Pizza, Cupcakes and Ice Cream.. OH MY..

What a day!

Since it is almost Wyatt's bday he got to bring snack to school, we brought stuff to make English muffin pizzas and cupcakes.Blowing out his candles on his cupcake. When you bring the snack you get to be the helper and pass out the napkins.I stuck around school today and helped the kids make English muffin pizza for snack.How old are you going to be?Then it was so hot out today we stopped by Ablies and got some ice cream.

My baby is growing up so fast.

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When daddy feels guilty

So I never gave the full story about what happened to Wyatt. He was in the back of Derek's truck playing (which is normal, they hang out alot outside). Wyatt was wearing flip flops and tripped over them. Derek has this Cylinder rack that holds his big cylinders against the truck box (it is in a shape of a W) and we think that is what he hit. So Derek is feeling really guilty, he felt so bad at the hospital, he kept saying he was sorry and that as soon as he got home the ywould take the rack down. I tried to tell him that kids get hurt all the time and that it wasn't his fault, but he feels so bad.

SO ya when he came home from work today this is what he brought home for Wyatt. Wyatt loves all these machines, he and Derek talk about them all the time because Derek uses them everyday at work. He is so happy, they are on the floor right now playing.

First visit to the ER

And I would like to not to do it again.

The day went like this- I ran to Walmart to get some stuff for the garden, when I got to the register I realized I did not have my wallet. So I ran home to get it, got back to Walmart and to the sliding doors and the phone rings, it is Derek. The only thing I hear is "You have to come home right now Wyatt cut his head and it looks pretty bad." Not what a mother wants to hear. So I ran back to the car and raced home.

Took one look and said oh yea he needs to go to the ER. It wasn't just a cut it was a hole, You could have stuck a pencil eraser in it it was so deep. The doctor said it went through the skin to the muscle and that was what we could see in the hole, the muscle (um gross)

The dark red spot is the hole.

Wyatt was not happy at first when they put this on him until it was our turn, but after about 30 min he was OK with it.
He saw another girl coloring and wanted to color too so he got a book from the nice people at the counter and kept busy till it was out turn.
Man ER's have gotten way nicer, they had a flat screen TV in there, so we watched a cartoon while we waited for the doctor.

Here the doctor is putting the glue on the owie.

I was so amazed, Wyatt did so good. The only time he cried due to PAIN was when the doctor kept opening and closing the hole (can't blame him it made me nauseous). He siad the whole time that it didn't hurt.

So this is our first ER visit and with the way he is and how much he likes to hang out with the big boys I am sure it won't be out last.

Menu Plan Apr 26- May 3

So what's on menu this week? For more meal ideas head on over to Org. Junkie for hundreds more ideas.

Stuffed Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, corn

Steak Sandwiches, sweet pot. fries

Baked Rigatoni & Zucchini, salad

Country Fried Duck, hashbrowns, eggs

Slider Burgers, fries

White Chicken Chili

Shrimp and Grits, corn, sweet tea

Crisy Oven Fried Mexican Chix, mexican rice, brocolli (not done last week)




Crispy Oven Fried Mexican Chicken

1 c. low sodium mixed vegetable juice
1 1/2 c. corn flake crumbs
1/2 tsp. each salt, pepper, chili powder, paprika, oregano leaves, ground cumin
1/4 tsp. hot sauce
2 1/4 lbs. chicken skinned (can use boneless chicken breast or turkey)
1 tsp. garlic powder

In a large shallow pan (not aluminum) combine veggie juice and hot sauce. Add chicken and let marinate for 30 minutes at room temperature or cover and refrigerate 3 hours. Turn chicken frequently. Drain chicken, discard marinade, preheat oven to 375º. Spray baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray. In a large plastic bag, combine corn flake crumbs and all the spices. Place chicken in a bag a shake. Sprinkle any remaining crumbs over chicken. Bake until chicken is tender and crisp. Chicken parts about 1 hour (whole). Chicken breasts about 35 minutes (boneless).

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Wyatt's Birthday Present.
He loves to play with this thing at Preschool and at the Castle Park so Derek really wanted to get it for him. He is going to love it.
And as you have probably notice that I have not been talking about planning Wyatt's party, this year we are going to Chuck E Cheese, all we have to do is show up. He has been talking about it since last year, seriously every time we drive by Chuck E Cheese, talk about birthdays or he just thinks about it.
How cute our these invites.

Savings

So I got the candles free from Walgreens, I had 2 coupons and they are the new Johnson soy candles, ooh they smell so yummy.

Then Safeway, they had a deal when you buy two classico sauces you got 2 free safeway pastas. So I did the deal twice and had 2 $1/2 coupons.

4 Classico sauces-$6 (reg.price 3.69 each)
4 pastas-free (reg. price 1.39 each)

Our week so far

So our week has been nothing but normal I guess, just had some pics I wanted to share.

