Coca-Cola Classic

When I was about 5 months pregnant with Byron we went to a family reunion for my side of the family. We stayed at a hotel and I think it was connected to a JB's. In the morning my Dad treated us all to breakfast. Being pregnant I was hungry. So we were some of the first ones down there. We ate and then later that day we were feeling it. We evidently got food poisoning. A few of our other siblings got it, but not as bad. We were so sick, throwing up every probably half hour. The whole night. Strangely enough, it brought Wes and I even closer together. We were suffering together. How sad. We finally started to feel better after drinking Coca-Cola classic. I guess it just eats it all up. We aren't too fond of buffets anymore.
Ever since then if we start feeling sick, like I have been feeling last night and today, we drink Coca-Cola Classic. It's amazing how it makes us feel so much better.

It's Official!

I have officially decided to do a preschool next fall from my home. I am so excited! It will be a lot of work, but I think the joy I will get out of it will outweigh the hard work. A while ago I went and observed this ladies preschool's afternoon session. I met her at this church meeting I went to. She mentioned she was thinking about retiring. Otherwise I would have never thought of it on my own. It's funny how some things happen in life. Huh? Anyway I learned a lot just from that one class observation.
I am starting to plan out a lot of ideas I have for the room, my lesson plans, etc. I think I will start out teaching in the mornings four days a week. We will see how things go. In the meantime I've got a lot of work to do. I have to get a fire inspection, business license, liability insurance, and a few things to get started.
I will teach Ethan and Lilly. Byron will be in 1st grade. It will be nice to be able to work from home and do something that I love, work with kids.
The pictures I displayed are of the room I will use for the teaching part and then part of our other room will be used for "play time".
The guy that built our house is going to build this little invention I came up with. They are these tables attached to the wall that will fold down against the wall so when we are not doing craft time or snack we will have that extra space for other things. Does anyone know of a place I can buy kids chairs (like they have in the nursery) for a good price?

Home to visit the Parents

Last weekend we ventured up to visit Wes's parents on the Farm. We had such a great time! It was nice just to relax and socialize. The kids played and played with all Grandma and Grandpas toys. We went to this old Volcano, went to these little shops by these ice caves, etc. They are building a new house and we took some pics.
It's so funny how our kids progress each time we go out of town. I think it just teaches them about new skills they never knew they had. :)

Homemade Mint Oreo Cookies

This is my sissy's recipe. Yummy!

Cookie:
2 18 oz packages of devils food cake mix
2/3 cup oil
4 eggs

frosting:
1/2 cup butter
4 oz cream cheese
2 cups powdered sugar
1 1/2 tsp mint flavoring
a few drops of green food coloring

Mix together cookie mixture in a bowl. Make small balls and place on a cookie sheet. Cook for 8-10 minutes at 350 degrees. Let cool. Put frosting on one cookie and add another to make a sandwich. Enjoy!

My Lasagna Recipe

For lunch today we had lasagna. Wes doesn't really like cottage cheese so I have usually improvised. But, today we didn't have cottage cheese anyway.

Becky's Lasagna

sauce:
1 lb. ground beef
1/2 medium onion chopped
1-2 garlic cloves grated
3/4 C. zucchini chopped
2 tomatoes chopped
1/2 green bell pepper
1 large carrot chopped
2 small cans tomato sauce
1 C. water

1/2 pkg. "oven ready" lasagna noodles

2 C. grated cheese

Preheat oven to 425. Brown ground hamburger in pan. Add vegetables and cook for about 10 minutes. Add tomato sauce and water and cook for another 5 minutes. In a 9x13 inch pan put about 1/2 cup prepared sauce. Place down 3 oven ready noodles. Then put grated cheese on top. Layer the sauce,noodles, and then the cheese a few more times. End with sauce and a little cheese on top. Sprinkle with Italian seasoning. (dried herbs)
Cover with tin foil and cook for an hour. The secret to the oven ready noodles is: Make sure to cover with tin foil and a lot of sauce. Otherwise they will be hard.
I like to have these oven ready lasagna noodles on hand for whenever I want to make lasagna. I basically already have all the other ingredients.
Enjoy.
Becky