Family Pizza Night!

Despite having pizza for lunch at The Jumpy Place today, Graham and I decided that we needed more for dinner! (The little man growing inside of me right now might have had just a little bit of say in this too.... :) I remembered that I had pizza dough (the crazy easy just add water kind) in my pantry and pretty much if that is there then I'm all set!



I have 4 individual pizza pans that I got from one of my besties, Deborah.  Her dad used to have his own pizza place with the best pizza ever!! To say that these pizza pans are well-seasoned is an understatement!



I love making this pizza because you can pretty much put on it whatever you have in your fridge! Next time we plan on doing this when we have some leftover chicken and using an Alfredo sauce and mozzarella cheese! Yum!

For our pizza tonight we used just the regular jarred spaghetti sauce that I had in the pantry, shredded cheese, diced onion and green bell pepper, and crumbled breakfast sausage (told you that you could add anything!). We have some other ideas to try this also as a Mexican pizza next time with picante sauce instead of tomato sauce, taco meat, Mexican cheese, the topped (but not baked with) lettuce and tomato!

I had some very cute little helpers!



This is what the pizza looked like that Bobby and I had! It was beyond good!





This was Graham's pizza. Notice the lack of veggies?? :) We are still working on that...

I need some more ideas! Do you ever make your own pizza? How would you make it differently? 

Why Hello There!

I just don't know what has gotten into me lately and all this no blogging non-sense! I guess part of the time I figure that if I have the energy to sit at my computer and type then I really should be using that time to lie down before one of the boys needs me again! :) I have tons of fun pictures to post and little things about the boys and myself to blog about from the past week.

• Graham had his last day at camp and they put on the greatest show for the parents! Lots of fun songs and games followed up by individual awards for all of the kids! Graham won the award for being "Good Natured".



(I have no idea why this picture came out so blurry! :( ) This was the room full of parents and kids during the camp finale!



Graham and his two sweet counselors.



Grady was bribed with a snow cone to hang out in his stroller for the program. Poor guy, it was over a 100 degrees that day and he was stuck in his stroller. He did soo good though!!



• This past weekend was one of my besties birthdays! (Happy Birthday Amy!) She celebrated by coming into New Braufels to float the river. I wasn't able to go with her this year but I did get to get out of the house for an hour and go and see her and one of our other friends, Tami for a little bit that morning before they left for their river trip. I miss these girls soo much! We had the greatest time in college together!



Tami and myself.





The Birthday girl Amy!



• The boys got a cute little blow up pool for the backyard this weekend. It's small but does a great job keeping them cool and it staves off the "I'm bored" comments for a couple of hours! :)

• Today has been a wonderful, low-key day. My awesome friend Deborah came this morning and cleaned up the house a little bit for me and then watched the boys while I took it easy this morning. Late yesterday afternoon I think I overdid it a bit. I was feeling a little "trickily" down there and was having a little bit of pain I'm guessing where my cerclage is. Then I started thinking that I wasn't feeling the baby move quite as much as from before. I rested most of the evening and bunches today and I feel much better. I still think that the baby's movement isn't quite as much or as vigorous as he had been before (don't get me wrong he is still moving around in there) but I keep telling myself that I'm only between 23-24 weeks and I should still have a couple of weeks before intense movement starts right?? Despite having other children I'm drawing a blank on this situation. 

• I'm super excited that the day after tomorrow I will be the magical 24 weeks prego! I'm thinking about doing a post just exclusively on that milestone and starting back up with pregnancy posts like I was doing before the cerclage.

I hope that everyone's weeks is going well so far!

Camp Cutie!

Today is Graham's last day and camp and he has had the best time! He asked me just the other day if he could go back again next year. I of course said YES! He then asked how much longer he could keep going and I told him that he could keep going until he was old enough to be a camp counselor. He was beyond thrilled with that idea. And so am I!!

I took a couple of pictures of him before he left the house yesterday morning and then again this morning. He's so clean cute!



Each day of the week the camp has a different theme going and the kids get to dress up to match. Yesterday was by far Graham's favorite. He would live in camo clothes every.single.day if I let him! :) They had a fun "war games" event that went on and he was so tired and exhilarated by the time he got home.



I can not believe how grown-up Graham looks to me in this picture!



Today at camp it is Alpha vs. Omega day. Alpha's and Omega's are the two different groups that the kids get split into when they sign up for camp. Last year was Graham's first year and he was assigned to be an Omega. It's really neat because from here on out he will always be an Omega!

I will probably be doing one more post on Graham's camp tomorrow! This afternoon they are putting on a special program for the parents and then handing out awards. It should be an awesome afternoon! 

Keepin' It Real Thursday

Reality in our house these days is pretty amusing.

I realized that I had the funniest thing going on in my bathroom the other day. If you are a neat-nick, OCD cleaning machine, or otherwise inclined to judge my house-keeping you might want to stop reading now! :)

For a while now I have been letting Graham take a shower in my master bathroom. After a couple of days it occurred to me that he was taking for.ev.er. in there to get done. The other day I realized why.

Folks, that's not steam on the awesome 80's gold shower door. That hard water deposits. And Graham has been doing his art work in it. When I took a closer look there were 6 hearts, 9 tic-tac-toe games and a variety of swirls and other lines. Maybe next year we'll start practicing our spelling words here and kill 2 bird with 1 stone! :) HA!

