We're Home! Start of the Week Stuff

After being gone a week and then driving 12 hours we got home last night. Matthew's cousin's wedding reception was last weekend and we decided to go up to the Seattle area for the whole week since last time we were there I was very pregnant with N and couldn't do much. We had a lot of fun and did a ton of stuff while we were there! I'll get a complete recap up here soon, but for now here's one picture. :)

Us with Matthew's cousin at his fire station

There's enough stuff to do around here after being gone a week, and on top of that soccer practices have started and there's only one week until school starts. This week is going to be busy!!


To-Do's:
Monday- unpack, laundry, vacuum out car, ect... grocery shopping, soccer practice for both kids
Tuesday- costco, shoe shopping for M??
Wednesday- soccer practice for both kids
Thursday- orthodontist for M (I finally just went ahead and made her an appointment to get started even though our dentist keeps putting it off)
Friday- nothing at the moment (other than checking the class lists when they go up in the afternoon)
Saturday- soccer jamboree
Sunday- church (for both services)

At some point I also need to make N's bday invites and have the kids finish up their summer packets. Lots to do!

I came home last night to find out that the kids will have soccer practices on the same day this year. One 4:30-5:30 and the other 15 minutes away 5:30-6:30. I'm not sure if I'm happy about not having practice every night of the week or stressed about 2 hours of practice 2 nights a week and how I'm going to get them from one to the other. lol


Menu:
Monday- something quick and easy
Tuesday-grilled cheese with fresh tomatoes (and bacon?)
Wednesday- crock pot beef fajitas
Thursday- pasta w/ leftover meat
Friday- cowboy casserole
Saturday- leftovers/something easy
Sunday- creamy chicken taquitos and black beans

Scrapbook Friday

Sorry I've been MIA this week. We're super busy and kind of boring at the same time. lol We haven't been doing a whole lot, but we're getting ready for more fun to come! :)

Anyway, Britt has two new products out this week, Holey Cow Templates (LOVE these!!) and Jellies: Alpha 3.
I did two pages with the templates and one using the alpha.

credits here

credits here

Hope everyone is enjoying the last bit of summer (or the beginning of the school year for some friends!).

Desserts from Pintrest

I know I've already said it, but Pintrest is awesome! I did a post a few weeks ago with some dinner recipes I found on there, but what I love even more are the dessert recipes I've come across. Here are some of my favorites:

My new favorite cookie/dessert bar:

Graham Cracker S'more Cookies

I first made them for our family reunion last month and they did not last long! I had many requests to make them again, and was informed my one of my sister-in-laws that I better bring them to every family gathering from here on out. They are SO yummy!!


Another yummy bar option:

Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars

I made these to bring to my dad's for 4th of July and they did not disappoint! Cheesecake? Good! Cookies? Good! It's a great combination!


I have so many more desserts pinned that I cannot wait to try!
Kiss Pies
Cinnamon Roll Pancakes (these look SO GOOD!!)
NY Times Chocolate Chip Cookie
Dark Chocolate Banana Muffins
Apple Slab


Anyway, I'm off to make the s'more cookies for camping this weekend, I think they may be better than real s'mores!

Start of the Week Stuff

Short menu for the week...

Menu:
Monday- crock pot salsa chicken nachos
Tuesday- something easy
Wednesday- crock pot chicken quesadillas
Thursday- something with pasta and the rest of the bell peppers and leftover ground beef in my fridge :)


To-Do's:
Monday- grocery shopping, stop by Lyndsey's work, small group
Tuesday-
Wednesday- dentist appointment (tons of errands in town??)
Thursday-
Friday-Sunday- camping

Start of the Week Stuff

Wow, I'm a bad blogger lately! I totally forgot to post my menu yesterday, and we had a really yummy dinner last night too!

Menu:
Monday- REALLY yummy grilled cheese sandwiches
Tuesday- hot dogs and oven baked fries
Wednesday- crock pot chicken chili and cornbread muffins (sad I don't have anymore TJ's mix at the moment)
Thursday-
Friday- Tacos
Saturday-
Sunday- Breakfast

I'm also planning on making this pasta salad for lunches later in the week, just as soon as I eat up the rest of the yummy pasta leftovers from last week! :)


To-Do's for the week:
Monday- grocery shopping
Tuesday- doctor's appointment and run to Target
Wednesday- clean out toys (??), my cousin here
Thursday- swimming @ my mom's
Friday- ?
Saturday- more swimming
Sunday- church, Cars2??


All of the above recipes were found while browsing pintrest. I didn't wait as long to jump on that bandwagon as I did facebook, and I'm sure glad I didn't! I love browsing for recipes, decorating ideas, or anything else. I love that I can look at just my friends' stuff, or everybody's, and I can look at everything, or just one category. It's so much fun, and I'm finding all sorts of cool things on there!! Now just don't tell me what this Google+ is all about, I have no more free time to be eaten up by the computer. :)

Scrapbook Friday

One day late, I completely forgot to post this yesterday, oops!!

First up, Britt has a new kit out called Story Time, which is perfect for all those reading pictures I have (and much more!) Here's what I scrapped with it:

full credits here

She also has a new template pack out, Pocket Full of Templates 7. love using templates because I feel like all my pages look the same when I don't. lol Here's what I scrapped with one of the templates:

full credits here

I did that page to go with this one that I did a few weeks ago but never posted.

full credits here

On a side note, I had that picture off all 3 kids printed yesterday and then found out that my monitor was way off. My picture looked so bright and sunny on my screen, but it was too dark and cool in print, so I ended up spending quite a bit of time trying to get the monitor calibrated. I think I got it, I have some test prints waiting at Costco, but now I'm going to have to re-edit a bunch of my pictures. Good thing Costco's prints are not very expensive!

Okay, that's it for today, hope everyone is enjoying the weekend!

Start of the week Stuff

We got home last night from our family reunion in Sunriver and we're trying to get through vacation detox at the moment. Five loads of dirty laundry to be done, no food in the house, and getting back on track from having too much fun and getting too little sleep... :)
The reunion was a blast! There were over 100 people there from Matthew's family, and it was such a fun place to hang out. I can't wait to go back in two years (hopefully for a day longer than this time)!!
Here's one picture. This is all but one of the cousins (on our little limb of the tree) right after we got there. I think they were all really happy to be out of the car!!


We don't have a lot going on this week, which is a good thing, because I think it's going to take me a couple days to get settled again.

To-Do's:
Monday- lots of laundry and grocery shopping (I'll be doing good if I can get those 2 things done)
Tuesday-
Wednesday- Dad playing music @ 6
Thursday-
Friday-
Saturday-
Sunday- working in the church nursery

I also need to make a Costco/Eureka run one day, and maybe fit in a Crabs game and/or take the kids to Cars 2. We only have 2 or 3 weekends at home before the kids go back to school, which I think is crazy, so I want to use them wisely.

This week's Menu:
Monday- Fresh Tomato and Basil Pasta
Tuesday- Breakfast
Wednesday- pizza from Costco
Thursday- Baked Creamy Chicken Taquitos
Friday- BLTs
Saturday-
Sunday- sausage with peppers and pasta