Making homemade noodles with the girls...

The week before last Lanie and I made homemade noodles to put in chicken noodle soup and we used my noodle roller thingy.  Lanie had so much fun doing this and when we ate dinner that night, she ate an entire large soup bowl of noodles. I left he noodles really long so she could slurp them!  She thought that was awesome.  She finished her bowl of noodles and said, "this is the best dinner ever, please save some for me for tomorrow."  I felt so bad when I told her, "sorry, we ate them all."  :(  She was really bummed.  So, last Sunday I got off at 4:30 so I decided we would make some more and Nonnie had made a beef gravy that we could put the noodles in.  I got home and we made noodles.  The following are pictures of Lanie and Hannah helping make the noodles.  We had a ball!!

I know there are a lot of pictures but they are so cute and they had so much fun!  They have such looks of concentration.  Both girls love to be in the kitchen helping.  Hannah has been making cookies with me for about 4 years and now Lanie is starting to help to.  Lanie loves the job of taste testing the chips, whatever kind I am using.  She also likes testing the batter by licking the bowl.  Her favorite, and rightly so, is testing the first cookie!  She is very good at her job, and very diligent.  Sometimes she even has to have two or three cookies to make sure they are ok for the rest of us.  Quality Control!



We are having a fun summer...

This last week my sister and I took Lanie and Hannah to Grants Farm  Neither of us had been in many years and this was the first time for Lanie. 

We had to stand in line for an hour before even getting into the place! 

 This is Nonnie, Hannah and Lanie at the start of the day.  All happy and smiles and Lanie was being so good!


Lanie and Hannah got to feed the goats.  This is Lanie petting the Goat after she fed it.  She was trying so hard to let all the goats have a drink out of the bottle she had but it just would not go very far!

Lanie eating fried chicken.  She just could not sit down even for lunch.

Hannah and Lanie in front of the 250th St. Louis Birthday cake at Grants Farm.

We are going to do another trip but it will probably be in October so we can do Halloween there. 

I have some exciting news.  I have finally been able to get my insurance company to approve my Gastric Bypass Surgery.  I am going in on Wednesday to talk with the surgeon, get my pre op testing done, talk with the dieticians and all that good stuff.  I am shooting for a surgery date of 8/27/2014, just a few weeks down the road.  I am not sure how much of that process I will post, I am still not sure how I feel about it.  On one hand I think of the surgery as a failure for me because I was not able to do it on my own.  But on the other hand, at least I am moving forward and doing what I need to do to assure that I am healthy and at least around for Lanie as she grows up. 

Certainly if you have any questions about it or even comments, please feel free to post or ask.  However, I am going to ask for only positive comments.  I already have enough negative going through my head. 

Anyway, I am looking forward to changing my life...for the better!!