camping food!

Dear Readers....

Are you going camping this weekend?? I know a lot of my friends are because its the end of summer =/ So here are a few recipes to help all you folks not going camping feel like you are there. So I am not one to stand up and shout for JOY when the word camping is mentioned. HOWEVER. I do enjoy me some camp food. So here are some easy simple ones you can do at home If you feel like it. Not sure where they originated so I can't take credit for them...

Breakfast: Omelets in a baggie.... Sounds gross but it is not!! It is good, easy and fun for all!!!

You will need:

smallish gallon size "ziploc" baggies of some kind 1 or 2 for each person
eggs
omelet toppins such as:
cheese
mushrooms
ham
onions
you know whatever you want

To Make:
Get the BIGGEST pot you have and get some water boiling in it. Then hopefully you have prepped all your toppings..... Have each person put 2 or 3 eggs in their bag along with their toppings of choice. Seal bag and squeeze, mush, mix up whatever. Place each bag, It helps if you write your name on your bag, in the pot of BOILING water. Cooking time takes around 15 mins depending on how many bags and toppings and such but you don't want it runny. You want it cooked like an omelet. This is really fun for kids and you could even do this when you go camping buy making the baggies at home and taking them with you......


Lunch/Dinner Hobo Style

Well some call them Tin Foil Dinner I call them Hobo because its just fun!!

What you will need
carrots - baby carrots or small chunks
onion peeled and cut
potato =peeled and cut
hamburger patty
olive oil
tin foil

Preheat oven to 400

Prep all your veggies and give each person a large piece of foil.... Have each person take a patty place on foil and top with onions, carrots, and potato. drizzle with olive oil and Salt and Pepper or any seasoning of your choice. Wrap and Bake for 60-90 mins or until the veggies are done. I have had a problem with this and seem to have to cook mine closer to 75 mins. So check after an hour. Every now and then I do put zucchini or squash with this but they cook WAY fast so you can add this just cook them in their own packet. Very good to mix up the veggies with what you have.

And last but not least MY Favorite S'mores.... I know there is nothing like making one over a fire...So if you are lucky enough to have a fire pit at your house fire that baby up!!! So we all know how to make a S'more... If you don't please do not ever come back to my blog......... If you just don't like them.... well I think you are crazy. For this reason I am not even going to bother with all the steps and ingredients BUT will make a suggestion of mixing up the chocolate.... I did this one time because I did not want to buy a bag of plain chocolate but a bag with other stuff and plain chocolate bars.... While making them I was like HEY I want a peanut butter cup on my S'more and it snowballed into all the candy bars that work and DO NOT work on the
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YES: Plain chocolate, chocolate bar with almonds or peanuts, Dark Chocolate, Peanut Butter Cups, Kit-kat
No: Twix, Mounds, Almond Joy, Snickers, just candy bars that aren't flat Whoopers do not work either. White chocolate is hit or miss..... So just try it with whatever candy bar you want.

Have fun faux-camping
xoxoxo

Leah

Stupid Thankful Thursday....

Dear Thursday .....

I am not even feeling this and I am writing this on Wednesday night... SUCK. So maybe to get in a "bettar" mode I will list a few things I am thankful for. go me.

1. my dishwasher... yep I love it and thankful for it every darn day.

2. nap time and bed time.

3. walking the track with my friend Kerri... It does our souls good even though I take my son he doesn't talk BUT still.........

4. snacks and junk food

5. HD Directv and the DVR

6. that my husband has a job. Yes thank you. I love it and yet I am humbled by it ever day and know that we are lucky but I still live in the fear....

7. KristinaP .... Thank you for always leaving a comment and validating my life. It does mean a lot to me that sometimes you are the only that comments on some of my post. For that I am forever grateful and that means I will pretty much do anything you ask me to do, but only once. ...... us crazy folks have to stick together!! You should check out her blog, Its WAY better than mine.

8. my husband again. and sometimes son... No I love them both dearly and glad I am in both of their lives everyday!

9. Mad Men LOOOOOOVE it..... don't watch?? Well you suck.

10. Thankful for this post it made me 25% better.... I blame my dentist appointment today... I am NEVER going to be done with all this crap. NEVER.


xoxoxox
Leah

#19

Dear Dugger Family!!!

Congratulations on finding out that you are expecting your 19th child!!! What a feat that is!!! Um no I do not know these people personally, wish I did, but every week they invite us into their home on TLC.... That is so nice of them. Can you believe that they let camera crews into their home to film everything... I can because they have to have someway to pay for all those kids. No No No... They are no Jim Bob and Michelle +19...... Actually they are WAY better then those "other" families on the TLC.... Do I need to even go into my hatred for those two people??? NO. But I do like them and their show. Jim Bob and Michelle could totally live and provide for themselves if the camera stopped rolling but its not now, because #19 is on the way. HOW DID THEY KNOW I WAS GOING TO BLOG ABOUT THEM!?!? They must have know this and decided to announce it the day I was going to write my blog. For real it has been on my mind for a week now since I saw their episode LAST Tuesday when they went to Amish Country.... that is big living right there folks. On to my recap of "The Duggers are really Amish...."

