Supper Club's Pizza Contest

This month's Supper Club was a blast. We divided into teams and had a pizza pie contest! There were only two rules: 1. You could not vote for your own pizza. 2. You had to taste them all in order to vote. We had a taco pizza, a 'blanco' pizza, a BBQ chicken pizza and the winning recipe was a Mediterranean pizza! Yum! The best part was letting the guys "work the dough." It really does take some elbow grease to turn a lump of dough into a pizza crust. After a tie breaker with the 'blanco' pizza team, the Cranford's were crowned as winners with a chef's hat and turkey apron.

Terry Wayne was the mastermind behind the taco pizza!

Jan Hensley "workin' the dough!"

Donald & Erik: You can't tell from this picture, but they really did have fun!!

Ryan & Christi: The Winning Chefs!


Laura's sauteed peppers smelled yummy to us girls but ran Donald & Terry Wayne out of the kitchen.

BFFs & creators of a yummy BBQ chicken pizza!

God bless girlfriends!

It's a new day and a new season of life when getting a group of girlfriends together to play bunco is a monumental task. When our bunco group started playing, not all of us had children and most didn't have more than one. Several years and lots of dice rolls later, ALL of us have children and most all more than one. We have officially hit the time of life when "me" time is almost a thing of the past - but a thing that can & should occasionally be relived. Tonight, we did just that. We had a well-deserved night of pizza, cupcakes, girl talk and laughter. I think we did manage to get one round of bunco played but who cares? The rules of the game were a little rusty but the conversation was anything but. Man how I miss our monthly outings! I wanted to take at least one picture of our group just in case it's another year before we all convene again with no pretense other than fellowship.

P.S. I have no idea why the picture is so tiny...anyone know?

Halloween 2009

Coco as "Minnie"

I couldn't believe this costume made it to Halloween! She LOVES to dress up and played & danced in it a full month before the sweet-filled holiday. While she still isn't a huge fan of trick-or-treating, she had a fun time handing out candy with Mommy & Namps. Every princess that came was greeted with a, "Look Mommy, she's so beautiful," from Coco.

"Super" Sebastian

On his first Halloween, Sebastian found his very own kryptonite in the form of pneumonia.Before getting sick, he did enjoy Fall Fest at church and pulled off tights & hair gel as well as the REAL 'Man of Steel!'

Who says Halloween is only for children? Donald & I joined in the fun and dressed up too. He was Indiana Jones & I was a witch. Really, I've just been wanting an excuse to wear one of those big fluffy skirts Mom sells at the store! And yes, it was just as much fun as I thought it would be!!

Cool as a Carrot

Original, organic or old-fashioned?

Sebastian, 6 months

Whatever you call it, we call it ingenious! A cool carrot feels good on the gums!

And the Emmy goes to...

Coco Parr! We have conjectured that our baby girl is a bit of a drama queen since birth. The doctor who checked her at the hospital called her a little 'diva' and nearly 3 years later, our pediatrician still calls her 'drama.' Her flair for the dramatic is becoming less obscure as she gets older. Like most toddlers, she gets hooked on a movie and we watch it over and over and over for what seems like months. The film fave of the moment is The Little Mermaid. I thought she practically had it memorized and tonight this suspicion was confirmed. She was throwing around some stuffed animals and Donald told her to stop and pick them up. She turned around and in her best Aerial impression said, "I'm not a child!" (If you're not a Little Mermaid buff, Aerial says that very phrase to her father when he is scolding her for going to the surface.) You should also know that I sometimes find her brushing her hair with a fork (Aerial does this in the movie too) and trying to kiss me like Prince Eric kisses Aerial. She now uses words like beautiful and wonderful too. It's hilarious really but does make me wonder...do we have the next Susan Lucci in our family? As she watches movies and "acts" out right along with the characters I can almost hear the words: And the Emmy goes to Coco Parr!

This is Coco dodging her own photographic paparazzi, me! She's already got the celebrity hand-in-the-camera pose mastered. (Yes, she's in the dryer.)

First Tooth

It must be true what they say about second children growing up faster than you want. My baby already has his first tooth!!

You can't quite see it in this picture but it's there. He's only 5 1/2 months and already sprouting his pretty pearly whites. It's a bottom tooth and the one beside is following quickly. No wonder my poor baby didn't nap well yesterday?!?!

Better late than never...

Orange Beach 2009

Better late than never but I am finally getting around to posting our vacation pics. I have been a bad blogger. It's only been a month since the serene week but somehow the mellow beach feeling is already gone! Are vacations ever really long enough?

We opted for the ultimate family friendly beach vacation this year. No cooking and lots of family time is all I need to constitute a vacation. Grammy and Namps went with us too and I'm not sure Coco would have had as much fun if they weren't there! :) She LOVED waking up to find them just down the hall. While it wasn't a new vacation destination, it was a vacation full of firsts: Sebastian's first beach trip & sink bath, mine & Donald's first parasailing adventure, our first dolphin cruise and Coco's first experience with a road-side potty break.

The aforementioned first sink bath. Grammy LOVES bathing babies!

Daddy & Coco: I'm not sure who liked playing in the sand more.

I knew Coco would have to wear a life jacket on the boat but just wasn't sure how that would go. She doesn't like coats of any kind and likes being confined even less. Thankfully, the peer pressure of another little boy her age wearing his vest was all it took to make her think it must be the thing to do.

Mommy and her cool dude.

I'm not sure what I love most about this picture: the look or the legs?

Napping on the beach: how soon should I tell them that this is as good as it gets?

Grammy & Namps