Busy, Busy, Busy

     Hello everyone, wow this weekend has flown by.  Friday was my daughters field trip where we got to walk in the Puff mud while her and her classmates got to go and pick up fiddler crabs and snails, and a whole bunch of things.  Then they planted grass (marsh grass, it has another name, but I don't remember it...lol) after that they played a game and then went to a floating dock where they had a chance to catch a bigger crab and see other wildlife.  They saw a bunch of catfish but the chicken neck wasn't done in the water long enough for the crabs to actually take hold.
     After the fieldtrip we went to Publix and I picked up a few groceries:

I got all this for $25.00 using coupons.  I didn't have coupons for everything.  I always try to use coupons for everything, but sometimes it happens.  I can't stand going shopping without coupons though.  It might take a little bit of time, but I think it is well worth it and I think it's fun!
     Friday night skating.  It was awesome even though I had a headache.  Luckily, I took something before it got too bad.  I met some friends there and a new mom I had just met on the field trip (well kinda just met, this was the first time we got to really talk), and my neighbor and her sister bought their kids (They loved it).  Two of my friends signed their kids up for VBS :) yay.  I am so happy that they will be joining us this summer and maybe get their parents to join the church, that would be great too!
     Today, the school carnival.  It was fun the kids had fun.  And now we are all exhausted. This was really neat, they had a booth for nail polish and hair color (spray).  I got my hair sprayed with pink and green...my daughter and son didn't...lol.  Thanks for reading and God Bless.

Pizzeria Chicken

Hello everyone!  Tonight I fixed Pizzeria Chicken for dinner.  It was a Reynolds recipe.  It was good and if you are interested in this recipe or ay others let me know and I will post it in the comments.  There were a few really good suggestions from our table, mushrooms, slice the chicken into strips, more pepporonis and I think that was all...oooh and more cheese...lol.  Thanks for reading and looking.  God Bless.

Our Wonderful Dog...How I Love this dog

If it's not the cat it's the dog...lol. Well the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies were okay. I put them in a gallon sized zip loc and put them on the counter. We went for a walk, I guess they were not far enough on the counter because when we got back there was a ripped gallon bag on the floor and no more cookies. I didn't put that many chocolate chips in them. Our big dog is still begging for more food. IDK what to do with her...I guess all there is to do is just laugh..I guess. I do wonder if her other owners thought this behavior was funny, or they didn't discipline her when she did stuff. I know it's not for attention, she gets a lot of attention from us, maybe it's not me she wants the attention from.

Happy Easter

Hello everyone I just wanted to take this time to say Happy Easter. 

Rejoice for He has Risen.

Ground Beef Chili with Crayon Cakes

Hello everyone, tonight for dinner we tried a Publix recipe, Ground Chili with Crayon Cakes.  Everyone liked it.  My husband said it wasn't too hot, it was mild and just enough heat though to make his sinus' open up.  The crayon cakes are made with Pillsbury Quick Cinnamon Swirl Bread and M&M's.  They were good too.  Another two thumbs up recipe from the whole family.  Thanks for looking and reading God Bless.

Crayon Cakes

Ground Beef Chili

Sewing Class

Hello everyone, Yesterday at sewing class we ruffled my ruffle and pinned it to the apprn front, we will be sewing that next week.  Then I started on my oven mitt, which is more forshow or dusting because the material is so thin.  Thanks for looking and reading.  God Bless.

Baby Chic Cupcakes

Hello everyone, I did these yesterday. Okay these cupcakes were suppose to be ducks but their beaks fell off, so I decorated their beaks with frosting.  I got this idea and how to from the book I mentioned in the other cupcake post.  I ran out of yellow food coloring and the kids picked green, I think they turned out pretty cute.  This was an all day job.  It was fun to make these little guys and I would do it again.  Thanks for looking.  God bless.

Vanilla Peach Pork Chops with Green Onion Cole Slaw

Hello everyone today for dinner we tried the Vanilla Peach Pork Chops with the green onion slaw.  It was good.  I wasn't too sure about the slaw, but it was good and my husband liked it too.  The kids weren't crazy about the slaw and my daughter picked out the fruit.  The pork chops were good, everyone like them.  If you would like to get the recipe to this or any other one let me know and I will leave it in the comments.  Thanks for reading and looking, God Bless.

The Green Onion Slaw

Grilled Vanilla Peach Pork Chops.

Hi

Hello everyone, today was a good day.  My family and I tried the Bubba Angus burgers, they were good.  Sorry, no picture.  My husband fenced in the garden.  I cleaned out the kitchen cabinets getting rid of mugs and cups the kids don't use anymore.  Our church will be having a yard sale to raise money for thee youth to go to camp.  I set all of the mugs and things aside for that. Anyway, that is about all for today.  I can't wait to see the Fast and the Furious 5.  I love old cars and a couple of new models too.  I would love to work on them.  I have changed some spark plugs, and changed the oil in a couple of cars.  Last year I would've helped my husband and neighbor with a fuel pump (but I am still a girl and it was cold outside)...lol I opted to stay inside where it was nice and warm.  Thanks for reading this boring post today...lol.  God Bless.

and finally today we ...

