Only on Monday

This has become one of our keeper recipes lately. I have been building up our recipe bank because I want to be super organized like this girl and keep a binder with 30 meals in it that we use consistently! Because dinner time at our house is pretty crazy! 

We had this for dinner and I think one of the reasons I like it so much is because EVERYONE eats it...very rare. We don't make special meals for our kids so if they don't like it, they don't eat :) Sounds mean, huh. Not really, they usually give in and eat something on their plate. But the two bigs eat this with smiles and tonight J told me, "More Meat Please, Lub Meat Mommy" We have also frozen the leftovers-yummy. And if you are not a meatloaf fan, you should try this. It is really good!

Preparation

Stir together first 10 ingredients in a large bowl just until combined. Place in a 9- x 5-inch loafpan.
Bake at 350° for 40 to 45 minutes. Pour chili sauce over meat loaf, and bake 20 to 25 more minutes or until meat is no longer pink in center.
Arrange cheese slices in a crisscross pattern on top of meat loaf. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing.
Note: For testing purposes only, we used Heinz Chili Sauce.

If you are looking for a good cookbook this comes from this book and I LOVE it!!! 

Happy Monday :)

Okay, so I didn't realize it would take me this long to update everyone on our life. But it looks like we have been busy... So here is the cliff notes update till today!

G gets a follow up ultrasound at the children's hospital here. All is well, no kidney problems! Yeah! We really weren't worried, but made for a cute picture in the big ole bed :)

G starts to eat solid foods and loves it. He should, we waited until "things were settled" before we realized things would never be settled and just went for it. He is 7 months old now and we are just getting going with 2 meals a day :) So much more laid back with the 3rd.

J starts refusing to take naps, but still needs them and falls asleep sitting up in the living room. C stopped taking naps at 21 months and J is close he is 27 months. Hopefully G will be my baby who takes a nap until Kindergarten!!!

C loves her brother. She took a hiatus from asking God for a girl baby after she realized how much time G took away from "mommy time" with her...then she said we need another baby but Daddy would take care of the baby...now just tonight she asked God again for another "girl" baby! Ha!

She also loves her other brother. They share a room here and love it!!!! J made the transition great from a crib right into a bed with sis. She insisted they have matching PJ's

I mean seriously, couldn't you just eat him up :) He is always this happy

Oh yeah, our basement flooded...about 4 inches of water on the entire bottom floor. Fun times.

Had to escape the stress of no playroom, flooded stinky house so we went to the Beach with some fun friends.

smiling again and almost sitting...has been crawling for a month now but won't sit still long enough to sit

C is soooo excited to be playing soccer!!!!

new big boy carseat!!!

I think she is even more excited to be starting Preschool. We love love love her school. She goes 5/week from 9-12 and is really enjoying it...J misses her like crazy and after 2 weeks still cries when we drop her off.

the highlight of her classroom...a guinea pig names Cooey. If you know C you know she LOVES animals...so cool.

We went to see Thomas...huge hit with the little guy

and a BUNCH of more trains

C started dancing...she is clueless but seems to like it

G finally got to wear his Babylegs!! Aren't they adorable...and he has the most amazing daddy ever. Look at him just holding his little finger. I think I was in the store and he was fussing and C was taking pics from the back.

Wooooo Hooooooo we got carpet again in the playroom. That only took THREE WEEKS!!!

some more house pics...these are as good as it gets. If you looks closely you will probably see a) dirt-because it seems that "picking up" is as far as I ever get these days. I never get to the actual cleaning part b)moving stickers-still finding them everywhere c) things already falling apart and needing attention that we don't have to give. Like the curtains that are falling down in two rooms... I would someone to tell me how their family gets it all done :(



see told you...it's bad I know. But I am just keeping it real :)

These are from today and make me happy to see my baby so joyful. We are loving life with our kids these days. Sooooo blessed to have N home. Looking forward to a fun fall.

We also went to the other part of the state for a visit! We saw some great friends, celebrated J's birthday again, July 4th, and showed C were she is going to college.

We had a great time visiting family while we were on leave.  We spent about a week at each parents house and got to see and do some fun things as well as just relax.