Fall Festival

Patton LOVED the fish pond. Kenner thanked God for the Cupcake walk...can you tell who won?

There is the special limo carrying the Grand Marshall's. It says C Svitak and Sons Auto Repair, Sprague, NE

Random one watching Grandma Carlece's TC Titans play volleyball and cheering with Olivia!

Apple Jack Festival w/ my friend Amber and her son Josh. I will definitely go back to NE City to the Arbor Day Farm...but maybe not on Apple Jack weekend. It was a blast though!

Meal plan for this week

We had a GREAT weekend w/ lots of visitors, plus having Daddy around ALL weekend. We had the Sprague Fall festival on Saturday w/ the boys getting to ride in Dad's "limo" carrying the Grand Marshall's (pics to come), then we were able to go to Adams to a fundraiser for the nursing home w/ Trevor's (my aunt Kendra's husband) on Sunday. Seems like this weekend was really long...which is a good thing. Here is the tentative plan for this week. Hopefully the boys and I will go to Hebron this weekend. Dad has guard drill.

A pat on the back goes to my family and I as we stuck with the meal plan last week and didn't eat out all week. It was a great feeling to be able to have a meal each night w/ our family. The boys are getting to pray for two things at meal time. I am just loving what they pray for: cupcake walk, lemonade, rice, etc.

M: Enchiladas (leftover taco meat and rice from previous suppers)
T: Hobo meal (ground beef w/ carrots, potatoes, and onions on the grill)
W: Either frozen pizza or homemade pizza. I am going to use the pizza meatloaf cups that we had in freezer cooking for my ground beef...as they weren't too big of a hit as pizza meatloaf cups.
Th: Grandma Jan's Chow Mein recipe
F: Going to Hebron. Leftovers for Casey
S: Guard Drill/Hebron
Su: L:Guard Drill/Hebron D: Hot beef sandwiches

Have a great week!

Mice or boys? Hmmm...

I think the scissors maybe give it away...this is the result of boys. You would think they would find a different way to "hide" there sneakiness in getting candy. Note: I often find different things behind our chairs and couches that they are not suppose to have go-gurt, candy, fruit snacks, etc.

All the joys of raising boys.

Our new Cousin

Our cousin Kenna came over to visit last weekend. Since starting to "fly" with the flylady.net, I LOVE to have people over. Flying with the flylady is easy to do and I LOVE my family so much more now. I think it really helps to love my family, house, and life more when you feel that you are on top of life and love your job as well:)

Thanks Kendra for all your support. It is such a joy for me to have extra time to spend with you once a week or so:) You are such an inspiration to me!

Cheese Kenna!

Meal plan for this week

Monday: Pork BBQ Sandwiches*, peas, and homemade fries

Tuesday: Chicken Nachos* w/ fresh salsa

Wednesday: Chicken Pot Pie*

Thursday: Pizza Meatloaf Cups* w/ green beans

Friday: General Tso's Chicken w/ rice

Saturday:
L: FALL FESTIVAL at Sprague Community Church. Meal and Auction
D: Ham and Cheesy Potatoes (we will be home/across at church all day, so it is my chance to cook the last ham I have in my freezer) Any suggestions on how to doctor it up?

Sunday:
L: Out to eat/leftovers
D: Pizza w/ hamburger, green peppers

I am excited to have enough time to cook meals for my family. * denotes freezer meals from the freezer cooking group. I am so thankful to have a great and different meal in my recipes without having to follow a recipe:)

Have a great week!

fun times at Hyvee!!!

Thanks to the Chicks on Chicks Dig Deals, I was able to score a lot of FREE things as well as a few other things very cheap at Hyvee. I had to pick up some things for a pot luck at church tonight or else I would have done even better. Missing is a 1.00 water. How much did I spend?

19.32

Two transactions, 8.00 in catalina's, 13 coupons!!!

Softsoap - FREE

Harvest Campbell's soup - Free

Pie Crusts were on sale for 2.48 each...so just those would be 10.00:)

Now if analyzing my purchases you will notice that not much of it is very healthy. I have so much fruit in my freezer that it works to have an easy dessert with the pie crusts. I have not boughten Crescent rolls or cinnamon rolls for along time...so time to reward ourselves when Daddy has been gone so much.

Have a great night!

