sushi..... YUM

So we ended the 3 month celebration of my daughters 14th birthday today! FINALLY! LOL She got an early birthday present in October and went to the Carrie Underwood concert, November was her actual birthday was the day after Thanksgiving while we were in TX with family and today we had a couple friends over and went bowling and had ice cream and cake. We had a great time and came home to watch a movie and make some sushi! Not the normal kind, some the kids actually ask for and LOVE! Here's how to make it:

- Make rice crispy treats (RCT) like normal. While the marshmallows are warming, unroll fruit roll ups but leave them on the plastic

- When the RCT are mixed up allow them to cool until you can work with them but they are not hot enough to melt the fruit roll ups.

- Spread the RCT out on the fruit roll ups and place two rows of gummy worms down the middle of the RCT

- Roll the whole thing up and slice into "sushi" pieces ENJOY!

Here are some pictures of our fun! :)

Wow, it's been a while huh?

Well, it's been almost a year since I got on here the last time. Not that I didn't think about it but seriously, I have 6 kids, so I got a little busy! Plus, I don't know if anyone reads it so I don't think it was missed! LOL It's been a busy year for us, all 6 kids playing sports, Art and I in school, me working, trips, new cars, BOY, I'm tired!

Tonight after I got home from work we went to the Middle School and saw Santa, listened to Mariah play the violin, ate some cookies, came home, made dinner, set up the Christmas tree (FINALLY but we will be decorating tomorrow) and worked on Kayla's quilting. She is sewing her brothers and sisters presents for Christmas this year and I don't know how who it's harder on, her, or me! LOL She's learning though, slowly but surely. It's when I try to teach her something that I truly start to understand why my dad would get so frustrated with me when I was younger! LOL She has now, like I did then, the attention span of a gnat! LOL

We are up waiting for Jonathan to get home from cosmic bowling with his friends and looking forward to a good day tomorrow! Have to bake a cake, Decorate the tree, have cake and ice cream with Ariana and her friends, take them bowling, work on Kayla's presents, and deal with Ariana's sleep over, get Jasmine to her sleep over, Kayla and Teg to Grandma's house for their sleep over! Going to be a long but FUN day! I can't wait!

I am going to try to get on here a little more often, but, I make no promises! :) Night all!

a busy mom

I haven't posted for a while but since I think my cousin is the only person who reads this, I haven't left too many fans waiting. LOL Life has been hectic in the crazy house I live in. All the holidays, the anniversary of my dad passing, had a business trip in there, quick surgery, and then 3 birthdays in a week (the last one is tomorrow and then we will be done for a little while) and class started yesterday. I'm taking a light load though, English Comp, Psychology and Algebra. What the heck am I thinking? LOL

So here are some of the funny quotes I took the time to listen to in the last few months:

- Mariah, "mom, what number president was George Clooney."
- Jonathan, "our friend is Korean."
Ariana, "no he's not, he's Asian."
Jonathan, "that's what I said, he's Korean."
Ariana, "no he's NOT, calls himself the Asian Persuasion Jonathan, He's Asian!"
Two minutes later I interject with "Ariana, where is Korea?"
Ariana, "In Europe."
- Ariana and her friend Bailey, "What country is Africa in?"
- Jonathan, "Yeah, the Nile River is in Egypt."
Ariana, "I thought it was in Africa."

As you can see, Ariana has hit the "ditzy" stage and brings us quite a few chuckles, but quite a lot of frustration as well.

I always make the kids birthday cakes and lately have considered maybe making a small side business doing it for others (b/c I don't have enough on my plate lol). I haven't quite decided yet though. If there is anyone besides Nina who reads this, please let me know what you think of the pictures I am trying to post on here of some of the ones I have done. If you have an opinion, feel free to leave it!

Thanks again for reading!