Ok I am not one to judge home school kids, but a lot of them did not really know what Amish people were...... Um not good. Did we all not learn about them like in 4th or 5th grade or something?? ok maybe like 6th or 7th... Come on Michelle what the crap are you teaching your children... you obviously knew you were going on this trip maybe you could have snuck it OR at least practiced with your kids before they did their solo interviews..... And because sometimes people think the Dugger are Amish when they go out in public..... Last time I check the Amish really did not care for being followed around with cameras... I don't know please correct me if I am wrong. But the Duggers really like the Amish folks they met because you know who doesn't like The Amish?????? Yes and The Duggers feel like they have a lot in common with this Amish family they met well because they have 16 kids, like reading the bible, don't watch TV.. I mean the list can go on and on.... Hey wait a minute are the Duggers sure they are not Amish???? I bet they are starting to think about it because apparently they visited with a group called "The New Amish" and they are different from "The Old Amish" BECAUSE.....they think this whole electricity and indoor plumbing thing aren't really that evil of sins.......WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?!?!?!?! I am glad some of them worked this out. So now that is over... I mean really they got 10 mins of good footage out of a couple hour visit.

Now I have been to an Amish country/village/tour whatever you want to call it. It was pretty horrible.... I was in 7th grade and went on a trip with my mom, her mom (my grandma) and my Cousin Kay. Yes, so this trip takes us to visit our friends in Indiana and they decide it would be AWESOME to visit the Amish but we can only take one car why? I don't know now 4 out of the 6 people that went are on the rather large size.... and so I get to sit on my mom's lap the whole time... LUCKY but it wont be bad because its just down the road.... 3 hours later we get there.... just down the road my butt.... It's an Amish town with the modest white wood homes, wind mills, horse and buggy, you know Amish country. We take a tour of a REAL Amish home that happens to be available because its former owner had been shunned due to buying a Ford Pinto... true because it was sitting outside and at the young age of 13 I remember going what the hell, that was pretty dumb.... Did I mention our tour guide was a 19 year oldish very tan female that was wearing cut off daisy dukes and drank a big gulp the whole time.... It was lovely. I am pretty sure I could have been a better tour guide at 13 then she ever could have ever been. I knew you were not suppose to wear Daisy dukes and drink big gulps on the job... DUH. So the tour gets over we are STARVING so we go to the Amish restaurant for lunch and pretty much have a school cafeteria lunch complete with carbonated water.... because the tap water would kill us... And after all that we got to drive home the way we came. LOVELY. I did not see any of that on "The Duggers turn Amish" episode. So very sad. but they did fill up the last half of the show going to DC and all that crap and they were all excited because they got to sleep in a hotel and not on their tour bus.... yeah. So Congratulations Duggers !!! And all my peeps out there you can watch that show if you have the cable I give it my stamp of approval.

xoxoxox,
Leah

Crappity Crap Crap Crap

Dear Crap...

How do you keep finding your way into my life???? Honestly DO I NEED MORE CRAP IN MY HOUSE???? So the 1st Saturday of every June our lovely HOA puts on a subdivision wide yard sale... That is SO nice of them..................... This year I was way excited for 2 reasons 1: It rained last year and I was not going to put out my crap and son was a tiny baby of 9 months old. and 2: I finally had some baby stuff/toys that I did not want. Being in Utah that is a sure money maker...... OH YEAH So I put out all my crap and sold some of it.. not a lot but enough and made like $60 WOOT WOOT.... So it was decided that things either went to the the Goodwill Thift store whatever... OR ended up on the good old KSL.com classifieds. And you know what nobody wants my crap. =( Its very sad. So I thought I would share with you all the crap that nobody wants... But I thought I needed it and thought maybe someone else does too. I will list the price I had put on it and a brief description. And if someone is interested maybe we can make a deal.... If not it will continue to still in my kitchen and annoy the cleaning girls. ;)



That is a lovely Pampered Chef Cookie press I can not get it to press out cookies I am pretty lame. But I had it listed for $15. I did have a girl call about it but she could never come and get it or find my house................. Yep. There are 16 disk that you can press dough through and make cute shapes.



Next up is one that might kinda scare you... But I bought it because we were still on the soy formula for son and I bought a can right before decided that we should try some milk again.... and low and be hold I have a full un opened can of Soy formula.... Yep its for sale because I lost the receipt and can't take it back.. It expires Oct. 2010. and is yours for $10



Ah the Xyron machine the item everybody told me they would come back and buy if nobody else did..... Yeah nobody did buy it ever.... I bought this at The Costco. I used it once but what the heck I am not crafty nor need to have a machine cut out shapes so I can put them in my scrapebook... But if you do its only going to cost you$30!!! They do have a website with more info www.xyron.com also on their site its $90. I did not pay $90 for it FYI. I do have the box it came it and all the cords and books!



