Family Movies

I will admit that I am not very good at taking home movies. I want to but I feel like I am missing the moment when I am behind a camera. I was watching Ramona and Beezus recently and I realized I really connected with this family. The situations, relationships, and scenerios brought out by each other were very realistic. I thought this movie is like my family.

As I was watching it I was thinking, "So that is what is happening in Lydia's head". There is a scene where Ramona is jumping out of the new addition being built onto her house. In her mind she is jumping out of an airplane. I said, "I wish I had an imagination like that." Lydia said, "Well, it can be bad sometimes because you can scare yourself really bad. It is hard to tell what is real and what is not." Wow! Now I understand her and Caleb so much more.

Brian, my husband, told me that Caleb told him, "The reason I get scared sometimes is there are portals all over our house." I recently took him to the gym with me to work out. He was playing with a pedal on a bike. He pushed it as fast as he could and waited until it stopped moving. At first he was impressed with his strength. Within 20 minutes he was sure there was a robot ghost making it move and he was crying. Brian and I think for Lydia and him the line between reality and fantasy is very thin.

When Ramona spills paint on her neighbors car while giving it a car wash, I laughed so hard I was crying. My Lydia gets herself in fixes all the time. She is super smart and she loves to laugh. She never has to have a game or joke explained. She just gets it. That is why I have decided if I buy Ramona and Beezus I will have some home videos to add to my collection.

Mexican Lasagna

1 pkg cream cheese, softened

1 can chili's, chopped & drained

2 teaspoons cumin

1/2 onion, processed

1 c shredded cheese

2 chicken breasts

1-2 cans chicken broth

8-10 tortillas

1 can green enchilada

3 cups shredded cheese

Boil chicken breasts in chicken broth and 1 teaspoon cumin. 5-10 minutes on medium high heat. You will know it is shreddable when you can put a fork in the center and the chicken breaks. Remove chicken from broth mixture and shred onto a plate. Mix cream cheese, chili's, cumin, onion, 1 cup cheese, and meat. Spray 9x13 pan. Layer ripped tortilla on the bottom. 1/3 cheese mixture, 1/3 enchilada sauce. Repeat twice. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes. Add remaining 2 cups of cheese and cook 5 minutes.

My brother-in-law Brent invented this recipe. It is so creamy and yummy. It makes great leftovers and you can make it ahead and cook later.

Blogging

My husband and both my girls have decided to start blogging. I love reading their blogs and learning more about them. I decided that maybe my blog could add humorous stories and other insights about my life. I am a stay at home Mom and my life on the whole is pretty boring. It is the little things said and done around here that make my life so interesting.

Caleb is my 4 year old boy. We recently had two of his boy cousins over for a couple of days. One of them is 3 and one is 5. Caleb was in heaven. I took them the Air Force Museum at Hill AFB. I was laughing the whole time. They wanted to know the name of each plane, how did they get it in the museum. Couldn't they pick a more awesomer car to pull it in like a transformer? Hey isn't that a deceptagon? I want to sit in that chair. I'm scared! I need to get down. Oh! Those are seat belts. Ok. Take my picture Mom!