You know when you haven't had a second to think about dinner.... it's 4:30.... you thought it was 2.... people are about to get really hungry and the infamous question of .... What's for dinner? is coming!!!

Well this is one of my life savor!!!

It's the Members Mark Mesquite Grilled Chicken  Fillets from Sam's Club!

I use it on everything.. takes 17 minutes to warm up in the oven at 350 F

I serve it with veggies and mashed potatoes or add to salads or pasta!!!

Love it!!!!!

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Boys room cupboard

When we first got married we got an old cupboard that my father in-law built. He built it as a temporary thing... They needed storage space so he just whipped that out... well... 20 years later we were using it this time for my boys room... except the color didn't match what I wanted for their room....

I figured that after 20 years a good paint job wouldn't hurt it anyway!!

Here is the cupboard

 The inside was never painted so I used the left over paint we had for the finish trim in the house

Then Shopping trip to Hobby Lobby for knobs

I was super happy to find these, on clearance!!!

Final product :)

The blue paint is the same as the wall (above bead board) 

Each boy has their red Pottery Barn chair and Piggy bank. Picture of the 2 in the middle. 

The canvas above I painted a while back, they match their bed quilt.

Now that I look at it I kind of wish the top of the desk was red or I could get new red banks....

Oh well.... what's done is done and My father in law approves ;P

Anyways.... I'm just getting started and hopefully I accomplish everything

I want too before they grow out of their room!

Nancy

How to Organize CD's

I don't know about you guys but I have an issue with photography..... Not the profession it self but the " what to do with the photo's after I take them" part.

First I had an old school camera.. so I printed all the pictures and kept the negatives...and had some of them burned on cd. 

Second, I switched to a digital camera so I still burned some cd's once in a while when I printed pictures until I got a digital frame.

Third, I got an I-Phone and that was it! I hardly used my camera and synced my phone once in a while...

All in all I have been looking for a way to preserve my pictures and be able to find them easily when I need them!!!

So this was my mess..... Some weren't even picture cd's.....

this was my solution

I've wanted to do this for a long time, over the years and after moving twice,

I kept forgetting that I had already purchase the case....

 (one was still in a bag with the receipt!!! LOL)

So I used:

a cd case (the one on the right in the previous picture)

Avery Labels (just what I had on hand)

Then I went through all the cd's (most of them were unmarked.. some even blank).

That was the long part (baby was napping luckily), I even burned 3 years worth of pictures that I didn't have backed up from my computer!

Anyways, here's the final product !!

Now, if I can find the time to actually print albums of these pictures.... I'll let you know!!

Nancy

Spinach Protein Shake

Breakfast..... The most important meal of the day.... Blah Blah Blah!!! But it's TRUE!!!! Huh.... Okay so I LOVE to sleep and if I get to skip breakfast for sleep... I WILL!!!!

Now that you know how lazy I truly am.... or sleep deprived you decide ;)

Here is one way of eating my breakfast that I can handle...... drinking it !

I got this recipe from a friend and I have loved it and had it most morning ever since, even my husband drinks it... his doesn't have the spinach though!!!!

So first of the ingredients:

1 Cup of Almond Milk (it's lower in calorie and creamier then milk)

1 scoop of Whey Protein ( I prefer the AES brand FYI)

1/4 cup of greek yogurt (plain fat free)

1/2 a medium banana

1 hand full of spinach

1 hand full of strawberries

(Luke's version omit the spinach and add 2 Tbsp Peanut Butter and 2 Tbsp Nesquick Chocolate flavoring)

Combine all in a Good blender.... seriously you need a decent blender for this!

I use the Liquefy setting on my blender.

And Voilà!!

I know it's green but trust me you can't taste the Spinach!!! It keeps me full for up to 5 hours and I love that I can have vegetables for breakfast without tasting it :)

Bonne Appétit

Nancy