Beautiful Oregon!

I was lucky enough to have a few days of my husband and beautiful Oregon this week! We took a quick getaway to the land of GREEN (and red and yellow and orange--oh the fall leaves!!!!). It was a great trip, and we came back to happy boys and their mother is refreshed and ready for a new week. Here's my menu for the week:

Monday: Anniversary Chicken, Quinoa, Acorn Squash and Green Beans
Tuesday: French Dip Sandwiches, Carrots and Celery with dip, Chips and Salsa
Wednesday: Chicken Parmesan, Pasta, Green Salad
Thursday: Crustless Quiche, Pears and Peaches, Zucchini Muffins, Spinach Salad
Friday: Pizza Night!
Saturday: Mom's night off :)
Sunday: Wall Family Dinner

Pumpkin Picking!

We travelled down south for Keaton's Lacrosse game this weekend and afterward stopped at the Warner's farm! We had a blast picking pumpkins and catching flying corn! All of the pumpkins in the patch were enormous, and the boys are quite excited about the prospect of carving the massive pumpkins. But, I have made it clear that I will not be the one scraping the slime out this year!

Landon was pretty cute tonight, trying to get my attention while I was reading on the couch. He looked right into my face and said, "MOM, do you have your listening ears on?" Too cute!

I'm trying to use up as much garden produce as possible this week, so I looked at the garden and then I made my menu. We still have a lot of tomatoes, peppers, onions, green beans, potatoes, carrots, celery, tomatillos, cantaloupe, watermelon, zucchini, squash and beets! I love fresh food!

Monday: Colorful Vegetable Fajitas with Steak, fresh salsa and chips, cantaloupe
Tuesday: Shepherd's Pie, Spinach Salad, and Fresh Peaches
Wednesday: Authentic Enchiladas Verdes, Zucchini, Tomato and Squash stir-fry, Watermelon
Thursday: Roasted Beet and Potato Soup with Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Friday: Pizza Night!
Saturday: Mom's Night Off!
Sunday: Spaghetti and Meatballs, Spinach Salad, French Bread, and Watermelon

Happy Birthdays and Conference time!

We had a fun weekend, full of fiestas and family! My mom and my darling niece celebrated birthdays, so we broke a pinata, ate mexican food and fiesta'd! Homemade ice-cream and all! And then, we enjoyed family as we watched General Conference. I have to laugh that I spend most of the last session of Conference in constant battle with my children, but I suppose one day I'll miss it....yeah right! :)

Right now we are in full sports mode at our house. There is never a day (besides Sunday) that we are not involved in some sport. Right now Keaton is on the highschool Lacrosse team, which involves a hefty practice and conditioning schedule. Chase is on the Tsunami Swim Team at our rec center, and Brooks is doing Lacrosse as well. It's fun to watch them progress. Chase had a meet this weekend, and both Lacrosse boys have games every Saturday. So we are BUSY! But it's been so nice to spend the time outside watching the games in the beautiful weather we've been having. I'm sure it won't last forever, so I'm sure enjoying it while it's here.

If you notice some repeats in my meals over the next few weeks, you'll know it's because our busy schedule didn't allow me to be home to make the dinner I had planned. I'm sure we'll get back to normalcy sometime soon.....yeah right! :)

Monday: Turkey Burgers, Relish Tray with Herbed Cottage Cheese, Chips and Salsa
Tuesday: Artichoke Chicken, Quinoa, Steamed Green Beans, and Cantaloupe
Wednesday: Grilled Pizza, Garden Green Salad, Apricot
Smoothie
Thursday: Southwest Lentil Soup and Cheese Quesadillas (The Lentil soup is from a new cookbook I'm trying out, it's called Eat Free by Rhiannon Lawrence)
Friday: Scrambled Eggs, Toast, Bacon and Orange Juice
Saturday: Mom's night off!
Sunday: Juicy Roasted Chicken, Red and Purple Garden Potatoes and Carrots and Green Beans and My Favorite Zucchini Bread