Merry Christmas to Me!!!!

Day 8

catching up......

Day 7

Day 6

I know I am 6 days behind. I promise I am taking pictures of everyday though. I hope to get caught up by the weekend!

December Daily- Day 5

Day 4

Day 3

Don;t even pretend to be shocked that I am so late with this. You know me......

December Daily, Day 2

This is For Friday, sorry so late. I imagine the weekends will all be like this.

December Daily- Day 1

December Daily

I am going to start doing a "December Daily" right here on this blog.

The idea of the December Daily is to chronicle your life throughout December and do a page for each day. The pages do not always have to be Christmas related (although a majority of mine will be) and you can do as many or as little photos as you like. The journal is the most important part of this book.
Now you notice I said PAGES not posts right? this is really a scrapbooking thing that I am taking electronic. As much as I would LOVE to be a scrapbooker, I am not. I am not near creative enough.

SO back to the daily....Basically I will blog about something we do, every. single. day in December. It might be fun or it might be boring, either way I will have a cool documentation of what we did this month :) I hope to keep the tradition and do it every year. You can look forward to Christmas posts and non-Christmas posts alike!


Look for my first post later today or late this evening.

Wordless Wednesday

I really should come up with another name for a picture post on Wednesday.
I am never "wordless" there is always some sort of caption or explanation.

Found it on Pinterest

So this is the very first thing that I did from Pinterest. I love it.
It is for Jason's office. He loves it as well.
It might not be as cool as the original but it is our own. Jason and I both love the fact that Jackson is drinking his bottle that is just him (and no lectures on him still having a bottle!).

My talented niece took the picture and then she edited it somewhere online since we don't have a fancy SLR camera.

Here is the inspiration from this talented lady.

Wordless Wednesday

My 2nd Grader!

OMG I have a 2nd Grader!

Tasty Tuesday/Found it on Pinterest

So this week we have a double whammy!
My Pinterest fascination is seriously interfering with my life. I love Pinterest.

heheee, this picture basically sums it up :)

Anyway- back to the tastiness for the week.

We have been having an amazing homemade chinese dinner at home for a while. I saw these Weight Watchers crab rangoon I thought for sure they would make an excellent addition to our dinner.

Look how yummy-

AWESOME right?

Well mine looked NOTHING like these. I think whoever took this picture is a big fat liar. I am pretty sure that someone fried these up (or went to thier local Ding Ho) and took a picture. As you will see, mine were not nearly as pretty. They were ok with taste but Jason said they were too crabby. They were. It was strange.

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So I started by mixing all the ingredients in a bowl:

1/8 tsp garlic salt

1/8 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 small green onion
4 oz surimi imitation crab (I have no idea what this is so I bought so canned crab and called it a day)
3 oz cream cheese
14 wonton wrappers

Mix all the goodies and place 2 teaspoonfuls in the center of each wonton wrapper.
Moisten edges with water; bring corners to center over filling and press edges together to seal.
Place on a baking sheet coated with non-stick cooking spray.
Lightly spray wontons with nonstick cooking spray.

Bake at 425 °F (210 °C) for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.

Makes 14 Crab Rangoon (2 Per Serving)
Nutritional Info Per Serving: Calories 94; Total Fat 2.29g; Cholesterol 12mg;

Sodium 147mg; Potassium 40mg; Carbs 12.03g; Fiber 0g; Protein 5.76g


As a dip it was THE BOMB!

I wrapped them all up, it wasn't too bad. Until I realized I was using 2 wrappers per bundle. My bad.

I popped them in the oven and they smelled AWESOME.

Yup- nothing like the pic above and I followed the directions to a T.

My review? I am not a fan. I will make the inside as a dip though and bring it to a party sometime though. 

Maybe next time.



Found it on Pinterest.

So I have 71 pins on Pinterest. I have completed 3. 

2/71 ain't good folks.

Maybe I am starting to feel a little like Angie said I would, a big fat failure. Crap.

I am going to try to complete one pin a week. We will see how long that lasts, ha.

So this week it is the 100's workout, what you thought that Pinterest was only for foodies and craft junkies? Nope, there is all kinds of stuff on there. So much so that I can spend hours and hours looking. Terrible.

so back to topic- Momma is trying to break this plateau and it is hard, hopefully this will help?

It was a totally quick workout that really gets your butt up and moving. I think about passed out around the 50 crunches mark the first time. I pushed on and I was so happy to finish up.

I switched it up a little and did Salsa dancing instead of the 10 minutes of running. Jackson was sleeping so firing up the treadmill was not an option. Running outside? Yeah, that's not happenin'.

I love the burn that this workout gives without taking up half my day, and I can do it in my living room. I love it.

Oh, if you don't know what Pinterest is look it up, join and be prepared to be amazed. Let me know if you need an invite.

Wordless Wednesday, Sorta

so much summer fun!

From left to right: TOP, Sadie (My honorary daughter) Me

BOTTOM: Jace, Jacob (cousin), Nylin, My Mom, Kara, Bill (Mom's boyfriend)

We had so much fun taking these pictures. We were seriously cracking up. Good times.

Tasty Tuesday

Time for some tasty goodness!!! I am going to try and post a family dinner every week. We try to keep our meals simple, low fat and low calorie while still being family friendly.


I also try to let the kids each pick a meal one night.


It usually goes something like


Nylin: Chicken Nuggets (homemade)
Jace: Pizza and Wings (homemade)
Kara: Tacos (homemade).


You think my kids have a slight obsession with take out type food?


Hmph.


At least they like mine better than the take out versions, well I think so anyway, they may just tell me that out of fear of starvation.


This week we made one of Nylin's favorite meals. It is not a spin off of a take out meal but just something my Mom used to make when we complained about spaghetti. Chicken parmesan was like a treat in our family and still is! I have no idea how you replace the ground beef with chicken and get such a different flavor, but you do!




I usually coat my chicken with bread crumb, but we were all out. I used crushed chips instead.

I had 4 big chicken breast but they were really thick. I decided to cut them in half, long ways.

I used to use egg wash too but then I decided to get rid of those few extra calories and just use water. Works great :)

My mom used to brown the chicken in a skillet but I am lazy and I just throw mine in a pan and throw it in the oven. It skips a step and tastes just as good.

I usually cook it at 350 for about 45 minutes.

Here is the cooked chicken, all nice and brown.

You can see where I checked the chicken to make sure it was done.

I always sneak a veggie into the sauce somehow, this night it was squash

I topped the cooked chicken with sauce and baked for a few minutes, then added the squash.

and of course the cheese......

and the finished product.

Normally I would take a picture of it on the plate but you know? My kids love this meal and it hardly stayed on the plate long enough to take a picture. They were really diggin' this dinner!

Recipe:

Breadcrumbs

Chicken

Favorite sauce

Parmesan cheese

favorite veggie to sneak in!

Noodles to serve chicken over.

Coat chicken with bread crumbs, place in baking dish.

Cook chicken on 350 till done.

add sauce and sneaky veggies and top with Parmesan cheese and bake for another 5 minutes.

serve over noodles or as sandwiches, another family favorite.

Thanks Mom for an awesome recipe that I still use today :)

AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Have a great day all!

More family photos

Here are a few more of the photos that we took on the beach in Gulf Shores. Tanya Wright did an awesome job!

SO much different from June of last year huh???