The fruits of my life

It's January 29th, a mere one month into the new year and I feel like I am alreay behind. Our youngest darling daughter is graduating this year from high school and a quick 3 weeks later our oldest daughter is getting MARRIED!  Seriously!  I have no idea how this schedule is going to look, we have showers, grad parties, batchlorette party, graduation day, rehearsal dinner, DIY wedding crafts, and the Wedding day itself! I may be sleeping the rest of the month of June. Our girls sure are fantastic and I wouldn't miss a single moment of the craziness that is about to happen.. Here is a quick peek at the photo sessions from both Pumpkin's engagement session and Noodle's Senior pictures...       They're Getting Married in June     She's graduating in May

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What are we eating this week? Here is the link to this weeks menu... WEEK 2 Things have been a bit crazy around here because of a new class I'm taking, Noodle had a gymnastics meet, Pumpkin is directing a one act play and is Crew Head for show choir  and my Superman had to travel to Dallas. Whew! So I haven't had a chance to make any of these dishes yet, but I promise to post them once I do.  So, I started this training class this week called BOLD. It's a cross between sales training and life coaching offered by Keller Williams. I love being a Realtor and want to make sure I am doing the best I can for my past, current, and future clients. Having that said, this class is really challenging me and taking me WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY outside my comfort zone. It requires cheering! For myself. Ick. I was a cheerleader in high school and a year in college, so the concept is not foreign to me, but standing up every hour on the hour in a room with other agents and shouting, yes SH...

I admit it, I love excel. I use it for just about everything I need to keep track of. Time blocking, finances, real estate, and of course my menu and grocery lists. I am on a quest to keep things at my finger tips because this year is going to be crazy with my pumpkin graduating from High School and then going off to college and my real estate business is really booming right now. So instead of re-creating my menu every week I plan to spend the next couple of weeks making a menu with a grocery list (my goal is 10 weeks) and then printing several copies of both. I will keep them in my newly made family menu binder, that will also include take out menus and coupons.  The first two weeks I am taking from my current favorite cookbook "Now Eat This!"by Rocco Dispirito  You can find it here on Amazon.  I used his menu right from the book. Check out my week 1 menu HERE !  I will finish the menu for next week and get it to you next Wednesday....

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I'm not really sure why or when we started calling her Noodle. It could have been when she was still a squirmy little baby or because she was a lanky toddler. Or honestly because her name starts with an N and I was cooking spaghetti for dinner one night and called her that by mistake and it just stuck. Noodle, actually has many nicknames, noodle, nattie, nat nat, nattie no butt (she really hates that one), etc... Regardless of what nickname we call her by, she almost (she's a teenager) always answers with a smile and willing attitude. At the beginning of this school year, superman and I were really worried about how high school would affect her personality. You see our other daughter, uh hem Pumpkin, was quit the punk freshman year. And we were sincerely hoping to not have to endure the frustration again. Much to our surprise, Noodle, has had no suck punkish qualities so far this year. She is loving freshman year and getting involved with band, FCA, theater and orchestr...