Christmas Handprint Art

I cannot get enough of cute little hand and footprints to do with children. Here are a few new ones I have done this month...

Little Lambs Christmas Ornaments

Well, I was determined to finish these in one day and I succeeded, it took me about five hours but it feels good to have them completed and I'm excited to hand out the Christmas gifts to the parents.

Each ornament block has five pictures on it, from when they were a baby to where they are older now.

Here we took many pictures of our "Baby Elves" Surprisingly, they do like to wear headbands!

                 And of course my own artwork!

Parmesan Crusted Chicken

  I made this for diner the other night and got so many rave reviews from my family that this will be added to our favorite dishes!

Ingredients:

 

1/2 cup Hellmann's or Best Food's Real Mayonnaise

1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese

4 boneless skinless chicken breast cutlets, about 1 1/4 lbs. total weight or about 5 ounces per breast

4 teaspoons Italian seasoned dry bread crumbs

Place mayo and cheese in a small bowl and mix.

Finger Painting is the best!!!

We love to finger paint, with pudding, jelly or just fun water color paints!!!

 

and finger painting with pudding is just fun!!!

Foil Tummy Time

Every other month I like to do a fun Tummy Time activity this month I chose to do Foil. Check out the pictures. They had a lot of fun with it!

       

Wow, November already!?

For a sensory activity, I bought fabric leaves, as you can tell they really enjoyed it!

I thought these turkey coloring sheets were really cute, instead of finger painting with them, I used their point fingers and stamped different colors on each feather, then I made their hand prints on the turkey's belly! Of course I had to laminate them! :)

My Halloween Door, I think these turned out so cute!

                          Hand prints on foam pumpkins

oven-roasted sausages, potatoes, and peppers

get it:

• 1 package (at least 1 lb) of your favorite sausage links (johnsonvilles, evergood, generic smoked sausage, whatever you like.  i used polish sausages, 4 to a pack)
• 4-5 decent-sized potatoes (i prefer yukon gold or red bliss)
• 1 small jar banana peppers
• 1-2 bell peppers, sliced
• 1 large onion, sliced
• 3 tbsp olive oil (yes, it has to be OLIVE oil)
• salt & pepper
• *optional — 2 tsp dried rosemary (bachelors, ignore this.  your salt and pepper will be fine.  i know that asking you to procure olive oil was already a stretch.)
• *optional — 3 tbsp creole seasoning

make it:

1. spray a large baking pan w/ nonstick spray (make sure there is at least a small “lip” that provides a “side” to the pan, don’t use a flat baking sheet.
2. slice sausages into thin rounds, about 1/5″ thick.  if you know how to slice using a “bias” cut, do that.  if not, don’t worry about it.
3. cut potatoes into 1/2″ chunks
4. slice onion and pepper into strips
5. place all ingredients on baking sheet and drizzle oil over.  use your hands to toss everything together in the oil, making sure everything feels coated.
6. add salt & pepper and spices (if using)
7. top w/ sliced banana peppers
8. bake at 400 for about 30-35 min, until potatoes are tender
9. EAT

Beginning of Fall!!!

So far our baby room has been silly busy with fun activities, I can't help but to have some more fun October things coming up as well. It's crazy but right now we have 7 1 year old's in our room. One birthday tomorrow and One on Monday! Thank goodness, because we can't have cupcakes everyday!

                                Our hand print trees

                        Sensory Play, Spaghetti Noodles

                          Oodles are Noodles of fun!

                       Finger painting with pudding paints

                   Sensory Play, digging with Potato Flakes

                              Painting with Applesauce

Taco Bake

Taco Bake

If you like crescent rolls, sour cream, and DORITOS - then this is the recipe for you! It's simple and it's great!

Ingredients:
1 lb. hamburger
1 pkg. taco seasoning
8 oz. sour cream
1 pkg. crescent rolls (8)
1 can tomato sauce
1 can diced tomatoes (optional)
1 c. shredded cheese
Dorito chips

 

 1. Brown hamburger and drain.

2. Add taco seasoning, tomato sauce, tiny bit of water, and diced tomatoes. Simmer...

3. In 9x13 dish, press out crescent rolls and roll them to form crust.

4. Here comes the Dairy!!! Layer hamburger mixture, sour cream and then cheese.

 

 5. Crush about 3/4 of a bag of Doritos and put them on top. Bake at 350 for 30 min.

Sensory Month

This month is Sensory month, so we've been doing lots of exploring here's some pictures!!!

                             Our Lady Bug Footprints!

                                 Our Horse Footprints!

                          Our hand print Octopus's!

