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Catching Up With The Kelnhofers -46

Jun 27, 2020 · Leave a Comment

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This week on Catching up with the Kelnhofers, I am reflecting on this year flying by.  Ben is turning three and Freddie and Frankie are one and I cannot believe it!  

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1 year ago to the day, I was at the hospital getting ready to give birth to my boy/girl twins (read more about their birth story here).

3 years ago to the day, I was at the same hospital, having just given birth to my eldest son there was a double rainbow outside after his birth.

Crazy.

There’s a 1 in 365 chance of my kids sharing a birthday, that’s a pretty neat thing!

Needless to say, I am very emotional this week.

In addition to sharing some of the more summery most amazing recipes this week (lemonade pie and peach and tomato panzanella that you really HAVE TO MAKE) there are about 101 photos in this weeks edition!

Kid birthday cake photos (I made this recipe and divided it into three small cakes and then just added some blueberry puree and strawberry puree to the frostings to make them different colors). I also wrote a post on how to make a baby smash cake a few years ago.

Kids Birthday Cake

Ben is three!

Ben is three

Frankie is one!

Frankie is one

Freddie is one!

Freddie is one

Me a year ago and today, yesterday:

My one year ago today

Freddie and Frankie’s 12 month pictures are in the center, with a few of my favorite months included! I am so glad to be done with monthly photos, the babies were moving so so much haha.

Monthly photos of the twins

Ben’s Birth-2017

Ben's Birth-2017

Freddie & Frankie’s Birth -2019

Freddie & Frankie's Birth -2019

Kids and family – June 2020

Kids and family - June 2020

New On The Blog:

New on the blog

I am loving all of these fun summer recipes that are new on the blog!

  • Pesto chicken salad bagel sandwich – only 5 ingredients and super simple.
  • Catching up with the Kelnhofers – our weekly family update.
  • Peach and tomato panzanella – I made a panzanella without onions and it was SO good!
  • Lemonade pie – a perfect, refreshing summer dessert.

What to Make

What to Make:

Can you believe it is almost 4th of July!? I have a quick recipe roundup from last year that is a great starting point. A few of my favorites:

  • Grilled hot chicken sausages
  • Watermelon salsa
  • Basil lemonade

You really can’t go wrong with summer recipes and anything on the grill!

What I’ve Been Making:

  • Ben and I made chocolate turtle Chex mix for Nick’s dad for Father’s Day. Oh my god I forgot how insanely good this stuff is. Please make it for your loved ones.

Turtle Chex Mix with Ben

  • For the kids’ birthdays I made sourdough pizza crust (or just use this recipe for sheet pan pizza if you don’t have a starter), and made a bunch for the freezer!!! Talk about make-ahead. These freeze so well, I made 6, half of which we’ll drop off at families houses and then do a zoom call. (I wrote a post about how to host a virtual dinner party).

Sheet pan pizza

  • With my sourdough discard, I made scallion pancakes,. It’s pretty much the one thing I like doing with my sourdough starter discard these days!

Scallion Pancakes

  • I’m also loving Home Chef (as always) because it’s been a little chaotic lately and they have great quick dinners I can put together. I’m now having to order 4 servings instead of 2 because of how much the kids are eating! If you want to try Home Chef, I did a review post here and I have a code for you to get $40 off your first two orders (use code 40SweetPhi).

Reader Comments

Reader Comments:

This is a salad I love, so it’s always nice to see these nice comments on my recipe for summer melon salad.

  • “This is lovely! The dressing is awesome. I’m just mopping up with some sourdough now. This will definitely become a regular lunchtime go-to. Many thanks for sharing.”

Reader Recreations

Reader ReCreations:

This week you guys were busy making my family fave of eggless waffles, as well as this whole bowl with tali sauce. Thanks to @jojo.eats2020 and @kts.goodeats for sharing!

