4-H

 Since it was kind of a yucky day, I decided to get a jump start on Ashley's 4-H projects. We ran over to Jay-C with a huge list. I didn't have hardly any ingreadients that they were calling for. Bummer. Ashley had a really great time going down the isles finding what we needed, documenting sugar contents in food and also juice contents in different drinks. We still have lots to do,but at least got a 1/3 of the cooking part done. We made Mama mia pizza, granola bars, and here in a bit fruit kabobs. Ashley is really impressed with the pizza. She says it's the best she ever had. She wants me to blog the recipe,so here goes.           

Buscuit dough,Ragu pizza sauce,mini pepporonies,mushrooms,cheese. Flatten dough,add toppings,flatten some more if needed, and flip one side to make a pocket,use fork to pinch down edges. Bake 400 deg 15-20 min

Granola tastes good,followed directions and not quite sticky enogh,but maybe they need to sit a bit longer. She's very proud of herself,and I've enjoyed watching her learn to cook. She now says she wants to open her own pizza and sandwich shop.

It's spring time!!!!!!!

It's so nice out!  What's a girl to do. Have FUN and lots of it, of course. We hung out here for awhile. Ashley has grown so much Bill had to take the swing up four notches. Snif snif. She jumped on the trampoline for awhile then Bill suggested we go cruising in the Trans Am.  Where did we go... around town, to the park ,and Wal-Mart. haha Ashley needed some new flip flops and has been begging for me to get her some. She has been wearing them since we left the store.  I love this weather, it makes me so happy to be outside again. We've been walking the dogs a bunch to the point they don't want to get up later to go out potty. Here's a few more pictures to enjoy.

Because the park was so packed we had to go to the old section.

I remember having tons of fun on this thing.   It's cool to see Ashley having fun on it too.

4-H

Yesterday we signed Ashley up for 4-H. She is so excited. She is doing a poster board about our dogs, photography, scrapbooking, and baking. I never knew how involved 4-H was. The lady handed us a stack of books to complete after we said she could do all this. I just thought she'd just shoot some pictures,turn in her best work and that'd be all. I'm not complaining,the book has tuns of information,and will help her improve her picture taking skills. It will make her think about how to get the best shots,lighting,different angles. All this she has to do and more. With the cooking we have to do several recipes,even do a demonstraton for a group of people. The thing she has to turn in are cookies. I am probably the worst at making cookies. Don't know why exactly,I follow the recipe. They just never turn out. Maybe after going through all of this I'll learn a thing or two also. She keeps thanking me over and over for letting her do all of this. She has scoured the books from cover to cover. She is ready. It makes me smile to see her so excited. I just hope we have enough time to do all of this. I'm glad next week is springbreak. It'll give her lots to do.

Am I A Redneck??? Judge for yourself.

Today is a day,that I have been wating for for what seems like a very long time. I can't believe I am even excited by this,which makes me think I'm starting to turn into a redneck. We have been needing gravel for a while now. We have called five people to do this very simple, yet expensive task. Four of them didn't even bother to show up, call, write, send a smoke signal, nothing. If this is anything like dating I sure am glad I'm married. Grandpa suggested giving his good friend John Moore a call, and bless his heart he showed up, TWICE!!!!! Once to give us a quote, and then today with the gravel. He was even 15 min early. I thought surly I must be dreaming. It was all I could do not to hug him. For the last several months the drive has been one muddy mess.

 So do I look like a redneck?

Oh NO it's catching!!!!!!!! Ashley's teeth are falling out.

Kids are too funny

     All week Ashley has been hounding me to make cookies. For Christmas she got a curious chef cookie set. It's cute with everything made kid size. I told her she needed to get her apron on, so she wouldn't get messy. Things were going smooth, then her apron somehow fell off her.  She says "That's OK I don't need it, I wont get messy." The next step was to add flour.  I'm over at the sink washing things and she screams. I look over and somehow the lid off the flour container had come off, and it was EVERYWHERE!!! I didn't know if I should laugh or cry. Unfortunatly no pictures. I couldn't find a charged up camera. Anyway,got that cleaned up,Even the dogs helped by licking up the floor. YUCK. But hey they like to eat catpoop too,so maybe flour tasted good. Haha. The cookies are sugar cookies with icing and sprinkles. They are very tasty. Hey I had to sacrafice the Attkin's diet for that. Someone has to do it. She was so proud of them, I had to have a few.
     Then as we were getting ready for bed, Ashley goes, "So any baby news yet?"  I said,"We have more tests to do and it takes a healthy Mommy and Daddy to have a baby." I thought I answered that pretty smooth.Then being the debater that she is, says, "I know that's not true, I know of a teenager who got pregnant and she's not married."  ME.....................UMMMMMM.............. I  quickly changed the subject. Now here  is a question, how does she know of this pregnant teenager.  School I'm sure. Kids are so dang funny.

Todays Dr. appointment didn't go so well. We have more testing to do and depending on what that shows we are going to be referred to a specialsist. We just may need some extra help. We did start taking vitimins today, which may help. I did do some research on computer and they suggested it too.
We shall see.

It's almost springtime,YEAH!!!!!!!  Three Geese have moved in. The dogs are trying to  make sure they don't get too comfortable on the dam. The dogs do however ,like it if they poop as they fly over. They love the perfume apperantly. Not so funny for me, but  it is funny to see Harley ran out there like a bad A**. One day they may decide to give him a taste of his own medicine.  Hope not.

For you thrifty shoppers, you may want to check out Big Lots. We purchased some Finder speakers for $30 a pair. They retail $190 a pair. Bill bought 2 sets and hooked them up over the weekend. We now have surround sound that shakes the house. OK couch.  And no it wasn't Bill with his own sound effects. Haha.  He also bought me some Iron Chef blueberry cream coffee. At first I was like what the _____fill in the blank. Blueberry's and coffee doesn't even sound good together. I humored him though and was surprised at how good it actually was. Also had some cool Wii Games $10-$18.  I don't usually go into Big Lots,but am going to check it out more often.

Also today  I hit  jackpot at Goodwill. I found a Shiatsu Massager for $5. They are about $100 at the store.  Bill has been wanting one for a couple of years,I just couldn't part with $100 for it.  $5 bucks, you bet. I was on cloud nine. He was pretty excited when I surprised him with it. Could hardly get him
away from it to eat dinner. Told me he wasn't moving. Also found two pair of jeans and 3 pairs of
 nice maternity pants. Total I spent $27. 

It's been a good day and my cabin fever is vanishing.