I hope you are having a Happy Memorial Day.  Take a little break from the cookouts and picnics to remember why we observe Memorial Day.

There will be no Meme Monday this week.  Be sure to come back next week to join the Meme Monday fun!  And make sure you have entered my latest giveaway before you go.

Happy Memorial Day!

For this weeks Random Recipe exchange, Pam challenged us to share a picnic recipe.  With this being Memorial Day weekend, and the unofficial start to summer you know there will be lots of BBQ’s going on. 

The recipe I am sharing is for a potato salad that my mom makes.  It isn’t like your regular mustard type of potato salad.  And I am not exaggerating when I tell you I could eat the entire recipe by myself.  It is that good.

Potato Salad

Ingredients:
2 pounds small red potatoes, cooked
1/2 cup sliced green onions
1 cup Hidden Valley Original Ranch Dressing (I’ve made it with other brands and it is not the same.)
Black pepper
8 slices bacon, crisp-cooked and crumbled

Directions:
Cut slightly cooled small red potatoes into 1 inch cubes. In large bowl combine potatoes, green onions and ranch dressing. Toss gently and dust with pepper. Garnish with bacon. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Stop by Pam’s blog to see what everyone else is cooking up this weekend.

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Have a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend!

Toddlers are so much fun, aren’t they?  I just thought I’d share a few of the fun things Hailey is doing at 19 months.

• I have no idea where she gets this from, but apparently Hailey is afraid of bugs.  When she sees one, she screams and backs away and points and yells, “bug, bug!”  I can’t imagine who she has seen doing this.
• Hailey loves to stand at the top of her slide and then say, “Sit down!”  Then she sits down and says, “Good girl.”
• Hailey loves to stand on her Dora car and say, “Sit down!”  Then she sits down and says, “Good girl.”
• Hailey climbs on everything.  She climbs onto the dining room chair then up onto the table.  She looks around proudly and says, “Sit down!”  Then she sits down and says, “Good girl.”
• This one makes me a little sad- I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but all of a sudden Da-Da has become Daddy.  Thank goodness I’m still Momma though.
• School buses are one of the most exciting part of Hailey’s day.  In the morning and afternoon she watches out our front window and is thrilled when she sees a school bus go by.  She calls out “ska ba” whenever it goes by.
• Hailey is such a little sponge right now.  She loves to try new words.  There is a little boy who lives across the street from us named Frankie.  So, she sees him get off the bus everyday and yells out the front window, “boy, boy.”  I told her what his name was and so she yells his name out our window (when it’s actually warm enough for it to be open).  Except when she says Frankie it sounds like an entirely different word.  One that starts with an F.  And ends with a K.  And rhymes with truck.  I think you know what I mean.  And she yells it out the open window.  I think we’ll go back to calling him “boy.”

Still “Walking Into Happily Ever After” 1 year later!
Happy 1st Anniversary Matt and Ellie (on the 19th).

I actually posted this one year ago, right after Matt (my brother) and Ellie’s wedding and Comfy Denim came up with that fabulous caption- “Walking Into Happily Ever After.”  So, I hafta give her the credit for her great line.  (I can’t believe it’s been over a year since I “met” Comfy Denim!)

Anyhoo- go check out 5 Minutes for Mom for more wordlessness.