut butter mixture. 

Stir in M&M's and choc. chips.

Drop the cookies by heaping spoonfuls onto

your cookie sheets.

Bake 10-12 min. Do not overbake.

Cool for 5 min. on cookie sheets until

cookies are set. Transfer to wire racks to

cool completely.

Then.....

enjoy like a COOKIE MONSTER!

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Back to School

 First day of school - yippee!

Blueberry pancakes and bacon

for breakfast and we are ready

to go!

Logan looks a bit nervous, as always...

Chloe is nothing but excited!

We are looking forward

to a great school year!

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More sweet summer time...

 L O V E!

these underwater pics

taken by Logan & Chloe

Soooo sweet!

They do love each other....

sniff, sniff....

17 years ago today....

"Seventeen" - holy cow!
17 Lincoln's for you.

Happy Birthday Chloe Rose!

Your the coolest!

We are really proud of the fine young
lady you have become. You have worked
so hard this past year...it's been amazing
for to watch you grow.
We sure appreciate all that you do.
A parent couldn't ask for more.
Keep up the good work and
have an awesome year!
Love you - Mom

Recipe to try

Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole

This recipe looks and sounds

delicious.

I think the family would love it.

(Who am I kidding, me too.)

Found the recipe here

I think I will add cooked pasta

noodles to it as well.
(I did and would recommend it. I added about
2 cups, cooked small noodle pasta)

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*Note: this was really good - will definitely
make it again, and again...
Everyone enjoyed it.!

More from the lake...

 Jetski rides through the canyons

 Cliff jumping - my least favorite thing,

but of course, the kids favorite.

 We did a lot of relaxing in this big raft. 

 in typical Poturalski fashion,

the raft almost floated away.

 Luke enjoyed fishing for catfish,

He's just like Grandpa Dave.

I think he caught 6!

 More jumping off the boat - yahoo!

 Lots of floating in rafts and drinking

our fine boxed wine - a sign of the times.

 more jumping.... I told you...

a favorite activity. (it is fun!)

Almost every afternoon,

a rain storm rolled in,

and we got some nice cooling rain.

This day, a rainbow appeared and

landed right in the middle of the Lake. 

What luck I say.

Now we know what is at the end

of a rainbow..... sorry,

no pot of gold....just a bunch

of crazy pot-uralski's!

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Lake Powell - part two

 Our second day:

 Brian, Heidi,

and family planned a fun

"Survivor" theme day.

 We divided into two tribes,

painted our faces and chose tribe names.

 the "hot heads"

and "the pescados"

 Don't we look intimidating?

 the idle

we played crazy, fun games

and had tons of laughs.

Good times were had by all.