"Beautiful" Dandelions

My mom showed Isaac a week or so ago to pick the Dandelions and to give them to mommy. It was so sweet -- now all he wants to do is go outside and pick Dandelions. We get our yard treated, so needless to say we don't have too many but on the day of these pictures I think he must have found every single one in our yard!! :-) And he came inside and told me "I picked one for each of my friends!". So, we had to take them to church that night to give to "each of his friends". Then when we got to church we saw Miranda (she is 9 years old) and I asked him if he was going to give one to her and he said "No, only to my little friends!". It was SOOOO funny!

Great dips for entertaining!

I was making a dip for my Creative Memories Workshop tonight and thought I would put up some good dip recipes that are great for when entertaining guests. The first one is the one I made for tonight.

Spinach Stadium Dip
(thanks to Karen Meyer)
1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup sour cream
1 10 oz. pkg. frozen chopped spinach, well drained
1/2 cup chopped green onion
1/2 cup chopped parsley
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper

Mix...Chill...Serve...that simple!!
Great with veggies or sourdough bread. I buy the Melba snack bread and it's great on that too!


Bruschetta
(thanks to my mom)
1/4 cup olive oil
1 Tblsp. balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup chopped onion
3 tomatoes chopped
1/3 cup chopped cilantro
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/4 cup mozzerella cheese

Mix all ingredients except cheese. Put on toasted bread and then top with cheese.


Sausage Dip (aka Evil Dip)
(thanks to Crystal Zavala)
1 pkg. Jimmy Dean sausage
2 cans Rotel tomatoes
2 pkgs. cream cheese

Mix all in a crockpot and let it cook down. Stir occasionally. Serve with tortilla chips. Beware: VERY ADDICTING!!


Layered Dip
1 pkg. cream cheese
tomato, onion, and green pepper -- chopped and mixed together
salsa
cheddar cheese

Spread cream cheese on plate. Then layer in this order -- veggie mix, salsa, and then cheese. Serve with tortilla chips.

Airplane Cake for Landon's 1st B-day!

The cake that I decorated for my nephew Landon's 1st birthday. It was really fun getting to make this. Here is the link where I found instructions how to make it. She has alot of neat other cake instructions also. http://www.andreasrecipes.com/2008/06/19/airplane-birthday-cake/

Decorating Easter Eggs

My mom, Isaac, and I all decorated Easter Eggs today. He picked out the Kung Fu Panda egg kit. It was alot of fun and I think Isaac enjoyed it.

Updates

I know I have not been on here in a LONG time. There just hasn't been alot to write about. Our life is busy as usual but just nothing extremely exciting. I am now about 4 months into my pregnancy and everything is going good. I am past the nauseous stage and tired stage so I am VERY thankful for that. That has got to be the worst part of pregnancy. We have also had some trials in lives of people dear to us. Our Associate Pastor Doug Taylor found out his leukemia is back so that has definitely been a hard thing on our church and on my dad. But thank the Lord, Doug has been such an inspiration to all of us with how him and his family have dealt with this. It is an awesome thing to see God working with them and through them. They are such a blessing to our family!! My mom has also been have some health issues. The doctors so far can't find what's wrong but she knows something just hasn't been right. So, we pray the Lord will give the doctors wisdom to figure out what is going on. And then an older man in our church passed away last week. He was such a blessing to our church. One of these people that would do anything for anyone and not ever want recognition for his actions. Such a humble man -- he will be greatly missed. So, it has been busy but with stuff that is not always fun to write about. Pray for my parents right now -- they have had alot of stress lately and hopefully will soon get a break from it all!!

Announcement!!!

Just want to let everyone know (if you don't already) that we are expecting again. I am about 10 weeks along and we had our first ultrasound this morning. My doctor said everything is looking really good so I thought it would be okay to make the announcement official!! :-) And for those of you hoping I would have twins -- I'm sorry to disappoint you -- only one baby in there!! I am relieved though -- I was really hoping it was not twins. So, my prayers were answered!! We took Isaac with us to the ultrasound and he kept saying "her" so we'll see -- maybe he knows mores than we think!! :-)

Our little "Pirate" and his first dentist appointment

I haven't blogged in awhile. Since signing up for facebook, I'm on that all the time. So, my blog has kind of become forgotten!! But I wanted to put up some new pictures of Isaac. Some are of him and his pirate stuff -- he is totally into pirates right now. Jason and I always have to be "Captain Hook" and he gets to be "Peter Pan". Why are we the bad guy??




Then the rest of these pictures are of Isaac's first trip to the dentist. I just took him so he could kind of get use to the idea of the dentist. He did not like it very much. When we first got there, he was very excited. But then when he got in the chair, he was NOT happy!!