Hello again everyone,  today my family spent the morning planting our garden.  I am so happy to have our seedling planted in the ground.  We also planted more seeds.  I can't wait for them all to start growing a producing things.  Right now it still looks pretty bare even though there is some green things in it.  Thanks for looking and reading.  God Bless.

this was before we planted our seedlings.

Propel Water

Hello everyone, this new to me.  I had a coupon for this water, so I got it not thinking that I would like it.  After I had refrigerated it for a few hours I was surprised.  It was really good, it was sweeter than I thought and was not bitter for it being lemon flavored.  I give it a thumbs up (only one).  It is a great stand in for a soda. I don't think it would be good to drink all the time.  Thanks for reading and looking.  God Bless.

Palermo's Pizza

Hello everyone.  Today we had Palermo's pizza for lunch.  I just have to say that we had this one before and it is pretty good considering that it is a frozen pizza.  It gets two thumbs up from us.

Oven Roasted Chicken

Hello everyone,
     This chicken was suppose to be salt crusted but after looking at all of the kosher salt it called for I decided to leave all the salt out.  I sliced a lemon, an onion and added 3 cloves of garlic and stuffed it inside the chicken, then mixed some lemon zest, olive oil, a little salt, pepper and thyme together and brushed it on the chicken and stuck it in the oven for about 1 hour and a half.  Thanks for reading and looking.  God Bless.

Ruffles

Hello everyone,  this is an update from yesterday.  In my sewing class it was time for me to learn how to make a ruffle...looks easy.  My teacher and I had a little trouble with getting the ruffle done.  Between me giving my son a spelling test and my teacher helping my daughter's friend with her sewing project we were lucky we finally got it sewn together.  It still doesn't look like a ruffle yet, but next Wednesday it will.  I need to sew the corner (point) to the point of my appron and then I will get to turn the rest into a ruffle.  I think it will be too pretty to use for cooking. Anyway, here is a pic of what will eventualy be my ruffle.

Pork Chops with Fennel Salad minus the fennel salad pic

Hello everyone.  I served this dish with a red cabbage salad instead.  My daughter liked the honey and orange dressing I was too chicken to try it...lol.  The pork chops were good and so was the salad even though it wasn't the fennel.  Thanks for reading and looking.  God Bless.

Pork Chops with Fennel Salad minus the fennel salad

Hello everyone,  Tonight I will be making pork chops with fennel salad minus the fennel salad.  I couldn't find any fennel bulbs to make the salad with nor do I really know what a fennel bulb looks like or exactly what it is.  I will have pictures of the pork chops.  I will have to look at the recipe to see if there is more to the fennel salad, we might have part of the salad.  Thanks for reading, God bless.

Our Seedlings

Hello everyone, as promised I have the pics of our seedlings.  Thanks for looking and readng.  God Bless.

Turkey Roll pics

Hello everyone.  This is another recipe that gets a smiley face in the book.  If you would like to know more about this recipe, just let me know and I will get it for you.  Thanks for looking and reading.  God Bless.

Turkey Roll

     Hello everyone.  Tonight's dinner will be a turkey roll loaf.  I made it before, but it didn't taste like it should have (of course I'm guessing here...lol).  I used Provolne cheese that was frozen (refrigerator was turned on the wrong setting), and it never did melt like it was suppose to.  This time I am going to use mozzarella which everyone in my house loves. 
     This coming weekend (I know it's only Monday), I think we are gonna plant our garden (yay, I'm excited).  I will take pictures of our once we seedlings.  I have yellow beans, green beans (still a seedling.  I had to replant these seeds), strawberries (still little seedling), sunflowers, corn, snapdragons (a lot of little sprouts), Marigolds, humming bird mix of flowers, cantelope, tomatoes, onions and aspearagus (those are for my daughter :), I think that is it.  If not I will let you know.  I will have pics of the turkey roll loaf and of my seedlings a little later.  Thanks for reading, God Bless.

Chili Rubbed Garlic Shrimp

Hello everyone.  Tonight for dinner I tried the Chili Rubbed Garlic shrimp.  It was good.  It was grilled.  My daughter thought it was too spicy, but it still got a smiley face in the cookbook.  Here is the pic of the shrimp.  If you would like to know about any of the recipes, please let me know and I will get it for you.  Thanks for reading, God Bless.

