We Love Qdoba

On Sundays,

I can feed this hungry bunch

For a grand total of $15!

Yes, that includes their parents.

Today's "Picture of the Day" was a close one.

Runner up

Day 16

Silly Girls

Trying to get some good pictures of a "Heart Ladybug" and her friend

proved to be

a little bit harder

then one would have thought.

Silly girls.

Day 15

My Six Favorite People

Day 14

Peasant Beef Casserole Recipe

I suppose it was unfair of me to post pictures of food without telling what it was, so here it is. Hope your family enjoys it as much as mine did.

Peasant Beef Casserole

Ingredients:

2 lbs Beef stew meat, cubed
2 C frozen peas
1 ½ c sliced carrots
2 onions, chopped
¾ cup water
3 tomatoes, chopped
¼ c fresh parsley
Salt & pepper to taste


Preheat oven to 275.
Mix meat, peas, carrots, onions, water, tomatoes, parsley, salt and pepper in a 3-quart casserole dish. Bake, covered tightly for 5 hours.








Super easy, good for you, and best of all YUM!

{embraceing} Judah

{Embracing} the camera

My sister had her baby last night, she had a little girl named Ayla Jewel and she is gorgeous just like her mama. I would love to {embrace} my new niece but since they live in DC I will just have to wait, but while I'm waiting I'm embracing my baby.

He is a big stuff 4th grader and doesn't have much time for mom most days, but yesterday he had a little oral surgery (see the swollen, chapped lips) and I was fortunate enough to be able to take him and spend some time with him.

And then today Josiah and Avrah went over to a friend’s house after school so we were able to hang out just the two of us for a brief moment while the little boys slept and before he talked me into letting one of his friends come over, and then Mama was ignored again.


To read more about my new niece and to see pictures you can go here

And please be sure to go check out what the  {embrace} movement (yes, when there are 75 people linking ahead of me I would call it a movement ;) )  is all about over at Emily's blog.

Day 13

and 5 hours later! YUMM

My Anna Joy

My sister has been in labor all day, and incredibly she has been blogging, while in labor. Talk about SUPER WOMAN! But then again this is the girl that after being hit by a car while running a marathon, she got up and FINISHED the race!
You can go read about it here.

I could not be more proud of my big sister!

Tomorrow I will be able to tell you all about my new niece or nephew.


This is one of my favorite pictures in my house, don't know why but it can always make me smile.

Day 12

Two Things Tuesday

The word for today is unexpected.

1. The first thing that was unexpected was that I ran a mile this morning, we used to do this everymorning, but haven't ran one straight since mid November. I hope to start adding to this soon.

2. The second thing was that I was able to go see my VBF after our morning workout. Her washing machine broke, again. One of the tubes on the inside had come undone and so I went over to her house and helped her fix it, hopefully this time it stays fixed.

3. The third thing was an unexpected trip to Pryor. Mr. Vargas' dad is running for Mayor of Pryor, and we had some signs and t-shirts to take to them. We had a great time. Thanks for all the bananas and cookies MeMaw!

See that third one was unexpected wasn't it?

What are your two or three things?



Day 11