Sour Cream Noodle Bake

This recepie came out of Packwood. We tried it for the first time last night. YUM!! Just thought I would share! If you have a Packwood refere to page 176, if you don't have a Packwood, GET ONE!

1 (8oz) pkg med egg noodles 1 c cottage cheese
1 lb groud beef 1 c sour cream
1 (8oz) tomato sauce 1/2 c chopped green onion
1 t salt 3/4 c coarsly grated cheddar cheese
1/4 Garlic Salt

Cook noodles and mix with onion, cottage cheese, and sour cream. Brown hamburger, add salt, garlic salt, and tomato sauce, simmer for 5 min. In a 2 qt casserole dish layer half noodle mixture, then half meat mixture (repeat). Bake at 350 for 25 min top with cheddar cheese and cook another 5 min. YUM!

Happy Holidays

After tomarrow I have one week and 3 days off for the holiday. I am so ready for a break. I think I will try to visit friends and maybe take the kids to the zoo. I can hardly wait. Call me if you want to get together!! Yeah, so much fun!

Nobody knows

Well, nobody knows how many brothers and sisters I have including step and in-law. Which is fine, because as you may recall . . . I didn't either. Obvioulsy, I have 2 full blood VERY young sisters. Then I have one cookey brother-in-law. Then comes the trickey part, I have 4 Stepbrothers/sister in-law. I remebered the 3 living at home, but forgot the older one in CA. So, anyway that is a grand total of 7 brothers and sisters including step and in law. The next question is rather simple, what county have I visited?

Fall

Oh, how we love our big Cottonwood. In the summer it gives us much needed shade in the evening in the spring and winter we get to watch the birds and squrils that call our tree home and even in the fall it gives us a HUGE pile of leaves to bury the kids in. Right now they are too little to jump in, but they loved being buried by all the leaves as we raked. Even Eme enjoyed bedding down in our big pile. As we head towards Thanksgiving I give thanks for the little moments like these.

October Poll Results

It seems we love all the Sesame Street charaters. Cookie Monster did come out slightly ahead of the others though. I will keep that one around for another time. This month there will be a new quiz every week. This series of questions is to see how well you know me. The full quiz is avalible on bebo and I can email it to you if you like. This week the question is how many brothers and sisters do I have? Sounds easy enough right? Well, when I made up the quiz on bebo I even got it wrong. Next week I will have a new question and give you the anwser to this one.

Technologically Savy

Ok, so after months of trying to figure out why I could no longer download my books from Audible I finally checked my firewall and therein lie the problem. My stupid firewall was blocking the download of my books. I have now successfully downloaded the second half of 1984 and Oliver Twist, now to finish downloading all the other books I bought in the last couple months.

A Zoo at my house

Here is my little giraffe and tiger. Yes, my tiger is eating his stripes and my giraffe is trying to rip off her head. Not only that I had to bribe my tiger not to crawl off by giving him a ball. Not the most coroperative zoo animals you ever did see. Below left we have what I call "The Lion, the Witch, and the Katie." And lower right we have TJ pulling on Katie's Tail. "What happens when you pull this thing?" TJ slept through most of Halloween night, but Katie did quite a bit of trick or treating. The first house she turned to me and said "Mommy, Candy!" She wanted it right then and there. She was starting to get the hang of it by the end of the evening. Hope you had a wonderful Halloween!

My Haunted "Mansion"

I love decorating for Halloween! Here is our final product last night before I took Katie trick-or-treating. You really need sound to get the full effect (I had my cd player going with chains, and cats ect.) Int the bushes to the right I had my huge spider web and my new blinking skull. There was more "Caution" tape on the garage door and, did you notice? I put a reb blub in the porch light. It is a little cutsie, but Kaite loves that pinwheel in the yard. That one is new this year too. I love decorating!

Our Awsome Pumpkins

Here are our cute pumpkins! They were so fun! Scott and TJ did the smiley face and Katie and I did the pirate skull. I think they turned out really good. Best of all no one smashed them last night so I am going to light them up again tonight. I am very proud of my skull. It took me longer than it took Scott to do his, but I love it. Unfortunatley though, when it in not lite, you can not tell what it is, oh well.

Why the slow blogging last week?

Did you miss me last week? Not if you live in Iowa you didn't! Wednesday I was just sitting around doing my thing. (FYI- my thing is changing diapers) When all of a sudden the gal I babysit for came to pick up her boy and told me how she couldn't afford to fly to IA for her grandma's funeral and was thinking about driving and asked if I wanted to come along. So, I quite litterally dropped everything called Scott, who said "of course, go. I know how important it is to you that your grandparents meet the kids." called my Gramma said I was on the way, and threw together our bags. I had less than two hours from the time she walked in my door until we were on the road. Not such a crazy thing to do on my own, but with the kids! We had an uneventful drive out. I was able to see everyone except my aunt Nita and her family, because they were sick and my uncle Dennis and his family, because they were in Floridia. It was a quick trip, but I was so glad everyone got to meet the kids. We will be back in June for my cousin's wedding. Not my favorite season to be in Iowa, but oh well. The drive back was far worse, as my traveling buddy didn't feel up to doing the through the night thing again especially with all the deer we saw. But we survived. Katie was being a pill as she only got one nap while we were their thanks to my cousins wonderful wife who Katie adores! Plus we got a picture of all my Gramma's Great grandkids. Anyway, I am back!

