Before I Eat

Brooke's Grasshopper Pie

Brooke's third grade teacher, Mrs. Brown, has extra books in her room she allows the kids to checkout - and Brooke came home with a cookbook. The teacher joked with her that she needed to bake her a pie and that is exactly what Brooke picked out to make. Today, she delivered a special piece to Mrs. Brown.

INGREDIENTS:

1 (8 ou.) package of cream cheese, softened

1/3 cup sugar

1 (8 ou.) tub whipped topping, thawed

1 cup chopped Keebler Fudge Shop Grasshopper Cookies
3-4 drops of green food coloring

1 Chocolate Pie Crust

DIRECTIONS:
Mix Cream Cheese and Sugar with an electric mixer until well blended.

Fold in whipped cream

Add chopped cookies (we placed cookies in a small Ziploc bag and chopped in small pieces using a measuring cup)Add your chopped cookies and food coloring, lightly stir until blended.

Spoon into Pie Crust.

Chill for 3 hours or overnight.

Big Boy Bike

What good is it to have a bike and no where to ride....we picked up Blaine's bike that we were keeping at Sharon's and brought it out to Carl's (where we have the horses turned out). This gave Blaine a chance to ride all day! He was so excited when Dad took off his training wheels and proud to have a big boy bike!

Goodbye Summer, Hello School Year!

Even though summer at the pool has been fun, we are ready for Fall and Football! Our house is about to be underway as we made final preps with the builder yesterday to get our Appraisal started and get to go from there. I think we'll be taping off where the house will be this weekend so I am really really excited for this YEAR at Bushland! We had a great morning and just a quick little 20 min drive to the school was really nice. It gave us a chance to visit and prepare for our day. Bushland held a Pep Rally this morning for grades 1 - 8th in the Middle School Football Field. The Mascot "BLACKHAWK" was so funny and danced to Miley Cyrus with the Cheerleaders....Get your hands up and bobbing your head like ya....whatever...we all were singing along!

Big Boy started Pre-K at Bushland Elementary today. He loves his teacher and already made a few friends that will also join him in his after school care with Jennifer Albracht. We are so fortunate to have had the referrals and already have met some wonderful friends!

Here's Brooke and her new teacher, Mrs. Brown. We love love love her and were so excited that one of her friends, Claire McCown, was also in the same class this year! The girls ran Track together this summer and became good friends. They will start Volleyball next Monday and Brooke is ready to start! Go BUSHLAND!

TEXAS

Growing up, I remember camping out at Palo Duro Canyon with Nanny and Cousins and go see the Play Texas! We took the kids last night with Courtney and her boys along with Grammy. We had a good time. The show is a lot different then I remember it but all in all, it's still a beautiful place and great dancing!

I know my kids will be glad to get back in a normal house, it's amazing how not having a yard to play in or place to ride bikes is missed! Blaine has all this extra energy and it's ready to be released in WIDE OPEN SPACES.... He bounced around like crazy but he pretty much sat through the whole show until he finally fell asleep in my arms around 10:30. By the time we dropped Sharon off and headed home, it was midnight before getting in to bed! I think the camping out and seeing the show as a kid - I was just glad to stay up late! Now, I can't get in bed early enough....funny how things change!

Twenty - Four

Life with Blaine is never dull... After telling him the story of the Three Bears and Goldilocks, he wondered why Dora didn't arrive on the rainbow with Boots? Guess he must have remembered an old episode of Dora he saw years ago but he told me he liked my version better. After "story time" (getting back in the grove and reading a story to him every night) we took Miley to the Dog Park!

He kept showing me how he pulls on her leash to "stop her" and telling me that I was not doing it correctly. I asked him how old he was to be bossing me around? After he told me he was "Four" I let him know that was too little in the britches to be bossy. He said well, how old are you, TWENTY-FOUR? I smiled and had to kiss him.....

New Ride

Today I meet my new truck and it's been one heck of a ride already. I wanted to go back with a Toyota Tundra but the nice White Sporty truck with the Lonestar Edition sold 3 days after I found it. Jeff and I went last weekend and met them again only to find out the Red Truck I wanted, was already sold! So, I decided to take up Kameron's advice and visit with a friend of his at XIT Dodge. He was able to find the exact truck I described with a few additions Jeff added for me (Tow package, Tires, etc).... it was sitting in Lubbock at another dealership. So, David (with XIT and I have yet to meet - gives me crap every time we talk) traded another truck for me and it should arrive around 3:30 today. It's the new Rugged Brown Pearl with Tan interior. A little sparkly like me...I am so excited that I can now pull the horse trailer w/o having to borrow Jeff's monster of a truck.

By the way, Insurance didn't total my Tundra. Thanks to Kameron I was able to sale it as is and take the insurance money after paying it off and get in a 2010 for 1/2 the cost. Thanks Kameron! I'll post pics on FB later!