The Pizza Pocket Chef ~

Tonight, we had pizza pockets for dinner. This is one of the girls favorite dinners. Ashley has become a pro at making these for us. She rolls out biscuit dough on a cutting board and lays the flattened dough on a cookie sheet. Megan and I then fill them up with tomato sauce, cheese and all of our favorite pizza toppings. Once they are filled, they are closed up into a pizza pocket and baked til done.

These are some pictures I took of my little chefs making dinner. Ashley gets really into it and gets flour EVERYWHERE, but it is fun to watch her get excited about making dinner.

The men - folk (Dan, JD and Jason) are in Sturgis this weekend, so it's just me and the grills. We are trying to take advantage of our man - free weekend. :)

Chef - in training - Ashley

The fruits of her labor

Megan in deep thought of what toppings she wants to add...

This is another page I scrapped tonight with some more of the free downloads I have been finding. I am trying to get a bunch of pages done so I can have a reason to get them all printed, but find that one page is taking me all night to do. I am too picky and cannot get the right look I want from the first try. I have to cut and paste and re-do this and change that... well, you get the idea. I will just have to quit being so damned picky. . .

Happy 1st Birthday Kambrin Jo!!

My cousin, Kassie Jo's, daughter, Kambrin Jo is turning 1 on Tuesday, August 5. She is such a cutie pie. She is Kassie Jo's spitting image. We had a party at Kathy and Brent's house (Kassie's in - laws). They have an above - ground pool that the kids swam in today and had a blast.

We had cupcakes and home - made cake batter ice cream, which Kassie specifically asked me to make. I of course, obliged, but it is a good thing I love her so much, cuz it was a pain to get it made this morning (last minute). haha

The kids swam and then broke up a pinata. We had lots of fun today.

Kambrin Jo and her birthday cake

Ashley in the pool

Megan in the pool

My new find ...

So, I have found this really great website that finds all sorts of free digi scrap downloads. It is called DigiFree - here is the link - http://digifree.blogspot.com/ and I am loving it.

There are some oddities on this site, I think people who are just starting out in digi probably are trying to get their names out there, but I have found some really fun stuff on there too. You have to sort through a lot of stuff, I think today alone, there were over 3400 different choices... Yeah, a lot, I know... but, if you have the time to browse thru, it is worth it.

One great find was this fun little window embellishment, if you know me, you know I like all things distressed and shabby. So, this was too much fun. I probably got a little carried away with the embellishments, etc, but I had fun. I even tried to rectangular tool on Photo Shop, which I have been a little reluctant to use, and took the flowers from another page and added them to this. I think it still looks a little crude, but for my first effort, it's not so bad...

:)

Sisters

I can't believe what good friends these two are becoming. Every day, of course they have the normal amount of sibling rivalry and bickering, but they truly love eachother. It is so sweet to watch them play and love one another. Megan will follow Ashley in what ever she is doing, wherever she is going. And Ashley is the best big sister I could ask for. She always looks out for Little Megan and translates for us if we aren't sure what she is saying thru the terrible tantrums we are facing right now.

This page is to celebrate sisterhood.

July 25th~

So, we celebrated the 24th of July twice. We went to the Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo on Thurs., 7/24 (from this I have no pictures because it was such a hot, chaotic and late night. We got to the rodeo around 6:45 and it was packed. The stadium holds 11,000 people and the announcer told the crowd that the sell - out crowd was over 13,000 people... how exactly is that safe??

Anyhow, the rodeo was fun (once it cooled down). It was outside and was really hot for the first few hours. Once the sun set and it cooled off, it was more bearable. We didn't get home until after 11 p.m. (on a school nite) and didn't even stay for the fireworks.

We made up for this on the following night. The Duncans invited us to their home to BBQ and to light off fireworks for the kids. Here are some pictures that I snapped

Hailey, Ashley, Megan and Tayler playing a game

Tayler, Ashley and MeganThe three amigas

Megan and Tayler (Steph's daughter) played really well. They are both 3 and are only about 2 months apart. It was fun to watch them play and giggle. We also had Hailey (Rencher's daughter) for the weekend. She, Ashley and Megan played and fought all weekend.

I think little girls sure are fun to watch play. They played Barbies, house, dishes, dress up... you name it. They have their own little conversations and are so bossy to eachother. One minute they are fighting, the next they are having a ball playing Princesses.

You can't help but loving these sweet little things...

Daddy's Bantana Girls

Hamily Fome

So, my computer has been down for about two weeks. Somehow, my six month old Dell laptop totally died. So, after a new motherboard, hard drive and optical drive (which I learned is a CD/DVD drive), I am back up and running (for now).

So, my posts are so up to date right now, but I am working on it.

Our gaggle of friends has nights where we get together and hang out for dinner, drinks and usually just sitting around and chatting. JD came up with the name of "hamily fome", versus, "family home". It is fun and has been a tradition for about the past 3/4 years. It usually happens on a whim when Jen, Jennetta and I (aka Janandafer) call one another up (or email) and asks
"what's for dinner?" It often involves the three of us saying, well, I have chicken... I have ranch dressing... I have tomatillos, let's make smothered burritos. Okay, it is not always that well - orchestrated, but you get the picture...

So, on one of our last hamily fome's, we ate and drank (of course) and played Rock Band... We made Jason bring his game. For those of you, who are like me, and had not a clue as to what this game was, it is similar to Guitar Hero. There is a drummer, guitarist, singer and bass player. You get points for playing along to various rock songs. Everyone has to be in sync with the computer or you can kill yourself off or the entire band. Needless to say, I don't have a musical bone in my body, and it showed. I stunk, but it was lots of fun.

Here are some photos of that night. Jen played drums (which are the hardest instrument) and she rocked (literally). I have to give Jen kudos ...

We also had the kids to entertain us. They played in the driveway, with sidewalk chalk and made us some wonderful chalk art.

Megan, Hailey, Jayden and Ashley