Day 4: The kids bedrooms are CLEAN!

Today started out pretty badly.  Alex decided he was going to wake up at 5:15am.  I opened one eye and said to myself, "maybe he is just temporarily awake and will go back to sleep."  Good one Carolina... that's really funny.  After about 10 minutes or so I got myself out of bed, made his milk and fruit, went into his bedroom and he is sitting in his bed looking out the window.  I have to admit even in my zombie like stuper he was pretty dern cute.

I made more coffee this morning but since we were almost out of coffee I went ahead and just poured the rest into the coffee filter.  BOY am I zinged up on coffee!  That was some STRONG stuff.  This morning, before the kids even went down for naps I had deep cleaned both of their bedrooms.  Hello!  After they went down(late might I add at 9:45am)  I was still going so I cleaned the kitchen, showered, put on MAKE UP( I know you guys are shocked.  But you know what sucks?  I forget it's on and I rub my eyes.  eugh!  all down my face.  I'll clean it up in a minute), Cleaned the bedroom and now I am anxiously waiting for the kids to arise from their naps where I can vaccum.  Vaccuming is funny in our house because Alex thinks that since the vaccum is loud he can YELL loud.  I'm surprised his voice is not gone by the time I'm done.  haha!  He's a mess.

In other news, I've decided to start training for a 5k.  Maybe I can motivate my hubs to run with me.  Although I doubt it.  Afterall how often do we have time to run together without the kids.  YEA that never happens.  If and when I really get into it I think I'm going to get a double jogging stroller.  That way I can take the chillins with me.  I still have about 6 lbs of baby weight left to lose so maybe it will come off this way.  I haven't exactly been dieting but it seems to be falling off.  Lucky me eh?

Occasionally while I'm writing I'll look up at the television and there's an AWESOME line up of sitcoms coming on this fall.  The one I'm looking foreward to most is definately "up all night" with Christina Applegate. I can SOOOO relate to that show.  It's not even funny.

Well I better hurry up and post my recipes from last night before my sweet children awaken from their slumber.  I'm actually surprised Hannah is not up already.  Hold out for 5 more minutes Hanni!!!

Last night I made a homemade pizza for dinner.  I'm not going to give you a recipe for it because it's pretty self explanatory.  But I will show you pictures!!!!

First, I cut up all the toppings.  Jon loves pepperoni but it makes me gag so it's only on one half of the pizza.  I prefer more of a veggie type but I have learned that any other pepper besides green has a LOT of water in it, so baking it into the pizza is a bad idea.  You end up with mush.  No joke.  Here are our toppings!!

After the oven was preheated I rolled out the pizza crust (if you can't tell it's COMPLETELY homemade :-P  by pillsbury)

Here is our delicious pizza TOPPED UP!

After baking for 15 minutes our pizza turned out AWESOME.  End result?

Surprisingly low calorie if you use skim mozzarella instead "mozzarella Melt topping."  Yuck.  This pizza got Jon's stamp of approval!  YUMMY!

For dessert we had German chocolate cake cookie sandwiches.  OMG.  SOOO GOOD!!!  Who knew that you can take any cake mix, simply add 2/3 cup of shortening and voila! You have cookie dough??!  Probably most people knew that but I didn't until now.  I liked this recipe so much that I plan on doing it with lemon cake mix, cherry cake mix, and vanilla cake mix.  The cookies are so delicious.  they aren't very sweet and they have this crispy outer and this moist chewy inside.  mmmmmmmmmm.  here's the recipe:

• 1 (18.25 ounce) package German chocolate cake mix
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 2/3 cup shortening
• 1 (16 ounce) container prepared coconut pecan frosting

• So This is just so easy!  First you mix the cake mix, the 2 eggs and the shortening together to create the dough.  I suggest a mixer for this because it's difficult to stir.  VERY difficult.  But I did it and i'm a weakling so I have faith in all of you! :-P  Here's what it looks like mid mix:

Here's the end result of the dough:  

Next you roll the dough into walnut size balls.  I'm a little OCD about spacing so my spacing is IMMACULATE!  if I do say so myself: 

Next they go in the oven for 13 minutes.  the actual recipe says 8-11 but they were still mushy at that point.  End result?

They need to cool about 3 hours before adding the filling.  

The "filling" is the coconut pecan icing that accompanies the german chocolate cake typically the can is skimpily filled if you ask me.  *rolls eyes* 

Next you start to put the icing on one cookie and sandwich it with another like THIS:

End result?

These are amazing!!  So worth making and so so easy!!!

That's all for blogging today all!!  We're having lunch with daddy today and I hear miss Priss cooing in her crib!  So long!