Lori's Whole Wheat Strawberry Shortcake for Father's Day!

Lori's Whole Wheat Honey
Whipped Cream Strawberry Shortcake

Tomorrow is Father's Day and one of Gary's favorite desserts has been Strawberry Shortcake.  I found a great shortcake recipe and made the whole wheat substitute.  If you can believe that we've eaten two 5-gallon buckets of raw honey this year, do!  There's about 2 cups left to last us through till Tuesday!  This shortcake was made with sugar!  Not something normal here but God made sugar too, right ;o)

Wishing everyone a very Happy Father's Day tomorrow!  Hope you celebrate in a big way and show your Dad some love!  :D  I love you Dad!  He's been a great man of God in my life & I appreciate his godly counsel.  Now if he were here in Mexico we'd be needing chocolate! haha  Both Gary and I have been blessed with great fathers that have been wonderful examples and I'm so appreciative to have a great father in law as well.  Happy Father's Day Dad N.  Thank you for everything you do for all your kids!  We love them both!

cutting butter into the flour mixture...thank you Mom for the pastry cutter

after butter is cut into mixture

brushed with cream before baking

I told Gary there are butterflies, little girls and hearts because Kalee has his heart ;)

fresh berries to slice 

I have Kalee's stamp of approval

Happy Father's Day Gary!

Birthday Celebrations, Mexican Style

Is it hard to believe that our youngest son turned 20?  Yes & no.  Gary & I planned our family young so that when they were grown, we'd still be young too!  Kind of funny how those plans changed, being that as soon as the possibility of facing an empty nest, Kalee was born.  I guess we really weren't ready yet for having an empty nest.  The nest is quite full since both of the boys still live at home.  

We've been celebrating Matt's birthday the past two days.   Yesterday, we really had a blast as he wanted carne asada(thin grilled steak)  All of Matt's close friends are nationals so we were doing this right!  The only thing we forgot were the frijoles(beans)...Matt forgot & I kept thinking something was missing until someone mentioned that this was just exactly how we do things(Mexican Style) except we have frijoles! oops ;o)

Hope you enjoy the pictures of his celebration:

Is there anything sweeter than asking his little to sister help him open his gifts? 

Whole Wheat Honey Vanilla Cake Mix
(not from a box)

Mexican Vanilla

ready for the oven

I've got one shot, hope it turns out well!

remember this?  The Ugly Dragon was finally found, deep inside one of Josh's shoes.
While baking Matt's cake it was thrown at me!! lol
Now it has disappeared & it's whereabouts are unknown. to be continued...

ever had a cake that didn't turn out right?
It fell, I'm not sure why...but I will fix it!

bringing fresh blueberry filling to a boil

Lori's Whole Wheat Honey Vanilla Cake,
Honey Whipped Cream with Fresh Blueberry Filling sweetened with honey of course! :)

this is what Matt really thought about it 

Happy Birthday Matt!

Celebrating Mexican Style!  It's all about enjoying the process  together.
Very stress free unless you're on a time limit. 

Mayra made yummy Mexican Chili de Jitomate!
or as we call them tomatillos(little tomatoes)

Vero made the guacamole! yum!

Matt & Mayra making some action there with the blender...
Gary not too impressed, haha

a little date on the terraza

the guys did the grilling :)

sharing the table