Bowling Birthday Party

For Nash's 4th birthday he had a bowling party.

It was a lot of fun.  He was so excited.

When he got his bowling shoes he kept saying

"do you like my new shoes?"

He was a pretty good bowler too.

He loved to just carry his green ball around even 

if it wasn't his turn to bowl.

Cheese ball!

I bowled a really good game and 

almost beat the guys.

They didn't like that very much and started

to get really competitive.

Some guy came around and made 

balloon hats for the kids

Singing Happy Birthday

Opening presents from Aunt Lillie

Yahtzee jr.  YAY

He also got tons of super hero t-shirts and

a cool batman belt from his daddy

and some fun toys

It was a great day.  He is the cutest

kid.  I can't believe he's 4 already.

Happy Birthday Nash

I'm a mean mommy

I was unloading stuff out of the trunk
and the dogs kept bugging me,
acting all excited thinking we
were going for a ride in the car

so I decided to put them in the trunk
and take their pictures.
I fooled them.

They didn't like it very much.

But aren't they cute ??

Black bean & zucchini pizza

Black bean and zucchini pizza:

refrigerate pizza dough

1 clove garlic

1 finely sliced zucchini

1 can black beans, drained

1 can diced tomatoes, undrained

2 cups cheese

1 chicken breast shredded

Cook crust in 15x10 cookie sheet

(prick with fork) 425 degrees 5-6 mins

Saute' garlic then add zucchini cook 3 mins

Add beans and tomatoes, bring to boil uncovered 2 mins

Add cooked chicken

Top with bean mixture and add cheese

Bake 10 mins.

Serves 6   (7 WW Pts)

No Pasta Lasagna

I got this gigantic zucchini from the bishop's garden

and decided to use it to make 

Pasta free lasagna.  

It was as big as my dogs

I sliced it into long thin pieces.  You can

use a regular knife but a mandolin would

have been better to make them all the same size.

You can roast them by putting them on a 

cookie sheet and oven on 450 degrees

for about 7-9 mins.

I didn't do that but wished I had.

I chose to douse them with salt 

and let them sit for an hour

to draw out all the water, then

press them with paper towels.

But some of the slices were thicker then 

others so they were kinda crunchy.

Layer zucchini, ricotta cheese mixture and pasta

sauce. Top with mozzarella cheese and

bake for 45 mins on 375.

It was pretty yummy and low in carbs!

( and WW points)

What's eating my tree?

 I was sitting outside one day and looked over

at my big oak tree in the backyard 

and noticed that a bunch of leaves were missing

So I got up to investigate what was eating my tree 

and found this...

A ton of caterpillars having a big

snack of leaves.

One Smart Cookie

Doesn't Lola look so smart?