Fried Cornbread

I bought myself a new camera! :) The only problem is I can't find my SD card now, so I have three pictures of Helena being cute and that's all the camera will hold. Now, I'm not going to delete a picture of Helen to take a picture of cornbread, so I'll just have to add a picture later! :) I'm loving my new actifry. Everytime I get ready to cook or eat, I think, "hmmm...what can I fry?" I was making mini corn muffins with my just add water Shirley J cornbread mix and I thought, "Boring!" I added a can of creamed corn, because I like real corn in my corn bread and all the extra liquid makes them really moist. Then it hit me! Fry those suckers! I did it. I melted some honey butter to drizzle over them. HOMERUN!!!

Superkid!!!

Sariah won the Character Counts Award for her class this month! :) School is going pretty well for everyone. I'll try to put up more posts, but my camera is broken! Arrrrgh!!! I think I should organize all my old pictures and then reward myself with a new camera. ;)

Wooden Bat Classic

This one was a nail biter! The championship game was tied 8 to 8. Artesia scored two runs in the sudden death extra inning for the win! :) Go Dogs!!!

Pecan Encrusted Chicken

I'm trying to collect some more recipes using pecans. I made this last night. It was pretty good, except for the pieces I burned. I would leave out the orange zest or just use less next time. Does anyone have any good pecan recipes?

We are the Champions!!!

The Desert Dogs swept the State Tournament clean! Go All-Stars! Go All-Stars! :)

One Man's Junk is Another Man's Treasure

Terry took Luke and AJ to the car wash with him and they were soooo excited about all the treasures they found there! When AJ said he found an old-fashioned frisbee (Terry said it was a picnic plate holder) I laughed so hard there were tears in my eyes. :) I forgot to get a picture of the Little Caesar's hat. :P

Luke

Honor Roll and Science Excellence

AJ

Super Sharer Award and his baseball team came in 2nd place. He also made the all-star team, so baseball is not over yet! :)

Emily's Mural

Check out the front page of the newspaper today! :)

Supergirl

Sariah earned her Sight Words Award and Counting to 100 Award! :) Just turn your head, I couldn't get this photo to rotate...grrrr!

Orange Head

I really don't have the answer to any questions about this photo.

Gru

Have you seen Despicable Me? Do you think I should sue them for impersonating my hubby?

My Birthday Dinner

I know, I'm being a slow poke. But, here's the grand spread. They did a great job!

Chef Emily

Emily's been cooking dinner once or twice a week lately. She's a pretty good cook! Here is her chinese meal. :)

Science Fair!

Oooooooh! It's science fair time. Sariah put carnations and celery in different colored water to see what would happen. What do you think happened?

Miracles

I was trying to decide if Terry finally buying me a new car or if both our cars fitting in the garage was the bigger miracle. Then, I couldn't find any dirty laundry in the house. I caught up with the laundry! That's the biggest miracle!

Day Three

Two snow days and now there's no school today because of power and natural gas shortages! The neighbor taught us how to make ice cream out of snow. We could eat New Mexico out of this blizzard. Boy, was it yummy. I opened the deep freezer a little while ago and the kids had harvested a bunch of clean snow to make more ice cream. :) They are listening to Dog Train and dancing around now. The sun is out and snow is starting to melt. I guess it's about time to get back to real life.

Supermodel

Emily loves giving Sariah makeovers. This is one of my favorites. I don't know why all the photo shoots end up in the breakfast nook, surely there's a better place. :)

Dishwashing Elf

I've always asked my kids if they think a magic fairy is going to do their chores. Well, it turns out that we have a dishwashing elf! I never knew! :)

Big Head=Big Brain

This picture just cracks me up! Sariah's head looks even bigger than it really is. It's a virtual planetory! That reminds me...I need to take a picture of my kids with their big fat heads on their pillows. Maybe tonight. :)

Worst Decorated House in the Neighborhood

We had fun driving around town and looking at everyone's decorations this Christmas. One house was covered with lights and even had the lights flashing in sync to a radio station. It was amazing! The neighbor had boards covered with lights spelling out "DITTO" with an arrow pointing to the other house. I thought that was pretty clever. :) I wish I took a picture of that, but all I have is the worst house.

The kids discovered they could take pictures of themselves with the camera on my laptop. :)

Halloween in January!?!

Supergirl!

Our knight in shining armor

Jessie from Toy Story
Mother Nature
Captain America
Well, I am a few months behind. :) I just noticed that I hadn't posted the costume pictures, so Happy Halloween!

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Yesterday, I was trying to explain to Sariah why Jesus was called "Jesus of Nazareth." She looked at me and said, "Daddy should be called, 'Stealer of Candy'!"