Sunny days

Today I am missing summer. I want it to be warm outside so that I can open my back door and all my windows and let a warm summer breeze run through my house. I want to drink lemonade, put my feet in the grass and maybe do a little gardening in the buff...







To have texture or not to have texture? That is the question.

Nummy yummy delicious pizza!

Are you ready to get your pizza making skills on? Good. You won't regret it because this stuff is heavenly. Today's menu will included BBQ chicken spinach tomato pizza (BCST) and ham and pineapple pizza (H&P).

THINGS YOU WILL NEED:
Pizza crust- I use Boboli pizza crust, that's the best one I've tried. Some proactive people may choose to make their own.

BBQ Sauce- I use sweet baby rays.

spinach-the green kind
tomatoes- the red ripe kind. Home grown are the BEST but if it's not August or September your stuck with store bought. Diced.
chicken-breasts
mozzarella cheese- Big bag. shredded.
garlic powder-powdery kind
pineapple- big chunks.
ham-cut fresh at the deli.
pizza sauce-any kind your heart desires cause I can't remember the name of the one I use.

Ok first thing to do is boil the chicken until fully cooked, unless you like salmonella then partial is ok.
Once cooked, shred and mix in BBQ sauce and garlic powder. Just eyeball the garlic powder.
Let that sit for at least an hour in some place cold, most people will use refrigerators.
After the hour and your stomach is telling you it's time to eat start cooking your spinach. I boil mine and then drain the water.
While that's cooking pull out your Boboli pizza crusts. On one you are going to lather on the BBQ sauce on the other you are going to smother pizza sauce on. Now I like a lot of cheese on mine so I do a very thin layer of the mozz cheese on both.
Oh yes I almost forgot. Turn your oven on to 350 so it can heat up while you do the rest.
Then on the BCST I will spread the chicken, cooked spinach, tomatoes and a few dashes of garlic powder then the final layer of cheese on the top. This picture doesn't have the other layer of cheese so just pretend you see it.

Now for the H&P. Lay out a layer of our deli ham and then pile on the pineapple and a layer of cheese.

Now it's time for baking action. Place them in the oven and in a few minutes you'll notice a heavenly aroma filling your kitchen.

After about 10 minutes they are ready for the devouring. THE FINAL PRODUCT


Holy crapola I'm hungry now. Enjoy!

A new leaf

I'm about to jump on a soap box so if you'd like to skip it jump down to "NUTSHELL VERSION. So I woke up this morning at 5:30 am. This might not be early for some of you but I regularly like to get out of bed 7:30-8ish (tough life I know). I tried and tried to fall back asleep. Fail. My brain would just not shut off. I was thinking about my photography business and about blogging. Here's the ugly truth folks. I've kind of been a pansy about my photography business and MY BLOG POSTS ARE BORING. There I said it. First I need to clarify that the people in my blog posts are NOT boring. They are the cutest most fabulous people on earth, thank goodness or I would not get any traffic on here. But for some reason I have the hardest time coming up with anything clever so I end up writing about the weather conditions of the photoshoot. LAAAAAME. So now that I've clarified that lets get back to me being a pansy cause I'm sure you want to hear all about it. Lately I've been contemplating whether or not I should continue to pursue the photography biz. It seems like having your own photography business is kind of a fad right now and I just felt like another person jumping on the band wagon. Then I had a light bulb moment this morning. I am afraid. I'm afraid and I am just making up excuses not to go for it. I'm afraid I'm not good enough to jump on the band wagon. I'm afraid of what others will think. I'm afraid I wont be as good as other photographers. I'm afraid that if I try, I will fail. And then another light bulb, a brighter one...quite being such a big baby! DING! Everyone one feels this way at one time or another and you can either let it control you, OR you can not be a pansy and just do it. You only have one life to live. ONE. So just do it. JUST DO IT! That was my internal motivational conversation I had going on with my self this morning. I could not lay in bed any longer. I had to get this out or I felt like I was going to burst. So here it is...MY GOAL: turning my business and my blog from lame...ness to greatness. Wow...remarkable. I might have to work on that but you get the idea. Ok I'll be turning off my soap box now.
NUTSHELL VERSION: me. pansy. light bulb. desire to no longer be a pansy.
Ok now that we've got that out of the way here's what you will be seeing on the new and improved blog. Photos, recipes, attempts at craftiness and personal stories. Sound good? Good. Let's kick it off with some great photos of my amazingly cute kids. Some of you have seen these on facebook but they look better bigger in my opinion.









We call this one THE SKYDIVER

Oh to be 2

This little man was such a cutie and so sweet!