Menus Plan Monday

Oh another week is to begin again and planning out my menu is something that must be done.  I will show what we are having for the week and post recipes as I go.

Sunday: Birthday Dinner for my Mom at my sisters house
Monday: Pork roast with coleslaw and mashed potatoes
Tuesday: Chicken Patty Sandwiches with Tater Tots
Wed: Chicken Caesar Salad
Thursday: Grilled Cheese with Soup
Friday: Tacos
Saturday: Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes, Veggies

Head on over to the Organizing Junkie for more ideas.

Who would you invite?

You have 10 people you can invite to dinner, living or dead. Who do you invite?
So this got me thinking.  Who would I invite.  Would I just start inviting people for the sake of an invite or would I warm hearts, enlighten minds, and have one of the most life changing, memorable moments for not only myself but my guest also. 
So here are my ten:
1. Jesus Christ
2. My Mom = Living
3. My Grama = Dead
4. My Grandfather= Dead
5. My Dad = Living
6. My Great Grandmother (Nannie)= Dead
7. My Great Grandfather (Grampy)= Dead
8. My Grandfather (My Dad's Dad)= Dead
9. My BFF- Heather= Living
10. Heather's Father= Dead

As you can see I took the road less traveled by. Why? Because I want to see the ones I love get to see their loved ones just another time while here.  They miss them terribly.  And Jesus coming to dinner is for me. Not that they wouldn't enjoy dinner with him but He is my #1 choice.  

Now if I had 15 people I would make even more people happy . . .

Who would you chose?

Before you know it. . .

Time sure does fly. I had a beautiful little girl at the end of October. She is growing like a little weed. We are adjusting to life as a family of 4. She is such a welcome addition to our family. My oldest is in love with her little sister. I love watching them together. They have already become steadfast friends. I am looking forward to blogging again. It will probably be in the late evenings seeing my time and arms are pretty full anymore. But I wouldn't change a thing. I feel so blessed. I am so thankful that God proved the doctors wrong when they said I wouldn't have any children. I now have two perfect babies.

God is love,

Disney World!

We went to Disney World a couple of weekends ago and had such a wonderful time.  It was just myself, my husband, my daughter and my wonderful mom in law.  I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Blessings

Wow has this year brough about many blessings and suprises.   I would like to share that my husband and I are now expecting our second child.  We are so exstatic.  Our daughter is 6 years old and we will be welcoming this one later this year.  My due date is October 31st, a Halloween baby.  This is such a sentimental day for me becuase it is the day that my Grama went to Heaven.  So it is perfect!  I am now 9 weeks along and am realizing how different each pregnancy is already.
With my daughter I didnt have to make any trips to get maternity clothes until I was 4  monts along, this time I am 2 months and made my first visit yesterday.  I keep teasing my husband that I am going to be as big as a house by the end of my pregnancy, now I am actually wondering if this might be true ;)   Hopefully I will be able to keep my blog up to date but as tired as I am lately, at this point in the game my family is just lucky to get dinner each night. 

My life in a nutshell

Its amazing how my life has changed in the past 9 months.  I hurt my knee back in April and thought nothing of it until the pain wouldn't leave.  With an abundance of prayers set in motion a whirl wind.  I hobbled along for a few months convincing myself that any day the pain would go away.  Finally the last week of July I went to the doctor and was told all kinds of news, non I wanted to hear but all that I need to.  At the time I was working as an assistant at a preschool and knew at that moment there was no way I would be able to continue in that line of work.  I prayed for the next couple of days of what to do.  I ended up resigning from my job and taking a job that allowed me to sit and rest my knee and challenge my brain.  I am so happy at my new job and my knee is beginning to slowly heal.  I know that there is a long road ahead with it but am so thankful that God knows what He is doing and that I can rely so freely upon Him.  Finances have become easier for my family (huge prayer answered).  And now I am one a journey of learning more about something called The Daniel Fast.  I am currently reading about it and believe it would be very beneficial to my body and my relationship with the Lord.  So I am sure I will be blogging about that at a later date.  Life moves along in our home, my little girl is currently fighting her first illness of the year (school year) and I am completely engrossed in Sarah Palin's Alaska on TLC. So with that I am off to check on her and make a cup of hot tea and soak up the Alaskan wilderness.

Live simply.   Love seriously.   Care deeply.   Speak kindly.  Leave the rest to God.

A costume and the hopes of Halloween not getting cancelled.

September is here already, I cant believe it.  Its time to start looking for Halloween costumes for the little one soon.  She has been talking about what she might like to be, but each time it changes to something new.  She asked me the other day on the way to school.
 Mommy do you know what I'm going to be for Halloween?  I said, Coraline?  She said No, A princess?  No  A shark? No  A fairy?  No,  I said what do you want to be sweetie?  Oh I don't know I thought you might give me some ideas .  She is so funny.  So I guess we will be on the look out for a cute costume for her. 

Just as long as this year she doesn't get so excited about Halloween and then the day of she doesn't try to cancel it like last year. 
So I think I will be prepared this year, just in case, I am going to have the pizza delivery number on hand, candy and popcorn and a good kid friendly Halloween movie, just in case Halloween gets cancelled.  Wish me luck!