Freezer Meals

Ohhh Pinterest I love you.... Thanks to Pinterest I gave freezer meals a go.... Yesterday I managed to cook 18 meals in just a couple hours. I got them all packaged up and in the freezer.

Here is what I made:
BBQ chicken burritos
Ham broccoli and cheese roll
Ranch cheese quesadilla
chicken parm wraps
Stuffing Bake
Teriyaki chicken
Ranch Parm chicken
sausage mac and cheese
chicken fried rice

I also plan on making a few more meals tomorrow.

It was alot of work and would have been nice to have help I am interested to see how well things freeze and how they taste!

Homemade Grape Juice

Grapes round 2 Our vines were producing like crazy this year so I picked a few more .... this time I wanted to try to just make juice to freeze and use. FH's family usually cans the juice and hadnt yet tried to freeze it.
But FH's mom and I did a little epxperimenting and we got it figured out and its really good!

This is what it looked like finished added a little water and a little sugar the color is really pretty too. I think I am going to get some sprite and try to mix that in too...

We got 15 cups of juice here it is all frozen !!

The Case of the Missing Frosting.......

Made these tasty treats.....




Few hours later I found this......
It appears the cupcake was just a vehicle for the frosting for FH.... lol it was REALLY good frosting you must check out rainbow chip frosting YUM

New Dishwasher!!!!

I told you about making jelly 2 saturdays ago with FH's family.... what I didnt mention was FH sneaking away from making jelly to install me a dishwasher.... Yes I am officailly that old that I get excited about a dishwasher.... BUT I DONT CARE I LOVE IT!!!!!!


I called FH a few times while making jelly to see what he was up to and I couldnt get a straight answer from him.....

And this is what I came home to 2 drawers and 2 cabnets removed I WAS SO EXCITED!


FH's brother and sister inlaw were nice enough to give us this one yay!... but it turned out that we had let it sit out in the garage too long and the seals and pump were no good and it leaked all over boo:(

Soooo we got this one!!! brand new I am retty excited about this one... cause it matches the rest of the kitchen...FH and I were watching over it obsessed with it the first few days he he

and now to figure out what to do with the space left on the left side of the washer .... I think a shelf of some sort.... would like to find a neat way to store alluminum foil and plastic wrap and such.... was thinking of maybe wooden dowels..? i dunno ....

Lasagna Soup

Another Pinterest Post.... YUM! so easy to make and both FH and I loved it!

7 Links Challenge..

The Rules:
1. The blogger who is nominated ( me in this case) must publish 7 links from his/her blog; one for each of the categories below.
2. The blogger then nominates 5-7 more bloggers to take part, and so on and so on....

I was nominaed by Heidi so I will give this a go Rule # 2 will be the hard part so I will do what I can.....

The Most Beautiful Post
I dont know is this is the most beautiful post that I have posted but it makes me smile. I have slacked a little lately on giving love notes and I am dissapointed in myself but I intend on starting back up!
Most Popular Post
I was just learning to coupon and had just got paid to shop! I had also gotten some free items from couponing. I got almos 50 vies for this post but only 1 comment ha ha!

Most Controversial Post
I took some time to think about this one and came up empty handed. My blog is currently very light hearted.. (or i hope it is) and its just a way for me to document the events in my life and reconnect with old friends and new friends. SO.... I choose one of my favorite blogs posts ever.... Junes Bounty... June makes me laugh and is endless entertainment!
Most Helpful Post
I had trouble finding one for this ..... my blogs are more of a diary than educational or helpful. But I do feel this post was helpful in telling FH about the destroyed kitty litter ha ha!?

Post That Didnt Get the Attention It Deserved
The WORST dentist EVER post didnt get the attention it deserved ha ha.... I was in some serious pain and I got no love :( Not going to that dentist EVER again!
Post That I Am Proud Of
My first blog post EVER is the one I am the most proud of.... because it started the whole thing! I didnt know if I would stick with it but I am happy I did !!


As for rule #2 I dont have enough followers yet to tag and continue but If you are reading this give it a try... its a great chance to reflect on your blog :)

Berry Picking

Our grapes started turning purple last week so FH began the long process of picking grapes.

Here is what we got the first night..... we had a competition to see who could collect more.. pretty sure I won although it was close.

The 2nd night we had several visitors .... however they didnt help muchSpit and Spok both climbed up the vines and peeked out the leaves.

June and Boots came to watch ....

They were in the way most of the time and Juned NEEDED her tummy scratched.

ohh... June...

Here is our harvest from the 2nd day

This is what we ended up we choose to make some juice and jelly. We go 29 half pints of jelly!
and juice to make over 80 more all from the two buckets!

We had lots of help making Jelly FH's Neices A and L helped "squish" the cooked grapes

They did a great job with help from unkle FH

Here is FH about to squish the grapes
The grapes smelled wonderfull but looked similar to baby poo....

Here is FH's brother cooking down the raw grapes

Cleaning grapes I was helping with this but I got my bucket finished and I wanted to see how the rest of the process went.

We still have several grapes on the vine going to try to make some more soon.