My sister brought this pasta salad to the lake recently and it was super good. So I made it for us this week and put it in the fridge as a scoopable (read: Andrew’s favorite meal quality) dish for lunches or dinners.

For another cold pasta salad, one night I made us an orzo salad + salmon + peaches. How Sweet Eats says you get one perfect peach a season. I agree. And I’m still on the hunt! For the orzo, I actually mixed half a lemon kale salad kit into the orzo. Worked great. I used all of the dressing and saved the rest of the salad kit to use in a smoothie later.

One night I desperately felt like I HAD TO HAVE A BURGER. So we did that. One of the girls wanted to do a picnic, so we ate around the pool…and I ate in the pool. It was awesome.

I made puff pastry pizza. I’m the only one (including Andrew) who liked it. I was like you guys are crazy…this is fantastic!

Corndog, pizza + salad at the lakehouse.

salmon + sweet potato fries + sweet chili sauce brussels sprouts.

Ella turned 4! We had a great joint bday with her bff. If you’re local, the cake was from Take the Cake and they are the best cakes ever. I drive out of my way (or, more accurately, I made Andrew drive out of *his* way) to get it. Totally worth the drive.

My MIL grew cantaloupe this year and they were so good.

We threw a shower for my sister who is pregnant with identical twin boys! Can’t wait to meet them. I brought the best cinnamon rolls. Our family did a taste test prior and everyone was a fan.

And, so many green smoothies. It’s so hot. They are so cold. It’s great. They are usually some mix of bananas, milk, ice, and an acai packet. Then greens and/or frozen cauliflower. And sometimes almond butter. And sometimes protein powder.