pizza your way

I've mentioned before how we have this awesome recipe for pizza dough and make pizza often. I'm always the one putting it together and realized the nuggets would have a blast making their own. So now I break off 2 sections for them to put a pizza together for themselves. They love it and Monkey is always wanting to make dough so she can create.

cover me up!

See boring lamp become something amazing! I got this lamp at Walmart for Monkey's room long ago and recently thought it was really boring. I had this fabric that was suppose to be for something else, but it didn't work out so I recovered this lamp with it instead and I must say, it turned out awesome!

A few of us gals got together to work on our projects. I traced the fabric with the lampshade and spray glued the fabric on. It was so easy doing it that way.

Since I did such a junky job of cutting the fabric it was uneven at the top and bottom so I used some lace I had to skirt the bottom.

Did the same thing at the top with some finer ribbon and hot glued it on.

Ta-Da. I did it all in 30 minutes and had time to relax and shoot the breeze with some friends. We're going to do this every month. Just get together and work on projects that we've been wanting to do and socialize. Is there anything better?

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Is it just me or is the latest version of Internet Explorer a pain in the tush?
I have a friend that had a group pass to the children's museum and we put a group together and went to Peter Piper Pizza first. I've never take my kids there. I must have some version of Autism in me because I hate crowds and I can't handle the overwhelming visual sensory overload, Luckily, we went on a quiet day and the kids took one bite of their $5 slice of pizza and booked it for the rip-off rides and games.

hi every one

they say the more things change the more they stay the same. well the more windows explorer changes the more the both of us don't like it so now i am trying something new in using firefox

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testing. testing 1.2.3. it is the hubster here and my better half said that she couldn't publish any thing today so i am here to try to figure it out. well wish me luck

swan princess

Monkey started ballet this past week. I totally thought she would be in her little strange princess world during it, but no, he loved learning the moves and the class.

wild rides at the mall

Friday night we went to the mall to exchange an item at Sears. The nuggets played in our favorite germ infested play area and the mall also just installed these things. I see other kids sitting in them, the machine never moving. The nuggets are the first to bold off of them when we waste $.75. But, a break through, Monkey stayed sitting and calm while she rode the ride. Bubs is a different story.

chicken tacos

I have a cookbook for the HCG diet. This is my second favorite recipe. It's the hubsters favorite one. I make these recipes for the entire family and the hubster really likes the recipes from this cookbook. It's so slammed full of flavor and spices that you would have no idea that it's low calorie/fat.

So, it's chicken tacos. Instead of a processed taco shell that's has a shelf life of 56 years you use lettuce as the shell. We love using butter lettuce. Don't cook the chicken in oil. Use a little water or chicken stock. There really isn't much of a step by step instruction or specific ingredients. So, cook the chicken and dice into cubes. Add 1/2 cup of chopped onion. Add Cheyenne pepper, salt, cumin, garlic, oregano and I LOVE cilantro so I add a lot of it. Tada, wrap it in a lettuce shell and enjoy a tasty guilt-free taco.

hay's for horses

I have all these cute pictures of monkey in mid air jumping off the hay, but can't for the life of me figure out how to make them transfer to the blog not placed sideways. Whatever. When we go to my mom's this is the first place the nuggets go. Right for the hay bales and horses. They will spend forever out there feeding the 3 horses hay, checking on the chickens and jumping off the bales. They are outside kids. They don't like to be inside at all. They spend hours playing in the dirt, drawing on the sidewalk or driving their little cozy coup. Did I mention they love being outside?

home town nativity

The town I'm from just built a new church. They did an open house and a live nativity. They had real animals and members of the church to take turns being in the nativity.

Of course, the kids LOVED the baby goats and we had to keep going back to them again and again.

Santa Came

I got these from my mom's camera. Our camera is always lost or the batteries are dead. Most days I just take pictures with my phone since I always have it on me.

Bubs got several boy toys, much needed.

Monkey got several "pink toys" that she requested from Santa. She got 'em and then some. She's very possessive of them right now since they're still new to her. Everyday she sits at her vanity and fixes her hair up and paints her nails.

Peanut Butter Hot Coco

My FIL is in town and is currently eating a lemon slushie that he has to have when he comes into town. This sounded much better on a cold day. Peanut butter hot chocolate. I'm so making this for the hubster. He loves PB.

Here's the RECIPE

Did I tell you I started the HCG diet on New Year's Day? I had already done it a while ago and had a pretty good success from it. It's so stinkin' hard, but worth it. I got a call from an old co-worker that called up and said "let's start today!" What? Right now??? Well, jumped on board and am doing the 21 days instead of the 42 days that kicked my trash last time.

Enjoy the recipe, I'll enjoy just looking.