Priceless

I started Bekah on piano lessons teaching her myself about 3 years ago. It was not going well, but I have not wanted to pay for a teacher since we are still in school. I finally decided I couldn't take it anymore, we were both unhappy dealing with each other and it was a big battle every day. She has had two lessons now with a "real" piano teacher. She hasn't really wanted to go, but last night after practicing for the alotted time she came and asked me, "can I practice some more?". After recovering from shock, I said "Of course you can practice some more!!!". Totally worth the money!

Two Cute Things

We pulled up to the fabric store the other day, just me and the boys. Jonah recognized where we were and said, "You go in and I'll just stay in the car." It was so matter of fact, I just had to laugh. Needless to say he was forced to come in with me.

Today we went to the zoo. As we were paying for tickets for the train Jonah says, "Mom, I've decided to be happy." I don't know if that was because we were going to ride the train or just in general. Probably because of the train.

Yummy Pizza

Ingredients:
Pizza crust-store bought or homemade
1 cup cooked chicken, cut into bite size pieces
1/4 cup prepared pesto
1 large tomato, diced
1/2 cup black beans
1-2 cup mozzarella, shredded

Bake the pizza crust for about 5-10 minutes. Top the prebaked pizza crust with pesto, chicken, tomato, black beans and mozzarella. Bake for 10-15 minutes at 350.

So good! Whenever we have this I feel like I could eat and eat and eat! Two of my kids will eat this, two out of three ain't bad!

Getcha Head in the Game!

Some shots of my boys playing basketball in the backyard. And to think, I almost got rid of the basketball hoop! No one even looked at it before Sam came along.

Show and Tell

In case you didn't know, I love to make cards. Here are some cards that I made this summer. Come see more! I have posted many of the cards I made this summer on my other blog. Here is the link, Parts and Pieces. You can also get there by clicking on Rachel's Crafts under blogs I read, on the lefthand side of this blog. There will be more cards to come, I'm sure!

Sam's Birthday Party

Sam had a Curious George Birthday. He is our "little monkey". I was pretty happy with this cake. I had my heart set on yellow frosting but when I was about to add the food coloring on Sunday I realized that I had no yellow food coloring! I had every other color, just not yellow. I called around and finally found someone who had some. Cake decorating never goes smoothly at my house! Here are Sam's presents from us that he got to open on Saturday, his real birthday. I spent a total of 7 dollars. It was a garage sale birthday for Sam. That big present was brand new though (still from a garage sale). It was a little sand and water toy with canals and boats, it's pretty fun. There will be no sand in it though! He also got a few books and a stuffed, furry soccer ball.
Here he is opening presents from family. We had a family birthday party on Sunday evening. The cousins had so much fun running around in the backyard it was hard to call then over to open presents!
Here is Sam trying out his new soccer ball!

"Mario" Cookies

Lately Jonah has been repeating everything from commercials, which isn't a good thing all the time! He has been talking a lot lately about "Mario" cookies. He has seen pictures and a commercial on TV. We try to tell him they are called Oreo cookies. Well, the other day he saw the Oreo cookies commercial again and got it. He said "OH, OREO cookies!". But the next day he was back to calling them "Mario" cookies again. I think it is adorable. I also think we might need to buy some "Mario" cookies so we can really teach him what they are!