Work weekend wrap up

A few awesome meals and the great outdoors

You guys, I love spaghetti squash. I don't remember the first time I had it, but I grew it when I was a farmer, and I still eat it a lot. The other night I tried a great lasagna style recipe and it was AWESOME! It was also super easy, I halved the recipe, since I only had one squash, and we usually split one half. I also traded out the tomatoes for tomato sauce, and I used just mild italian sausage, (taken out of the casing) instead of a beef/sausage hybrid. I also cut the ricotta/cottage cheese and just did the layers meat sauce/buffalo mozzarella (sliced)/meat sauce/shredded Jack and cheddar/shredded parm. Anyway, here's the original recipe: http://pinterest.com/pin/78672324716375878/

I'll definitely be doing this recipe again....

The weather here in Seattle has been INCREDIBLE. I heard a report that weather wise were a month ahead of where we usually are, so the allergens are kicking in earlier than usual, but it's dang beautiful outside. 

We haven't made any visible strides on the garden space, but we have collected more compost, and we got our seeds! 

So excited for summer!

Twin meals and play dates

I'm working a bunch of extra shifts this week, so our schedule is all wonky this week. The boys have tried a bunch of new foods, and are completely feeding themselves. They are still getting formula at night but only until the formula is gone. They have a small milk bottle after their meals, usually. Here's a sampling of what the boys ate this week....

Lettuce, avocado, tomato, ham, Swiss, Apple

Cheerios, rasberries, and banana

Strawberries, veggie mix, and colcannon

Tortilla chips, black beans, and veggie mix

Yummmmmm!

We also had a super fun play date with our friends Vira and Deven and our good buddy Ava!

Deven and Vira brought presents and cupcakes for a belated birthday celebration!

Clap clap clap!!

Showing off our sunnies from Auntie Alice, cool dudes!

Thank you, friends!!

Work weekend wrap up

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Seed time!

I ordered the seeds for our garden today!

I'm hoping that we can build the garden box this weekend and get some large pots!!

Thursday play date and baking

Today the boys met a new friend for a play date and we had a fabulous time!

Me and my friend had been looking forward to getting our little munchkins together, and it finally worked out, they got along great! Can't wait to do it again!!

I had meals delivered last week so I could get our menu back on track. With all the birthday craziness and extra work shifts, dinner was slipping, but I got my game back this week. We had our last blue apron meal on Monday, and I made Chicken cordon bleu on Tuesday and spaghetti with meat sauce tonight. We have corned beef scheduled for tomorrow, and we're having paella with the neighbors on Saturday, should be fun!

I decided to try and get back on the healthy track, and made some granola tonight.

Cherry almond coconut

Blueberry cashew coconut

Recipe here: http://pinterest.com/pin/78672324714889037/

Can't wait to try it with some yogurt tomorrow morning! 

Twin eats/craft day (a day late)

The twins are eating all solids now, and are making the transition to cows milk. They get a 4 oz bottle after every meal, and formula at night. They're only waking up 1-2 times at night and usually only want a bottle once. Here's a sampling of this week's meals:

Chicken, cheese, carrots, peas and potato

Cheesy eggs and maple toast

Chick peas, cheese, naan

Naan cheese and spinach 'pizza', Apple

Cheesy eggs, toast, plums

Avocado, Cheerios, bananas

Chicken, carrots, apples

Mac and cheese, peas, carrots

These two little chuckleheads napped through gymboree time, so we'll probably try again on Friday.

I didn't get to a craft yesterday, but I did do one this evening.  I made coasters for Christmas presents this year, and I decided to make some for us too!