Chicken, chicken, and more chicken!

The last two days have been full of... CHICKEN! Macey's is having a great sale for $1.19/lb, the catch is you have to buy 40lbs! Now that's a lot of chicken! It is boneless, skinless but it needed work cleaning up and separating. So I did some meal preparation while I was at it. Here's what I have:

• 16 cups cooked shredded chicken
  
• 6+ cups raw cubed
  
• 6 large breaded parmesan breasts
• 4 grilled chicken parmesan packets with tomato sauce
• soy sauce chicken ready for chinese salad
• 15 enchiladas (divided into 3 pans)
• 5+ cups shredded BBQ chicken
  
• filling for about 40 chicken rollups
  
• 3 meals of chicken in lemon marinade
• 3 meals of chicken in teriyaki marinade

Whew! Now if I was really ambitious I'd get 40 more pounds and can/jar it. But I've had enough chicken for now.

Pumpkin Patch

For Family Home Evening tonight we went to the pumpkin patch! Hannah had a great time wondering around the pumpkins (wanting to trot around by herself), pointing at them, and trying to say pumpkin. I enjoyed the fun photo op! It is so fun for Nic and I to see Hannah explore and learn new things. What a great field trip!

The Big 3-0!

This year was the big one for Nic, 30! I thought of all the years I ought to be able to throw him a party for him this year. But of course, that was the LAST thing Nic wanted... or so he said. We decided to go out to dinner. By the end of the day when it was time to go, Nic had invited all of his family to join us... see he really wanted a party after all!





Hannah and I made him a big sign for the porch (he loved that!) and No Bake Cookies that said Happy Birthday! We sure love you Nic! Thanks for being ours!

my little helper

Hannah loves to help me empty the dishwasher. Almost whenever its open she hurries right over. Her job is to help with the silverware. (I of course get all the knives out first!) One by one she hands them to me to put away. What a good little helper!

I'm a blogger!

Well, I've decided to give this a shot! We'll see how this blogging thing goes. I have enjoyed looking at my sister Ashley's blog... and I need an excuse to write stuff down about life. So I guess I'm a blogger!