Scrimmage Pics

The lax team has had scrimmages the past two Saturday's. We went to the first scrimmage, and it looked a lot like this:
Big wee one hanging on the fence, and shortly after Little wee one figured out that she can do it too!
Paul's squat pose...we will see this a lot through out the year.

Face-offs...not so sure the Trojans won many of them, but that's what scrimmages are for, to work out the kinks.#18 is a senior this year, he'll be missed! But for now, he's working out the defense strategy.This image CRACKED me up! Literally every where you looked there were scores of refs running around. They were teaching the new refs, so they literally followed and chased the "seasoned" refs. It was semi-annoying because you couldn't see much action with all the black and white in the way. Guess you have to learn.
Big wee one made a new friend and was playing all afternoon with her. When I turned around to check on her at one point, this is what I saw. And this is what I thought, "OUCH! How do her legs do that?"
An action shot.Running. (Interesting stuff right!?)
Little wee one had a rough afternoon. She fell through the steps of the bleachers, and was fine, but then got hungry, wanted to play by herself, but with her big sister. She also wanted to wander...here, she walked all the way down to the other side and just sat down. I think she was playing with a sticker book.
Because I didn't realize how long we were going to be there, the girls ate all their snacks and then literally became wild animals, wanting to eat more and more and MORE! This is all I had left in my purse, a packet of dry brown sugar oatmeal. They ate it, and LOVED it! It was also a HUGE mess! Good idea for the moment, bad idea for the mess!Paul's first real game of the season is this Saturday. Grandma & Grandad are coming in and hopefully I can find my camera before then :-) Have a great start to your week.

Make this!

Artichoke Chicken Linguine
(Prep Time: 20 minutes. Cooking Time: 20 minutes)

8 ounces linguine, (tomato basil linguine is good with this recipe)

3 Tablespoons butter

¼ cup, extra virgin olive oil

3 green onions, chopped with green portion reserved

3 garlic cloves, minced

1 (14 ounce) can extra small artichoke hearts, well drained and chopped

2 cups cooked chicken (leftover or rotisserie chicken works great)

½ pound bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled

1 Tablespoon dried or fresh basil

½ cup grated Parmesan cheese

1. Cook linguine according to package directions and drain.
2. Meanwhile, heat butter and olive oil in a large skillet. Add white portion of the green onion, and garlic. Sauté until tender.
3. Add chopped artichoke hearts, chicken, and bacon. Simmer on low until ingredients are heated. When almost ready to serve, add basil4. Remove from heat. Add drained linguine, Parmesan cheese and the green portion of the green onions. Toss well and serve.Serves: 4-6

You can thank me later :-)

T

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So Annoyed!

Both of the girls said something really cute this evening, and I thought to myself when they said them, "Make sure to blog that later" and I can't freaking remember it!!! UGG!

You probably thought I was going to say something really annoying...but to me, a scrapper/blogger, this is horrible! Argggg!

What Works for Me

What works for me (or my family) might not work for yours. Here is what works for us as far as menu planning goes.

Monday: some type of crockpot dish

Tuesday: TACO TUESDAY (we don't always do tacos, but we do do some kind of "taco" take on dinner. ie: burritos, taco soup, chicken tacos...you get the idea)

Wednesday: another crockpot dish or sometimes I try something new

Thursday: breakfast for dinner

Friday: pizza

Saturday & Sunday: we play it by ear. sometimes we do breakfast, sometimes we do a soup or sandwich. On special occasions we eat out and a lot of Sunday's we eat at Mimi & G-pa's house (family dinner night).

We have really been trying to stay on a strict food budget, and since January we have eaten out twice (ordered pizza from dominoes on customer appreciation day...can you beat $3 pizzas?? and montezuma's mexican restaurant last Friday). For two weeks of dinner, not including the extra milk I'll need to get, I spent $110...not too bad. That also includes breakfast foods, lunches and a few special treats. Gotta love those coupons :-)

So, do you want to know what we are having for dinner during the next two weeks??

Week 1:

Monday: no crockpot dinner tonight, just hotdogs, mac-n-cheese and greenbeans

Tuesday: Mexican Stew & cornbread (switched my crockpot to Tuesday to keep the "taco" theme)

Wednesday: Roasted chicken with potatoes & side (probably corn or wax beans)

Thursday: with the left over chicken, we are having Artichoke Chicken Linguine (a friend shared the recipe and I knew we were having chicken...so why not)

Friday: Pizza (it's dance night, pizza is the easiest since we don't get home until 5:45 and the girls are pretty strict with dinner around 5:15)
Saturday: we have plans Saturday night, so the girls will have chicken nuggets, applesauce and yogurt

Sunday: what's on the menu mom?? :) we might be traveling to see some friends, so Cathy...what's for dinner??

