Salsa

We have a new tradition.  It revolves around food..what a surprise.  We started making salsa.  All the time. The Cruzes make salsa often when we get together to play games and we love it, except for 1 ingredient...avocado.  We finally decided to follow Scott's lead and create our perfect salsa with everything we like in it.  As long as you have the few main ingredients you can throw whatever else you have on hand and it turns out yummy!  Tomatoes, pineapple, mango, any type of onion, cucumber, cilantro, jalapeno, lime juice, green, red, yellow pepper, a dash of salt, a teaspoon of sugar.  I'm anxious to create a non-fruity corn and black bean salsa next.

                                                                                                                      

                                                                                                                  

Trey + peanut butter = happy. Trey + peanut butter + nilla wafers = HAPPY x 2!

For many years peanut butter and nilla wafers have been Trey's favorite snack. (David's too) For this reason I try to keep the shelves stocked with these items. Somehow I seem to always have peanut butter on hand but can't quite keep up with the consumption of nilla wafers. So sometimes graham crackers are substituted in. I found Trey making this layered snack the other day. Got milk?

Suprise breakfast dessert

Saturday night I had reminded the kids that when they woke up they could just quietly get some cereal so we could sleep in. I told them that when we got up at 9:00 I would make chocolate chip pancakes. After getting up at 9:00, I thought "wow, they were quiet this morning, I didn't hear them at all." As I get to the kitchen I can hear whispering on the stairs and a quick scamper to the top. When I looked on the bar this is what I found waiting for me. Tanner, Connor and Sydney then come racing down the stairs, saying "do you like it?, Surprise!, we made a breakfast dessert just for you!". Then- "come on mom, eat it." Oh boy. Upon further explanation, while they were quietly waiting for me to wake up and make their chocolate chip pancakes they decided they would make me this wonderful dessert made from pudding, cereal, and nilla wafers. Sydney had made a nice note instructing me that this delish dish was indeed for me. They then told me that they thought since it was pretty "junky" (a phrase meaning junk food in our house) they would add a pear to their offering. They are always doing sweet, thoughtful things like this for me. Thankfully when Tanner asked me again when I was going to eat it, David walked in a took a big bite, which seemed to satisfy them.