Reader Recreations

Links from Around the Web:

Branch Basics

  • Branch Basics – use code sweetphi for 10% off all starter kits. It’s all-natural, non-toxic cleaning supplies. They have a concentrate and then send you empty bottles that you fill with water and concentrate. The cleaning stuff works! Also, if you do a cost comparison, it’s definitely cost effective compared with stuff you can pick up at the stores.

Branch Basics

  • Birthdays are top of mind, I saw this Fortune Telling Birthday book – and definitely need to buy it.

What I’m Reading:

  • I finished reading You Deserve Each Other – and ugh, I did not love it. I just felt the main character complained for the entire book; it was hard to relate and like her. I’d give it a 2/5.
  • I’m now reading Get a Life Chole Brown. It’s steamy and romancy and I like it (and know you guys love the romancy/steamy ones too!). I’m almost done and already can say 5/5

What I’m Watching:

  • We watched Plus One on Hulu – it was a super cute rom-com!

Plus One

Personal Stories:

Personal Stories

  • Ben found his Halloween costume (he was a fireman) and did not want to take it off!! I mean, that costume is hot! It’s got a hat, pants, a jacket…but he wanted to wear it every day until it had to be washed.

Ben Halloween Costume

  • Last weekend was Father’s Day. Ben woke up super early and immediately wanted to wear his costume and brought me a hat I was required to wear too. We made Nick breakfast – French toast from The Binging with Babish cookbook I had gifted him for valentine’s day (he got to pick one recipe and I’d make it). It was amazing, but a ton of work. I made the brioche bread, the special maple syrup sauce and flavored whipped cream, and made the French toast. But he said it was worth it!

Father's Day French Toast

  • Nicks present was a picture of all the kids wearing shirts spelling DAD. He loved it so much he asked for a kids DAD picture every year.

Kids in DAD shirts

  • Ben can now ride his tricycle without help!! He also had his first scraped knee.

Ben riding his bike

  • Ben LOVES cars and trucks. He wakes up early and sits on the counter and tells me all about the cars as I get ready.

Ben telling me about his cars

  • My heart about melted, Ben was playing with Legos upstairs when Frankie woke up early from her nap so I brought her up and he stopped what he was doing and wanted to show her and sit nicely with her on the chair. Such sweet moments.

Ben and Frankie Legos

  • All three kids were super hungry and wanted a snack, we were trying to be quiet because Nick was on a work call so I said I’d bring up a special snack upstairs so we wouldn’t be loud…well that got out of hand and there were crumbs everywhere. A little vacuuming fixed it.

Kids Snack Time

  • Frankie is walking more and more, she holds on to things but then is starting to LET GO!

Frankie Walking

  • It rained and Ben immediately ran to the front door and wanted me to put on his rain jacket and rain boots so he could go run around.

Ben playing in Rain

  • This week we got pick up from The Noble, one of our favorite local super small restaurants. It was so good. We had mussels and even Ben enjoyed them (he’s been trying all sorts of foods lately). One thing that really works for us to get him to eat what we’re eating – as I mentioned in THIS post – is serving it family style and we also don’t make a big deal if he tries something or not. He can if he wants to or not. The recipe reminded me of my tomato mussels with chorizo.

The Noble takeout

  • Whenever I try to close my door to work, I get a minimum of 2 visitors and lots of interruptions, lol.

Work Visitors

  • We did a backyard social distancing visit with Nicks parents. We all stayed on one side of the yard…except for Freddie who did not practice social distancing lol, he eventually crawled back.

Socially Distant Visit

Did you know?

Did you Know?

You can search for recipes by category. For example, just type “summer” into the search bar and find all sorts of great recipes to try!

Search by Category

Popular This Week:

Popular this Week

  • Most visited blog post: a recipe that rose to the top quickly! My lemonade pie.
  • Most liked Instagram post: this post showing me from one year ago today!
  • Most pinned image: this is consistently in my top 10 most liked pins and it always surprises me!
  • Most viewed YouTube video: our family favorite, eggless waffles!
  • Most purchased item: these markers and painters tape that I always have on-hand for art projects at home.

What are your plans for 4th of July? I love to hear what’s going on with you, so just leave a comment below and let me know!

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