Recipe: Italian Chicken Bake

Italian Chicken Bake

4-6 Chicken Breasts (depending on size)
1 cup real mayo
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Garlic Powder
Contadina Italian Bread Crumbs

Pat down chicken breast until dry and arrange in a lightly sprayed baking dish or cookie pan. Mix together mayo and parmesan cheese in a bowl. Season chicken with a generous amount of garlic powder, then spread the mayo/cheese mixture over the top of the chicken. Sprinkle bread crumbs over the mixture covering each chicken breast. Bake at 450° for 20-25 minutes.

To Blog or Not to Blog

I'm so inspired recently to start blogging again. I'm missing lots of memories I really should be writing down. So I'll make a new year resolution before the new year - maybe I'll even keep it.

The Famous Recylceable Goliath Bird Eating Tarantula!

Jacob had his first science project due this week. His class is studying the rain forest and they were to choose an animal in the rainforest to research and build a life size model of. I'll spare the drama of rushing around get it done at the last minute. :) He chose to make the Goliath Bird Eating Tarantula out of all recycled materials - challenging but very fun!
Here's the final result!

You never know what Jacob is going to say next...

So Jacob and I are playing Wheel of Fortune (board game) last night and the puzzle was "Case Dismissed".... I was giving him a chance to solve it and was trying to help the little guy out so I asked him - look at it, think about it and take a guess this is your last turn because I know the answer... so he says - serious as ever "Case Demon-Possessed"! I about died laughing!! So then I asked him - what does a judge say when court is over... and he busts out with "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining!!!! " I lost it!!!!! I had to grab the video camera and ask him to repeat it - so this video is the aftermath of course - but still hilarious!! So later I asked him how he knew Judge Judy says that - because let me tell you - he doesn't watch that stuff in our house... yes, thank you grandma and granddad!!! Who else???

Our little genius on the piano...

Jacob's piano teacher gave him an assignment to learn the first measure of Silent Night. He was so inspired after learning it by reading the music all by himself, he was determined to learn the whole song and surprise her at his next lesson. Without ANY help from us, he sat down at the piano and learned the entire song in a matter of hours perfecting it each time. He continues to blow me away with his God-given musical talent. He's an amazing kid - check this out! I'm so proud!!!

The "Most Favoritist"

Thank you Grandpa Dom for the cool new toy you got me for my birthday! I love it!!! It's my favorite toy to play with and I love dancing to the music! Thank you so much!

I was looking for a toybox for all of Gracie's fabulous new toys - keep them off the floor contained, for a minute... So I looked at Toys R Us and Walmart - they wanted like $60-75 for a Little Tykes toybox! What??? No way... Craigslist for a quarter of the cost and just as good! She loves it too. I put all her toys in and let her play with opening and closing the lid - so funny. She grabbed her "I Feel Good" button and put it in there - would open the lid, push the button, close it, dance, then do it all over again for like 20 minutes! This girl has some attention span! :) Check out the video.