Saturday, March 5, 2011

Hobo Dinner

 

This may not look like much, but it's a quick, easy supper idea I found in the NRC churches' Iowa cookbook. It's called Individual Hobo Dinner. I had forgotten about it until Levi requested them for supper the other night. On a sheet of foil, you put a hamburger patty, some sliced potatoes (I happened to use hashbrowns,)onions (I was in a hurry so I used minced), carrots, fresh or canned mushrooms (since I had some on hand) or any other vegetable you'd like to include. I salt and pepper everything and then add a dollop of undiluted cream of mushroom soup. Wrap the foil around the whole works and bake for 40ish minutes. I make each person his/her own, smaller for the kids. You can adapt what you put in for each person's likes or dislikes. To serve you just put on your plate, open it up, devour the contents, wad up the foil, through it in the trash and you're finished! Super easy clean-up. I was told you can cook these at a campfire in hot coals too, but we aren't that hoboish yet.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Valentine's Day

Our Valentine's tradition is that we eat heart-shaped pizza by candlelight. After supper this year, we wrote love notes to each other on heart-shaped papers. Then we read them outloud and hung them on strings to make a heart chandelier.
 

 

 

 
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Friday, January 21, 2011

Snowy days

Haven't posted in awhile. Hard to get nice pictures in the winter. Plus the fact that I'm working full time for 6 weeks might have something to do with it, too! (I'm subbing for a teacher on maternity leave.) It's first grade, and I'm loving it!! These are just pictures of the kids playing together outside. Levi was whipping Alana around on the sled...until they landed in a heap on top of each other!
 

 

 

 
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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Another one bites...

Nice homemade sticky buns made for Christmas morning--burnt to smithereens. To add insult to injury, I dropped them on their way out to the garage. The boiling syrup splashed under the fridge, and up the wall some. When it cooled, I had to chip it off the floor. It left some yellow stains. Nice. Remarkably similar to my September 30 blog post... Not sure what it is about that spot...
 
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Ethan's birthday

Our little boy turns 4! I think he enjoyed it, what do you think?
 

 

 

 
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Notes

Alana writes herself reminder notes. These are two recent ones I found lying around. Aren't they great?
 
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Announcing

So last Wednesday we decided it was time to tell the kids that we were expecting a baby. We had a colored egg hunt first. (Each egg had a clue about babies, the due date, etc.)
 
Here's Ethan pleased with his cache of eggs he found.
 
Next they opened them in a certain order, by color.
 
Alana was the first to guess that WE were going to have a baby. (Ethan was mostly insulted that he had a pacifier and a baby bottle in his eggs instead of something good like candy.)
 
Levi's reaction was priceless--"Really?! Why didn't you tell us?" The baby is due June 11, 2011, if all goes well.
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