Craft Time

I love to do crafts, make things instead of buy them, bake from scratch and forget the boxed food. Lately like most people these days have been captured by pinterest. I decide to take a few minutes, ends up being an hour. During one of my quick looks I discovered a post for a spring wreath and decided to give it a try.

The start

One time around... If I would have thought this through a little more, I would have used a green wreath instead of white....

around and around we go

Time for some pretty flowers

Finished product, at least for now. Thinking it needs a bow or maybe a welcome spring sign, we shall see

A view of it on our door. 

Many more projects in the works right now, now to find the time to finish them!

Isabelle Turns Double Digits

Isabelle Louis Willey 

born April 11,2002

A quick glance through the past ten years

And here she is today, a beautiful 10 year old, where has the time gone?

Boy Scouts Pinewood Derby

This is Wyatt's first year in boy scouts and he is officially a Tiger Cub. With spring comes the annual boy scout pinewood derby. Chris and Wyatt decided to build a cool truck to race this year, a hard decision after hours of looking at different designs on the internet. 

Wyatt was all ready in his new uniform and his truck.

 Here is a line up of all the tiger cubs. 

(they race against boys in their age group)

 Just a few pictures of Wyatt's finished product.

Wyatt is patiently waiting for his first heat, and if you know Wyatt, this is really hard for him!

Wyatt's truck did pretty good, we didn't get in the top three, but we did win a few races! And the boys have some new ideas for improvement!

Here is a picture of the boys in Wyatt's group with all of their cars

And here they with their leader George after the trophy's were handed out.

 Wyatt had a great time and was extremely happy even though he didn't get 1st place, he had fun an he did win Best of Show and the Most Unique, so along with the participation trophy, it was a good day!

 Wyatt had to take a picture of his truck with his trophies afterwards!

After the research and cutting and sanding, his finished project was something he was very proud of. 

Crispy Cheese Chicken

Crispy Cheese Chicken:
4 large chicken breast
2 sleeves Ritz Crackers
1/4 t salt
1/8 t pepper
1/4 t Lawry's Seasoned Salt
1/2 C milk
3 C cheddar cheese, grated
1 t Italian seasonings

Sauce:
1 can cream of chicken soup
2 T sour cream
3T butter

Cut each chicken breast into 3 large pieces.

Crush the crackers into crumbs, you can do this by using a small food processor or putting into a zip lock bag and running a rolling pin over them.

Pour the milk into one pan, cheese into another and the crackers into a third. Toss the cracker crumbs with the salt, pepper and Lawry's.

Dip each piece of chicken into the milk, and then into the cheese. Be sure to press the cheese into the chicken to be sure that it stays.

Then finally press into the cracker crumb mixture, coating each piece of chicken.

Lay the chicken into a greases 9x13 inch pan. Sprinkle with Italian seasonings.

Cover pan and bake at 400 degrees for 35 minutes, then uncover and bake an additional 10 minutes.

In a sauce pan combine the soup, butter and sour cream until heated and serve over the chicken.

A Little Relief

As you all know this week has been unbearable with the heat and humidity. On top of that the air in our house was not working. We borrowed an old window unit that did its best to keep the living room at a degree we could stand to be in. At one point the temp in the house reached 90 degrees before the window unit and 85 with the window unit. But with temps hitting the 100's and a heat index of 110+ what could we expect. Last night around eleven Chris decided to tackle the ac unit again, in the end he was victorious. He never ceases to amaze me with his knowledge and handy man do it yourself talent. We ran the central air and the window unit to help drop the temperature in the house and today even with 100 degrees we stayed at a cool 78 in the house!

The kids have been troopers throughout this still doing their chores and dealing with the heat, so today we went down to my parents house to swim. Here are a few pics from our relief trip.

Wyatt overcoming his fear of jumping in.

My parents even joined us for a little game of catch. I had to take a few pics of my Dad as you are lucky to see him in the pool once every couple of years.

Chris and I were even able to steal a few seconds together! Overall a great day and little relief!

Cheeseburger Roll Up

It is summer, and like most people we grill out quite a bit in the summer, however sometimes you need a little change in the line up. Here is a recipe I use often when I need a meal quick without a lot of effort that everyone will like. 

Cheeseburger Roll Up

1 lb. hamburger

1/4 brick velveta cheese

crumbled bacon or bacon bits

chopped onion (optional)

1 can of pizza crust

Brown your hamburger in a pan and drain grease when finished

Add your cheese and stir until melted

Add your bacon or bacon bits and stir

Take your crust and roll it out onto a greased cookie sheet

Spread your hamburger mixture onto the crust

Roll the crust up like a jelly roll

Place in center of cookie sheet seam side down

Bake at 375 degrees for 16-18 minutes until top is golden brown

Let sit for 2 minutes then slice into 1 inch pieces. No silverware needed pick up and go!