Father's day 2012

The thursday before fathers day, we had a blast me and the kids making their farhers day presents. I bought three white shirts, one for each important guy in my childerns lives. Meaning daddy, papaw, and grandpa. We also bought them some father day cards too. I wanted totry the bubble painting and instead of using paper we used t-shirts. The kids loved it expect the bubbles kept floating and wouldnt pop on the shirt, so instead we just flinged the bubble soultion on the shirts and then threw them in the dryer. Then i wrote some sayings on the shirts with puffy paint. The guys loved them, I could not get a picture of them wearing their shirts, but they wore them that day and the kids were so happy that they loved them. Now tell me how u spent this year's father day with your father. We are always looking for new ideas on how to spend father's day with these special guys.

My First Fishtail Braid

Hey guys, So I have been on pinterest a lot lately and looking for little girl hairstyles. My daughter has medium length hair and when it is not brushed it is messy but even when it is brushed and left down and everything it is still very messy. So I have been looking for new wonderful ways to get my daughter's hair unmessified (a word I just made up) and lately on pinterest there has been a bunch of posts or repins about braids and different kinds of braids. The only braids that I have ever known how to do is a regular braid and a french braid. Those two types of braids I usually do on my daugther right before she goes to bed cause she likes to wake up with curly hair since her hair is straight and even if you curl it and put product on it, it will still fall down. Today is the last day of school for my daughter, and yesterday I learned how to do a fishtail braid. So I did a fishtail braid on my daughter today before she went to school and it turned out great. I loved it and she loved it, although it only lasted a couple of hours cause my daughter plays hard, it was still neat to actually learn something new to do on my daughter's hair. Here are some pictures of the braid and what it looks like in the front
The Braid Itself

The Front of the Hair

The braid itself is very lose fitting and you can tighten it but it will eventually become very lose, so natuarlly I have learned that this braid is very cute but is not meant for a four year old who is going to be running around playing all day. To bad my hair is short esle I would do this to my hair, oh well I guess I will have to let it grow out now.

Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice

So Today I am trying something new. As my family may know I am not the best cook in the world and I didn't go to cooking school. I think it is genetic cause my mom barely cooked when she was home.So since I am not good at cooking I have been trying to teach myself all these recipes and how to cook and be a good cook for my husband and my kids. So today I am trying my hand at this recipe that I found on Pinterest, it is called Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice. My son needs to try and stay away from ground beef which means the whole family needs to try to stay away from ground beef, so we are now getting to know chicken, and everything esle;Including ground chicken, trukey, and pork. Recipes will follow using these and any new recipes that I find and the family loves. I am sorry but I did not take any pictures but if you want to see pictures you can go over Southern Plateand find the pictures and recipes there, but I will post the recipe on here as well. Slow Cooker Chicken and Wild Rice Items you need: 3 chicken breasts 1 can of cream of mushroom soup an onion and a box of long grain wild rice Step 1: Make sure you cook up your chicken breasts into three strips, which will leave you with nine strips of chicken breast which is more than enough for four people; if you have more than four people double the recipe for every four extra people. After you cut up the chicken place them in the bottom of your slow cooker. Take you onion and dice it up then put it into the slow cooker on top of the chicken. Then open the can the mushroom soup and pour it on top of chicken too, let that cook on low for 7-8 hours. Step 2: Right before you serve make you wild rice following the package instructions. Once that is made then mix it into you slow cooker with your chicken and mix together. Now you are all done and ready serve.

Day 3 organizing hall closet

I know I have left the 21 day challenge and started doing my own thing. But I am still using their guide lines. So as Today I am going to straighten the hall closet up. It was going to be crazy cause it was a mess since the hall closet in our house is so small and we have so much stuff that is where it all got put at. So the closet was messy and needed to be organized very badly, so that is what I did. Now we have a place for our bath towels, and sheets for each bedroom. Well I was organizing the hall closet i also organized under the bathroom sink so today I have two organizing jobs but if two is to much for you guys you can always do one today and do one for day 4 since day 4 will be organizing under the bathroom sink. I am finally going to post some pictures of the hall closet now Tomorrow I will get on about the organizing under the bathroom sink. Before organizing:

The After shots of Organizing the closet:

