Easy

Another quick recipe to share! I found this on Pinterest! Yes, another one! I made them today and oh so yummy! I used the Hawaiian mini sub buns instead but still were great. I made the boys sandwiches without the mustard poppyseed mix but they still loved them. I used spicy mustard instead of Dijon, it's what I had. I also used regular sliced swiss cheese instead of the wrapper slices, again it's what I had.  I modified the butter and onion amounts a little since I was only make 5 (2 without onion mix) sandwiches instead of a whole batch, but worked out fine. YUMMY!

That's all for now, just a food post.

A few more hours and it's camo Mommy/Son dance night!! yee haw!

It's Friday!

We signed B up for TKD again here at our new place. Yay, he is so thrilled!! D doesn't want to do it, but that's OK, we signed him up for soccer that will be starting soon.

Made a new recipe tonight that I found on Pinterest. It's mini lasagna cups made with wonton wrappers. This recipe was very easy and tasted good. Although, next time I will use less ricotta cheese and more sauce. I like my lasagna more on the saucy side. But I will make again, very good and the boys loved it too.

Here is the recipe I used from Pinterst originally from Canyoustayfordinner.

Petite Lasagnas

recipe slightly adapted from Hungry Girl

12 oz raw ground turkey

1 tsp salt, divided

¼ tsp pepper

1 cup chopped onion

½ cup chopped mushrooms

14.5 oz can crushed tomatoes, or tomato sauce

2 cloves garlic, minced

3 tsp dried oregano, divided

½ tsp dried basil

1 ½ cups part skim ricotta cheese

24 small square wonton wrappers (the kind near the tofu in the refrigerated section of the produce dept)

1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

 Preheat oven to 375ºF. Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Add the turkey, onions, mushrooms, salt, and pepper. Crumble the meat and saute the mixture for about 10 minutes, or until the turkey is cooked through. Add the garlic and stir constantly for 30 seconds.Add the crushed tomatoes and 2 tsp of oregano. Bring the pan to a gentle boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.

In a large bowl, combine the ricotta, a pinch of salt and pepper, the remaining teaspoon of oregano, and the basil. Stir to mix well. Set aside.

Coat a 12-cup muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray. Place 1 wonton wrapper into each of the 12 cups, pressing firmly in the bottom of the cup and up the sides.Using half of the ricotta mixture, divide it among the 12 muffin cups. Next, using half of the turkey tomato sauce, spoon it evenly over each of the ricotta filled cups. Sprinkle with 2 tsp of mozzarella.Gently press another wonton wrapper on top of the mozzarella layer.

Repeat the process by distributing the remaining ricotta, then the remaining tomato sauce, and finally the rest of the shredded mozzarella.Bake for 10 minutes, or until the cheese has melted.Let the cups cool, remove them from the pan, and serve!

 I also got this cute strawberry football idea on Pinterest too!  I then added my own touch and made a heart treat for the boys to go with it. They were wanting me to make them an early Valentine special treat  :-)

I have a few more new recipes that I'm going to try out this weekend. I'll let you know how those go.

I'm excited for tomorrow night. It's a Mom/Son dance at the boys school. The theme is outdoors and they encourage you to wear your camouflage! hee hee!  We'll be comfy while at the Father/Daughter others will be semi-formal! Lovin' the comfy outdoors theme, perfect for boys!!! I'll be sure to take some pics! Luckily I found the boys a camo shirt at Old Navy for only $4 each! Nice!! Although, I was out on the hunt for me some Mommy camo and didn't really find exactly what I was looking for, but I did find something that will work. I also got a cute pink tree type camo visor hat to go with. yay!

We'll be enjoying the Superbowl on Sunday with some yummy snacks. Again, trying some new recipes.

We are on the countdown to our new home!! yay!! Only about 24 more days...whoo hoo!!!
Toodles and have a great weekend!

Loudness

It was a great night! Devin made a sign for his not so favorite and for his favorite! Cute!

OOps, lost a tire, but still a great run!

We had a wonderful time! Amazingly it was a simple easy night. We drove to New Orleans and parked in the garage. We had no idea where our seats were. We walked straight up several flights of stairs in the garage to the concourse level. We were at the exact gate we needed! wow!! Then we just went straight up to our nose bleed seats! LOL, so very easy!!! Then when it was over, we took the far stairs that we came up and there wasn't the typical crazy crowd. We went straight down to the garage, got in our car. We were ahead of the craziness, then we went up one garage level and straight out to the street! What?? We couldn't believe it!! That was so amazingly easy! I don't expect it everytime but it sure was nice this time. 

Today was a lazy day. We didn't do too much. Just enjoyed the day with each other relaxing. This week we'll be back to the business and planning, but it's all so exciting! I'm even praying all continues well so we might can have our yearly Disney trip!! whoo hoo!! We were dreaming of Disney Hawaii, but the rooms are all booked up during anytime that we might would go. So, no prob, we'll just plan for next year maybe.

Well hope everyone enjoys their Sunday evening before Manic Monday! LOL.

