Weekend Update

This weekend was so busy.



Friday night we stayed home. That was the only night we were all at home.


Saturday morning I had a meeting. I am NOT going to anymore of those meetings. It's the same thing everytime and I felt like I got blasted the whole time. Saturday night Brianna and I headed out to Liz's 16th birthday party. Bri had a great time dancing with the kids. I had a great time talking to everyone. Brian stayed home with a VERY ill Alex. He was so tired. Before we headed out to the party I made some supper for us all, it was two new, healthy recipes. I will put them at the bottom of the post.


Sunday after church we made a Wal Mart run then we came home for lunch. Brian baked some potatoes. Then I headed to Winter Jam with the youth. We stood in line outside Bobcats arena for about 2 hours, but it wasn't bad. We even got to see a protest. Don't worry, most of the kids were across the street at Burger King and didn't even know what was going on. The protestors were not being ugly or mean that I could hear. I don't think the people at Bobcats Arena liked it very well that they had a bunch of kids outside in line and here were a bunch of protestors. Then when it was time to go inside Travis and three of our guys ran in to get us good seats, and did they ever! We had awesome seats and could see the stage, it was so good. Stephanie Smith was so cute. Jeff and I got to speak to her at the youth leader's meeting before the concert. She said she wanted to be a princess ballerina cowgirl that day. She talked to us for about 10 minutes. Thanks for letting us go back Travis! Hawk Nelson was there. I was NOT excited to see them. I know I will be seeing them again in two weeks at Revolve.
Brandon Heath.
Tony Nolan was the speaker and gave me a tidbit that I am going to start saying. He was talking about near death experiences and said that sometimes people's breath can about do you in, so "give them a breath mint in the name of Jesus." Cracked me up!
And last but not least, TOBY MAC! I have wanted to see him in concert for a while and we heard him doing his sound check at the State Fair back in October. Oh my gosh, he was so good. He finished the show with Jesus Freak! I think the kids liked it too. He was the big reason that I even wanted to go to Winter Jam. Travis even spoke to him on our way into the youth leaders meeting! If you get the chance to see him in concert, do it! It's very high energy and FUN!!!!!!!

I am glad that today is a somewhat back to normal day. I was actually ready for today, I might actually get some rest.

Both of these recipes are from Taste of Home.

French Style Chicken

6 boneless skinless chicken halves
1/4 tsp. salt-free lemon-pepper seasoning
1 1/3 cup reduced sodium chicken broth
3 medium apples cut into wedges
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
4 Tbsp. apple cider or juice, divided
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 Tbsp. cornstarch
Minced fresh parsley

Sprinkle chicken with lemon-pepper. In a large skillet coated with cooking spray, cook chicken for 5-6 minutes on each side, or until juices run clear. Remove from skillet and keep warm.

In the same skillet, combine the broth, apples, onion, 3 tablespoons cider, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Bring to a boil. Combine cornstarch and the remaining 1 tablespoon cider until smooth; stir into apple mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until thickened. Top with chicken, sprinkle with parsley.

I didn't use the parsley. I used Mrs. Dash lemon pepper seasoning. Mrs. Dash has a website that you can get recipes from. I get an email from them weekly.

Colorful Veggie Saute

1 small zucchini, sliced
1 yellow summer squash, sliced
1 small onion, halved and sliced
1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
1 small green pepper
1/2 cup thinly sliced fresh carrots
1 Tbsp. butter
3 cups coarsely chopped fresh spinach
1/2 tsp. steak seasoning
1/4 tsp. garlic salt

In a large skillet, saute the zucchini, yellow squash, onion, mushrooms, green pepper and carrots in butter until tender-crisp. Add the spinach, steak seasoning and garlic salt; saute 3-4 minutes longer or just until spinach is wilted.

I didn't use the butter, I used olive oil. I also did not use the garlic salt of the steak seasoning. I used Mrs. Dash Table Blend to cut out some of the sodium. Both of these were very good. Brianna helped me cook and was talking about how good it smelled and couldn't wait to eat! She was excited to eat veggies! How awesome is that?