Catchin' up!

This is going to be a hodge podge post, catching up some stuff I've wanted to share for a bit that deserve much more attention but I've lost most of my energy to give a complete post to each...so here we go!


Em wanted me to take this pic...she helped pull all of the empty boxes out of the "wine protection facility" once we'd unpacked them onto the newly built shelves...and this is where we found her when we came up the stairs.

Gabby and Charlie sent us a gift certificate to Super Suppers (a place where you pre build dinners and then take them home to freeze...ready to pull out defrost and quickly cook when you want) so I could have a bit of a break in the making dinner department as I'm getting fatter and crankier so close to the end. Here's a DELICIOUS tilapia dinner I "made" the other night.
How it looks coming out of my freezer...all nicely packaged in separate steps with directions.
Cooking the fish and rice ready to reheat (and sauce ready to add to the fish once it's done).
The beautiful plate just before I devoured it! I really recommend these make ahead dinner places if you have one near you. It's about $10 per meal...more expensive than bargain grocery shopping and doing it yourself, but TONS cheaper than going out to eat...so it's a nice compromise.

Midnight...104 degree fever...littlest monkey finally passed out in Daddy's chair...too cute to pass up the photo op!

Trev helping out Emilee...she's in the middle of a science project for school...what makes plants happiest?...watering them with water, coffee or lemonade? (I'll keep you posted on the results!)

A cute shot of Carter...naked (he refuses to wear clothes most of the time)...holding his "Bear" with Blankey (yup, same blanket Trev packed around for years)...sitting on his chair (the one he drags all over the house to help him climb anything he can't scale with just his arms and legs).