Meal Plan Monday

Well, I’m on vacation this week, but I wanted to share the meal plan that we had last week (the one where I was too busy to share this with you). 

• Grilled Chicken, boxed mac and cheese and green beans. 
• Dashing Dish Lasagna Roll-ups –
• Dashing Dish Honey Parmesan Chicken Poppers
• Dashing Dish Italian Stuffed Peppers
• Spaghetti
• Individual Chicken Pot Pies

We did pretty well with this meal plan, we did 5 of 6 of these and so that is a major score to me.  I loved the Italian stuffed peppers.  Definitely one of my favorites.  I added some low fat cream cheese into along with some crushed red pepper into my sauce and it was delicious! (the rest of the fam had meat sauce)
I think that’s about it, hope you have a great week!!

New Stuff

Once upon a time….. My stepdaughter and her husband came over to our house and told us our couch was looking a bit dated and that they thought we should get a new one (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)…..

Yeah, that’s right, they wanted our couch when they moved into their new place….  So, we went couch shopping.  It wasn’t planned, it wasn’t anything we ever had expected to do on a random weekend day. 

And guess what…. Yup, that’s right, we bought one.  It’s huge!  Pictures are below.  We bought the brown one, and the ottoman that we bought will be brown too, not the charcoal color.  It should be delivered when we get home from our vacation.  Woo hoo! 

What I love most about this couch/sectional is that it truly is 3 pieces of furniture that can be put together as a sectional or separately as a couch, loveseat and chase lounger.  Exciting!  The loveseat is armless, and the couch piece is a standalone couch.  Our plan is to put the couch with the loveseat and then separate the chase lounger in another part of the room.  Then one day – I might get tired of it and separate them.  And you know what?  That’s ok! 

Pictures below.  Aren’t I a lucky girl?

No, that is not my house, it is the showroom of the furniture store, and soon enough a copy of that thing up there will be in my house!

Have a great weekend!

Morning Fun

I love mornings with Cooper.  When I used to go to the gym before he woke up, it was one of the hardest things of my day.  Cooper is in the best mood in the morning (usually) so I didn’t like missing that time with him. He is all smiles in the mornings.  We play and he gives me so many hugs and I just love it.  I literally eat up time with him in the mornings.  So, when I started the couch to 5k program, I started doing it outside in our neighborhood in the mornings instead of going to the gym.  Score!  I got my mornings back with my boy.

Now I only go to the gym when I do strength training 2 days a week.  Its great. 

One morning this week I was getting him ready for the day and I just thought he was super cute so I had to take a few pictures.  I hope you enjoy.  (yes, he loooooves giving the monkey on the wall high five!)

Happy Wednesday!

Miscellany Monday & Weekend Rewind

I’m linking up with Carissa today, I haven’t linked up with her forever, so I’m happy to be here!

…..I’m going to share a few musings of my weekend…. 

• John’s Famous Stew – Tim has been wanting to take me there forever.  It’s a 21+ place, so we don’t often have the opportunity to visit this little hole in the wall gem in downtown Indianapolis.

Tim and I decided that we’d order a bowl of their famous stew and a fried pork tenderloin sandwich with fries.  Oh goodness, that tenderloin was amazing.  Take a look at this thing, it’s huge!  The stew was eh.  I didn’t care for it.  Tim loves it, so he ate most of it as I gobbled up 1/2 of that tenderloin down there.  Yummo!

• The Flying Cupcake – After dinner, we headed to another local favorite, The Flying Cupcake.  We’d never been there before, but it was super cute and we just had to pick up some cupcakes for our awesome friends (Erica and Mel) who were watching Cooper, and Steph & Ryan and us of course!   The second picture is the interior of the place, it was so cute, too bad there were so many people standing in there.

• Saturday was a birthday party for one of Cooper’s friends and our neighbor’s daughter Alexis.  She turned 3 on Friday.  Cooper had such a great time.  I forgot my camera and I was just too lazy to walk home to get it.  I then headed to Cooper’s daily sitter’s house to help her paint.  She recently purchased a new home and she’s redoing everything inside before she moves in so I volunteered to help. 
• Sunday – was church, then all kinds of fun.

Cooper and Julia (another sweet neighbor girl) riding along in the wagon.  Super cute!

Then there is my little ham.  What a cutie pie.

Playing baseball around the house.

I just couldn’t resist a picture of all three of my guys in their hats.  Handsome guys!

Cooper had to dig deep into the toybox to get a specific ball…..

How was your weekend?  What Miscellany things do you have to share today?  Link up with Carissa and share with us!