Still thankful

The rest of the week has went really well! I am so happy.
Tonight is Monster Jam truck night! whoo hoo! The boys are thrilled! It should be great. It will be in the biggest venue they have seen them in yet, so it should be some cool stunts.
I'm getting hooked on Pinterest! why oh why did people want me to join? Seriously, it is a very cool place to find recipes, home decor, craft ideas etc. It's like an online cork board organization center. I have found some really cool ideas, now I just need to try them.
We went to some friends last night for a crawfish boil. Talk about DELISH! Unfortunatley the pic I took of all the yummy crawfish, potatoes, sausage and corn that totally filled the table didn't turn out. So here's a mock picture I found online.LOL..

.his table was larger and totally full of crawfish. So good!! Can't wait till we can cook up our own at our own house! Won't be too long!
Well just wanted to put a short update. Gotta head outside to the beautiful weather and watch the boys ride their scooters. Toodles.

yippee yippee oh yeah!

Lots of Great exciting news around here!!
#1 We sold our house and are closing next month!
#2 We found a new house and are closing and moving in next month!
#3 I have a potential job opportunity that might just work out, and it's great hours, opportunities and the time frame is great!
#4 Bry made the 100 club! He is only 1 of 3 kids in his class of 25 to be able to write from 1 to 100 without any mistakes!! whoo hoo!! So proud!
#5 Dev does his 1st Reconciliation tonight, next step is 1st Communion!
#6 I am joining the Catholic Church. I will be confirmed at Easter!
#7 Mike's job is going really good.
#8 We are taking the boys to see the monster trucks this Sat. They will love it!

We are so blessed how things are falling right into place!! We are so thankful!! Thanks for all the prayers! Keep them coming! We love you all!

School project! Bry got to make a "rice baby". He had to bring in panty hose and enough pounds of rice to match his birth weight....by the way...9 pounds 1 ounce of rice!!  He loves his rice baby and it turned out so cute. The head is wobbly just like a real baby. He's been taking great care of him and sleeps with him I night. I babysit during the day. So cute!

Bry with his 100 club hat, 1st place ribbon and his worksheet!! Awesome!

Well that's my short update for now. Lots of great news and we are so happy! Toodles.

Here I DON'T go again

Well all my race excitement has gone away, I'm not doing the race. BUT, my excitement has been replaced! We got a contract on our house!!! yippee!! We are scheduled to close next month, right before the race. It's going to be a busy next month with trips to organize, clean, garage sale and get everything packed and ready to move. I am praying that everything continues well all the way through the closing and that we don't have any problems. This is so exciting. We are going to look at a few houses here this week with a more serious hat on and see what we can find!!! yay!! Thanks for all the prayers and keep them coming!

More good news! Dev got his honor roll certificate! He got Alpha honor roll. I think he was only one GPA point away from the President honor roll. But we are still so very proud of him!! Hoping he continues the rest of the year!!

I got love my sleeping babies! Can you find him? LOL

Here are a few recent Lego creations!

Dev has a retreat this morning for his 1st Communion preparation. Me and Bry get to hang out together. I think we might go to the mall and not sure what else yet. He woke up happy this morning asking " Is this when we get to hang out together?" So sweet!

Another job I was checking on has been filled with someone else. Funny though, this is all working out great because I'm able to get moving things done without having to worry about taking off of work and getting time off. So I know things are out of my control and I'm just following along. Things are working out so nicely, just needing to practice our patience.

Well toodles for now. Happy weekend!

Here I go again

Yes it's true. I'm going to run another 1/2 marathon!! I was planning on just doing the relay with a friend but her sis chose the 1/2 and then we figured we better keep up with the young-en's  hee hee. So this will be my 3rd 1/2 marathon. Two of my fellow princess 1/2 runners will be doing it with me. My other princess has an excuse, she's preggo. I hate she can't join us. But who knows maybe one day we'll be doing a full together...eeekkk!? Did I just say that????  I have those voices that keep talking to me, on my right shoulder...."do it , you can do it!!", on my left " are you absolutely CRAZY!!" Ha ha I guess you know the one I keep hearing the loudest! CRAZY!! Anyway, so this is my week one of training. It's only 8 weeks away so I'm modifying my 10 week schedule down into 8. At least I ran some miles last week so that helps. I'm excited, I think this will be fun.

Praying to hear some great house news this week.

What else? Saw Jennifer Hudson on two different shows. Wow, she looks amazing!!

ROLL TIDE!! So happy that Bama won, we knew they would! LOL.   We know a LSU fan couple that paid almost 3K to go to the game and LSU got shut out!!! What a bummer for them!!! Of course if LSU would have won it would of been great for them, but Nope! No one protected LSU from MAYHEM!! ha ha!!

Hoping the weather is nice tomorrow for my run. Friday is supposed to be nice, just a little cool. I will be running 6 miles on Friday. So I need the weather to cooperate.

Well I think that's all for now. Not too much else at the moment. Hopefully soon though I'll have great news!

It's going to be great

My 2012 positive attitude is telling me it's going to be a great year, right?!!

We took the boys to the LSU campus to see Mike the Tiger, we know Bama is going to win this time!!! LOL, sorry Mike, you're gonna lose!

