Packers, Wings, Butternut Squash, and Angel Food Cake

That's what's going on in our house right now.  Logan is the menu planner tonight.  Okay, I admit he didn't request the squash but we've got a few to use and I love this recipe.





Yum.. Butternut Squash Bake: All Recipe  


This is the dipping sauce I found for the wings:

Blue Cheese Dipping Sauce:

• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• 8 ounces blue cheese
• 1 teaspoon hot red pepper sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Place all the ingredients in a food processor or blender and process on high speed until smooth, about 2 minutes. Pour into a decorative bowl.

We'll see how it goes....

Thankful

Last weekend Kevin, Logan, and Jonah spent all day Saturday working with a bunch of wood cutting  guys.  You can see the result.  A very generous man that Kevin works with donated the use of his huge dump truck, wood splitter, time,  and the wood.  Friday night our whole family unloaded and stacked one dump truck load of wood.  Sat. Kevin and the older boys spent the entire day cutting, stacking and hauling wood with everyone involved---including another dump truck load for ourselves.  What a great feeling to have this all ready for the cold winter a head.  It was actually fun doing this together and seeing the stack get bigger and bigger.  I think it gave the boys a sense of accomplishment too.

We took this picture today after church so we could sent it to Jerry (the generous donator of all the wood) as a thank you.  

Spring Ahead--Fall Behind!

Maybe it was my frantic pace of working all day yesterday to clean out the storage room that befuddled my brain into settle the clock AHEAD instead of behind.  But...I am VERY ready to church this morning having two extra hours.  

Cleaning the Storage/Project Room

I wish that I would have taken a before picture.  Wow.  This storage room mess has been bugging me for quite a while.  A couple of years ago it really looked much like this because we used it to do some school work and art/craft projects.  I'm not sure how it became designated a dumping ground for everything I didn't know what to do with.. but somehow it morphed into a room I dreaded to go into.  And I had to go into it often because our big freezer in located in the back corner.
Since we live in a small house, I don't have a lot of room for the boys to do craft projects and leave them set out until finished.  This room is perfect for that.  It was weighing on me that they couldn't really do any projects until I cleaned it up a bit.  Like most jobs of this nature, once you get started it isn't as bad as you think and I didn't take nearly as long.  So note to self....just get started!
And Yeah---  It looks great!!  It feels so good to get something done.  And--I've got four whole garbage back of stuff to get rid of.  

Halloween Fun

Mary, Cindy, Susan, and I took the kids out for a little trick or treating fun.

Zach, Luke, and Jackson

The whole gang ready to go.

BLOGGING--UGH!

I have a love/hate relationship with Blogging.  I love to look at the pictures that capture what we've been up to--especially since I have a total hate relationship with scrap booking.  Blogging is my way of compensating for not scrap booking all those cute pages which take up way too much time (for me because I'm not naturally creative--not knocking anyone else's hobby)
Hate--because I seem to not find the time to blog either.  One more thing to feel guilty about.  But recently I unplugged myself from facebook.  Now I have some added free time to my day, not to mention a more positive out look on life.  This really should equal more blogging hours for me.  So...this is my experiment.  Does no face book=more blogging time?  Time will tell I guess.
Possibly.. if I can quit playing with HOW my  blog looks and just start typing.

Books read February-April

Books Logan and Jonah have read: 

My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen

White Fang (Logan) by Jack London

Pompeii: City of Ashes

The Mystery of the Roman Ransom

The Ides of April
Terra-Cotta Soldiers by Arlan Dean
Hannibal Rome's Worst Nightmare by Brooks

Books I have Read to Logan and Jonah:

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place (book 2)

Treasures in the Snow by Patricia St. John

Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff

Luke:

Lately I've started reading chapter books to Luke (actually all the boys) at bedtime.  Our first couple were Junie B. Jones books.  Now we've graduated to Charlotte's Web--which I love.