Day 2- Organizing Computer Area

Today for Day 2 it was to organize a computer area or desk area. Since me and my hubby both have laptops and we dont have any room in the house to put a desk I organized our book shelf or video game shelf. It wasn't that messy but it was still messy where we needed to move something off the shelf in order to get something esle. So I had fun organizing the shelf and going through the movies and books to get rid of, while my hubby went through the video games since that is his area and he gets mad if anyone touches the games without him knowing about it. here is the before picture

and now here is the after picture, after the organizing

not much of a difference but it is looking a little better, so we now have some videos that we are selling or going to trade in to moviestop

Day 1- organizing "Junk" Drawer

For the first day of the challenge it was to clean out a "Junk" drawer that you just love to throw everything in. Well to let you guys know I had four "Junk" drawer in the kitchen so I was determined to at least get it down to only having one "Junk" drawer in the kitchen. so that meant going through all the drawers and throwing some things out as well as putting some in a neat place. Here is what my drawers looked like before I started organizing

I got out my three baskets one for donating, one for trash, and one for keeps. I also had more baskets for the stuff that didn't belong in the kitchen. so there was one for the bathroom, shed, and etc. After I got done sorting all of my stuff into the different piles. I then put them in their places and put the stuff that I wanted to keep in "Junk" drawer back in the drawer. since I didnt go out buy and some baskets for this drawer I used some ziplock bags. Here is a picture of drawer now

I did it....I organized my "Junk" drawers into one single drawer. I am so proud of myself now lets see how you did on organizing your "Junk" drawer(s). Now off to do Day 2 of the challenge.

Organization Challenge

I have a problem with organization and everything is not in its place and I always seem to lose the most important things in my life. So starting today I am doing a 21 day organization challenge. I will post pictures and write about my organizations each day. If you want to do the 21 day organization challenge too you can visit the website I am following it on here.....
Here is a list of the challenges:
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

Hair bows/headbands

I am trying my hand at making headbands and hairbows for my daughter and I to wear. The headbands are pretty easy to make you just need some frabic and a sewing machine. The hairbows on the other hand are a lot harder if you are not a person who likes to take their time at doing something. I found the headband tutorial on pinterest and our daugther has been wanting to wear heandbands. which is fine with me considering it is a quick and easy way for me to get her hair out of her face. Well tonight I finally made my first headband, thanks to the tutorial on pinterest that i can no longer find. so here is the headband that I made and I will make many more and come up with a tutorial for the headbands if there is a need for one. yes the headband is gator colors, cause my husband is a big fan. My side of the family is a seminole fan, so I made a gator one for our daughter to wear the day of the florida and florida state game.

I made this gator headband it is reservible so the top is blue and the bottom is orange or you can change it where the top is orange and the bottom is blue

the hairbow tutorial on SupermomvsMe this is my hair clip i made for my daughter to wear with one of dresses that has these colors all over i proably should put like a button or flower in the center of the hair clip, but now she can wear with in her hair or on her dress where ever she wants to put it. yay now go make you some and be sure to post photos i would love to see what you come up with.

MCADD, Food changes and reciepes

I love food, and since we have learned that our son and maybe our daughter have MCADD. For the people who do not know what that is, it is a disorder where people who have it their bodies cannot break down certain fatty porteins. So since my kids have this, it means that they cannot have any processed food, which means i have make everything from scratch including there lunches for school. So for a little while I will posting pictures of the stuff I cook and post the reciepe for them so incase anyone esle wanna makes them for their family.

So here is first reciepe:

This is a Healthy Baked Chicken Nuggets. The whole reason they are healthy because instead of the chicken nuggets being fried they are baked in the oven.

Ingredients:

• 16 oz (2 large) skinless boneless chicken breasts, cut into even bit sized pieces
• salt and pepper to taste
• 2 tsp olive oil
• 6 tbsp whole wheat Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
• 2 tbsp panko
• 2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
• Olive oil spray

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425. spray the baking sheet with the olive oil. Put olive oil in a large bowl, then the breadcrumbs, panko, parmesan cheese in another. cut the chicken into little bites and season with salt and pepper. Once you do that you can put three bites in the olive oil at a time, once in the  olive oil put the bites in the bowl with the breadcrumb mixture. then place onto the baking sheet,lightly spray the top of them with olive oil spray then bake 8-10 minutes. turn over then cook for another 4-5 minutes.

My husband and my son loves these and ask for them all the time. It is so great. My husband says that I am becoming a perfectly good house wife.