Ingredients:
1 bag frozen hash browns
2 cans Chefs Cupboard chicken broth
1 can Chefs Cupboard cream of chicken soup
2 cups Happy Farm cheddar cheese
1 onion diced
1 package cream cheese (not pictured)
Salt and pepper to taste
(Optional) Appleton Farms fully cooked bacon
All ingredients from Aldi.
Steps:
1. Combine hash browns, chicken broth, onion, and soup in crock pot stir and cook on low in crockpot for 4 hours.
2. Add cream cheese and cheese in the last 30 minutes stir to mix.
3. Garnish with bacon.
*Cook bacon as it says on the package.
Porter will watch one tv show and that is Jake and the Neverland Pirates, so it was a no brainer to be pirates for Halloween.
Here was the pirate wagon.
Although I did not want to get the actual Jake costume because I knew a lot of kids would have that one. We all had some sort of red and white.
Here was our trunk.
Overall it was a beautiful day and probably our favorite trunk we have done. Not to mention Porter actually had a good time and understood what we were doing. He even wanted to put candy in the bags of the kids who came by.
Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
1 can pumpkin
2 cups flour
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
Steps:
1. Preheat oven 350 degrees.
2. Mix all ingredients together in a bowl.
3. Scoop mix into muffin greased muffin pan.
4. Bake for 20 minutes or until middles are cooked.
Makes 24 muffins.
Add cream cheese and sugar in the middle to make these delicious cupcakes.
We are being pirates at our trunk or treat so we decided to make P's wagon into a pirate ship. Here's how we did it.
1. Got a wardrobe box from Ace hardware store.
2. Cut one of the four panels off and sliced in half to make the sides of the ship.
3. I panted "wood" paneling for the sides of the boat with brown paint. First traces in pencil.
4. Taped cardboard to eachother around the wagon. This was the tricky part, you really need 2 people. Used clear wide packaging tape.
5. We used a shower curtain rod as the middle pole and covered with the inside piece of wrapping paper.
6. I painted a flag. We backed it with cardboard leftover from the wardrobe box. Taped it to the pole.
7. Used a solo cup to make my three black circles on the side of the ship.
Final product in action at pirate trunk or treat.
First Birthday photo ideas that we used for Porter.
I am one photos.
Infant photography
Smash the cake ideas.
Ingredients
3 frozen Kirkwood chicken breast
1 can Chefs Cupboard cream of chicken soup
Benita flour tortillas
1 packet Casa Mamita taco seasoning
1 cup Casa Mamita salsa
1/2 cup Friendly Farms sour cream
All ingredients from Aldi.
Steps:
1. Place chicken (frozen is fine), seasoning, salsa, and soup in crockpot on low for 6-8 hours. I do this when I leave for work and it's ready when I get home.
2. Fork chicken to shred.
3. Add sour cream and wrap in tortilla.
*I like to add cheese to mine but that is optional.
Ingredients
1/2 a box Reggano elbow macaroni
1 teaspoon Stonehill garlic powder
1/2 cup Happy Farms light sour cream
1 packer Casa Mamita taco seasoning
1 can Happy Farms diced tomatoes
1 diced onion
1 lb Kirkwood ground turkey
Salt and pepper
(not pictured) 3 oz Cream Cheese
(not pictured) 3 oz Cream Cheese
All from Aldi.
Steps:
1. Cook pasta like it says on the box. When you drain the water save 1/2 cup of pasta water. Set both aside.
2. Brown the ground turkey.
3. Slice the onion and add to ground turkey along with the garlic powder.
4. Continue to stir until onions are browned.
5. Drain the tomatoes and add to turkey mix.
6. Add taco seasoning and let simmer on low for 3-5 minutes.
7. Combine 1/2 cup pasta water, pasta, and meat together in the pasta pot.
8. Add sour cream, cream cheese, salt and pepper to taste.
9. Mix and let stand for a few minutes.
Here is the Santa Wish List form/template I am sending to my family. I always have good intentions of getting my shopping done early but hopefully this will help. And hopefully I can get the right gift!
Santa’s Wish List
Please fill out
and return by November 1 to be ensured a spot on the nice list.
Name:________________________________
Favorite snacks:_____________________________________________________
Favorite drinks:_____________________________________________________
Favorite place to
eat:_________________________________________________
Favorite place to
shop:________________________________________________
Circle one: Google or Apple
Gift that you
absolutely cannot live without this year:
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Best gift you have
ever gotten:
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Does your gift
need to be packaged small due to your travel and the size of your sleigh? Yes or No
We were golfers the first year we were married. Most of this costume came from Walmart.
Ok so here is an update from the most recent measurements of Porters head:
Just a reminder that he started with asymmetry of 9mm, we did stretches and got him to 6mm asymmetry diagonally across the head.
(June)
(August)
When we measured yesterday he was at a 3.5mm!
(October)
So we are making progress. The soft spot is still slightly open so we are going to continue to wear the helmet as long as there is a chance of more improvement. Thank you for the continued support.
Our schools art teacher made this chalkboard for the front of our school. The students can see the average attendance for the day and week.
We took porter to the pumpkin patch today with grandma and grandpa schieber.
Porter fed the goats.
Rode the tractor to the field.
Thought hard about what pumpkin to choose.
Then picked a couple because he couldn't decide.
Finally chose the perfect one.
What a great fall day!
We celebrated Rachel's baby shower with a pink owl theme.
Diaper cake