Monday I switched the room around (you knew that already, see post below) and I mowed half the yard while it was nice out.

Tuesday my sister, Jenefer, came over and helped me start my garden, we dug out the edges of it and then Derek went and got his tattoo.

Wednesday Derek came home from work and we finished cleaning up the yard, finished mowing and I edged the house and yard.

Yup that is about it for us for the week. Today Wyatt has school and then we will come home and hang out inside because it's raining out. Which is good my flowers needed some water.

Also here are some pics from last Friday of Wyatt getting down with his guitar. He is so funny when he plays it, he like to rock out.

When the hubbies away....

The wife will change the room around.

So Derek left last night for several hours to go look at the drawing of his tattoo he will be getting and I was on such a roll yesterday that I decided to change our room around. I really wanted to uncover the hidden window.

Here are some old shots of before. The long window was hidden by the dresser. And the bed was under the high window. (Can you see the tall window peeking up behind the dresser.)
Now, the bed is on the other side of the room facing the high window and the dresser is on the wall the bed used to be freeing up the long window.

Great Contest

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Meal Plan April 19- 26

Rosemary Chicken w/ white beans, green beans

Steak Fajitas, salad

Baked Potatoes, chili, salad

Crispy Mexican Chicken(recipe below), Mexican rice, broccoli

Famous pork chops, Mac n cheese, corn

Buffalo Chicken pasta, salad, bread sticks

Crispy Oven Fried Mexican Chicken

1 c. low sodium mixed vegetable juice

1 1/2 c. corn flake crumbs

1/2 tsp. each salt, pepper, chili powder, paprika, oregano leaves, ground cumin

1/4 tsp. hot sauce

2 1/4 lbs. chicken skinned (can use boneless chicken breast or turkey)

1 tsp. garlic powder

In a large shallow pan (not aluminum) combine veggie juice and hot sauce. Add chicken and let marinate for 30 minutes at room temperature or cover and refrigerate 3 hours. Turn chicken frequently. Drain chicken, discard marinade, preheat oven to 375º. Spray baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray. In a large plastic bag, combine corn flake crumbs and all the spices. Place chicken in a bag a shake. Sprinkle any remaining crumbs over chicken. Bake until chicken is tender and crisp. Chicken parts about 1 hour (whole). Chicken breasts about 35 minutes (boneless).

Making you home a haven

I stumbled onto Making your home a haven over at Tammy's blog and I am behind but i thought I would post my morning and evening routines and join in.

Evening Routine- After dinner

I don't do much a night, but I might need to change my routine after seeing how much I don't accomplish at night and how my day could go so much easier if I had a night routine.

Read to Wyatt and then put him to bed

Make DH lunch for next day

Watch shows

Take pills/ vitamins

bedtime- 10 or 11

Morning Routine

Exercise

blogging/email

Take vitamins

To do list for day

Figure out that nights dinner

Dishes from night before

Wyatt wake up/ get him breakfast

School Art work

So Ali Edwards blogged today about what she is planning on doing with her kids school paperwork and artwork.

This got me motivated to post a pic of what I am doing with Wyatt's stuff.

When he brings stuff home I have been taking a pic of it, it then will hang on the fridge until new stuff comes in. Whne I replace these items I now don't feel bad just throwing them away because I have a pic of it. I then will be scrapping each month's artwork. Here is one I did with a sleeve protector others will just be done in a layout.

Make sure you read the comments on Ali's blog there are a ton of great ideas if you aren't sure what you are doing.

I would love to here and see what you do too!

Fun Thursday

Wyatt had a field trip yesterday at the Library in bremerton. They had a lot of fun, they got to read books, sing, jump around, had stories read to them and it was so nice outside they got to have a picnic for lunch. That morning Wyatt saw a cartoon where they made a hopscotch so when we got home from the preschool hewanted to make one himself. It was a great sunny day.

Contest

If you like baking you need to head over to Mummy Deals she has a great contest going on right now over on her blog.

My week

So several things going on this week. Of course the usual daily cleaning.

This week...

Tues.- School, grocery shopping

Thursady- Field trip to library

Frid.-get Colton

Sat.-UFC fight

Sun.-Colton home

And my ongoing thing, scanning pics for Ginny. These pics are so cool some are as early as 1900.

So awhile back I said I was looking for a new way to wrote out my TO Dos for the day. I have always used those big yellow pads of paper, but figured I was really wasting paper, so I decided to us a wipe off board and I put it up on my fridge for easy access.

Building a birdhouse with daddy

Wyatt has been talking alot about wanting to build a bird house, since last summer I think. While at Lowes one day we saw that it would be their next free clinic, so we decided to try it. We had so much fun, ok well I just went along to take pictures, but they had alot of fun. Wyatt got a snack, certificate, to keep the googles and apron adn they even got a patch to put on their apron.

Here is daddy showing Wyatt how to fix it if it isn't perfect.LOL