I also have a fake LV white and multi colored hand bag with a broken zip pull, a black metal candle holder and some baby scrapbooks with blank pages... If anybody is interesting but nobody likes my crap so its cool. If nobody wants to buy these items I may give them away in a giveaway on here or something who knows. Also speaking of crap did you noticed that I did not blog on Monday??? It was my friend Kerri's Birthday and I went out and did some fun things with her. Rebecca I tried to call you....... Then our ISP was down for like 6 hours and I almost died!!! DIED I tell you! D-I-E-D! Thank god it came back up. THANK YOU JESUS. AND on Sunday night I got bit by like 5 mosquitos on my foot and it swelled really bad and I was thinking I might have the west nile ..... but I have 2 weeks to figure that out and there is not a lot I can do but let it run it course.............

xoxoxo
Leah

Come Follow Me only if you are crazy.......

Dear Follows of Life Letters.


*giggle* I love all the people that have chose to follow me publicly that means you have BALLS... unlike the masses of people that follow me privately that just means you are a chicken!!! So really why don't people follow blogs publicly, ashamed, don't know how?? Its OK I won't JUDGE to much... Or is it against your "blogger code"..... I have no blogger code... well kinda... It's do whatever the hell I want..... If I like your blog I will comment and come back and probably follow if the blogger is not acting up... that happened a time or two then I forget to go back. So there you have it either follow me or don't. I don't care just means you have balls if you do...... Just a thought.

Speaking of blogger code??? Do any of you have any rules of the road that you follow religiously??? I have been seeing a few stories on the News about all the bloggers and the blogs people have started about other bloggers selling out... Now is that called for??? That was so confusing... Apparently its not cool to an "awesome blogger" and get free stuff only because you told that company you would write about how awesome it was but passing it off just as something every day like "HEY guess what we got a Wii today and 25 games... Its awesome you should buy one" Yeah that is called selling out and I am not digging this post as much as I thought I would..... So In closing have a good weekend and I will still like you if you end up being a sell out blogger. Well maybe not.

OH wait I know some people looking for a Curling sponsor..... Um yeah they are in Connecticut and really want to go to the Olympics only because they think its a sport your average joe can do..... Hmmm I don't know about that... I mean its not like the shuffle board... which I know how to play and I am good at.... Remember in PE they made you learn stupid games like bowling, badminton, ping pong and crap like that well along with that I learned shuffle board and I was good at it when I was in the 10th grade... If there had been a team in High School I would have been the captain... so so so so sad. I told my husband this and instead of laughing he was in shock and a little scared. I guess he is worried that I was going to build a shuffle board area in our back yard... Do not worry I will just start volunteering at the Senior Center so I can get my shuffle board on... Oh wait.... maybe I will join the Connecticut Curling Champs... because apparently its shuffle board on ice...... And we all know how awesome I am at that!!! I just learned that buy looking it up on the Wikipedia.... true story. I will keep you updated.

xoxoxoxo
Leah

PS Got the http://www.google.com/analytics/ just FYI... its up and running so you can't hide from me!!!! leave a comment please....

Thankful Thursday!!!

Ah I love the Thankful Thursday.... I really do.

1. Pre-made Frozen meatballs.... I am flattered you think I make my own. I buy the Farm Rich brand because they are wheat and egg free!!! Its a good thing... I am amazed at all the things you can make out of soybeans..... Also the Costco brand meatball is very very good. *See Wednesdays blog*

2. My neighbors! I really do love them The ones to the North of me came over for a play date today and brought cookies!!! So good!! Her stove caught on fire a few days ago...SCARY... her new one was delivered today so she is baking up a storm. -lucky us! I asked about how the stove caught on fire it was the wiring... YIKES.

3. I am thankful for in door plumbing.... do I even need to explain???

4. The mobile dog groomers!! Yes they came again yesterday even though there was drama involving a little boy who had not napped and thought they were taking his Max away forever..... it was pitiful, bless his little heart.

5. My friend Jenny!! She thinks I am funny and that is priceless! Her "29th" birthday was Tuesday.... She went to she Depeche Mode concert last night... I was pretty jealous but I saw them a few years ago.. so I can deal. She is the best, we get along so well. Also she sells The Scentsy which I love. She also lives near me and her parents live across the street its like we are practically family so I would do anything for them! Yeah for Jenny and Thank you for being you and for being my BFF!


Ah Thankful Thursday!! I love it!

xoxoxo
Leah

PS I was a lot more thankful when I wrote this yesterday afternoon when son was napping... not so much this morning when he woke up at 6:30 AM....

My favorite things too??

So some of my friends posted this on The Facebook:



And I saw this:



And one last one:




Did you love them???? I don't think I even need to write a blog today. I just love those songs and wanted to share them with all my blogger friends because at times during the day we can all relate to them. Also I think Hilary Weeks is my new BFF... I wonder who is going to tell her???

xoxoxo,
Leah