Meal planning/Freezer meals

I've been pretty MIA lately, I apologize. At first, we were traveling. Then, I just didn't have anything cool or exciting to share. Really. But let's be honest, that's not much of an excuse because I never have anything THAT cool or exciting to share. (; Anyway, thanks to Pinterest (always!) I have become obsessed with planning meals and making freezer meals. Because I'm a stay at home mom and obviously don't have enough time to cook dinner? Okay, so I do have time. A lot of time. But this gives me so much more time to play with babies and spend time on other things. The family still gets a healthy, delicious meal. Win/win, right? Right. Here we meet problem number 1. I don't actually have room in my fridge for 30 days of meals. But this is about 20 days and I'm pretty excited about that. At first, I started with this big plan of making all the meals in one day.. I got to 6 and was super overwhelmed. I love cooking, don't get me wrong, but I had spent so much time planning the meals and shopping trip I didn't take the time to plan out how I'd actually make the meals. So, here we encounter problem #2. No planning = about 7 freezer bags filled with vegetables and/or meat and no idea what I was planning on making with them. So, I improvised. It ended up working out, I guess. I didn't mark the bags that time so I think by the end of the month we'll be having a surprise meal and just cross our fingers. Then I stumbled upon the idea (aka I stumbled upon this lovely lady's blog) that you can just cook what you normally would, double/triple the recipe and freeze it. Light bulb! So I will definitely be incorporating that into more of our meals for the next month. Do you meal plan? Or have any thought/tips you'd like to share?

Scentsy!

I just wanted to let everyone know I'm "hosting" an online Scents party. Just click on the link below and it'll direct you right to the website.

My personal favorite scents are "perk me up" which smells like coffee and "coconut lemongrass" which smells.. Like heaven, basically.

They also have room sprays, travel tins, and their "layers" collection for personal use (lotion, body butter, etc.)

Take a look and see if anything catches your eye. Thank you!

my Scentsy party

And just like that, I gave in to peer pressure.

I've been avoiding Bloglovin' for years. I'm used to google reader, in fact, I liked it. Or, let's be real here, I was just too lazy to learn a whole new blog world.

Plus, I got the Feedly app and it's pretty great. But, I want to see what all this fuss is about. So, here we go!

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Being home.

I grew up in the prettiest little town, I never fully appreciated it until I moved away. Although, it still has it's faults. There aren't a lot of shopping options and people can still be too narrow minded, I love taking my kids back and showing them around. Plus, we get to hang out with my family that is still there and that's always a good time. (:My babies got a lot of play time with their cousins, and I had time to play with mine. (;

That's actually my Tia, although she stopped aging years ago.
We had so much fun at my moms house! And of course, feeding the ducks. Something A never let's us forget is on our to-do list. (:

Color Run Las Vegas 2013

We had such a blast!!

Imadeface app

I'm the last person to hear about this app but we were entertained for a couple of hours so.. Thought I'd share anyway. Enjoy (;

Purple velvet whoopie pies

By now I'm sure you've all seen those adorable red velvet whoopie pies floating around Pinterest.

Ours are not nearly that cute.
A) We were racing against bed time so I didn't want to trace 18 hearts onto wax paper..
B) I found the red food coloring AFTER giving up and making the batter blue..
C) I am forever out of powdered sugar. Seriously.

But, the kids enjoyed them and I replaced half of the butter with coconut oil so they turned out pretty delicious!