Week 2:

Monday: Flank steak stuffed with rice

Tuesday: Cornbeef & Cabbage...HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY!

Wednesday: (switching taco tuesday to waco wednesday...lol, just trying to be funny there!)

Thursday: Tilapia with corn & rice

Friday: you guessed it...Pizza

Saturday: the in-laws will be in, so I'm almost positive we'll get crabs...which is fine with me :) I'm in the mood to be a little crabby...

To top it off, the girls and I like to make brownies or cookies here and there, and that will last throughout the week, so we get a little dessert :-) YUM!

There you have it...if you have a delicious recipe you would like to share I am open to suggestions. I love a new recipe, especially one that my family will love.

Paul is at a lax booster meeting, so I'm going to scrap, here's what I've worked on recently:

These are 6x4 LOs that I created for my uncle for his birthday...I made him a really cute little mini-scrapbook documenting a family vacation we took in 2007. I plan on adding to that book through out the year :-)

Overheard Today...

This morning, while dropping Big wee one off at school, I heard one of her classmates talking with another student. It went something along the lines of this:

Girl: Do you know what kind of dog has four legs?
Boy: -stairing blankly at her- I don't think he really cared at all.
Girl: (still talking, oblivious to the fact that he's just staring at her) A big one. With big legs. Big legs just like my mom!

LMAO...there is no telling what my child says about me! You never know what your 4 year old could potentially say. I wanted to tell the mom because I thought it would be funny, but she isn't overly friendly (not one bit) and BWO has complained about this girl being mean to her. So instead, I chuckled to myself...your kid says you have big legs...lol.

I'm not all that spiteful, heck I've had my fair share of "Mom did you just toot?", while in a crowded bathroom. Or walking through Kohl's an odd odor appears and BWO says, "I smell a fart in here!" (in a sing songy tone)...it happens to all of us. It's embarrassing, but funny. I just think its funnier because the lady never cracks a smile, even when I say, "HI" (in my sickening chirpy morning tone) and her little girl things she has big legs...lol.

It's MONDAAAYYYY!!!

Lacrosse

Starts tomorrow.

But apparently we are in the path of a huge winter storm, which really doesn't mean much at all. We could either get dumped with like 14 inches of snow, or get barely an inch. Either way, Paul says practicing on the turf with any kind of snow on it is going to suck. All I have to say is: Sucks for him. ha...made myself laugh there!

After looking at the weather online is says possible accumulation of about an inch to 3 inches...which blows me away because Philly is getting anywhere from 8-14 inches. You know, I didn't buy brand new princess snow boots for nothing. Can't we just get some snow for once? Please? I'm not asking for much, just enough so the girls can get out and play in it. Poor, snow deprived, never get to go sledding children.

We had a pretty chill weekend. Friends over for pizza and beer on Friday night, play/scrap date Saturday morning, then vegged the rest of Saturday. Paul and I watched "W." on tv...very interesting look at George W. Bush. Sunday, we woke up to about an inch of the white stuff on the ground, so I gathered up all the snow gear and headed over to Mimi & G-pa's house to play outside. By the time we got there (around 10:30 am), all of their snow was gone :( So we did some crafts, colored, worked on wine labels for my dad and digi scrapped. Very relaxing day.

My dad is working on opening a winery in Chambersburg. I've been creating the labels for the wine...here are some of them:

This is a pretty exciting adventure he's going on. I've had people stop me on the street to rave about his wine (those that I have given bottles to downtown...sharing the downtown love). It's extremely flattering...whenever it all goes down, I'm looking forward to help more with what he needs me to. And I must admit that his Chenin Blanc is my personal favorite :-) GOOD LUCK DAD!

I also did a little more scrapping today, and here are the LOs I finished:

Tomorrow I have a dinner wrap up for the Chili Cook-Off committee and I'm pretty excited about it. I really loved working the ladies on this committee (during IceFest) and since we all have very different careers and don't always cross paths, it will be nice to catch up with them for a bit. Afterwards, I'm heading over to my girlfriends house to watch the season finale of the Bachelor. Lots of dirt is about to go down! Have a great start to your week!