Weekly Menu for 4/14/14-4/18/14

This weeks Menu. 

Monday-Spanish Rice One Pot Meal- I found this recipe on the back of the Rice A Roni Box and It is so good. It is my new favorite quick fix dinner. It makes a lot and doesn't cost a lot.

Tuesday- Parmesan Crusted Chicken Breast with Linguini Noodles and a White wine garlic sauce- Sounds super fancy but it is super duper easy!! I know that it shows Tilapia in the picture but it's going to be chicken. Last time I made it with Tilapia. 

Wednesday- Swedish Meatballs- THis is a recipe I found on Pinterest. I made it before and it was really really good. 

Thursday- Shake and Bake Chicken Thighs with Mac and Cheese and Broccoli 

I don't know about Friday. I have a feeling that it will be a pizza night. I have a lot of cooking for Easter :) 

What's in your diaper bag?

What’s in your Diaper Bag??????????

So it’s Saturday night and I am packing the diaper bag for church tomorrow and I thought this is the perfect time to do a “What’s in your bag?” post. Yay!! I am pretty excited for this post.

So William is 7months old now so this pertains more to an older baby.

 The bag is the Skip Hop Waverly Diaper Bag - Organic Dot. I got it at Babies R Us when I was still pregnant. I LOVE this bag there is so much room in it. I can not find the same bag on the skip hop website, but I did find it on the Babies R Us website  (here).   

 

Ok so inside the bag:

Food Snacks:

·       Gerber Puffs (These are baby crack!!) I keep these in my bag incase we stop somewhere to get something to eat or have a long wait. He loves these things.

·       1 container of Gerber stage 2 baby food. Mixed Veggies At home he eats home-made but these don’t need to be refrigerated)

·       1 Spoon 

·       Cheerios (he loves cheerios!!!)

·       A bottle of water

·       2 sippy cups (Tommee Tippy and Nuby)

 

His Stuff:

 

·        5 diapers

·       Desitin

·       A&D

·       Wipes

·       Boogie Wipes (AMAZING saline wipes)

·       Johnson and Johnson hand and face wipes (these smell amazing!)

·       I sandwich bag with a onsie, bib and pair of socks)

·       2 teethers 

·       a snuggle toy and rattle

My Stuff:

·       Extra T-shirt Seriously the best thing I can pack I use it all the time.

·       Deodorant (breast feeding makes me SOOO hot)

·       Lipgloss

·       Cell phone

·       Stappy wallet

·       Hand lotion

·        Always infinity Pads (just in case aunt flo comes to town)

·       pen and pad

Other:

·       Clorox Wipes

 

 

So what is in your diaper bag? What things did I forget?  Share below in the comments section!

P.S: I will be making a youtube video about this to show how I put everything in the bag. I'll link it here once I'm done :) 

Hello Everyone! How are you doing?  We are doing great here. Little Will is crawling everywhere now So I have to start baby proofing. I can not believe that he is 7 months old already.

Also Steven turned 7 last week!!! He is getting so big. I cannot believe it my little baby is not a baby anymore.  I want to post some pictures and talk a little bit about what our birthday traditions are in our home.  

It all started for his 2^nd Birthday. He had two working parents and neither of us could get the whole day off. We felt terrible so the night before his birthday while he was sleeping we decorated the entire house with balloons and streamers.  So when he woke up it felt like a party. Anyway we have done that every single year since then. He loves it and loves getting to open presents first thing J  The weekend before his birthday he had “Man Day” with my husband. Man Day is where its just the two of them doing man stuff. Hair cuts, mini golf, breakfast at waffle house.

This year we went with the Avengers Theme.

He really wants to make his own video blog so we got him a starter video camera. One that is not too expensive but captures pretty good images. He loves it so far. He is actually really into photography and videography so we will see where this passion takes him.

 So tell me.  What are the birthday traditions in your house? How do you celebrate birthdays?

What are your kids really into right now?

We Received Our Supplies!!!

  Hi Everyone!!! 

So I have promised to get better about Blogging everyday..... Im Still working on it. LOL. I will do a longer entry later but I wanted to post my first video that I promised last week. We got our supplies today and WOW! I was blown away! So I really hope you like it! If you have any questions just let me know! 

Jan. 27th 2014 

So as of today Steven is officially enrolled into Florida Virtual School as a Home Education Student. Yay!!! In about a week all of his supplies should arrive and I will do a video unboxing and link it here. 

