Artichoke Dip

If you've seen my 365 POTD blog, you saw the almost empty dish with a promise of a recipe. I might have posted it in the past but for those of you who missed it or didn't try to make it, here it is. You really should try it. Another one of those recipes that is really easy and only a few ingredients, but sorry it does have just a tiny bit of fat.

HOT ARTICHOKE DIP
1 8 oz. Cream cheese softened
8 oz. Hellman’s mayo
1 8 oz. Sour cream
1 cup shredded parmesan cheese
1 small jar marinated artichoke hearts, drained and finely chopped
*Mix together and put in pie or quiche dish. Top with shredded parmesan cheese (to taste)
*Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes or until golden around edges.

Flashback

I was doing a little bit of early spring cleaning today and came across a great picture! I can see where B got his looks from that's for sure! Two cuties!!

365 POTD 1/11/08

Here is my pic of the day..... Bryson told me that it was cold outside so he needed his gloves on......well his gloves are actually his socks!! Gotta love the boys imagination and creativity!! I hope to get these pics over to my 365 blog,( link to the right) this weekend. so I can start putting my pics over there.

How adorable

Well Amanda should of known she'd end up on my blog. I went by to take some snap shots of her and the progress of the nursery. She's hand painting it herself and it is looking so adorable! So I just thought I'd share it with you all and show you how the nursery is coming along. She looks great and is doing a great job with the decor. Her Alabama shower is in two weeks and that will be alot of fun. I'll post pics here for sure from that.

365 POTD 1/10/08

Here's my pic for today. We had some really bad weather and tons of rain this am. My hubby actually took the pic, but I told him to go get some pics for me since I was at work (that counts right!) This is a pic of the two neighbors across the street where their yards join, flooded!! wow!!

365 POTD

Ok, after lurking several blogs I have decided to join the 365 (picture of the day) project. So the idea is to take a picture everyday for 365 days. Of course I am a few days behind, but actually have a few taken over the last few days. I will fill them in where appropriate and have to just live with missing the few others. It should be interesting, seeing that I love to take pics of EVERYTHING (so my hubby says) it shouldn't be too hard, ya think? We'll see. I'll do my best.. I think I will join Susan and design a separate blog for the pics. I will prob post some on here too, but to check out my progress I'll design it's own blog page. Not tonight of course but within the next few days I hope. So here it goes, my beginnings for 365 POTD!!


Also a few big thanks are in order for today:

*Mom---thanks for picking up the boys and having dinner with us
*Dad and Dee--thanks for the commissary goodies and the sofa recliner(looks great in playroom *Tim and mom for helping us moving the ***##%%@ heavy thing upstairs!!
*my wonderful boys for eating all their dinner without a fuss and getting a great treat after!!
*my outstanding husband for our new scanner,fax, printer combo thing, can't wait to hook it up
*my in-laws for all their constant prayers

Good night!

365 POTD 1/1/08

365 POTD 1/2/08

365 POTD 1/4/08

365 POTD 1/7/08

365 POTD 1/9/08

As for this pic from today, swim, eat, swim, eat, swim, eat and some sleep...wouldn't it be nice!

Funny story for the day

This was sent to me in an email and it's simply hysterical!!



DADDY'S GONNA EAT YOUR FINGERS ...

This one is for everyone who ...a) has kids, b) had kids, c) was a kid, d) knows a kid e) is going to have kids.

I was packing for my business trip and my three year old daughter was having a wonderful time playing on the bed. At one point she said, 'Daddy, look at this,' and stuck out two of her fingers. Trying to keep her entertained, I reached out and stuck her tiny fingers in my mouth and said, 'Daddy's gonna eat your fingers,' pretending to eat them.Went back to packing, looked up again and my daughter was standing on the bed staring at her fingers with a devastated look on her face.
I said, 'What's wrong, honey?'She replied, 'What happened to my booger?

Great check up!

D had a dental cleaning today and got a clean bill of teeth!! No cavities, yeah! All the brushing has paid off and the new electric toothbrushes from Papa for Christmas have been wonderful, they love brushing their teeth with firetrucks!!

From the dentist we made a stop at the Catholic school to check into registration for pre K in the fall. We have a tour scheduled for tomorrow am. I already am getting a little nervous...what?....school?????? My little baby is growing up sooooooo fast!!

