Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Menu Monday

I know it's Tuesday but I forgot all about yesterday being Monday since it was Memorial Day.  Short week this week as we get ready to go on vacation!  YAY!

Monday - Cook-out, Chris smoked a pork butt and we had hamburgers and hot dogs.
Tuesday - Leftovers
Wednesday - Dinner at Maamaa and Poppi's
Thursday - On the Road
Friday - Hopefully Takaya's
Saturday - Out
Sunday - Pizza or take out

Monday, May 21, 2012

Meal Plan Monday

We actually stayed on plan last week!!! That's the first time in a long while.  Hopefully we can keep it up until vacation and then continue after.

Monday - Taco bowls
Tuesday - Fish sticks, roasted potatoes, veggies
Wednesday - Dinner @ Maamaa and Poppi's
Thursday -  Quesadillas with leftovers
Friday - Homemade pizza
Saturday/Sunday - BBQ/Burgers/Hot Dogs

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Wordless Wednesday



I know it's supposed to be wordless but let's just say that the girls learn early where Ms. Tracey keeps the good stuff! (Yes, she opened the drawer by herself and dug through to find the Oreos!)

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Dance Recital

Ladybug has recital over the weekend, making last week crazy busy.  She was so upset on Saturday when I told her that it was the last night, I think she would be on stage everyday if she had the opportunity.

Waiting to go on.

Front and center (she takes after her mom)

Ready to go (Friday night)

With her class

I had the privilege of being a stage mom on Friday night and loved watching from back stage!  It brought back all the excitement and nervousness of recital night (I was a little sad to not be joining her on stage).  We are considering starting Butterbean in the fall but aren't sure if she'll really be ready.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Menu Monday

Happy Mother's Day to all, I hope everyone had a great day.  With dance over until fall and only one more week of swim lessons things are slowing down a bit at our house. 

Monday - Hamburgers and Roasted potatoes
Tuesday - Roast chicken and summer veggies
Wednesday - Potato and Red Pepper soup with grilled cheese
Thursday - Quesadillas
Friday - Business dinner for Chris and I
Saturday - Hot dogs, mac and cheese, and baked beans.  Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies
Sunday - Leftovers

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Garden Stuff

With the warm weather starting so early here, or the winter weather never coming, we have been busy outside.  Chris expanded our garden by adding a 4 x 8 raised bed to go with the two 4 x4 beds from last year.  He also added a slant support for the cucumber to climb (if they ever get that far).
I think we at the point now to just enjoy the yard insead of working every weekend!


For Ladybug we planted a blueberry bush in a large container on the deck.


Here's the slant support Chris built, you can barely see the cucumbers (we started from seed this year).  Under the support there is lettuce that is growing nicely.  The first row is sweet and hot peppers, we are going to try our hand at canning our own salad peppers this year.


This bed has yellow squash in the first row, zucchini in the second and then a row of and heirloom type tomato.  That empty row is waiting for our Roma and Cherry tomoatoes to get big enough to transplant.


Ladybug and I attended a kids workshop over the weekend and she built this little planter box (almost) buy herself!  We planted some Forget me not seed I got from work.


These are the tomatoes (and some Basil seeds) that are almost ready to be moved.

What you don't see is the new bed Chris built since that's our 'trial' planter this year.  We put some corn, watermelon and cantaloupe seed in and are hoping for the best!

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Monday, May 7, 2012

Menu Monday

Monday - Chinese
Tuesday - BWW
Wednesday - At Maamaa and Poppi's
Thursday - Tandoori type grilled chicken, asparagus
Friday - Dance recital
Saturday - Dance recital
Sunday - Mother's day