I made~ Chicken Artichoke squares for dinner last night.

Ingredients:
2 chicken breasts cut in strips (I used a rotisserie chicken as I was going to at least double the recipe~ and it was so good, and smokey flavored)
Pkg of frozen spinach
1 can of drained artichoke hearts (I bought a huge jar and then peeled off the leafy parts, they are too tough and crusty for something like this)
8 oz sour cream
Parmesan cheese (I did fresh, I don't like the dry crusty stuff!)
Garlic salt (to taste) (YUMMM!!! Lots of garlic salt!!)
1 can of crescent rolls
(Oh and I added a pack of cream cheese to mine- as if it wasn't fattening enough~ add it when you add the sour cream)

Heat olive oil in a skillet and cook chicken strips 5-7 minutes on each side or until done. (Since I used the rotisserie chicken I just plucked off the meat and put it in the pan, no need to "cook it" just warm it.)

Add in frozen spinach (Make sure you drain all the extra juice out of it, I just squeezed it out with my hands) and artichokes and cook together 7-10 minutes.

Add in sour cream, Parmesan cheese (as much or little as you want), and garlic salt.

Heat oven to 350 degrees and open up crescent rolls. Put a small amount of mixture on each roll and fold up (I rolled mine, thinking I could put more stuff in them.). Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and cook 10-12 minutes. (It took mine about 25 minutes too cook . . . be sure to cook them till they are golden brown- you don't want to eat them raw!)

The meat mixture was sooooo yummy! I was eating it with a spoon.

I have been trying a lot of new recipes lately, and the guys have been happy with most . . . Alex doesn't like mushrooms so if I make something with those, he complains . . . but last night he said to me, "Mom, this is the best new thing you have made!!" That made me really happy!!!

So give it a try! I think you will like it! It was super yummy . . . I made a huge batch, and still have 10 left over in my fridge . . . If they don't have them eaten up by tonight, I will freeze them.

I love my seal a meal!!!


I think you will really like this recipe!!! I have been challenging myself to try to make at least one new thing a week . . . Some have been hits, others have been misses . . . but variety is the spice of life!!

:(

Kennedy broke her leg!

My sweet baby . . . broken leg, makes me just want to cry!

From what Destiny tells me is that Ken was on the bed and Destiny was putting some laundry away (very close to the bed) and Ken just fell off.

I have not seen her yet, but apparently this cast is on for a week, and then they will put her in another one next week . . . my poor sweet baby . . . it makes this granny's heart just sick.

Don't touch the coconuts!!

I had been working on my mom and dads scrap book album from some of their trips . . . and was working on their Hawaii trip. The wonderful thing about that trip was that, my dad ended up on stage with the Hula girls and was part of the show.

The announcer teased "Don't touch the coconuts" (The coconut bra that the dancers wore) and so my dad came back from the trip thinking this was wonderful and funny. He bought all the professional pictures from his "dancing days" but we couldn't find them!

CRAP!!!

I wanted those pictures for their scrapbook.

After searching and looking and looking some more, my mom finally found them. There are 7 picture, but I'll just post 2 for your viewing pleasure. . .

I can tell by this picture that my dad is both excited and embarrassed! I love it!!! Gotta love a man in a hula skirt!!!

This my dad and his friend Ed, with all the dancing girls . . .

So cool! I'm happy to have the pictures. I'm going to get them put in to the album! And then I truly will be done with their trips!

Update~ Scarlett

WE FOUND HER!!!!

Or I guess I should say Tim found her. He looked on Craig's list and someone had posted they found a dog, he called them and it was her!!!

So we have her back!! I'm sure Beth will be so happy!!!

We are being ornery . . . and are NOT telling Beth's sister we have the dog . . . we are thinking that she should have to deal with having lost the dog longer. (I know we shouldn't be the judge and jury, but right now, I just can't even imagine letting her take care of the dogs again!)

No Respect!!!

I don't know . . . I guess we all strive to hold ourselves to some degree of accountability and genuineness.

And I assume that we would all like others to hold themselves to the same level we hold ourselves to. But they don't. And that makes it hard sometimes.

I don't want to be hatin' on someone I don't know, but I'm I'm finding it super hard not to judge!!!

I told you we were going to watch Beth's dogs while she was out of town, right? Well 2 days into it, Beth called Tim and told him that her sister had a big fight with her husband and was going to be going to her house to stay, and she would be taking care of the dogs.

I was like YIPPEE!!!!! Having 2 more dogs in the house was not easy . . . especially since they are not trained like our dogs are. (I guess it's the same thing with dogs as it is with kids. . . you always like the way yours act better than other peoples and it's easier to tolerate how they act.)

I was happy for the extra dogs that they would get to be in their home for the holiday . . . it would be so much easier on them to be in their own house durring the fireworks.

Well . . . Beth's sister is a dingbat!!! I don't know her but I don't like her at all!!!!

