Monday quickly.

My heart swells with love for this girl more and more everyday.  

This morning's highlights:  Tying blankets up as cape's, which clearly indicates to Ingrid that we were playing "Rapunzels".  Makes sense.  We had some good fun.  

{My favorite}

{Mom as Darth Vader, at her request}

Typically, I am a Minnesota winter girl all-the-way.  I love when it's so freezing that my toe's hurt, it means that I've been outside and I deserve to go inside, curl up by the fire & drink some hot tea.  But, this year January is clearly having some identity issues as it disguises itself as April.  So we figure, if you can't beat em'-join em'.  

{Non-Photoshoped January grass}

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A few things I'm loving lately...

{Books}

The Yukon Quest

{Movies & Such}

Our Idiot Brother

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Revenge

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Happy Monday!

The birth of Caylee Danielle

Go here to check out my latest photo session.  Just thinking about it gives me chills.  

Miss these days.

I miss these days.  A lot.  Something in me hurts a little seeing this precious photo.

  

But don't get me wrong.  I'm loving these days...

This is amazing.

I am so glad I have someone to feel this way about.

Please, stop what you are doing-and read this.  But grab a box of tissues first.

Jesus.

Beautiful People

Easy, budget friendly meals.

I am honestly writing this post so I can "pin it" as a "go-to" for when I make my Sunday night meal planning list.  Sometimes I feel like...I know I cook, but for the life I of me I can't remember what I cook.  I wrack my brain for meal ideas and I can't come up with anything besides toast and cereal.  So I am writing down 20+ "go-to" meals that are SUPER easy, SUPER fast, and SUPER budget friendly so that come Sunday night, I can head over to my "dinner recipes" board and come up with a budget friendly meal plan for the week.

PASTA

* Spaghetti with tomato & basil sauce, salad, & garlic bread

*Penne pasta tossed with sun dried tomato pesto, (or basil pesto) and pea's.  Serve with salad and garlic bread

* Spaghetti Pie, salad & garlic bread

*Mac N' Cheese (homemade & boxed)

PIZZA

*Home made pizza (with tomato pizza sauce, or pesto)

*Pizza bagels

*pizza English muffins

*Pizza muffins

"Mexican"

*Quesadilla's

*Vegetarian Taco's

*Mexican beans & rice

*Vegetarian Enchilada's

*Vegetarian Fajita's

Breakfast for Dinner

*Pancakes (sweet potato, chocolate chip, blueberry etc...)

*French Toast 

Eggs

*Egg frittata's

*Egg & Sausage sandwiches on home made biscuits

*scrambled eggs

*Quiche (variations)

Soups & Stews

*Chili

*White chili

*Lasagna Soup

*Potato Soup

*Canned Soup & Grilled Cheese

*Canned Soup & french bread

Other

*Baked Potato

* Potato Casserole

*vegetarian chicken pot pie

Ham & Swiss pie

{I may be adding to this list in the future.  If you have ANY fast, cheap, and easy meals to add to this list (ideally they would be meat-free), then PLEASE share! :)