Carey calls Last Comic Standing crooked

Did anyone see this episode about a year or two ago. Even though we absolutely LOVE this show and never missed an episode, if I was one of these celebrity judges I would have been mad too! At least Kathleen Madigan was chosen. We are going to see her next month!! I can hardly wait. I voted for her every week! Click here for story.

Pulling up

Last night TJ pulled up twice. The first time I don't think he really knew what he was doing, but we made a big deal out of it. The second time he knew he did something cool and he was very proud of himself. Katie was already in bed, but she could hear us hotting and hollering. We could hear her in her room saying "Good job, TJ." It was very cute.

Joke of the day

A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patricia Whack."Miss Whack, I'd like to get a $30,000 loan to take a holiday." Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name. The frog says his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger, and that it's okay, he knows the bank manager.Patty explains that he will need to secure the loan with some collateral.The frog says, "Sure. I have this," and produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed.Very confused, Patty explains that she'll have to consult with the bank manager and disappears into a back office.She finds the manager and says, "There's a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow $30,000, and he wants to use this as collateral."She holds up the tiny pink elephant. "I mean, what in the world is this?"

(you're gonna love this)


(its a real treat)


(a masterpiece)


(wait for it)


The bank manager looks back at her and says...


"It's a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone."

(You're singing it, aren't you? Yeah, I know you are........)

Shampooing the carpet

A few weeks ago my sisters came over for a visit and we decided it would be a good time to shampoo the carpets since I would have help with the kids and all. Actually, Leslie was very excited about it. We got all the furniture moved and vacuumed about 3 times and then Les curled up under the table in the sofa cushions and fell asleep. Man, she was out. I started just on the other side of the couch. For at least an hour Janie and I cleaned by ourselves. Les never even budged. It was quiet funny. Of course, first thing in the morning someone spilled their pop on the floor, the next day TJ stole his sister's pizza and rubbed it into the carpet. I give up. How does tile in the living room sound?

Circus

Scott and I both took the day off yesterday and took the kids to the circus. Katie was a little scared at first but by the second half she was having a great time. She spent the whole first half on my lap and the second half standing in her chair. When the elephants came out she made elephant noises and she raored at the tigers. It was very cute. TJ on the other hand was not as impressed. He was up for the first 15 min or so, but then he was out. They didn't have the motorcycles in the big sphere this year. I know Scott really likes that. I enjoy all the animals, the circling rings, and the high wire act. I succeded in keeping Scott from running away with the circus for atleast one more year.

Splunking

TJ is getting QUICK. One moment he is playing in the living room. The next you hear him playing happily in the hall way. But when you go to check on him this is the kind of thing you find...

This happened on laundry day and Katie's hamper was still in the hall. As you can see he knocked it over and crawled right in. Didn't bother him at all, he was having a great time. But she sister decided this event needed her involvement and she was on board for the rescue. Unfortunately, an ungrateful recuee decided to pull her hair as she tried to get him out.

Crop Walk

This Sunday I will be participating in the Foothills Crop Walk. If you would like to find out more or sponsor me in the walk click here.

Thank you to those who have already given your support!

Almost a week

I can not believe it has almost been a week since my last post. The kids have been driving me bonkers. With TJ faster than a speeding bullet and the bigger 2 constantly fighting. I have no time for anything. Belly dancing is almost over again. I only have one week left. I am trying to decide if I am going to take it again. It is a lot of fun, but Tues nights are not great for me. Anywho, it is late, I am going to bed.

Elmo Underwear

Well, I finally found Elmo underwear for Katie. You would think I was searching for lost treasure! Everywhere I went I found Hello Kitty, Dora, My Little Ponies, Strawberry Shortcake, Hilary Duff, but no Elmo. Finally, Tuesday I was at the mall (picking up Cinderella) and decided to check all the department stores there. I finally found them at Sears. $7.00 for 3 pair, can you believe that? I was slightly outraged. I paid $14.00 for 6 pair of underwear, all of which now have been peed in! Potty training, what a joy.

September Poll results

Well, that was helpful... 100%... other. FYI- there will no longer be a other option on polls. Comentment isn't fatal. Oh well, since we bought the jet skiis a girl trip is pretty much out anyway. Next months poll will be on... I am still deciding.