CPR Class

Hello everyone,  Today my husband and I took a CPR class at church.  We had fun, it was hard work too.  We learned sooo much.  We learned how to use an AED and how to do the hymlick and how to do CPR on children and babies.  Which I hope I never have to use, but it is still really good stuff to know.  Thanks for reading.  God Bless.  Oh and I want to thank all the teachers, thanks soo much.

The Cat

Hello everyone this is the sneaky cat who loves my freshly cooked chicken and my freshly bought bagels...how can you not love this face.  I can't stay mad at him...even though I am two bagels short...lol. Thanks for reading and God Bless.

Dinner Tonight.

Hello everyone, the Toola Roola roll ups were sooooo yummy!  You make your own sauce, delicious!  I didn't make that many roll ups, I made a few and them decided to make a regular pizza.  This was a big hit at our house.  if you'd like the recipe let me know.  Thanks for reading, God Bless.

What's for Dinner?

Hello everyone.  Tonight for dinner I am fixing Toola Roola, this came out of a coloring book.  My daughter handed it to me and said, "we've got to try this." Today is the day that we will try it.  I can't wait to show a picture.  These; from what I read are like calzones or Hot Pockets.  They are made with the crescent rolls and pizza stuff.  I think these are going to be good.  Look for my post later tonight, I will have pics of these hopefully delicious dish.  Thanks for reading, have a blessed day.

Sewing Class

Hello everyone,  This is what I am working on inb sewing class.  I am having such a good time learning to sew.  Today, I sewed a pocket to my appron and next week I will get to learn to make a ruffle for it.  I can't wait.  I hope to be posting more of these in the future.  Thanks for readig and God Bless.

Cupcakes...or

Hello, I decides to put the eggs before the chicken...lol.  Okay, so I made these cupcakes to go with the other desserts for the church.  They were suppose to be mini cupcakes, and to carry them they were suppose to be in egg cartons.  I don't have a mini cupcake pan and got tired of trying to find one, I found plenty of the mini baking cups for them though.  The idea for these egg cupcakes came from "What's New, Cupcake? by: Karen Tack and Alan Richardson.  I used White chocolate instead of the candy melts too.  Tell me what you think of mine.  Thanks for reading and God Bless.

Souhwest pork Chops

Hello, I fixed the southwest porkchops.  They were good.  It looked like I burnt them, so I didn't take a picture of it.  Turns out I guess that's what the spices do when they are cooked like that.  They were really good.  My son didn't like them, but everyone else did so I'll mark it with a smiley face with a note on the side.
I am also in the process of making cupcakes for tomorrow nights dinner at church.  These are going to look like eggs and yolks.  I got the idea from a cupcake book.  I'll put it all in here tomorrow when I have everything ready for pictures.  I love doing stuff like this, cakes and cupcakes.  My sister does too, she makes really pretty cakes and cupcakes.  I told her she should blog about it.  With her being a nurse and a mom of four, I'm not sure if she would have time to.  Anyway, that is all for now.  Thanks for reading and God Bless!

Chicken Sticks...Finally

Hello everyone.  I finally made chicken sticks for dinner.  I can't wait until I find my plug so I can download my pic of the sticks.  They are easy to make and tasty.  I changed the recipe just a little, and everyone liked them.  I served them with rice and peas.  they would make a great picnic meal or for appetizers.  Or anything else that asks for finger food.  I will update this as soon as I get the pics.  Thanks for reading, God Bless.

The Cat Is Still...

Hello.  This is a really smart cat!  Too smart for his own god.  If he keeps eating my food he's gonna have to go somewhere else to live.  He has food in his bowl and he has more than one bowl to choose from.  I went grocery shopping for the family, not him (well I did get him the cat treats Party Mix).  Does he get into the Party Mix bags...NO he has to eat my Thomas' whole wheat bagels!  Brand new, just purchased them today.  Two gone just like that.  I guess I would get tired of eating the same thing everyday too, but come on!  He just started doing this, maybe he's not getting the attention that he needs.  I don't know...I knew I should have gotten the bread box the other day at Target, that would have solved my bagel problem.  Now, my bread, and the remainder of the bagels are safely in the cabinet where I should have put them in the first place...lol.  Thanks for reading. God Bless.

He ate the chicken and we got paid with a...

Hey, OK for those of you who don't know.  Last night our wonderful fat cat ate the chicken that we were suppose to have for dinner tonight.  I made it the night before and all I would of had to do is shred it.  Anyway, he decided that his food ion bowl just wasn't good enough and helped himself to the chicken, while he was doing this he inadvertently fed the dogs too.  Boy do those two dogs love this cat.  Well yesterday when my husband comes home from work, he finds a snake.  I will post a picture of it later tonight.  I guess he has paid us for the chicken, except 1. we don't eat what he brings us. 2. it wasn't even dead.  My husband takes a shovel gathers up this gardener snake and tosses it into the woods.  Thanks for reading.  God Bless.