Happy Valentine's Day!

I am seeing a lot of pink, red and white so far today. 

I got up this morning and prepared a special breakfast.

I made Strawberry Nutella French Toast. It was yummy......

especially with a glass of strawberry milk!

I also worked on a special lunch for the girls today.

Heart sandwich kabobs 

Heart apple & peanut butter sandwich

Heart Nutella tortillas topped with a heart strawberry.

Heart carrots

 

I have a surprise in the works for tonight as well. Rather than spoiling the surprise and telling you all about it on here, I will give you a sneak peak.

Be sure to check back tomorrow as I share our lovely night!

Go Fish

No I am not going to bore you with a post where our family sat around the table and played Go Fish. 

However, I will tell you about a field trip Ella went on earlier this week.

It is amazing how we have lived here a total of 7 years(not consecutively) and are still finding new places to go. 

We have heard friends mention this place that is right up the road but never made the time to go.

I have decided.......we will......go back.....before we leave here again!

The place is called Go Fish. It is open during the week for school groups and on the weekend for the public.

In the gallery, they had several types of fish on the wall.

You could practice deep sea fishing. There was a video on the screen with a fishing line leading up to it. Once you caught the fish on video, the fishing line started tugging. Which meant it was time to real it in. 

Next, it was time to go hunting. After watching this girl shoot, her daddy needs to take her to the shooting range next time. When she was telling her daddy about the field trip, she got excited to tell him about all the beavers she shot. I guess an animal lesson needs to go with the gun lesson. She was shooting squirrels not beavers!

Time to practice bass fishing.

We stepped outside to see the fish and alligators.

At the end of the field trip, we went to the classroom to pet the snakes and turtles.

They have a few extra things you can do on the weekends. One of those would be to fish. I know a certain member of our family who would really enjoy that!

Sometimes having 1 teen boy and 2 girls it is hard to find things the whole family can enjoy. This would definitely be a place to add to our list of things to do!

Cheesy Buffalo Chicken Pizza

I tried out a new recipe and it was a hit with the family. Well maybe not the whole family. The hubby was gone and didn't get to try the masterpiece. My youngest........well......she is the picky eater in the family and would not even try it. Her vote doesn't count!

Griffin is all about hot and spicy. He has had to slow down a bit due heartburn. At age 17, the Dr wanted to prescribe him a $80/ per month acid reflux pill. I said, "No Way!!!!!!" We reduced his intake and got something over the counter. 

So......of course......when I made the new recipe.....he enjoyed the rare indulgence!

Cheesy Buffalo Chicken Pizza

I got the recipe from here but made a few changes.

I made it sliced pizza instead of pizza sticks. I also made my own crust using this crust recipe( I just changed freshly ground whole white wheat flour for regular flour).

I will warn you........ even with  mild wing sauce, it can make your eyes water! Just dip it into a little ranch dressing and your good to go!

Ice Skating

Since snow and ice rarely pay us a visit, we had to go to it!

This was the kids first time to ice skate. They picked it up very quickly and loved it!

We will definitely be visiting the ice skating rink  back home very soon!

G Mans New Ride!

Griffin has had his new car for several weeks now and loving every minute!

Of course, he is BROKE......penniless.......no moo-la...... but why should that matter when you can ride in style!

Homemade Pillow Pet

Here is Ella with her Pillow Pets.

Here is Griffin's homemade Pillow Pet.

Chewy makes for one good pillow and awesome pet for allowing the kids to mess with him!

Paris themed room.......almost!

If you are a regular on here then you know that I am s...l...o...w...l...y working on Laney's Paris themed room. She has had several decor pieces, bed spread, etc for quite a while now. I am finally nearing the end! YAY! All that is left is the painting projects. I have  2 dressers and a desk to paint. I wanted to buy used so that I could add the Paris touch without destroying expensive new pieces. I will post the progress of that later. For right now, I thought I would share her new daybed and a few other new decor pieces.

 She got the Paris frame for her birthday almost 2 years ago( see I told you it has been a long time in the works!). The 2 iron dress pieces were a gift from Santa this year.

 Some of her other decor.......

I kept the lamp stand from one we already had, bought the black shade and added the trim.

This has been the sleeping arrangements ever since she got her bed.

(The dresser in the background is one that needs to be painted.)

We had to get the bed with a trundle so little sis would have somewhere to sleep.........even though she does have her own room!