To say that I need to enlist  Bobby's help to clean up in is the understatement of the year!



Grady decided that he needed to jump in the picture too! I love love love my little excuse for not getting anything done around here!



Hope ya'll are having a great Thursday! Any "confessions" going on in your house this week??

What I'm Loving Wednesday!



This week I'm joining up with Jaime again to participate in What I'm Loving Wednesday! We have had soo much stuff going on lately that I'm just full to brimming with what I'm loving! This is also an excellent opportunity to get everyone caught up with what we're up to since I've been a little behind in the blogging this week!

{1.} I'm Loving this little guy!

I'm soo thankful that my appointment went really really great! Our little guy now weights around 1 pound 5 ounces and is in the 72 % for his gestation (22 weeks and 5 days). This is awesome news because they want him to get as big as possible since there is a chance of him making a very early arrival. Dr. M said that my cervix was kicking butt this week and measuring at around 3.5 cm which is an improvement over 2 weeks ago. Love Him!

{2.} I'm Loving my in-law's next door neighbors that have a great pool!

They are beyond the kindest people ever and have pretty much given us a permanent open invitation to swim almost whenever we want! The boys love it and sleep and eat soo good afterwards!

{3.} I'm Loving my big kitchen sink! HA!

My youngest son is developing a serious addition to water (see above pool pictures and below). I'm glad that he still fits in the sink for a quickie bath in the evening sometimes. This is such a saver on my back these days. I was having problems convincing him to get out however. Then I realized that he was scared of the drain... (I might be the bad Momma that took advantage of this and pull the plug when its time to get him out and boy does he scramble out! :)

{4.} I'm Loving The Jumpy Place!

I know that I've blogged about this place before but for those new readers its a wonderful jumpy house place here where we live. I couldn't get any pictures of Grady jumping because he spent 75% of his time hogging the drinking fountain. 400 drinks, 9 hand washes, and 1 narrowly missed hair wash (yes he totally tried to stick his whole head in it...) and it was time to go. Like I said earlier, the child is obsessed with water! :)

{5.} I'm Loving the Sally Hanson Salon Effect  nail polish strips!



I was introduced to these by my SIL Melanie and I love them! It was soo much fun! I opted to try out the zebra print for some summer fun nails! I really need to get some longer nails going so I can keep practicing my technique.

{6.} I'm Loving that Graham started day camp this week! He's been attending T Bar M camp in New Braunfels and it's been the most rewarding experience for him. Its a camp that is Christ centered and he has grown so much while he's been there. This is only his second year to attend and I already can't wait to see how he grows and matures in such a wonderful environment in the coming years!

First Day of Camp!



I hope that everyone else is having a great week! What are you loving this Wednesday? 

Baby Love, My Baby Love

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength."

Deuteronomy 6:5

Please forgive me, I'm soo behind in blogging! I have soo much to blog about right now and can't seem to find the time to do any of it! I did want to share one of the most recent pictures of our sweet baby boy! I went to the specialist this morning for a checkup and the ultrasound tech got this great picture for us. I am so unbelievably in love with this baby! How sweet is that face?? :)

I'll update again later this evening with all our happenings and details on today's appointment! 

Fill In The Blank Friday

This week has been a super slow blogging week for me! Blame it on the partial bed rest that I'm on, but things have been SUPER-unexciting around these parts lately. Part of me doesn't mind one bit. We just got done with the school year and this Momma is ready for a break from the hustle and bustle. The other part of me has been nagging that I need to figure out more things to do with/for my kids maybe just 2 days a week. We'll see how all this goes!

Now that I'm done with my random tangent, I decided to make posting this morning easier on myself. I am joining up with Lauren over at The Little Things We Do to participate in Fill In The Blank Friday!





 {1.} I LOVE that Graham is going to start a week of summer camp next week! He will be going to T Bar M here in South Texas and I can't wait for him to go! It is such a wonderful Christian camp with the best counselors and staff. They go all out trying to make each kid feel totally loved and special! All this past year he received post cards in the mail from both of his counselors from last year with updates and encouragement. Love it!!

{2.} A TIME THAT MAMA KNEW BEST WAS who I should marry. She never told me until much later (like after I had already married that man of my dreams) how much she and my dad HATED all the guys I had dated before Bobby came along. I think both she and my dad knew that none of them were right for me but she held her tongue and let me figure it out. Thank God I did! :)

{3.} MY FIRST KISS WENT A LITTLE LIKE THIS beyond awkward.  And unexpected. Both the guy and I were only hanging out before going to a school event/dance and we were only going with each other so that we'd each have a date. We ended up kissing before the event at his house. What was I thinking? (see question #2 above for my great judgement sometimes...)

{4.} MY SPLURGE OF CHOICE IS either on food or kitchen gadgets. Funny how both relate kinda to each other right?

{5.} MY BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT IS my kids! I have 2 of the sweetest boys ever (and one more little guy on the way) and a beautiful baby girl in Heaven and they are my life! I would not be where I am or who I am today if I didn't have them! I can't believe that just regular, ordinary me would be ever be soo blessed!

{6.} MY CELEBRITY CRUSH(S) ARE Hugh Jackman and Vin Diesel. I like manly men! :)

{7.} MY DANCE JAM OF CHOICE (if I was not so terribly white and could dance...) would have to be anything by Salt n' Pepa!

I hope that everyone enjoyed "getting to know me" this Friday! Hope everyone has a great weekend!!