My 29th Birthday...

.....365 days until I am OLD!!!!


So I celebrated my 29th birthday for my husband's entire 4 day weekend! I am just THAT spoiled!!! So on Thursday we took the kids to the Aquarium, the mall, and out for dinner. Then on Friday we took them swimming and to see the movie Despicable Me. We came home and Scott grilled up some huge steaks and the kids helped him make me a birthday cake! Then on Saturday (my real birthday) Scott and the kids made me a huge breakfast and took me to the mall to pick out some new clothes for me. After that we went out to Oreganos (my fave!) for pizza, beer, and Pizookie. YUM!!! Then we went to our pool where the community was having a HUGE party (I told the kids it was my birthday party and they were very impressed! lol) They had a gal singing who was incredible!!! And she was country! They had a dunk tank, home made icees, balloon animals, and prizes. It was an amazing night! Kyler said it was the most awesome party ever!!! I have to agree. Here are a few of the pics from the day....

29 Things I LOVE at 29:

(in no particular order)

1. My hardworking husband

2. Spending time with the 4 cutest kids EVER

3. Popcorn with M&Ms

4. Glee

5. Digi Scrapbooking

6. Coke (the drink of course!)

7. Photography

8. Stamping

9. Wine

10. Pizookie from Oreganos

11. Country Music (especially the men!)

12. Facebook

13. Coupon shopping

14. Chimichangas with shredded beef

15. Swimming with the kids

16. Young and the Restless (my very guilty pleasure!)

17. Nicholas Sparks books

18. my Cannon Rebel camera

19. my MOPS group

20. Blogging

21. Traveling

22. How I Met Your Mother

23. Strawberry Milkshakes from Cold Stone

24. Erin Hilderband books

25. my friends

26. getting new clothes

27. the smell of new books (it is strange, I know)

28. CVS

29. Cheese

For the scrapbooks...

I did some scrapbooking during the long road trip to California...

A Sears Family Favorite Recipe

Dinner tonight was so delicious that I just HAD to share the recipe with you! It is super simple and can even be frozen! I call it Cream Cheese Chicken. You would think someone creative like me could come up with a better name!

Ingredients:

Chicken Tenders (we like the tenders but you could also use breasts)
An envelope of Italien Salad dressing mix
Half a stick of butter
1 can of Cream of Chicken Soup
1 8oz package of cream cheese

1. Melt butter in a frying pan. Add the Italien Dressing Mix.
2. Brown the Chicken Tenders in the butter mixture.
3. Add the can of soup and cream cheese. Stir until melted and creamy.

Now you could just serve it at this point. But I love my chicken to be extra tender (Kyler can hardly chew chicken with his teeth issues!)

4. Put the chicken mixture in a baking dish and bake in the oven for 20 minutes.

DONE! Now you can serve it. Or, you can cool it and put it in a large ziplock bag in the freezer!!! I have frozen it lots of time and it makes a super quick and yummy dinner for one of those busy school nights! Just thaw and reheat in the oven!!!!

I serve rice, veggies, and apple sauce with my chicken. You want to spice up your white rice? I mike Minute Rice using a can of chicken broth instead of water. It is delicious!!! And it is still white so the kids don't know the difference!!!

So Sick!!!

So I am STILL sick! It has been almost a month!!! I went to the doctor 2 weeks ago and they said I had Pneumonia. I took my antibiotics for the full 10 days. But STILL sick! So I went back today. I had to bring all the kids and I had all kinds of studd done including an xray, blood work, and a breathing treatment. I still have Pneumonia. Only now I also have a Reactive Airway Disease and possibly Valley Fever. I am on a bunch more meds. These medicines just HAVE to work because I am tired of coughing!!!!

Disneyland!!!!

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Disneyland!!!!! I love the rides, the characters, the shows, and the excited kids!!! SO much fun every single time! It just never gets old! This year we spent 2 days in Disneyland and California Adventures. Since there is so much to do, we spent 15 hours per day in the park!!! The kids were awesome! They especially loved the rides (Tea Cups, Haunted House, Toy Story Mania, Buzz, Splash Mountain, and more!) the Pixar parade (Toy Story float was awesome!!!) and the night shows we went to. We say fireworks the first night and then we saw the new World of Color show on the 2nd night. Both were very impressive! I already can't wait to go back to Disney. The plan is to go to Disney World for Fall break of 2011. I hope we can do it!

The army men from Toy Story were so funny!!! Kyler got a kick out of it!

I am mad that my Mickey picture is fuzzy! Clearly we HAVE to go back!!!

Scott really wanted to go on the Grizzly River Run. So we took all the kids. We got soaked and it was COLD!!! Makenzie got so scared on the ride and was screaming. Then in the middle of screaming she stopped and started laughing. She said "This ride is so funny!" Then she went back to screaming! It gave us all a good laugh! (And she was even less pleased when we did Splash Mountain the night day and she was in the front of the boat! lol!)

Beach Bums

We all had a fantastic time on our trip to California!!!! I am already couting down the days until we go back over Fall Break!!! The weather was AMAZING! In fact, we were even cold! That is awesome in July!!!! We spent 2 days at Newport Beach and the kids said it was "awesome."

Some pages from the scrapbook....

I have not had much of any time to scrapbook since going back to school last fall. And this summer is just flying by. The kids are keeping me so busy! But it is fun!!! I treasure the albums I have made for the kids and I might be behind, but I am not quitting. So right now I have pneumonia. It really bites!!! But it has given me some time to just sit and read, relax, and scrap! So here are a few layouts.....

Memorial Day

Cheerleading Camp

Kyler's surgery

More coming soon!!!

Oh, and only 2 more sleaps until we leave for Huntington Beach and Disneyland!!! The high is only expected to me 75! We are super excited and feel blessed to have this special time with the kids before they start school in a little over 2 weeks.

Camping

We took the kids for an overnight camping trip in Oak Creek Canyon. The kids were beyond excited. Actually they were more excited about camping than going to Disneyland!!!! I am not a fan of camping. It is just dirty and uncomfortable. But even I had fun watching the kids enjoy themselves. They loved making smores, fishing, and playing in the creek.