Jenna. Mar 9. Big girl seat.
Carlee’s first night in a booster seat at the big table! (instead of in a high chair) Don’t worry, she did eat, despite what it looks like in the picture.
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Jenna. Mar 3. Backseat Messie.
I gave the kids a chocolate chip granola bar on our way home. This is what I found when we got there. I think she enjoyed it.
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Jenna. Mar 1. “Aaah! She’s gonna cook me!”
Colby said this when running by me today. My kids love chasing each other all around the house and today’s game was chasing with a spatula. I’m guessing to cook each other they would tickle each other with the spatula? I didn’t ever see the “cooking” going on. But not to worry, these cooking utensils really are for toy usage – I have my own for the kitchen for actual food consumption.
[If you look carefully you'll see Carlee crawling to be part of the game too. I had to stop the kids for this very posed picture with said spatula.]
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Jenna. Feb 19. Hoovers.
The Hoovers came over for dinner tonight. Chris & Christine, Landon & Colton [Madison was at a tennis tournament.] A great way to end a very busy week.
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Jenna. Feb 18. C-O-L-B-Y.
AlphaBits cereal rocks! [Colby did this and took the picture, with permission.]
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Jenna. Feb 13. Rolls.
These are the yummy whole wheat cinnamon rolls Kevin and I made for the kids’ valentines breakfast today. This is the recipe.
And later in the afternoon I took Colby to a birthday party at Powersports. He didn’t stop moving the whole time and was upset when we had to leave. He definitely can’t wait to go back. I couldn’t get any pictures of him doing forward or backward rolls.
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Jenna. Feb 1. Leftover Chinese Food.
I’m switching over to putting the date instead of the day so it’s not so confusing for me. And, I’m not so good with math in my head.
The thing I like even more about eating Chinese food is the fun leftovers containers from Pei Wei. This dish is Thai Dynamite. [Don't tell Kevin I ate his leftovers.]
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Jenna. Day 31. Orange Fruits.
The two large oranges and two smaller grapefruits are from my grandparents’ trees in their front yard. To give you an idea of how big they are, look at the palm-sized tangerine in front.
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Jenna. Day 30. Beef Strog-enough Dairy Already.
I adapted this recipe for Beef Stroganoff from Rachael Ray’s Power of 10 Cookbook. Rachael Ray comes up with quirky names for her recipes, so I thought I’d follow suit. We had my friend Heather and her 2 kids over on Thursday night and made this then. This pic is from the leftovers we ate today. Here’s my recipe.
2 lbs. stew meat
2 T worcestershire
2 c. sour cream
1 1/2 c. whipping cream or half&half
1/2 c. water or stock
1 T. grape jelly
S&P
1 lb. spaghetti
Cook the stew meat in the worcestershire sauce. Then add the remaining ingredients (except spaghetti). Boil the spaghetti in a separate pot according to package directions.
This would be really good with mushrooms. I didn’t think I would need quite so much dairy [I started out with just 1 c. whipping cream and 1 c. sour cream.] but it didn’t seem to have much sauce. Then when we mixed it with the noodles, it was perfect. It was a hit with Kevin and the kids so I think I’ll be making it again.
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Jenna. Day 24. Mister Napkinhead.
Silly Tim.
Carlee thinks he’s funny too. [We ate at Abuelo's.]
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Jenna. Day 17. Tim & Kelsey.
Meet Kelsey & Tim, our adopted Aggies. I’ve been mentoring Kelsey since about this time last year. We met her when I was very pregnant with Carlee. We met Tim this past fall when he transferred to A&M from Baylor. Smart guy. Kelsey & Tim have been dating for 2 years.
Our kids love Kelsey & Tim and often ask for them to come over for dinner. Tonight we were glad to have them over and catch up with them after their Christmas break. I forgot college kids get things like Christmas break. Kevin actually took this pic since Carlee wouldn’t let me put her down.
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Jenna. Day 16. Menu.
Today I went to Madden’s in downtown Bryan for a baby shower brunch. This was the super fancy menu.
Two things you should know about me:
1. I love breakfast foods. Every single one.
2. Whenever I go to a fancy restaurant, I ALWAYS order the wrong thing.. something I don’t like.
To avoid #2, I have Kevin order for me. He wasn’t there. I ordered the BLT option and while I liked it okay, I should have gotten the creme brulee french toast instead. I think my sister Katrina would call this MLIA.
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Jenna. Day 13. Redhead.
I definitely have a redheaded little girl! Carlee was sitting outside eating Alpha Bits in the grass. The weather was a beautiful 58 degrees outside – does anyone else feel like that’s a heat wave, compared to the 20s and 30s we’ve been having?
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Jenna. Day 11. Mashed Potato Goodness.
This is the inside of my mixing bowl. Tonight I made the best mashed potatoes known to man. And here is the recipe.
8 med. to large butter gold potatoes, peeled and quartered
6 large carrots, peeled and cut in half
Put veggies into vegetable steamer for 45 mins. If you don’t have a steamer, shame on you. I guess you could boil the veggies but I strongly recommend you jump into your car and go buy a vegetable steamer.
Once the veggies are steamed/cooked, place into a mixing bowl. Add:
1 c milk (I used skim.)
4 T (or more if desired) butter
S&P to taste
Mix. Add sour cream or more milk if texture is too tough. I like mine somewhere between potato soup and roasted potatoes.
This is slap-yo-mama, get-out-of-bed-in-the-middle-of-the-night-to-eat-straight-out-of-the-bowl-with-your-fingers good.
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Jenna. Day 3. Alicia + lasagna.
Alicia made a fabulous turkey basil & zucchini lasagna. Here’s the recipe as much as I can remember from memory:
1 lb. ground turkey (the recipe actually doesn’t call for any meat, but my family is all carnivores.)
3 large zucchini, diced
1 jar spaghetti sauce
1 16-oz. container cottage cheese
fresh basil – can’t remember how much? 1/4 c?
1 egg
1 box lasagna noodles
mozzarella cheese
Brown the meat and combine with the spaghetti sauce. In a blender/food processor, pulse the basil and cottage cheese until well blended (texture will actually look more like ricotta cheese). Then hand-beat an egg into the basil & cottage cheese mixture.
Layer the lasagna in a well-greased pan: (I’m sure I have this wrong, so however it is layered in there it will turn out delicious.)
1. meat sauce
2. lasagna noodles – uncooked
3. basil & cottage cheese mixture
4. meat sauce
5. mozz. cheese
6. lasagna noodles
7. basil & cottage cheese mixture
8. meat sauce
9. mozz. cheese
Sprinkle with parm cheese on top.
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