Dinner guests

My mom and dad were here for dinner yesterday, we had little pizza pockets, broccoli cauliflower soup, applesauce, and then banana bread for dessert!

Doesn't look very yummy now, but it was good after it baked! (I love my kitchen aid mixer by the way)

cooking the vegetables for soup.

I took a shortcut and used frozen roll dough for my pizza pockets.

There isn't anything quite like homemade bread when its cold and rainy out, which is was. It rained all day!

I guess all my cooking and washing dishes made Darcy sleepy, she was curled up on this for the whole afternoon. Nice day for a cozy nap!

Soup's done!!! It was the perfect day for soup. I was relieved it was raining when I got up yesterday, who wants to serve soup when its nice and sunny outside??

Somewhere in the midst of all my cooking, baking, and cleaning I took Fred out for a bathroom break and almost stepped on this guy, he was just about 3 feet from our back steps!

I called our resident animal expert (Nick's dad) and asked if he was poisonous or anything - not that I was even going to think about picking him up - and he said that he is harmless. Probably got flushed out of his hiding spot with all the rain we had yesterday.

Despite how "safe" he is we did not invite him in for soup and banana bread, but he stayed very still and let me take his picture!