This stupid woman left the dogs outside, and even during the day, people were setting off fire works . . . and Scarlett got so scared that she busted through the fence. Beth's sister didn't even call Beth to tell her. Tim went over to check on the dogs (even though he technically wasn't supposed to any more~ The sister was supposed to be taking care of them) and Scarlett was gone. He is just sick over it. He has been out looking for her all the time. The pound was closed yesterday . . . so today he will be calling all the pounds and seeing if they have her today.

So this story gets even stupider. Tim goes by Beth's to check on Bobby, (her sister is still staying at the house- but after her loosing Scarlett, we are worried to let her keep the dogs.) and Bobby is out side in the kennel, there are more fireworks going off and Bobby is going crazy! So Tim brought him home. About 10 at night Beth's sister calls and says, "do you know where bobby is??" Why would she leave him outside when she knows that the fireworks scare him? She already lost one of her sister's dogs . . . and she is acting like it's no big deal.

I am so upset for Scarlett! I feel so bad . . . poor girl was just scared! And now she is out there alone and scared . . . Beth's sister needs her ass handed to her. She apparently has no respect for Beth or the things she holds dear in her life.

Dogs are people too!

Scrapbooking July

I have been working hard to stay true to my goal of doing 20 scrapbook pages a month . . . most months I do more than that . . . so for me its a good goal to have.

And I'm sure making a dent in the amount of pictures from the past that still need to be scrapped. Which is very exciting to me . . . someday when I'm done with all the stuff that still needs to be scrapped then I am planning on working on heritage albums for all the sides of the family and some mini albums . . . So I think I will always scrapbook . . . it just won't be this mad dash to get things done anymore. But who knows maybe I'll have more grand kids and will be compelled to scrapbook all of them too.

So here are some of the ones I've already done this month.

This is me and former hubby #1 at his Christmas party one year. The photographer liked me, or my dress and took a bunch of pictures of us. . . . there were more pictures of us than any other couple.

My cutie patootie boys!!!

Me and Jaqui . . . we always loved to do "photosessions" so there are a lot of pictures of the two of us. This one I put a lot of stickles on . . . Jaqui and I both love anything sparkly!!

Bowling. . . Tony was so cute when he was little . . . he always wanted to try everything!

This is me and my grandma adamson, at Tiffini's graduation . . .

Mom and tony in the store taking orders. this is our old store, the flower box.

A photo of my dad in a helicopter.

My dad in Washington in the army.

Me, just chilling out and reading a book on the patio.

Good golly was I big pregnant!!! UGH! And Former hubby #1 was touching me . . . (ICK!!)

Alex getting a pedi! He doesn't know I took the picture with my phone!!

This is me and Avery . . . I was nursing him and then fell asleep.

Peek a boo!~ (Alex)

Tony was on crutches for some reason . . . the boys were always broken in one way or another. i think this time he had burned his leg on the pipe of his go ped, and it was a bad burn and he had to be on crutches.

My sweet daddy!

Me and former hubby #1 and avery in New Orleans for Pedro and Maryanns wedding.

Avery feel down and cut his nose/lip . . . this was the first big owie we had as parents . . .

I totally love this picture of me and Alex.. . . look at his cute little baby tushie!!! So sweet!

Well that's it for now. . . Maybe I'll scrap more . . . or not, at least I've reached my July goal!

4th of july

Well . . . the 4th is over . . . I have to say I'm happy its over. It is so horrible on our dogs. We doped them up . . . but still they all sat in our laps and shook the entire weekend. They hate the fire works.

We were watching Beth's dogs, because her mother in law is very ill and she couldn't take the dogs to go to Oklahoma with her . . . so we had 7 dogs. Then Tim got a call that Beth's sisters husband went crazy and the sister was going to stay at Beth's house. And the dogs would get to stay home with her. Great! Although they were good dogs, having 7 dogs in the house was a bit much.

Well I assume the sister is an idiot! and she left the dogs out side, and not only was it raining but people were shooting off fireworks before it was even dark . . . so Scarlet one of Beth's dogs busted through the fence and got out . . . Tim went out looking for her, but hasn't found her. What is wrong with Beth's sister?!?!?! So Tim is feeling really bad . . . and will probably be out looking for Scarlet again today. I hope she is ok.

Earlier in the day we went to Tim's high school friend Diane's house. Destiny and Kennedy went with us, because Jason was out of town and She didn't have anything else to do other than to stay with Jason's crazy grandma . . . (I really don't like that woman!!! Talk about crazy!!!) So she went to Diane's with us.

Here are a couple of pictures~

Kennedy and her pappy!

Kennedy and her granny!! (We were talking to each other!!)

Kennedy splashing in the pool!

And us~ Wishing everyone a safe and happy 4th . . . God bless our troops and I hope each and every one of you stay safe and make it home from where ever you are!!!