Pizza and Cookies

A few weeks back I was grocery shopping and I saw some premade pizza dough. It was in the area where you buy rolls in a pop open container and roll them out. They had it in pizza dough form. I thought it would be fun for FHE that night to make pizza for dinner! I bought some pineapple, olives, cheese, and pepperoni and home I went to make a yummy dinner. In the end Shyla decided she didn't want to eat any pizza, but she was still a good helper.

Ready to go into the oven. Say cheese!

One day the doorbell rings. We answer it and it's a young boy who lives around the corner (Little did we know until later that he lives at the house that's one of our backyard neighbors. His family has LOUD and OBNOXIOUS parties until late at night and they have a mean Chihuahua that makes one of our dogs bark all the time. They also have some other black dog that during the summer they leave outside and will bark ALLLLLL night long, like every 15 minutes until the sun comes up, no joke. One night Jake went outside at 3am to squirt him with water. Didn't work, he kept barking.)

So the doorbell rings, and this boy is selling overpriced items for his school. I'm always one to help out with fundraising for kids since I did it a lot when I was younger. The only item that looked worth me spending too much money was this cookie dough that you use like playdough and then bake when you're done. I now know, it's just sugar cookie dough with food coloring. I wish I knew that before I spent $14 on it.

In any event, it was a messy evening that ended with cookie dough all over the kitchen floor. At first it made me feel uneasy since I'm always trying to "clean as I go", but this night I tried really hard to let that part of me go and just let Shyla make a mess. She had lots of fun so it was totally worth it.

We all nibbled a little at the dough while we were playing with it.

Being the photographer I'm often not in the photos. I made myself be in this one. See me? The finished product before going into the oven. They spread out a little while cooking so the cooked product didn't look so pretty. They tasted good though!