July stuff

We had a quiet 4th of July at home.  JP bought some fireworks for the kids and for the first time I actually went out and enjoyed them.  Long story...

JP cut down a dead tree in our yard and Michael was hired to haul away the branches and twigs.  He did an excellent job!

And he took a picture of his leg with my camera at some point in time...

We had a tiny cat, aka Spiderkitty-Parker, adopt us for a couple of days until we found him a great new home.

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Homemade cards, gifts and cake from the kids...

Tennessee Aquarium

 Birthday outing to the Tennessee Aquarium

A beautifully hot sunny day...

Tired people and one that told me to take THEIR pictures sleeping for a change.

Make one, Freeze one

Why have I never really thought of doing this before?

Next week, Michael has camp every morning for 4 hours.  It's quite a drive, so I'm opting to stay and hang out rather than spend half my morning driving.  While thinking about menu planning, I thought about finding some recipes that I could easily double--make one for this week and freeze one for next week.  

I'm posting the recipes here, so I will be able to find them again and because I believe this make one, freeze one is definitely going to become a thing.  (Especially, since I just cleaned out my chest freezer and have plenty of room for freezer meals.)  

I found three recipes that have very simple ingredients:

Mexican Lasagna

Taco Rice Casserole

Baked Spaghetti --This is my go-to recipe already and it makes A LOT!  So, I'm just planning on splitting the recipe between two pans and freezing one.  

Hoping to find some more recipes to add to this list! 

Summer stuff

Summer movies...

Bible study...

Thrift store finds...

And of course, fencing...