January 8th- Sharing

I love when I can sit on the floor and enjoy my kids. Today was one of those days. They actually played nicely together and big sister helped Jackson put together a puzzle. I was so proud of her and how nicely she was helping him. Here is a picture of their little hands working together!

January 7th

I took this last night while knitting in bed but didn't want to get up and post.

This is my newest love and yes I brought it in bed :)

Meet Knitfty Knitter!

Where's My Belly?

Jackson's newest thing is to find his belly and then to find others bellies. I had to post these pictures for the picture today! Enjoy!

I can't stop with Jack so here is a picture of Rylie modeling my hat that I knitted. She is not impressed that I am interrupting her dress up time to try on a hat.

Tuesday January 5th

Wow, what a day. It took everything in me to get out of my chair and up from my knitting to come post. Its only day 5 I can't be tired yet :) I have two pictures today since I promised a dinner picture that will come. But, I couldn't resist posting my monthly shopping trip.

Getting paid once a month takes a lot of planning and cooking is a huge monthly plan. My two kids and I get to grocery at 3:00, in purse I have my backup, fruit snacks, suckers, and knowing we will hit the free cookies I think we can make it through. I load the kiddos up into "the bean" driving car and we are off. In the grocery store for over an hour with an 18 month old and 4 year old is so not fun! They were on their last leg and in the dairy my cart is piled high and I am doing the balancing act to get the on sale 20 yogurts on top of everything as they are falling off the top and exploding along with my kids exploding out of the front of the cart! It was a sight, they opened a lane just for me and loaded up two carts of groceries and helped me out of the store. I have to say that is a first, but it is the last for this month anyways! So here is a picture of most of the bags just for fun :) All the freezer stuff was already in the garage for the deep freezer so this is just cabinet and fridge.

My grocery nights are always an easy fix with a cheater chicken. While in the store I picked up a rotisserie chicken and created a tomatilla chicken tostado, gratitude of Rachel Ray. Although, I did alter this recipe to my likings :) I have also found I am no food photographer so bear with me!

Ingredients:

Chicken shredded

Pepper Jack Cheese grated

1 Cup tomatillo salsa

Lime

Refried Beans

Cilantro

4 Green Onions

1 t Cumin

6 inch tortillas

Preheat oven to 425*

Lightly brush tortillas with olive oil and put in over until golden about 6-8 minutes

While tortillas are in oven heat skillet with olive oil and cook green onions shredded chicken also throw cumin and salsa in. Once warmed remove from heat zest a lime and juice lime into chicken mixture.

Beans- saute a couple chopped garlic gloves in a pan with a half can or so rotel and add beans. This is optional with beans I was in a hurry so I didn't cook my beans tonight just straight from the can, but this is how I would rather cook my beans.

Take tortillas out of oven spread beans on shell, scoop chicken mixture on top, then top with cheese. Put back in the oven until cheese is melted. Take out of oven and top with cilantro and avocados. MMMM Enjoy!

I love my Baby Blues!

I wanted to show off my kiddos for the picture today. Only problem... I can never choose just one picture of those kids! Words will never explain these two, and how much love I have for them!

Day Three: Teacher's Tip

This is to all my fellow teachers out there! I have found the best way to organize my classroom books. I spent all summer organizing and labeling and I have to say it has been the best spent hours of organization ever! Today I added about 50 books into the library and decided I would make this my picture of the day!

I have baskets for multiple subjects of books. Some of my subjects are Advanced Chapter Books, Early Readers, Junie B Jones, Magic School Bus, Mercer Mayor, Robert Munsch, Leveled Readers, and Picture Books. I have then put a colored sticky with a number or letters on the sticky. Example, all the books by Robert Munsch are in a basket with an index card with his name and a yellow dot with a RM on the dot. Then every book in the basket has a yellow RM dot. This tells the kids which basket the books belong in. Each basket has a laminated index card with the corresponding dot and code.

Here is a picture of what the Non-Fiction book basket looks like.

I hope this helps all those teachers out there organize those messy librarys :) I was so tired of books being ruined from falling off shelves. I was asked muliple questions a day about where is such and such book or what books can I read? Now I can just say " Jessica, you need to be in an ER book not the Chapter books." Easy managment on leveling books and the kids can find their books easily!

ENJOY!!!

January 1st and 2nd!

Happy 2010! Wow where is time going? I am so excited to blog this year so at the end of the year I can answer that question.

We started off this year in my hubby's home town. Midnight struck and this was the first picture of the year! We played cards with my sister in law and her hubby and family. Thinking we wouldn't stay up till midnight, we sure surpassed that time! What a great way to bring in the new year!

This picture is a tribute to my hubby! I spent all weekend trying to get some good pictures of elk. I even went out in 12 degree weather standing on hay stacks waiting for the elk to come in. I'm sure since we were out there they didn't come that night, so no pictures. We went out on 4 wheelers, no pictures... today right before leaving town we see a herd. (well, father in law tells us there is a herd by the trees.) We drive over there and scare them off once again... we gun it and catch them while they are crossing the road.

Oh and Miss Rylie, 4, in the back seat says "hurry daddy grab your gun. Shoot them before they run away!"