Daily Photo – December 20th

A rainbow seen in the West this morning when we came down for breakfast. For those of you not familiar with the area, it’s very unusual to have them in the west, and in December for that matter.

~S

Countdown to Christmas – Day 20

Since we didn’t get to our Advent Activity yesterday, we just reused that one today :) We were supposed to watch It’s a Wonderful Life, but she’s too young to care, and we already watched the VeggieTales version last week…

So, we got to do at home pedicures. Kahlen thought that was pretty cool! I had a pedicure set from Mary Kay that I got back in the day when I was a consultant, so I had fizzy bath pellets and all. She soaked her feet first (She’s on the way to a smile in this picture)Then we trimmed and painted both her toe and finger nails using Piggy Paint (Shh, Santa’s bringing her more for Christmas!). THEN I used my pedi-egg and my “special” Mint Bliss Energizing Foot and Leg Lotion. She felt like a pretty pampered little girl, which was the point. It is her birthday tomorrow, after all :)

~S

Muffin Tin Monday – Christmas parts 2 & 3

The theme for Muffin Tin Monday for three weeks is Holidays. I completely forgot to post last week, been a little busy :P So you get pictures from both weeks. I did not make a plan for either, so there’s some similarities.

Last week, we joined friends at the mall for a play date, so I made our muffin tin food to go. We had crackers and meat rollups, apples, cheese, meat, and fruit leather cut into trees.

 Today she wanted to be in the picture. I was going to crop this picture, but it amused me. You see Nate’s head. “Safe” things on the counter like a cheese knife and scissors, and a bottle of glue from a craft project earlier in the day. You can also sort of see my huge bucket of cookie cutters in the back right and the mess from making muffin tin food on the back counter on the left.

  Anyway, I made tree branches (carrot sticks), snow (ranch dressing), snowballs (Kix), pine needles (green beans), a Christmas tree (bread pizza with corn for ornaments), and a marshmallow snowman. She ate everything and asked for more!!

~S

Menu Plan Monday – December 20th

I have a recipe index, just for recipes that I’ve blogged about. You can find it by going to the food tab above.

Here's the plan for this week:
Mix-it up Monday (something new) ~ Asian Chicken Lettuce Cups (Holy ingredient list, batman!) 
Taco Tuesday (Mexican or Oriental) ~ Pizza for Kahlen’s birthday, she’s turning 4 today! 
Wow Wednesday (Date night or something like restaurant food) ~ Tacos
Simple Thursday (Crockpot or less than 30 min prep)~ Potato Soup (that I didn’t make last week) 
Favorite Friday (A family favorite) ~ Basic Casserole 
Lazy Saturday (leftover buffet) ~ CHRISTMAS! Having dinner with friends, I’m bringing Scalloped Potatoes and Jello Salad
Saucy Sunday (Italian) ~ Spaghetti with Meat Sauce

Come visit me for Tasty Tuesday for some more deliciousness.
So, what are you having for dinner this week?
Link up at Menu Plan Monday over at I'm an Organizing Junkie or leave me a comment!
~S

Countdown to Christmas – Day 19

We didn’t make it to our Advent Activity today, and I was kinda disappointed. We were supposed to do at home pedicures. I like painting her nails, and I like doing girly things with her. BUT at 5:45 when it was time to take a bath, she had a meltdown that she couldn’t recover from. I gave her the option of obeying daddy or going to bed, and she chose bed, so no pedis tonight :(

She did sing at church this morning, and was very cute doing it. This is the only picture I have because I was up on stage with her and daddy had Nate, but that’s okay, I’m sure someone else got pictures that I can have (anyone?). Here’s a video that one of the mommies posted on facebook, but I’m not sure if this is the correct link, so let me know if it doesn’t work.

She’s front and center in this picture in her pretty fluffy dress. And yes, she’s taller than just about every child up there, some of them by a head (she is in the 90th percentile) :)

Better luck with our activity tomorrow!

~S

Daily Photo – December 19th

My cute kids

~S

Daily Photo – December 18th

Nate’s new toy from Buela

~S