A Redneck Pinterest Post, Baby Water Beds! I had found that I wanted to try!!! It was success, all the babies very much enjoyed it!

More arts and crafts for babies

 Our Lobster we did with our hands and feet!!!

 Our Little Fish's we did with our hands!!!

 Our cute little owl hand prints!!!

 We celebrated a 1st Birthday this month!!!

 Our String Sensory box, that was oodles of fun!!!

Our lovely curtain's that my cousin Amanda made for our room!!!

 

Our John Deere Footprints we made!!!

Crafts

Been a busy month by doing lots of hand print and footprint crafts! Here are a few of the bunch!

Wrap it in Foil then toss it in the fire! It's a great dessert!

Zucchini Boats

Just cut a zucchini in half lengthwise and trim a little off the bottom so it sit still in a baking dish*** Scoop out the center where the seeds are with a spoon*** Brush the surface with a mixture of crushed garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper*** Arrange halved grape tomatoes into the grooves, sprinkle with bread crumbs i used Gluten Free. and bake in a 350 degree oven for about 30 minutes*** Remove and place diced fontina or mozzarella in between the tomatoes, place them back in, but now under the broiler til golden and bubbling***Remove and drizzle with olive oil and a sprinkling of grated parmesan. You will love this as a main dish!

Low fat pineapple cake

I love finding 2-Ingredient Recipes, Especially this one my mom won't feel bad eating. It takes all of 2 minutes to stir together and throw in the oven and is a perfect low cal treat! It's a light and refreshing dessert everyone loves. Moist and delicious!

1 box angel food cake mix

1   {15 1/2 oz}. can crushed pineapple with juice

Mix together and pour into a 9x13 un-greased glass pan. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.

Broil a Grapefruit

Addicted to Pinterest, I really just need to get off instead of spending hours apon hours looking at everything. But I came across this from a  Pinterest blogger that had said "Broil a grapefruit - If you’ve never done this before, you are seriously missing out. Grapefruit is good but broiled grapefruit is GOOOOD. The sugars caramelize and the flesh gets a little warm and gooey and it’s a sweet, tangy, brûléed masterpiece for your tastebuds. I highly recommend it." So since I had one grapefruit left I decided to try it. And I too hightly recommend it!

Ingredients

• 1 grapefruit, cut in half and segmented with a serrated knife
• 1T butter, melted
• 2T brown sugar
• cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, etc

Method

1. Turn on your broiler and position the rack in the top shelf, as close to the broiler as you can get it
2. Halve and segment your grapefruit. You might need to take a little slice off the bottoms so that they don’t roll around
3. Mix butter, brown sugar, and desired spices until they form a thick paste.
4. Place grapefruit halves in a broiler-safe pan and smear the butter/sugar paste on top.
5. Broil grapefruit halves for 4-6 minutes, keeping an eye on them and rotating if necessary.
6. Remove from oven and serve warm. Yum!

Bubbly Bacon Breakfast Bake

 

Ingredients:

3/4 – 1 bag TATER TOTS

salt and pepper to taste

1 small onion or 1/2 large onion, diced

1/2 red bell pepper, diced

1/2 green bell pepper, diced

1 lb bacon crisp, crumbled

8 eggs

2 cups milk

3 cups cheddar jack or Colby jack cheese, shredded

Directions:

 

In a 9×13 casserole add the TATER TOTS, salt and pepper 1tsp of each. Bake in a preheated 400 degree oven until TATER TOTS are golden brown. Remove from oven and set aside. Lower oven temp to 350. In a mixing bowl, add 8 eggs, 2 cups milk, and 3 cups shredded cheese. Mix well and set aside. In a frying pan, fry bacon until crisp, then crumble.discard all bacon grease except 1 tablespoon for sauteing the onion and peppers. In the same fry pan as the bacon, saute the diced onion and peppers until soft. Layer the onions and peppers on top of the precooked TATER TOTS. Layer the bacon crumbles on top of the onions and peppers. Pour the egg and cheese mixture over the bacon layer. COVER with aluminum foil and bake in a pre-heated 350 oven for 45 minutes. UNCOVER and bake for an additional 30 minutes.

Busy Fun Weekend

I can't believe it's March and it's 80 degree's outside!
The Girls and I went to Cheesecake Factory on Friday Night for dinner and desert. It was an expensive night but worth every bite!

Then Saturday night Jill, Mike and Brandon and I all went Rock Climbing. It was so much fun! So intense and a great workout we all reached the top and felt very proud of ourselves! But my arms are killing me today!

Jill Climbing!

Me Climbing!

Mike Climbing!

Brandon Climbing!