menu plan monday

monday:

Buffalo Chicken Crockpot

Recipe here

tuesday:

Whole wheat Macaroni and Cheese 

Recipe from 100 days of real food

wednesday:

Crockpot Teriyaki Chicken

I made two of these and froze them so I'll

just grab one out of the freezer in the morning

toss it in the crockpot and serve it over rice.

Recipe found here

thursday:

Roast with carrots and mashed potatoes

friday:

Crockpot Baja Pork Tacos

Recipe here

sat./sun.:

as usual eating out and leftovers

I hardly ever cook on the weekends.

Looks like this week, my crockpot is going to get quite the 

workout!  4 out of 5 meals in the crockpot is the way to cook!  We've never had the buffalo chicken or the pork tacos so I'm excited to try both of those!  

And just because he's a cutie...

right now i am...

got this idea from Meg's Whatever Blog

right now i am.....

watching: The Big Bang Theory.....Bazinga! Oh how that shows makes us laugh!

drinking:  McDonald's iced coffee....I've refound my love for them

wearing:  workout clothes so I stay motivated to workout at some point today!  I have a new goal....to do some sort of workout everyday for the next 30 days.  Whether it's Jillian, Jazzercise or sit ups and push ups at home....I'm going to get these last few pounds OFF.  Summer is coming!  Lol! 

eating: Chips and Salsa....mmmmm.

listening: Silence.....Lincoln is outside helping daddy set up the new playset (woo hoo for a great craigslist find!) and Caedmon is sleeping.

avoiding: Cleaning the bathroom....I hate a messy bathroom but I also hate cleaning it...ugh.  NOT looking forward to two boys in the coming years, trying to aim at the toilet and failing...yuck.

wishing:  for warmer weather....we got such a tease a few weeks ago and now it's back to "normal" spring weather

feeling:  all over the place....confused, antsy, scared, excited and like a failure all at the same time for all different things.  

missing:  our families and old friends

thankful:  for a hubby who wakes up with the boys on a Saturday morning and lets me sleep in :)

craving:  Take one guess....yep Vanilla Dr. Pepper.

wondering: how God will grow our family next :)

praying:  for patience and wisdom in raising my 2 boys

needing:  a pedicure

thinking:  about how to fix my new curtains for my kitchen.  I turned a shower curtain into window curtains and it's white/gray horizontal stripes.  I may have messed it up a bit and how the stripes don't line up.....annoying. 

dreaming:  about a vacation to a beach with just my man.  

got my fix

of Sonic's vanilla Dr. Pepper, that is!
The boys and I spent a week in Kansas City after Easter, with my family (minus Trey, silly Nashville has stolen him from us!)
Everyday I had my sonic drink in hand! :)
Hello, my name is Marie and I'm addicted to vanilla Dr. Pepper...

Ready for an insane amount of pictures?

Hold on tight, here we go!

me and my beautiful sister.....REALLY wish we lived closer.  I miss her a ton.

Oh and remind me next time to suck in my post baby belly for a picture....mmmk?

Lincoln played with these little animals for 2 days straight...

Holding up this big head is such hard work! 

We went to Fritz's again for supper one night.

Lincoln a little excited about the trains :)

Not so excited about this hat... :)

Hope and her kiddos she nanny's for, came over one morning

Bath time in Grandma's zebra bathroom!

King of the Mountain!

Playing cars with Uncle Derek

Somebody's getting very sleepy....

Papa Jay lovin' on Caedmon

Hope and Derek with the boys

Lincoln liked wearing my head band....so pretty :)

The whole fam at Easter

Another sink, another bath :)

Grandma and one of her boys :)

While the boys nap....the girls craft!

With big sonic drinks close by of course :)

We bought paper mache letters and mod podged scrap book paper 

onto them. 

Caedmon got in on the fun too

Derek studied so hard, he fell asleep :)

This guy is so dedicated to studying, I'm very impressed.

And the end results of our letters!  

LOVE how they turned out!

And there you have it.  Another fun trip back to see family!

"you've got a friend in me"

After living in Wichita for 9? years for Tyler and 4 for myself, we developed some pretty great friendships over the years.  So when we were in Kansas City with my family we got to see some of them!  Tyler was just there for a day so we met up with his buddy David.  

Him and his wife Amber just had a baby boy!  We got to meet sweet little Isaac.

Isaac and Caedmon just chillin'

Then I had the chance to drive down to Wichita for a night and hang out with some 

pretty awesome people :)

The kiddos eating

All of us girls...some pretty sweet friends

Lydia, Sasha, Kendra, Kaely, Ashley and myself

miss you girls!

Zeke was cropped out of the above picture

He was making us all laugh as he just stared at us all taking a picture :)

My friend Lesley was in Iowa seeing her family, 

so on her way back to Wichita she was able to stop and see us.

And we got to meet their newest addition, Boaz! 

Caedmon was rude and slept. :)

Us and our boys

We were both in our first trimester, sick and pregnant with these two

when our two families took a vacation to Chicago last summer.

Then 7 months later... :)

Lincoln with Boaz's older sisters, Jordan and Rylie

I'm so glad that it worked out for us to see so many of our friends while we were back.  There's never enough time to see everybody but we squeezed in as much as we could!  Maybe that's why I ended up sick after all this? :)  

Easter {picture overload!}

We were able to drive back to Nebraska for Easter this year.  It was a LONG drive {15 hours! } 

but SO worth it.  We got there Friday morning before Easter and had lots of time to hang out on the farm with Tyler's family.  Here is our weekend in pictures...

Caedmon got some snuggle time with Papa

and then Grandma got her snuggle time with him :)

Tyler and Seth our soon to be brother-in-law, hanging out in the yard 

We are so excited for Kelsey and Seth to get married in June!

Papa got out the BIG toys and let Lincoln drive

"Hi, Mom!"  

"Look at me!"

Lincoln, Tyler, Seth, Kona and Kelsey

Tyler got his "Kona fix"  he sure misses his dog!

Lucy G. and Caedmon finally got to meet!  I sure miss Lucy's mama!

Caedmon got a bath in Grandma's sink!

Four Generations

Kelsey had a Pampered Chef Bridal shower while we were there.

Here she is with the her mom and the hostess's (3 of her aunts)

I sure do love my sis-in-law!  So happy for her!

My bff from when we were like 4 years old, Shannon came to meet Caedmon

and hang out with me for a little while.  I really wish we lived closer.  

I miss her. :)

Easter Dinner Saturday night with my mom's side of the family.

Kilah was a natural with Caedmon, I think she's ready to be an aunt 

{hint, hint Kait and/or Karinne!} :)

Hope didn't realize she was the only one posing for this picture! haha

Lincoln had a blast with Riley!

Grandma Hunni getting in her Caedmon time

Lincoln and Madison

it's a risk stealing my camera and taking silly picture of yourself.

I might post one on my blog for the whole world to see!

love you Trey!

Easter morning before church

my handsome little boy

I was terrible about getting pictures on Easter and this is the only one I have of Caedmon in his outfit and because of the bib you can't even see his cute shirt and he's already kicked off his moccasins! 

Oh well.  He's cute anyway :)

Oh AND I didn't get a family picture of us 4....what was I doing?!

Hunting for eggs on the farm

Caedmon with his Great Aunt Marta

Checkin' out the tires on the tractor

So that's what our Easter weekend looked like.  It was jam packed full of family and friends and we were exhausted afterwards but it was so worth it!  I wish we were able to make it back more often but being so far away it's hard {and not to mention expensive}.  We're excited to come back in less than 2 months for Kelsey and Seth's wedding in June!