Breakfast Pizza

At school, Seth's class incorporates a lot of cooking for the kids. Food is the way to Seth's heart so, needless to say, he loves this part of school. He brought home one of the latest recipes for breakfast pizzas and they sounded really good. So, this weekend, we decided to try them out on Grandma and Grandpa at the beach. Lacey and friend Isabel were there too and loved them so much they ate two.

Here are the pictures pre-baking.

And, below, is a picture of them after 10 minutes in the oven. If you would like to try these at home, the recipe is posted at the bottom.

Breakfast Pizzas

1 can of refrigerated biscuits (we used buttery Grands - no calories here!)

Make scrambled eggs as usual

Fry bacon - we used one slice cut in two for each biscuit

Shredded cheddar cheese.

Flatten each biscuit into a circle about 4-5 inches across, spoon a portion of scrambled eggs on top, place the two half strips of bacon on top of that and cover each with a little shredded cheddar cheese. Bake in a 425 degree oven for 10 minutes. Yummy!

Jason Aldean!

I totally surprised Lacey on Friday and took her out of school for a Jason Aldean concert! She was so excited! Every few minutes on the way to the concert she would just blurt out JASONALDEAN! = )

It was a "standing in the dirt" (rodeo dirt) concert, so I was a little concerned about getting her up front where she could see. We met some really nice girls who had been to the venue before and they helped get her where she needed to be. She was close all right -- hands on the stage! Here she is before the concert got started.

This is the view behind us. That is about 5,000 people pushing us into the stage. It meant being way too chummy with way too many, but I pushed back against the crowd to keep Lacey from getting the brunt of it.

In case you aren't familiar with Jason Aldean, his song "Big Green Tractor" is currently #1 on the country charts. He also sings "She's Country" and "Amarillo Sky".

This is the video of the handshake. Lacey is at the very end of the video with her little hand sticking up in the air. I get bumped from the crowd when he first grabs her hand, but I did catch him letting it go. The very last seconds of the video, you can hear it finally hit Lacey and she gives a little high pitch scream.

After the handshake -- the "I'm never going to wash my hand" picture.

All Smiles

Apparently, Lily thought she needed a bigger smile! Cheese!

OH NO! NOT IN MY HOUSE!

Last night I was sitting, innocently working on my computer in the living room while the rest of the household was asleep and I kept hearing this "schck, schck" sound. I couldn't figure out what it was, but it seemed like it was happening at regular intervals of about 10 minutes. My best description was that it sounded almost like a cricket. I started watching the clock and went and stood in the family room when I thought it was going to make the sound. I had to wait a bit but then realized it wasn't coming from there, it was in the kitchen area. 10 minutes later I was standing by the island waiting and I heard it near the door and/or table. So, thinking it was coming from the timer light switch (the one that controls the lights on the porch), I stood right by it for the next interval. It happened again and I realized it was not from the timer, but it was coming from up above me in that same area. I thought the window must be slightly ajar and I was indeed hearing a bug from outside, so I lifted the blinds and seeing that the window was not ajar, I looked up. At the top of the window casing was the biggest cricket I have ever seen!! He was three inches long at least. This is not him, but the closest picture I could find:


Now, you have to understand, that I HATE grasshoppers/crickets (not a little dislike kind of hate, but a VEHEMENT, NOT-FUNNY, GET-AWAY-FROM-ME kind of hate). I cannot even write about this without squirming. It's a good thing that he decided to stay put because if he had jumped, the entire neighborhood would have known it. So, I had a dilemma -- what to do about him? Believe it or not, it took a while, but I actually convinced myself that he would not go upstairs with me and probably wouldn't venture very far from the window so I had to just leave him. He was too big for me to squish without having him jump and I couldn't risk having him do anything like that. So, I closed the blinds and prayed that a cover of small plastic blinds would keep the vermin somewhat caged so he could be dealt with in the morning. Morning comes and, not wanting to open the blinds and risk a leaping lizard, I stepped outside to see where the caged intruder was and he was not there! Yikes! I told Lacey about him and asked her to keep an eye out (she loves grasshoppers). Luckily, Seth found him lurking above the kitchen window. Lacey crawled up and got him and then took him outside. I told her the porch was not good enough, he needed to be much further away from me, so she took him towards the tall grass by the pasture. She played with him a while, letting him crawl on her, **glaaaagh** and then carefully, lovingly, set him in the grass. Where.........Lily, watching this whole ordeal, promptly went over and ate him. = O Lacey was mortified! She came in a told me what had happened and even though I was slightly grossed out watching Lily smacking her lips, I was secretly relieved. One less disgusting, spiny trespasser. I don't know what good things grasshoppers/crickets might do in this world, but Lily and I have a message -- NOT IN MY HOUSE!