Summer Menu Plans

Week One

Wednesday Spaghetti, yellow and green beans, breadsticks

Thursday Chicken rice casserole, chicken almond casserole, sugar snap peas, manderin oranges

Friday Scrambled Eggs, bacon, french toastix

Saturday Pizza, strawberries

Sunday fajitas, rice, nachos, canteloupe

Monday Rotisserie Chicken, broccoli, corn on the cob, rhodes rolls

Tuesday Tacos, Honeydew melon, Nachos, Mexican Rice (Darth Day)

Week Two

Wednesday-Steak Ums, chips, pickles, carrots

Thursday- Parmesan Chicken, rotini, asparagus

Friday- Porcupine Meatballs, rice, peas, crescent rolls

Saturday-Ham, Twice Baked Potatoes, Sourdough bread with vinegar/olive oil, broccoli

Sunday-Hamburgers, slaw, tater tots

Monday-Hot Dogs, chips, vegetables and dip, brownies

Tuesday-(Darth Night) Spaghetti and Meatballs, breadsticks, peas, packable chocolate cake

Week Three

Wednesday- Pasta Salad, soft pretzels with dippy cheese, kiwi

Thursday-Pork roast, cooked carrots, mashed potatoes, gravy, Rhodes rolls

Friday-Meatloaf, elbow macaroni and cheese sauce, corn on the cob

Saturday-Pizza (crust from the tube, but we put on the cheese and sauce, sausage and peppers, white rice.

Sunday-Terriyaki, baked potato, salad, crescent rolls

Week Four (this is VBS week)

Monday-hot dogs, tater tots, manderin oranges

Tuesday-Roast, rice green beans, cornbread.

Wednesday-Rotisserie Chicken, herbed rice, french bread, salad(?)

Thursday-Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets, barley, corn, apple slices

Friday-Tacos, taco rice, mango

Saturday-Hot Hamburger (bread, burger, french fries, brown gravy...it's a hometown thing), honeydew melon

Sunday-Smoked sausage, macaroni and cheese (the blue box), peas, biscuits and honey.

#1 Vacation Ideas...

This is pulled straight from Gail's blog at Hambones.org. I just loved that list.
Such good ideas!

1. Grand Canyon…….hiked to the bottom, spent the night & hiked back out next day; with 4 kids! It was hot, 118 degrees and hard to do but so worth it.
2. Yellowstone National Park……hiked & camped, it was 28 degrees at night in August! It’s a great park.
3. New York City……..to see Broadway plays, shop & see the sights. I always love it there!
4. Disneyworld…..been several times & with 4 kids you’ve got to go there, right!
5. Rented an RV and drove through California, Oregon and Washington; saw Yosemite, Sequoia, Redwood, & Crater Lake National parks among other things. With 4 kids & 2 parents in an RV, a fun time! It might be one of the kid’s most favorite things we did.
6. Snow skiing in Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado……we have skiied many places but this is probably our favorite.
7. Washington D.C. and all the usual tourist spots there; gotta love the nation’s capital!
8. Grand Teton National Park….white water rafted on the Snake River while there.
9. Smoky Mountains…….encountered a big black bear & 2 cubs while hiking a trail in the mountains.
10. Gettysburg Battlefield, Antietam Battlefield, Monticello & other historical sites in Pennsylvania, Maryland & Virginia……the youngest thought it was one long boring field trip, the rest of us loved it!
11. Niagara Falls….saw both American & Canadian sides; rode Maid of the Mist & did the walk called Journey Behind the Falls.
12. Glacier National Park….did an 8 mile hike to a glacier & drove the Going to the Sun road.
13. Destin, Florida…..typical beach vacation; we aren’t beach people so we don’t go very often!

April 1 2009

OK, I don't have my list completely together for my 101 in 1001, but I had to get this date. April 1. Isn't that the funniest thing?

I will use
orange for things that need doing
green for things I am doing
purple for things completed

My 101 in 1001
1. Make a list of family vacations for the next 16 years...We have done this before but I lost the list. We want to make sure we get in whatever we feel is signifcant as our children grow up and leave home.

2. Make a rotating list of menus for each season so that I don't have to start from scratch every week. This, again, has been attempted before, and I think the way to do it this time (for good...) is to just keep a list of menus every week for about 6 weeks each season, tweak them and use them twice a season. That would be 12 week, repeating each week twice...

3. Write a compilation of Scripture Songs on a theme and then record them...I have been putting this off for a long time and I need to do it. No more excuses. I probably need about 17 songs. About 45 minutes worth.

4. Clean the kids' closets.

5. Clean out the upstairs storage area.

6. Finish reading my self improvement books
Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen
Pathway to Purpose for Women by Katie Brazelton
Change Your Life in 30 Days by Rhonda Britten

7. Get some kind of a schedule going that would encompass daily things to do and long term project work so that I could find some balance.

8. Visit my mom and Earl at their home 10 times in the next 12 months (this is July 2006)

9. Finish Beth Moore Believing God.

10. Get on an exercise program.

11. Lose that last 15 pounds.

12. Have beautiful feet.

13. Make my clothing reflect who I am on the inside. I am much more creative and fun than that.

14. A really great hairstyle for my age and personality.

15. Consistently smile when my children enter the room.

16. Have a good thing to say to each of my children before they go to bed.

17. Design and implement a bedroom befitting of a husband and wife rather than a mom and dad free for all and extra storage.

18. Finish trim on the living room chairs.

19. Complete the manners book that I have with Darth, Mango and Todder.

20. Go through each room of the house and see what needs doing...in the way of decorating, furnishing, fixing, etc.

21. A landscaping that is Krempl is appearance...a plan.

22. Implementing the Krempl landscape plan.

23. Completing my write up on Timothy E. Reilly for the 2996 project, headed up by DC Roe.

24. Cleaning out Jenny's car so that it will be ready when she returns.
25. Repeat the five finger mission statement for 40 days.

26. Shift our activities so that we can have a Sabbath.

27. Do the Biblical Holidays.
Feast of Tabernacles...

28. Fix the bedskirt on our bed.

29. Learn to do cryptoquotes.