She lost another one!!

I didn't even know her tooth was very loose! But, she yanked it out today. Looks like the tooth fairy will be making a trip to our house tonight!

Boo!

Look what I made this morning!!

The glue is still drying, so it is on the kitchen table for right now. I haven't decided where I'm going to keep it yet. Maybe the front door? Wherever it ends up it will look good. If I do say so myself.

It's been a long time (since I rock and rolled)...

I was shocked to hear that after all the enjoyment everyone has been getting from my dad's smile enhancement feature on his camera, that he has been DELETING all the smile enhanced pictures! I'm glad I got a couple emailed to me before they all disappeared.

In other news, we took the kids to feed the ducks on Sunday. It was a very good time. Much different than the time the duck bit Briana's hand and then chased her all the way to the car (because of Papaw dropping bread crumbs). This time, the kids were able to feed the ducks right out of their hands. They also screamed and chased the ducks. Very fun and very entertaining!

I have two things not related to duck feeding to share. Last night, the girls were both helping me fold laundry while I cooked dinner. Briana hollered at me, "What should we do with your underwear, Mommy?" I said, "just put it in a pile." She waits a second and then says, "good. I didn't know how I was going to fold it because it's so....BIG!" He he he he. I love my granny undies.

The other funny thing happened this morning while Sydney and I were upstairs brushing her hair before school. Briana and Ellie were on the couch in the living room and Briana was playing with her cash register. She was singing into the microphone, so it was making a really high pitched squealing sound. I could hear that sound, and then I could hear a lower pitched oooooooo sound. I peeked out of the bathroom and saw Ellie sitting next to Briana howling. It was so so cute. Briana did it several more times, and Ellie howled every time. I'm going to see if I can get them to do it again later so I can record it. So funny!

More Funnies

We went to my parent's house for dinner last night, and my dad began playing with his new fancy camera (I'm not jealous of it at all). His camera has a feature that can add a smile to a face that is not smiling in a picture. I must say, this is the most awesome feature ever. They started taking pictures of Myles making funny faces and then added smiles. This was very entertaining!

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After

It was all quite funny until everyone realized that it would be equally funny to take a picture of me and add a smile. Not funny! I wasn't going to let them, but then I thought, why not embarrass myself?

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After.

It was worth it though, because after I was photographed, Shannon decided she would do it too, and the end result was so, so awesome.

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after. he he he he.

And she was still willing to have more pictures taken after that!

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Briana joined in the fun after a little bit too.

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after :)

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I might have to go over and steal that camera one of these days :)

Face Morphs

I finally got our face morph pictures from the Christmas Carol train tour! I think you will enjoy them as much as I did.

Computers!

I am writing this from the basement computer since my laptop is broken!! It has been overheating a lot lately, and I think it has finally pooped out. I can't even get it to turn on right now. Not a good sign. So I came down to the basement computer TWELVE minutes ago. It took TWELVE minutes to start up (and it wasn't even shut down, just sleeping) and open up a web page. Geesh! My weekly menu has gotten a bit off because we ate out last night and I made Kraft Mac & cheese on Thursday. So, tonight I finally made my enchilada casserole. It was delish!! Here's the recipe:

Enchilada Casserole

3 T butter
1/4 C flour
1 C milk
1/2 C reduced sodium chicken broth
1/4 C chopped red bell pepper
1 (4 oz) can chopped green chilis
2 T dry taco seasoning
8 oz colby jack cheese, shredded
6 (6 inch) corn tortillas, halved
1/3 C chopped cilantro

sour cream, if desired
salsa, if desired
sliced black olives, if desired

Heat oven to 375. Spray 2-quart round casserole with no-stick cooking spray.

Melt butter in 2 qt saucepan until sizzling. Add flour. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, 1 minute. Add milk and chicken broth. Continue cooking, stirring constantly until mixture comes to a boil (4 to 6 min). Add chicken, bell pepper, and taco seasoning; continue cooking until heated through. Remove from heat.

To assemble, spread 3/4 c. chicken mixture in bottom of casserole. Arrange 4 tortilla halves over chicken mixture. Top with 3/4 c. cheese. Repeat layering twice, beginning with tortilla halves and ending with cheese.

Bake for 20-25 min or till bubbly. Sprinkle with cilantro. Serve with sour cream, salsa and black olives.

Kindergarten field trip

Yesterday, I went with Sydney's kindergarten class to Ditmar's Apple Orchard for her field trip. A fun time was had!

Here are the kids just after we arrived, getting ready for their snack.

Sydney in the corn maze.

Sydney, Kennedy and Sloane after the corn maze.

Sydney and I on the tractor ride.

Getting ready to pick her apples off of the apple tree.

Sloane and Sydney with their apples.

Girls on the tractor ride back.

Sydney's class outside the corn maze.

Sydney and Mila after lunch.

Ana, Sydney, Gracie and Aubrey