Meal plan for this week

Do you meal plan? I can't tell you how much it has saved me on time, effort, and just plain feeling like I get a good meal on the table for my family. I had a goal to clean out my bottom freezer. With just the meals from last week, I can finally see some free space in my freezer and I also have less in my cupboards, becauseI used excessive items paired with the freezer ingredients to clean both out at the same time. My grocery bills have been within the $20-$30 range the past month, because I am using what i have and TRYING to stay away from the sales. So with that being said...this is what I still have taking up space in our freezer that should be in our tummies.

Monday: Tacos with homemade salsa and beans
Tuesday: 4:30 Swimming lessons - Spaghetti and Meatballs (I will make tonight so that all we have to do is warm it up and make the noodles)
Wednesday:AWANA - Popcorn Chicken and homemade french fries
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: Chix Pot Pie
Saturday: I think the boys and I are headed to the Apple Jack Festival in NE City. We will be back for supper, so I am thinking Green Bean Casserole.
Sunday: LUNCH - Roast, Potato, Carrots DINNER - Leftovers or hot beef sandwiches
I might try to make some homemade bread on Sunday...depending on my energy level.

Have a great week!
I along with my Aunt Kendra are starting to FLY This week with the FLY Lady. I have been doing baby fly steps, but I am starting to see about my weekly routine to see how it fits into our schedule. I HIGHLY suggest her website www.flylady.net. A bit overwhelming at first, but amazing if you do what she suggests and take BABY STEPS!
Rhi

RAndom August

We had a great time this weekend at the NU football game. Kenner has gone all 5 years of his life:) Patton is a bit of cheese here...but what is new! I love to see my boys walking with their great grandpa!

riding rides at the State Fair.

feeding the zebras

headed on the shuttle to go to the fair for my grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary.

To the Kenner family...this is Comet. One of the last babies of Lucky's. We were very fortunate to get this photo as she lives up to her name, Comet. She was really sick recently, but she wasn't showing any signs of having difficulty.

Kenner on the "new" but old tire swing, borrowed from the "farm." Poor Grandpa Dennis was graciously pushing Kenner on here and accidentally scraped the tree. Kenner won't drop it...Grandpa Dennis couldn't be any more kinder of a person. He is getting more and more over it everday. But the minute he saw this picture he made a comment. Wow the kid doesn't forget a thing.

Mark this one down...getting to go to the library while Mommy is working full time. They are really into puppets these days.

Getting to go to the LAST Wild Wednesday with Lane and Heather.

Having fun on the turtle. I love these two! (you caught me on a good day...now yesterday I wouldn't have been able to say that so nicely). They decided to be the loudest kids at church, which frustrated me to the hilt, then decided to make a nice band with books and the fan while they were attempting to take a nap (and MOMMY NEEDED ONE DESPERATELY), and ran on the highest energy that I have ever seen them. It is Monday and we are starting over:)

Labor day weekend

Wow! What an amazing weekend. It was great to have Casey back early on Thursday. We ventured to Omaha and bought a new minivan - Pontiac Montana. The boys LOVE it. In fact, last night I moved the car seats back to the car. No sense in driving it around until we actually need it (aka when the baby comes). The boys were devastated that we weren't going to be riding in the van. I told them we could ride in it when we go to Grandma's house and when the baby comes. Patton decided to put those together and said,
"Mom, I have a great idea, we can take it to grandma's house so that we can show them the baby." That was a great idea Patton:)

We were able to spend a great Saturday at the Elge's. It is always a great time to relax, talk, and watch the boys play play play on everything and everywhere on the farm. They were a bit disappointed when traveling to the "real" farm that they didn't have horses any more.

After spending a day in Aurora, we traveled to Grand Island to a hotel with 47 other Wiedels for my grandparent's 50th Wedding Anniversary. It was such a blessing to be able to go to a hotel rather than cram us all in a house. Even though that has never stopped us getting together, I am voting for an activity like the hotel fun times again. Some of the clan went to the Martina McBride concert at the fair, while some of us watching littler ones swim and play a crazy dice game. The game consisted of 6 kids standing in a corner each with a number assignment. When their number was rolled, the one kid came out of their corner danced for 10 seconds tops, we clapped and they went back to their corner to wait for their number to be called. Yes it sounds crazy, but we were able to play this game for an hour without any difficulties....crazy! Casey also did a kids PE class. It was funny to see all of them lined up like in the military and following his commands.

I will have to get a picture up of all of us. There were 47 of us, 7 were missing and 5 are on the way. We will need a bigger place to house all of us at once.