Crock Pot Cooking

I should be called the Queen of the Crock Pot!

I do a lot of dinners in my crock pot and I have even done a breakfast casserole in it, it turned out delicious too!!

Tuesday night we had a very good beef stew. I hadn't used the recipe before and so I would try something new. The recipe is out of of the Fix it and Forget it Cookbook - by Dawn Ranck

I used stew meat, potatoes, carrots, onions, can of tomato soup, a can of water, a 1/2 cup of apple vinegar, and spices. I let it cook from 11am to when we ate at 6pm. It was very good.

I t was perfect on a day that had been raining and super cold (at least cold for us here in Southern California).

I am going to start adding some of my good recipes here.

It will also give me something else to post about!!

Way Back When-sday

Here we are another Wednesday... and how do celebrate with Way Back pictures!

4 months old

Chase on the left - Cody on the right

Be sure to check out Cheryl's blog for the lastest in all Way back pictures!

Packing up and leaving

From this weekend, Cody thought he would put everything that was important too him into his "rhino" and take off. He is through with living at his parents house. The rules are just unbearable and he just can't stand it anymore. Here are the pictures:

Cody did come back before night time.

Monday's post

I am going back to work (for a few weeks) on Monday's. I haven't worked on a Monday since the boys were born. I have a best job (and boss) for letting me work Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday's since I came back to work.

The reason I am going back to work is the same week that I lost my grandfather (like that wasn't enough to deal with) I also lost my computer at work. The hard drive that held my whole accounting software, crashed and is now unrecoverable. So I am now going back to work on Monday's to recreate the stuff that I lost. I do have a backup from August that the computer people were able to recover, so I am happy about that!

Chase and Cody are going to school one more day a week. Everyone at school was very excited to have them another day.

Also we have started small steps toward potty training Chase. Everytime I sit him on the potty he pees. I jump up and down because I am so excited. He is actaully pooped also. So this morning I put together underwear and 5 changes of clothes for him and school is going to work with him today. Maybe we will be potty trained soon at least with one. It just means that he is growing up so fast, I don't know if I am ready for the whole potty thing but I guess I need to be!

Happy Monday!!

Happy November Birthdays!

I have a few birthday wishes I would like to send:

11/12 Charlie ... Happy 3rd Birthday

11/14 Scott

11/19 Allyson ... Happy 3rd Birthday

11/22 Dennis

11/23 Uncle Ron

11/29 Daniel

Wow there are a lot of birthday's this month!

Wishing everyone a wonderful November birthday all month long!

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween a day late! We had a great time yesterday. We started off at the Chase and Cody's school party, parade and trick or treating at their school.

ARRRRR MATTIE!!

Cody waiting for his turn!

Having snack in the classroom before parade!

Chase as a pirate acting silly!

One the teachers passing out candy and Chase sneaking into the candy dish!

We stayed in our neighborhood and went to some friends house for food and trick-or-treating. Here are some pictures of our fun!!

I hope everyone had a great (and safe) Halloween!!

National Blogging Month

Okay I guess I am going to try to blog everyday this month. I know a huge task. I am hoping I am up for the challange. Thanks Sara for tuning me into such a challange.