Happy Halloween!

Reese was a Russian Monkey for Halloween (hence the earflaps).

And I'm proud of my pumpkin carving. He definitely needed braces, so

with a couple thin strips of duck tape, crumpled aluminum foil pieces and

a hot glue gun and I fixed him right up. =)

Trip to San Antonio!

We drove to Texas so Reese could meet his grandma for the first time,

and of course it was love at first sight.

We took Reese on his first choo choo train ride down by the San Antonio zoo.

We were going through a tunnel here and I love the CrAzy eyes they both have.

Grandma DeHoyos babysat so we could go out on a date night.

We went to a basketball game and then had dinner at the Alamo Cafe -super yummy!

(It's actually our second night out since Reese was born, we went to Jerry Seinfield's comedy tour downtown Phoenix a couple weeks ago.)

The humidity took all the curl out of my hair

Don't be a hater. We were cheering for the Spurs all the way and they won!

Since it was the first game of the season everyone got free T-shirts. I know technically

I should be a Suns fan, but I didn't really get into professional basketball till I married Edward

and he's told me so much about every Spurs player and the franchise as a whole, that I feel like they are practically family.

If they have a good season this year I'm going to take a picture of Reese in a Spurs onesie and send it to all my uncles to taunt them a little =)

And here it is:

Reese was so good the whole trip. It's a 14hr drive each way so we weren't sure how he'd do. It helped that my Aunt Heidi and Uncle Dan let us break up the drive and stay the night with them in El Paso. I enjoyed sitting in the backseat interacting with Reese for such long periods of time. He's starting to giggle and coo a lot more which is so much fun. =)

Flowers!

Brian has a part-time job as a security guard at a reception hall. The other night they were chucking the flowers after the ceremony so he got to bring some home. He gets off at midnight, so he just left the huge bushel of them on the kitchen counter.

When I am super tired and Reese wakes up to be fed I'll walk around the house with him to keep myself awake. Anyway I ran smack into the bushel at 3am and it scared the crap out of me! In the dark it looked like some kind of mangy animal. In the morning I had fun dismantling the bush and arranging the flowers in vases around the house! So pretty! I just love fresh flowers!

Reese update!

At his 2 month check-up Reese came in: 75th percentile for weight (13 lbs)

90th percentile for head size (lots of smarts in there :)

& 97th percentile for length! (24 inches)

So my Dad's dreams of him being a tall basketball player some day may come true!

I don't know if you've seen this classic Warner Brother's Cartoon about the singing frog, but we joke that it's similar to Reese's personality. He'll be smiling and cooing, making all kinds of cute expressions, so I'll yell for Edward to come quick (or vise versa), but as soon as the other arrives Reese is quiet and still as a mouse, and just stares at us with his big somber brown eyes. He was like that when I was pregnant too. He'd be kicking up a storm, but as soon as I'd place Edward's hand on my tummy he'd stop and hold perfectly still. He's a bit of a tease ;)

Pizza for dummies!

This recipe is my Grandma's (with a few tricks/tweaks from my Aunt Becky ;)

Yield: 4 super delish personal pizzas =P (which by the way, really isn't helping me with my diet. I still have 13 lbs to lose and my scale is stuck, so I'm going to have to work harder and eat better to get it to budge again.)

You will need:

1 can tomato soup

1 can Hunts tomato sauce

1 tspn pepper

1 tspn garlic salt

1 tspn oregano

1 tspn minced onion

1 pkg "bake n' serve" Rhodes Texas rolls (in freezer section)

Shredded cheese (I used a mix of colby & moterey jack cuz that's what I had on hand)

The dough takes a while to thaw (3-5 hrs) so get it out ahead of time. (If you take it out before church then by the time you get back it's ready to go.) There is a speed method for thawing, but it's kinda complicated, and this is "pizza for dummies" so...

1. Coat a pan with cooking spray and place 8 frozen rolls inside. Cover with saran wrap after lightly coating one side of wrap with cooking spray so the rolls don't stick once they rise.

Several hours later...

2. When rolls have doubled in size, take two and smash them together, then quickly toss dough eight feet in the air twenty times at a half tilt spin... Gottcha! Just Kidding ;)

3. Smash two rolls together and then roll them flat (or you can just sort of stretch them out like I did into a semi-circular shape.) I was able to fit two pizzas per cooking sheet.

4. Next, mix the first six ingredients together to make the sauce.

Spoon sauce onto pizza dough.

5. Add whatever toppings you like. I cooked up some hamburger meat with some diced onions and crumbled that on top (my grandma always made it with hamburger, and it's really good that way). And because my husband is a meat lover, I also cooked a small section of a Hillshire sausage link and diced it up small to sprinkle on top. And then of course I added a liberal amount of jalepenos.

6. Sprinkle with cheese on top and cook at 350 for 20min. Tada!!! Your own personally made personal pizza!