Mar 7, 2008
Yummy Sloppy Joes
A goal for this month
Ok... so after balancing the checkbook after February I realized that we spent way way too much money on food last month. We make a weekly trip to Costco to pick up things that can fill our fridge and freezer. On top of that I always stop at Albertsons on my way home for those things that you happened to forget or just need. I for some reason have stopped making the trip to Winco where I can get groceries much cheaper than Albertsons, but it just seems we go over our budget at Costco and so we never make it to Winco. Then once we have done all the grocery shopping we find reasons to not cook and eat out instead. What the heck!! This makes no sense. So we talked about it at the beginning of March and we are going to make it a goal not to eat out this month. We already cheated once, the day we decided that we wouldn't do it, but we went to OMSI and Red Robin that day. So that was our treat for the month. I know we can do it. We just have to be prepared. Cooking isn't that hard, RIGHT!!! I think this is what stems my desire to be cooking right now. Which I made the trip to the grocery store and just have to get organized to get cooking. I wonder how much money we will save. I will let you know. Let me know if you have any good recipes.
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My Bad!
Ok -I need everyones link to there pages. I was trying to add a new look to our page. I have it but LOST everything else. I'm loosing my touch. So, if you visit our page PLEASE comment with yout page URL so that I can re-add it to our page.
Thanks and SorryMatt
Big Ambitions for the Day
Well as most of you who know me know that I am not much of a cook and I really don't enjoy it much. But for some reason over the last few weeks I have just had this burning desire to find healthy recipes that I can cook up ahead of time and freeze. Since Keegan is now 1 year old and has the ok to eat all food but peanut butter I have wanted to cook. I have been thinking alot about how innocent he is at this age and how easily he learns. I want to prepare him for a healthy life style. I am assuming he will learn to eat what I teach him and I want him to have lots of healthy food with fruits and veggies. So my mission is to find healthy kid friendly recipes. I haven't had a lot of time to look any up just yet but it is really on my mind. This morning I woke up and decided to make Jenn Holyoak's homemade crepes for breakfast. Yummy!! I found the recipe she left me a couple of years ago when she visited us. Keegan loved them. He ate a whole one with mashed up bananas and a little powder sugar on it. I made up some extras so that we can freeze some and have them ready for anyday. Because Matt and I both work full time my next goal for the day is to come up with dinners that can be frozen so on those days when we just get home from work and are dead tired we can just pop something in the oven.
So my goal for today is to look up some freezer friendly, kid friendly healthy recipes. Then make up a grocery list. Go to the grocery store when Matt comes home with my car. Then when Keegan goes down for his nap I plan on cooking my little heart out. I am also going to bake up another batch of Amish Friendship Bread. So good!!!
Matt is a little nervous and keeps asking me if I feel ok. Usually the only time that I want to bake is if I am really upset or so bored that I can't stand it. Rest assured I feel fine. In fact I feel great.
So far on my list for dinners:
Tator tot casserole with ground turkey and greenbeans, low sodium cream of mushroom soup.
Creamy chicken enchiladas with olives and brocolli (Don't really think these are that healthy but boy they sound good)
Sloppy Joe mix- again with ground turkey, celery, onion
Homemade Spaghetti sauce with lots of fresh veggies and some kind of Italian Sausage
Marinate fresh chicken breast in some Italian Herb mix and then stuff them with asparagus and provolone. Then freeze.
Now I need to think of some kid friendly meals. Do any of you have some great recipes that you want to share with me. I am looking form stuff that is healthy and that kids want to eat that include fruits and vegetables.
Well this is my ambitions for the day. I will let you know if I get it done. I am going to get cooking some tortillas so they are ready to roll when I make the enchiladas. Let me know if you have any easy yummy recipes.
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Feb 28, 2008
"Birthday Bash" What a Celebration
This last Sunday we got to celebrate Keegan's first birthday and our little nephew Mason's 6th birthday together. Their birthdays are only 2 days apart. Matt and I came up with a great idea to have a carnival party because what kid doesn't love the carnival. We tried to keep most of the plans a secret because we really wanted it to be a surprise for everyone. We actually began the planning back in November. First we hired a charicature artist to come and draw pictures of everyone and boy was he great. He did some awesome pictures and funny ones and everyone, kids and adults seemed to really enjoy him. Thanks to my great friends Angela and Sharlee who painted a carnival skinny man and fat lady on a refrigerator box for me and cut out the faces so before anyone could come in the house they had to get their picture taken, the funny part is that no one knew what the picture was until after they did it. Once they came in we had an old fashion popcorn popper set up and a cotton candy machine (thank you Monica) and we had saltwater taffy spread out. The games for the kids were bowling where they won a giant jaw breaker and tickets if they knocked them all down. There was a clown ring toss where they won tickets for hooking the rings. There was a bean bag toss where they won curly straws and tickets, and then there was fish ping pong. Land the ball in the bowl and win the fish. I think all the kids went home with 2 fish each. It was so much fun. The cartoonist entertained all the adults while we played games with the kids. Everyone was laughing and having a great time. Matt had made up carnival menus to hand out and you could order your meal. It was hamburgers, cheese burgers, hot dogs or hand dipped corn dogs, chips and soda. Everyone loved this idea and it made it easier for my dad who was the cook. (Thank you dad, Jane, Bryce and Amber for all your hard work with the food) As the games were being played and the pictures were being drawn we had numbers all of the house that played raffles with if we drew the number you were standing by you won a prize. For the adults we had a balloon animal race and who ever could make a balloon dog first won a $10 gift card to the movie theater. ( Good Job Kristen) This was so funny to watch. The balloons were really hard to blow up. Matt and I were cracking up. We had crepe paper hung from the ceiling like a circus tent (thank you Chris for all of your help). I had to laugh because even after all of this I kept telling people there is still more surprise to come. So everyone had been asking me why we were having a carnival and no clowns. So when it came time to get ready for the cake I told the group that we wanted to take a group photo so we gathered everyone under the crepe paper. Then when everyone was there I said "Well everyone kept asking my how we could have a big top carnival and no clowns and the answer was that we were all going to be the clowns" and then we handed everyone a red clown nose to put on and take a picture and then we had to wear them to sing happy birthday to Mason first and then to Keegan. Everyone was laughing. It was so great and what a funny picture.
Once all the games were played the kids got to turn in all of there tickets for prizes. There were watches and styrofoam airplanes and balloons that shoot up in the air, wall bugs, picture frames and plenty of others that I can't think of.
We can't hardly believe that our little Keegan is already 1 and we just love Mason so much that we really wanted to do something fun and special to celebrate these two little birthday boys. Something hopefully everyone can remember. We had a lot of family come in from out of town to help us celebrate. My mom and Joe and my very special Grandma Garner, my dad and Jane, Bryce and Amber, Matt's sister Tammy(California). Mason's grandma Cathy all made the long trip from Idaho and we couldn't thank them enough for being here.
The party is over and Matt and I are tired but we had so much fun and are so happy that everyone else did too.
Happy Birthday Keegan and Mason. We love you so much.
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