I want to say a few things about the enrollment process. It was soooooooooo simple. I can not say that enough. Every person that I spoke with over the phone was knowledgeable, polite, and quick. I never get that kind of service. 

I will say that here in Orange County Florida the home education people for our district are very quick. But I will say that when you call them, know what you want and what you need. The Letter of Intent form says Only check the florida virtual school if your student is grades 6-12. Well when I called to ask for proof that we are Homeschool for FLVS she said that I should have checked the box.... ummm no I shouldn't have it clearly says not to on the form. Also the person that I spoke with was not very computer savvy. I had to explain what an underscore was and that my email address is not case sensitive. That made me very concerned but it all worked out :) I only say all of this to say dealing with the two parties you see the stark differences. 

I also want to talk about some homey stuff. So for dinner tonight we had shake and bake pork chops carrots and noodles and sauce. 

I have also been making some homemade baby food all day to day. I was working on Orange Foods so I made ice cube trays of Carrots, sweet potatoes and butternut squash. I will add  pictures tomorrow.  

In the mean time enjoy this gif of my Hubby with no beard!!! 

Hello Everyone!!!

I know that I have been away for the past 4 months. Things tend to get a little Cray Cray adjusting to a new family member. So let me give a quick update on what is going on in our lives since my last post. 

1. William is doing phenomenal!! He is growing and changing and jus a joy. Steven is an amazing big brother and really adjusted well. Yes there were hiccups. Steven did have a few months were he seemed to have forgotten every rule and all his manners. But in the end we realized that he was going through an adjustment and testing the waters. It was a hard couple of months. We stayed strong and persistent and now I have my well mannered quiet little boy back :) 

2.  I have come to grips that I am a terrible memory maker. William is 4 months old and we only have one family pictiure that was taken by a stranger at the pumpkin patch. I will be working on that this year more family pictures with all 4 of us in them. 

3.  We have started going to church! On a regular basis and are going to take the membership class this weekend!! I am so excited. We have been looking for the right church home and we found it. We are also working as a family to ensure that Jesus is in everything we do and working on praying more and growing more. 

4. I am officially a stay a home mommy now!! It was a hard decision to make but I am sure that we made the right one for our family.

4. Starting tomorrow we will be a homeschool family!! I am so excited and scared and excited LOL. It is something that I have always wanted to do but I was going to hold off until next year. I was going to homeschool so that I could have more time to travel with the boys really customize the curriculum so that they are learning on a global level and I want them to learn to be self starters. Well last Thursday Stevens School lost him. Like they could not tell me if he made it on the bus to karate or if he walked home. This is unacceptable. He is only 6 years old. I understand that things happen what made matters worse is that the assistant principal did not care. She was so cold and basically like its not her problem. It turned out that he was upset in the hallway and didn't want to go karate she pulled him to the side and went into her office and left him in the hall. When she came out he was gone. Luckily Steven had just realized that his bus was here and got on his bus to karate. He was only missing for about 30 mins. The karate school doesn't answer the phone when they are driving with the kids. (GREAT RULE) my husband left work and went down there everything was fine. So we are on a homeschool adventure. Since we only have half the year left we are going with the florida virtual schools Home education Program. I will do an updated post with more details on that. 

Well we are officially all caught up. Thanks for reading!! 

I am back/ What I am cooking this Week 9/30-10/5

Ok so the last blog post was about how we were expecting. Well since that was 10 months ago. We now have a new addition to our family. A bouncing baby BOY! William Christopher. He was 7lbs 11oz born on September 8th. One day before his due date. 

Since I am home on maternity leave I have been cooking a lot more. Its pretty awesome. My picky eater Steven has been eating a lot more of a variety than he ever ate before. It is still a struggle to get him to eat his veggies but I think that is how it is for any 6 year old. 

Each Saturday I make a menu of what I am going to cook for dinner. When I am looking for inspiration I tend to search on Pinterest, Food Network, Kraft, Betty Crocker. I will link to different recipes but so far this week this is what is on the menu:

Monday: Hubby wanted Mexican Food so we went to a restaurant Azteca's. 

Tuesday: Tacos 

Wednesday:  Yellowed Tailed Red Snapper, noodles and sauce and green beans 

Thursday: Bacon Wrapped Pork Loin, peas, something else tbd 

Friday: Shake and Bake Chicken with Mashed Sweet Potatoes mixed veggies.

Saturday: Grilled Steak and Baked Potatoes