Wordless Wednesday–Kahlen’s New Skates

Since Daddy has started speed skating again, Kahlen wants to also. We made a deal with her that if she stopped biting her nails, we’d buy her a pair of inline skates.

 

They went to the skating rink tonight too, which was a good thing because she couldn’t go fast enough in the house :-)

~S

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Wordless Wednesday - Drive In!

We're currently waiting for Monsters University to start at the drive in theater, which is conveniently located 1/2 a mile from our house. In fact, Tim finished up cleaning the kitchen and walked over to join us.  This counts as our date night this week because our babysitter is watching Shane :)

Menu Plan Monday–July

Wait, it’s July already?!? What happened to June? Seriously. We were so busy that I don’t even know what we all did. VBS, Nate’s fourth birthday, and a ton of hot days in between, and I didn’t really stick to the plan for June. Oh well, sometimes menu planning is just like that, right? Even the best laid plans can go awry.

The new recipes that we did try:

• Ranch Chicken Sandwiches: tasty and delicious. The husband did not like the sauce, but I did. He has a thing against mayo.
• Slow Cooker Enchiladas: Hubby loved this one, I didn’t really care for it. BUT I’ll probably be making it again since he liked it and it was fairly simple. I need to figure out a way to make it bigger though, because he would have eaten the leftovers for a week if there had been enough to do that!
• Chili & Cornbread Waffles: Another hit. The kids loved the cornbread waffles, and we enjoyed the whole meal. They were more filling than they looked, though, and next time I’ll remember that we each only need 1/2 a waffle for dinner.
• Chicken Marsala: easy and yummy. Although, the leftovers did not get eaten up, so it will be awhile before I make it again. We both say that we like mushrooms, but I think we’re just trying to convince ourselves that that’s true.
• Crockpot Chicken & Dumplings: Made this, but totally rewrote the recipe first. I didn’t really realize how much of a food snot I am until I started looking at this recipe and  thought “I can make this way better if I make everything from scratch instead of cans”. And I was right, I might add, it was much tastier and not that much more work (IMO. You might think otherwise!)

Okay, here’s what we’re having this month:

Sun	Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat
	1 *Cashew Chicken	2 *Meal through BzzAgent	3 Homemade Sub Sandwiches	4 BBQ for holiday!	5 You’re On Your Own (YOYO)	6 Mac’n’Cheese hubby style
7 Baked Pasta Casserole	8 *Crispy Chicken Rollups	9 *Cuban Subs	10 *Teriyaki Crockpot Chicken	11 Pierogies	12 YOYO	13 Green Beans, Potatoes, and Chicken
14 Noodles Bolognase	15 Sweet & Sour Citrus Chicken	16 *Cream Cheese Chicken	17 Enchiladas	18 Italian Meatballs	19 YOYO	20 Pizza
21 Guiltless Chicken Alfredo	22 Tacos	23 *Ranch Cheddar Burgers	24 Healthy Mama BBQ Chicken	25 Red Beans, Rice, and Sausage	26 YOYO	27 Meatloaf Muffins
28 Dinner at Dad’s	29 Orange Chicken Stir-Fry	30 *Taco Chicken Bowls	31 Crockpot Chicken Parmesan	1 Chicken Lemon Soup with Orzo	2 YOYO	3 Scrambled Eggs & Pancakes

* denotes a new recipe

Trying to keep things a bit simpler this month, we’ll see how it goes! What are you making this week/month?

~S