bonus recipe (and costume #2)

For those of you new followers, thanks for visiting. Since I doubt you're following my blog just because you love to see 15 pictures of my children, I'll throw in an added bonus! Here's a recipe for what I call 'Roper's Dip', only because I got the recipe from my friend Roper. Last time I made it, someone told me it was like their 'Texas Sin' recipe. While I'm not really a big fan of sin, I think that's a better description of the nearly-sinful goodness of this dip.

1 round french bread loaf

1/4 c butter

1 bunch green onions

12 cloves garlic

8 oz cream cheese - room temp cut into 1" cubes

1 pt. sour cream

1 jar marinated atrichoke hearts

12-16 oz grated cheddar

Sautee onions & garlic in butter. Mix sour cream and cheddar in large bowl. Add onions and garlic. Mix. Fold in chopped artichoke hearts and cream cheese. Mix. Cut off top of loaf, Hollow out, fill with dip and place top back on. Wrap in 2 layers of foil. Bake at 350 for 1.5-2 hours. Stir lightly. Serve w/ bread cubes (below) or tortilla chips.

Cut bread you hollowed out into cubes. Lay on cookie sheet, spray with pam and sprinkle with garlic salt. Toast in the oven while baking the dip (watch carefully so you don't burn them!)

Here's Joshua in costume #2, and Joshua and Zoe watching a video of Daddy reading a construction book. He sent the video when he was deployed over Christmas last year. Zoe was so excited when she saw him on the TV; she just pointed and kept saying Da! Da! Da! I had to put her in the pack n play because she was all up on the table trying to reach 'Da!' on the TV.
This is Joshua's firefighter costume. He told me that he needed a yellow jacket, a tank and a hose so that he could be a firefighter, so we found him the requested items and off he went. Oh, the sippy cup is in the backpack because he said he needed water in his tank.