I made the boys take a pic with the LSU background, as you can see Daddy wasn't smiling.....Bama all the way baby!!

My new little rocker! He is loving his new guitar and Lego Rock Band game on Wii, he is really enjoying the rocking out!!

We had a great New Year! We brought in the year with a Champagne toast with some great long time friends!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The kids wore them selves out racing in the front yard. Looks like Dev is going to win by a nose!! LOL

We took a trip to Pensacola beach to have lunch with another great long time friend! The boys loved seening the beach, the sailboats and all the water. They really wanted to take a boat ride. We told them we might come back and do that another time. It wasn't in the plans for that day. It was such a gorgeous day, I really miss the beach!!

Family pic time!

The boys got a kick out of this huge clam!

Say cheese!!! So glad we live closer now so we can see each other more often!!

The weather is supposed to be in the 70's all week here! Yay! I love the warm weather. I have ran twice this week. Whoo hoo. Trying to stay motivated for this new year.

We are having quite of bit of activity on our house, so please keep those prayers coming for it to sell soon. I really pray the right buyer walks through the door really soon.

I think I"m ready to dig out my scrapbook stuff again. I really want to finish our wedding album. I got some gift cards for Christmas so it will be a great help to get some supplies I need to get going again.

I have to Mommy brag on my boys. The started their new school in Oct and as of Christmas break neither boy got any disciplinary marks of any kind the whole three months!! I am so proud of them for doing so well in their new school. They are really enjoying it. Report cards come home tomorrow. I am predicting more proud Mommy moments!!!

A friend of mine is headed to Disney for the 1/2 marathon this weekend! I am so happy for her and jealous too. I can't wait to do another race in Disney. It is such a great experience and I have to say their medals are awesome!!!! Hoping the whole family can be with me this time to help celebrate as I cross the finish line. I don't have a race picked out yet, but I'm keeping an eye out.

Well that's about all I have for now. Toodles.

One super cool thing

 Today while driving around at the park, we saw this.....HOW COOL!! TONS OF PELICANS!!

A closer view

CLOSER!

WOW!!

Even caught a pic of two of them coming in for a landing!! How awesome! It was such a sight to see. Not sure why there were all there, but alot of people were stopping to take pics. Mike said they were there yesterday too when he went on his bike ride.

Just had to share, it was very cool.

Here are just a few

Well before the New Year I thought I'd post a few pics from Christmas. I haven't done my big upload yet so here are just a few. Daddy wearing the Santa tie the boys got him. It was funny because it was small and wouldn't even tie correctly since it was short, he wore it anyway. 

The boys had a great time with their Cousin.

Bry even got friendly with his dog Cousin! LOL...what an accomplishment! Dev is still scared.

The elf Cousins sat together on their last night before heading back to the North Pole. The kids loved it!

Mommy and Bry working on a lego project.

The finished project!

Dev didn't need help on his triple decker bus.

Christmas Eve night we got a pic of the kids in their matching jammies. Cute! Of course we have to always do the crazy pic!

Got in a 3 mile run today. Whoo hoo..my last run in 2011. Hoping to get back into my running routine for 2012. I really slacked off this last month. At least I got in a run and didn't break my streak of running every single month since Aug of 2010. I know I ran alot before that but don't have the log to know for sure if I ran in every month or not before Aug 2010. So happy for my accomplishment though. Maybe one day I'll run a full marathon. We'll see.
Really looking forward to the New Year 2012 and hoping for great things to happen. Going to bring in the New Year with some great friends. Excited to see friends and have a great New Year's!! Hope everyone has a great New Year and that everyone stays safe. Cheers and I'll see ya next year!! 2012 will start my 6th year of blogging! Wow, can you believe that?! My very first post was in November of 2006!!! Wow!!! If you are ever feeling like a flashback there is a link on the bottom left area of my blog called blog archive and if you click it you can pick a month and year and have a Carter flashback....LOL!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

We're back!

We are back home. We had a wonderful holiday sharing time with all the family!!
Best news happened today....Bry is actually eating again!! He has lost 4 pounds, and I was getting worried. He would hardly eat anything....but the meds started working. He ate a little more last night and then today a semi-breakthrough!! He ate a toaster struedel for breakfast, then lunch we had breakfast again. He had 3 bowls of cereal, 2 pancakes and now a twizzler! Wow, it's such progress. He would basically only eat yogurt and a jelly sandwich. Oh yeah, he did start out yesterday eating an egg/cheese biscuit without the sausage after a few bites. Today was the last day of meds so I'm hoping his appetite and swallowing gets better and better. Maybe we won't have to go to the follow up Dr. visit after all...we'll see.
The boys had a wonderful Christmas and loved all the gifts from family and Santa!! It was fun for the boys to spend it with their cousin too!
I'll have lots of photos to share soon. I think I'll upload to shutterfly first and then put a link on here.
Today has been a great relaxation day. Its 4pm and me and the boys are still in our PJ's!! Nice!! House is a mess with toys but who cares!! LOL....tomorrow I'll get back to business and take the tree down, clean up and make a grocery trip. Looking forward to the New Year and hope it brings wonderful things!!