Crock Pot Tortellini

1 bag of Frozen tortellini
1 bag of Frozen spinach
4 cups of chicken or vegetable broth
2 Cans of diced tomatoes
2 packages of cream cheese, cut into chunks

Put all ingredients in Crockpot. Cook on low for 5 hours. 

Stuffed Zucchini

Ingredients :

1 large Zucchini, cut in half
Onion, chopped
2 Italian sausages, cooked and cut into chunks
Pasta sauce
Shredded cheddar cheese

Cut Zucchini in half. Hollow out the center of each half.
Cook sausages and cut into chunks

Add a layer of sauce to each Zucchini half.
Add sausage
Add onion on top, then more sauce then shredded cheese.

Bake for 20 minutes.

Venison Stew

I love fall because I love making stews and big hearty meals that we don't normally eat all summer long. Well it's not fall yet, actually it's supposed to be 91 degrees here today. But that's all the more reason to use the crock pot. It's too damn hot to be using the oven or stove. So venison stew it is!!

Ingredients :

Vension , cut up into chunks
4 large potatoes, cut into chunks
1 bag of baby carrots
1 package of sliced mushrooms
Onion, sliced (use as much or as little as you like, depends on your taste)
2 tablespoons of minced garlic
1 box of beef broth (enough to cover all the ingredients)
Salt/pepper

Cook on low for about 8 hours.

Enjoy!!

Crab and Shrimp Macaroni Salad

Yummy mac salad that's a little different than the regular old recipe.

Ingredients :

Cucumber, chopped
3 eggs,  hard-boiled and chopped
Onion, chopped
Crab Meat, cut into chunks
Shrimp
Mayonnaise
Elbow Macaroni

Cheesy Goodness

This recipe is easy and delicious. I call it cheesy Goodness.

5 medium potatoes, peeled, cut and cooked
1 can green beans
1 large can of cream of mushroom soup
1 bag of cheddar cheese

Cook potatoes.  Combine all ingredients together and put in a casserole dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Enjoy!

little girl buries goldfish

I can't help it, I find this hilarious!!

Gallery Wall

I kept seeing gallery walls all over pinterest and I love them. Decided to do one of my own on our dining room wall using all the great newborn photos we had taken of Aria. Such a great way to display photos without it looking to uniform and boring.

Freezer Meals

I wanted to make a bunch of freezer meals before the baby is born to hopefully make life a little easier for us after she is here.  Not having to worry about what to cook for dinner is an awesome thing! I really should do this once a month anyways, it is a time and money saver.

I enlisted the help of my mother and my sister to get these meals together :)

We made:  Barbecue Hawaiian Chicken
                  Scalloped Potatoes and Ham
                  Sausage, Potatoes and Green Bean Bake
                  Marinated London Broil
                  Marinated Pork Chops (2 different kinds)
                  Chicken Fajitas
                  Stuffed Shells
                  Spaghetti

Some recipes were doubled to get to meals.

All recipes can be found on my Pinterest boards.

The Nursery is Finished!!

I am now 33 weeks along in this pregnancy and the nursery is finally finished! We worked so hard to get it done and it really came out great! I am so happy with everything we did :)

We went from a boring, brown and green room (yuck):

To this:

Beautiful Grey, Orange and Teal! I love it!!

Crab Salad

Delicious Crab Salad. Super easy to make and tastes awesome!

Ingredients:

Crab Meat, cut into chunks (i use imitation crab meat, it's all that's available around here)

Green Onions, chopped

2 Tomatoes, chopped (i took all the seeds out)

English Cucumber, chopped 

Mayonnaise

Minced Garlic

Elbow Macaroni

Cook pasta, Add all the ingredients and mix well.  See, Very easy.

Stairs Makeover

The stairs in our house were not finished and they looked horrible.  We have lived with it for a year and finally today my husband painted them.  They came out fabulous!!

Bathroom re-do continued...

I painted the wood cabinets white for a newer, fresher look. So easy and it really brightens up the room.  I primed them first, then used a semi-gloss paint.  Also bought new drawer pulls to update the look.

Hallway Re-do

This project was finished last week and it came out great.  We are really happy with the color we chose!

Bathroom Re-do

Finished painting the upstairs bathroom today and I love it!  It went from ugly white with an even uglier border to a beautiful blue!

National Puppy Day!

Happy National Puppy Day!

The Nursery...

The nursery is really coming along now, we have gotten quite a bit of decorating done!

DIY Nursery Crafts

My mother, my sister and I got together and had a craft day! We made some really cute things for Aria's room.  We made an elephant mobile, closet dividers, covered all the outlet and light switch covers with scrapbook paper and put some cute animals on top of mason jars. I also painted wooden letters to make her name to hang over the crib.

We used paint chip cards for the mobile, cut into the shape of elephants and hung it from a loop with hemp cord.

Cut circles out of cardboard and glued scrapbook paper over them to make the dividers.

Spray painted the tops of the mason jars silver, then super glued the animals to the tops. These will hold cotton balls, q-tips, etc...

More Printables!

These are fun to make and I love it because you can customize them any way you want!

Printables

Printables I made for the Nursery.

Sasha!

Our little Munchkin, Sasha is 2 Years old today!