Taco Bowls

Last night we had taco salad for dinner. It's one of our favorites. However, this time Ben wanted to have real taco salad bowls made with a tortilla. So, we tried it out! They turned out pretty neat! The kids thought they were very cool. First we crisped the tortilla in some butter (you could use oil) and sprinkled it with salt. Then we placed it on top of a large cup and place a bowl over it. We let it cool and when we took it off the cup it was a great little taco bowl! We used the large burrito size tortillas. It was fun and we'll definitely do it again. We filled them with lettuce, tomato, chili, cheese, sour cream, salsa, ranch dressing, and crushed tortilla chips.

Here is the documentation of the event. (Pretty exciting, huh?!) LOL!

This was Kate's salad. She had lettuce, chili, cheese, sour cream, and a little salsa.

I don't know why Kate thinks doing this in every picture lately is funny, but she does.

Day at the park

Saturday was an absolutely gorgeous day. The kids also have a new obsession, tennis. Brandon wanted to take tennis lessons so we enrolled him and now Kate and Megan want to try it out, too. We bought a few rackets and went on Saturday to a great park that has lots of tennis courts to play on. The kids had a blast! Carli was bored with the tennis pretty quickly so we played at the playground with her.

I'm really excited that Brandon has found a sport that he is excited about. He seems to be doing really well and enjoying his lessons very much.

Another look

So I changed the look of my blog again. I was feeling the need for something lighter for the coming spring!

Pigtails

I love her cute pigtails, but after a nap and at the end of the day when they are all skewampas (did you get that word?!) I just think it's adorable. :)

Carli pics

She's just so easy to take pictures of and she's around all the time so I get a lot more of her than I do the other kids. I'll try to do better at that! Here are some cute pictures I took of her on Valentine's day. I pulled out these cute dress my mom sent her several months ago (it was a bit big) and it fit her perfectly! It was so cute for Valentine's day.

Shout out

Thank you to http://onecuteblog.blogspot.com/ for my new template! There were a few that I liked, but thought this would be different and fun. Let me know what you think!

Valentine's Day Happenings

We had a pretty fun Valentine's Day last week. I got lots of cute pictures. We started out the morning with pancakes with fruit and cream. Yumm! Everyone opened the little Valentine mailboxes I made for each of them filled with candy. I spent the afternoon at school with the kids going between class parties. They all had a great time. Kate even won her class bingo game and her prize was one of those great big bouncy balls. She was thrilled! For dinner we got the Papa John's heart-shaped pizza after Brandon's tennis practice and cream cheese swirled brownies for dessert. Those were sooo good...

Eating breakfast

Brandon's Valentine holder for school. It's a Pokeball!

The mailboxes. They are not fancy like some adorable ones I've seen, but they did the job for this year. :) This is the side of Megan's.

Here's Kate's.

Megan helping make the Valentine cookies to take to the teachers.Carli enjoying a cookie!
My creations.Megan decorating her cookies. Megan's box she made for her Valentine's.

Carli enjoying the goodies at Megan's party.The place settings for dinner. The girls got to decorate the table for me.Kate was in charge of rose petals and I told her to just sprinkle them around the table. She decided she would rather set them perfectly around each plate. It was cute!

Dinner. Bummer I didn't get a pic of the yummy brownies. They were sooo good!