Then we made a few stops along the way to our big destination. The jumping place!! D loves it and there is usually only a few other kids there during the week. Perfect! He had a great time on the blow up obstacle course and slide! We headed to granny's work for a cheeseburger and then to the mall to ride the carosel and a few race car games at the arcade! Whew! What a day! Then we finished by going to Toy R us to pick out a toy for him and little brother. Thomas toys...of course! He did see a Tanker truck, but oddly enough didn't want to get it. What a great day we had, lots of fun! I'm sure he'll sleep good tonight after our full day and no nap!

The weather has been great the past few days. High 60's!! Too bad it couldn't of been like this the past weekend so the boys could of went camping. Oh well, maybe the third try will be a charm. I'm not sure when they'll try to go again, but I'm sure it will be soon.

Tomorrow I will try to finish putting the decorations away! Finally! I did get them from outside, but I need to get the house back to normal and put all the bins away and the normal decor back in place.

Well, back to the boys, and then Rock Band maybe when they are asleep. I am really diggin' the drumming! I didn't know I had it in me!! It's a blast!!

Rain

Yuk! Rained all day.....

New Year, new template

Well, it's a new year and it's time for a change. I'm switching colors and templates. Still working on some of the fine tuning ,but I think I like it.
Whew! Got the tree down today :) B did very well at Papa's house, thanks Dad and Dee. Mom also picked up D on her way to work and brought him home so I had about an hour of home alone time and tackled taking down the tree. I almost got most everything down and put into storage bins, just a few things left. Oh yeah, and still have to get the decor from outside. That will be a project this weekend when the weather is supposed to be warmer, like 60's yipee!!
D is going camping with his daddy and Uncle Tim tomorrow. Should be interesting, he is very excited although he really has no idea what it's all about. I'll try to have daddy take some pictures while their gone.
Well just a short post for now. Till later this weekend, happy Friday!!

A little update

Well, D loves to play with Mac, that isn't even from Santa, he's had this toy since his Birthday, but he really likes it.









The boys also like playing air hockey on their new game table from Granny. B can even score a few points on his older bro!
My baby B woke up with a 101.5 fever today. Daddy stayed home with him today, Papa and Grandma Dee are going to watch him tomorrow am till I can get off work about 1 or so. So happy to have lots of family around to help with the kids, it's such a blessing. Thanks to everyone for their help, love and support. I hope this isn't something that sticks around for a week or so. He has a slightly decreased appetite and wants to be held alot, but otherwise doesn't really have any other symptoms. We'll just have to wait it out and see.

Stayed up till midnight (crazy us!) playing Rock Band. I was jammin away to Red Hot Chili Peppers and Metallica. My hubbs was so impressed that I might truly have some drummer skills!! He has really stepped up his game on the guitar too! Tim and Mike even played an online duel, it was really cool. But we truly were feeling our "oldness" when the alarm clock started going off this am at about 5:15, YIKES! We'll have to try to keep the play down to only a few hours at a time:) Not too much planned here for the weekend yet. The boys are getting much needed hair cuts and I think if the weather holds up D and Daddy might be going camping with Uncle Tim. We'll see. It's supposed to rain, although the temps should be in the high 60's... a far away place from our teens and 20's the past few days! Maybe me and B will do some window shopping around the mall and ride the merry go round they have in the mall for some indoor fun! Well that's about all for now, need to go cuddle my babies!!

Laugh from the past

My honey found this lost video on our semi crashed old laptop. D loved to dance to the beat of the bouncing ball by granny...gotta love it!! He was about 18 months old here.

Tim and Amanda came over on New Years and we spent about 5 hours playing rock band with a few glasses of champagne along the way. Of course she had grape juice (with a mini splash of champagne, we wont' tell!! ) What a great New Years's day. They were finally were able to get theirs online, so hopefully one night this week we can challenge them to a rock band duel....yes I know......we are old but....if you haven't played, you're missing out!! It is soooooo much fun!

Look out American Idol!

I finally caught my baby doing a little singing, he gets very camera shy, but this time decided to show off a little :) Proud mommy I am!!

I also captured his updated drumming abilites, :) he'll be the new addition to our Rock Band! Taking after mommy on drums, and D can be guitarist taking after daddy!! We are now addicited to Rock Band and we will be challenging Tim and Amanda soon to a duel!! :) Hope everyone has a great New Year! Talk to ya next year!!!!

Christmas pics

Check out our Christmas pics here

D got a hole in one of his new socks today at school.

D: " mommy I got a hole in my sock and the elves didn't know it was there"
me:" oh no"
D: "we need to take it back to the north pole"
me: "but I don't know how to get to the north pole and it's far away"
D: "just get the Christmas map and follow how to get there"
me:" oh why didn't I think of that!"


HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

A Great Christmas

Well we had a wonderful Christmas at our house. The boys were very excited to go downstairs and find all the presents that Santa had left at our house. They started to rip right into the presents and I had to stop them saying, hey wait we need to see which ones are for each of you. They couldn't hardly wait. B kept opening presents and then saying'" I want another one", I think he really enjoyed opening all the presents. D loved all his presents too, except that Santa didn't bring a tanker truck. Fact was: Santa and all the elves just couldn't find one this year.

Thanks to all the family that came and helped us celebrate the special day. All the food was great.

Christmas eve was great too with chocolate martini's and apple martini's and shots of Bailey's. Tim brought over his PS3 with his new Rock Band game. WEll needless to say we rocked out till 3am!!!!!! Yes we were exhausted at 630 am when the boys jumped out of bed. But the game was really fun!! We kept switching around with who was the singer, guitar player and drummer. I have to admit I liked the drums the best and totally rocked out for my first night at the game. I think we'll be playing it more often with Tim and Amanda, although they have the advantage of practicing at home since it's their game. But lots of great fun!!!!!

Thanks to my hubby for my digital photo frame! I love it, now I can keep current pics displayed and change it whenever I want. I love it!

Bummer to have to go back to work the day after but oh well. I think next year I'll plan better and take a few days off if possible.

I'll post some pics this weekend from Christmas.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!! WE did!! Missed ya mimi and grandaddy J, wish you could of joined us!!

Dec 25th, 2007

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

:) :) :)

After our usual evening ritual of pigback riding into bed, my sweetie D said "mommy turn around" so I did and he starting rubbing my shoulders......."now daddy won't have to do it"

:) :)

What a sweetheart!!

O CHRISTMAS TREE, O CHRISTMAS TREE

I forgot to post my tree pic. Thanks to my friend for the bow on top. I had a shining star but it kept leaning over and was aggravating. I'm not much of the decorator but this is my attempt. Next year I think I might let the boys decorate their own little tree in the playroom. I will let them put whatever they want on it......let me guess....Hot Wheels!! :)

{4 days till Christmas!!}

Can you believe it!! Only 4 shopping days left! I am ready I think. Although the tanker truck I searched high and low for was broken in the box! Mom tried to exchange it and of course there were no more in the store!! Oh well, I think he'll enjoy all the other millions of toys! hee hee

Busy night tonight....work happy hour, short trip for a few items from the grocery store, home to make treat bags for a few coworkers and cookies for school parties tomorrow. Also some chocolate covered pretzel goody bags for the neighbors too!

I am getting very excited about Christmas.
I am planning a game and cocktail evening the night of Christmas eve for Tim and Amanda to join us (since they can practically walk home!) It should be fun before Santa comes!! Although Amanda will get to enjoy chocolate milk in her chocolate dessert cup instead of Baileys and then some sparkling grape juice for her to toast with!! :) As far as the martini's I haven't thought of a replacement for those for her yet, maybe just more sparkling grape!

They are calling for some light precipitation on Christmas(what???snow???) I doubt it very seriously but we'll see what happens. Looks like at the least we'll have a cold and dreary and drizzling rainy Christmas like last year! At least someone will be able to try out their new Spiderman umbrella...........

Clash of the choir anyone??????????? I started to watch it just to check it out. It started out a little slow but whoa!! Patti LaBelle's choir was absolutely wonderful!! I think I'll watch the last few episodes just to check it out.TIVO is great, so that when the choir sounds terrible I'll just fast forward through it!!:)

That's all for now.. hope everyone is getting ready for Christmas. Enjoy the holiday and time spent with family and friends!!

Creative snacks

Here are a few of my recent creative snack attempts. The chocolate mice were easy and delicious, the PB&J sandwiches were easy just using Christmas cookie cutters(thanks to Dee for the Gingerbread man) and the snowmen......well let's just say you won't be seeing anymore of these. They were quite the chore to make and I don't even know if they would be edible after all it takes to mold them and everything....but they are cute to look at. I still have them in the refrig and will prob display them for Christmas dinner. I 'll post the pics now and I'll have to post the recipe for mice later, I am already past my bed time.

I had a busy day finishing up my last minute shopping. I found the only "tanker truck" left in the store and ****** it if it's not broken inside the box. D has been telling me over over that he wants a tanker truck from Santa. Mom's gonna take it back for me tomorrow and see if there just happens to be another one show up on the shelves...let's keep our fingers crossed.

Thanks to Dad and Dee for the lunch today, I just love those subs!

Well short and quick this time...................GOOD NIGHT!