i finally re-did this website. after 3 scrapped designs and several nights of staring at a blank canvas in photoshop, it happened. so glad that’s over with. i don’t hate it yet. we’ll see how long that lasts. also, i added a recipes…

cook up some rotini pasta and set aside. brown 1 lb of ground beef in a pan add 1 can of light red kidney beans, drained in a pot (this could also be done in a slow cooker), pour in 2 cans of tomato soup and 1 cup of water add chili…

my mom has made this since i was little. i love it. brett loves it. hopefully caylin will love it :) preheat oven to 350 brown up 1 lb of ground beef in a pan throw in a can of light red kidney beans drained add 1 packet of taco seasoning…

these always remind me of my grandma’s house :) excellent comfort food. cut the stems out of 4 green peppers and hollow out the guts. cook up some ground beef in a pan and drain mix in 1-2 cups of cooked white rice (depending how much rice…

these are also one of my favorites, and i think they taste better than frying them. thaw out 8-10 chicken breast tenderloins preheat oven to 350 degrees coat tenderloins in ranch dressing toss in a mixture of bread crumbs (i use the…

this probably makes enough taters for 3 people but brett and i usually eat the whole thing. they’re my absolute favorite to make with steak and green beans :) cut 1 russet potato into 8 blocks boil for about 20-30 minutes or until it falls…

cooked and shredded chicken breasts (i usually boil 2 chicken breasts, use however much you want) 1 jar of Newman’s Own Black Bean & Corn Salsa 1 can black beans 2 cans northern beans 1-2 cups chicken broth (depends how thick or soupy you…

cook 3-4 chicken breasts – boil until it shreds easily 8 oz. sour cream 1 can cream of mushroom soup (undiluted) mix these ingredients thoroughly. pour in casserole dish and cover the top with COOKED stuffing. i use stove top chicken…

2 tbsp margarine 1/4 cup flour 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp ground mustard 1/4 tsp pepper 2 1/2 cups milk 2 cups grated cheddar cheese (i especially like to use extra sharp vermont white cheddar and/or gouda, omg) 1/4 cup fresh bread crumbs 8oz…

3 8oz blocks cream cheese 3/4 cup sugar 1 bag mini chocolate chips (this makes it super rich, so 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 egg (or 2-3 if you want it super fluffy) blend until fluffy. for the crust… 1 package of mashed up graham crackers (i…

this has been one of my favorites my entire life. my mom made it all the time, and it is awesome. i like to add walnuts or mini chocolate chips to make it even more delicious. 1 1/2 cup flour 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt mix above in…

if you like wings or buffalo chicken sandwiches, you’ll probably like this pizza. i do it the fun way with pillsbury pizza dough . this stuff is awesome and easy and awesomely easy. first, spray down a cookie sheet with no stick spray.…

somehow over the course of a month, caylin has turned into one. like… leaps and bounds of progress in every area. at 5 months and 1 week she is sitting up unassisted and playing with her toys able to pull herself into a sitting position by…

holy crap, it’s been a year already. i feel like just yesterday i was freaking out about not only being pregnant, but how we were going to plan a wedding in less than a month! i still have the wedding planning spreadsheet in my google…

this is me starting a new trend for myself. i’ve been emailing myself snippets of memories and saving them randomly in evernote but i’ve never actually PUT them anywhere (unless they turned into tweets). so this will be that repository…

and hatred (not a totally new thing). brett and i don’t fight or argue or even bicker often. i can count on one hand the number of times we’ve had a memorable upset. if and when we do, it’s over relatively quickly. like, less than 20…

that i am allowed to take care of another human being. i was laying in bed feeding caylin tonight, waiting for her to fall asleep, and my brain always wanders off in those 20 minutes when she’s in between the last 2 ounces and passing out.…

last week and this week, caylin has learned to entertain herself (when she’s wide awake and not hungry, at least). i don’t know what happened. it felt almost like it was overnight. put her in her bouncer, and bam. she goes to town. put her…

at least not yet. brett has been out on travel since monday, so i’ve been on my own with caylin in the evenings. well, 2 nights my mom stayed here but she was pretty much passed out by 8 :) but it’s the middle of the week and i’ve gotten a…

another 3 weeks have gone by and i’ve completely neglected writing about it. ugh. caylin’s accomplishments at 3 months/3 weeks… we have semi giggles! they sound weird and sometimes turn to coughs, but it’s infectious! she can roll onto her…

last friday marked 3 months since caylin was born. oh my lord. somehow it feels SO much longer, but it still feels like it was yesterday. how is that possible? how is it that such huge life events feel so close yet so far away? i don’t…

i’m not really sure what hit me on monday, but i gave loki a bath, cleaned the house, and then decided that i wanted to go buy zumba for my wii. their marketing team must be getting paid great because right after i saw the commercial, i…

i know that i’m going to really regret not blogging more about these early months with caylin. it’s just so hard to find time to sit and just write lately. and when i do have the time, i’d rather be spending it relaxing with brett or…

yesterday marked 7 weeks since caylin was born. it’s weird because it hardly feels like it’s been 7 weeks (feels like just yesterday), but at the same time it feels like we’ve had her forever. maybe it’s because she’s glued to either me or…

aka when i can get caylin to pass out for more than an hour without being in my lap… i’ve been working on another android app. i was going to keep it to myself but then it’s not as exciting. exciting in the sense that it’s exiting to me…