Black Bottom Banana Cream Pie

I made this the other night and it was delish. My sister said I need to post the recipes that I like a lot so here it is. The chocolate gets pretty hard to cut after about 24 hours so go ahead and eat the whole thing the first day you make it.

BLACK BOTTOM BANANA CREAM PIE

PREP TIME
30 Min
READY IN
4 Hrs 30 Min

INGREDIENTS
6 tablespoons butter or margarine, divided
25 NILLA Wafers, finely crushed
2 tablespoons sugar
4 (1 ounce) squares BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate
2 large bananas, sliced
1 pkg. (4 serving size) JELL-O Vanilla Flavor Instant Pudding & Pie Filling
1 3/4 cups cold milk
1 cup thawed COOL WHIP Whipped Topping

DIRECTIONS
Melt 1/4 cup (4 Tbsp.) of the butter; place in medium bowl. Add wafer crumbs and sugar; mix well. Remove 2 Tbsp. of the crumb mixture; set aside for later use. Press remaining crumb mixture firmly onto bottom and up side of 9-inch pie plate; set aside.
Microwave chocolate and remaining 2 Tbsp. butter in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1 min. or until butter is melted; stir until chocolate is completely melted. Drizzle evenly onto bottom of crust; top with bananas. Set aside.
Prepare dry pudding mix with 1-3/4 cups cold milk as directed on package for pie; pour evenly over bananas. Refrigerate at least 4 hours or up to 24 hours. Top with whipped topping just before serving; sprinkle with reserved 2 Tbsp. crumb mixture. Store leftover pie in refrigerator.

Mt. Lemmon picnic

My family headed up the mountain today to hang out, play and have a picnic. My oldest sister, Jana, is in town with her boys for a week or so and she motivated everyone to go up there. Our driving chain leaders, who will not be named (Shelley & Cleve her boyfriend), missed the spot where we were supposed to picnic so after driving up almost the entire mountain we finally found a good spot. You can imagine the grump in Stephen's attitude after an extra 10 miles of mountain driving by the time we got there. But we had a lot of fun. The kids all enjoyed playing together and Bailey and Maddi really liked being outside and getting to run around without boundaries. We took some family pics and these are the few I got.

Sometimes you just wanna pick your nose

some other stuff today

Yes, it's hard to believe but Stephen actually helped the girls pick up these blocks AND HE PUT THEM AWAY!!!

We had Shelley, Makayla and Cleve over for dinner tonight and Makayla kept putting her lipstick on Cleve. He went to clean it off and she put it on him again. Little did he know until I took this picture that when he "cleaned" it off the first time he just wiped it off his lips and then rubbed his face so he got it on his cheeks too. Really funny

And the rest of these are just some cute pics of the girls.

Ballet!

My sweet Bailey started ballet yesterday!! She was so dang cute! She had fun even if she didn't participate the whole time. Her teacher was really nice and good with the girls. She put some tape on the floor and those were the spots the girls were supposed to stay on. Bailey was really good about that. The teacher had the girls practice pointing and pulling back with their toes, bouncing on one foot, and standing up with their arms out in front in a circle shape. Bailey enjoyed just watching everyone else. I know she'll get better next week when she's not so nervous. But she had fun!

PS

PS, I didn't think the girls really looked that much alike but looking at these two pix they look SO similar!

Look familiar?

When Bailey was about the same age as Maddi is now she fell really hard and got this huge knot on her forehead. And in true child form she continued to hit it on things thus prolonging the visibility of the huge knot. Well Maddi did the same thing yesterday. She somehow ran into the wall and got a knot on her forehead in pretty much the same place as Bailey once did. Although it's not nearly as big as Bailey's was I thought it was funny to compare these pictures. I just hope she let's it heal before she bumps that spot again.

Maddi

Bailey