Fun Flip Flops

One of these days I'll post a true to me blog. But while your waiting check out these flip-flops.
Who would have thunk it!!!!!


Have a wonderful weekend!!!


Rachel and Fmaily!

Attention Quilters!

Here is a link one of the blogs I followed posted about a quilters giveaway! Thought I would share!

Rachel and Family

New Cookbooks!!!!

Thank you so much to my Aunt Deb for all of these cookbooks and magazines. I look forward to trying new recipes!!!

And I won't have to worry about too many leftovers. The hubs leaves today so I won't have to make much to have left overs.

Rachel and Family

Cabbage and Sausage Soup

Good Morning all.

We really enjoyed this soup the other night. Only one of my children refused to eat it, in my book that is pretty good. Then again he never tries new things easily.

I am not going to be too specific on amount in this post, the soup consisted of mostly "leftovers and extras" I had around.

4 russet potatoes peeled and chopped

16 oz chicken stock

1 tsp garlic minced

salt and pepper to taste

1/2 head of cabbage (leftovers from this recipe)

4 turkey sausage chunks

Place potatoes, chicken stock, salt and pepper, and garlic in crock pot. Cook for 2 hours on high. Add cabbage and turkey sausage cook on high another 3 hours.

I would have normally used kielbasa but sausage is what I had in the fridge!

We also had a loaf of bread with some butter to finish off the meal. It was great on our chilly Washington night.

Rachel and Family

Trip to Mt. Rainier

Mt Rainier is magnificent. Lance and I would love to climb it one day. We drove up to Paradise and took a few pictures, the visitors center is also located here. It is full of diagrams, and information about the mountain the the wildlife.

We walked one of the trails to a waterfall you can see from the road. It was gorgeous. The children had a blast!

And my pictures are not spacing correctly, so my post is short so I don't throw something at the computer.

Rachel and Family

Ground Beef Stuffed Cabbage

GROUND BEEF STUFFED CABBAGE

My father used to make these when I was growing up. I am missing family these days so I thought I would give this a try!

I finally bought ground beef again. I have been buying ground pork and turkey instead to help our weight and health issues. I bought a leaner beef, and it seemed a bit dried out. I found this recipe at Southerfood.about.com and changed it.

1lb ground beef

6 cabbage leaves

2 cups cooked rice

salt & pepper (to taste)

1 egg 1/4 cup milk

1/4 cup chopped onion

I followed the cooking directions.

Combine beef, onion, rice, salt/pepper, egg and milk in a bowl and fold until mixed well. Boil cabbage leaves to soften. Spoon the mix into cabbage leaves and roll. I folded one end up and then side to side finishing with a top fold over. Place in crock pot (I could fit 6). Cover with sauce.

Sauce

8 oz can tomato sauce

2 tbsp brown sugar

1 tbsp lemon juice

2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

Make sure sauce covers rolls to prevent burning.

I cooked on high 5 hours. Put it in at noon and ate at about 5:20.

It was delicious. The kiddos even ate the cabbage!!

Rachel and Family!

Day at the Park

Okay so really it was about 35 minutes. The nascar race took longer than expected and then the sun went away sooner than expected so it started to get too chilly for the baby. But there will be more days at the park I'm sure of it!

As you can see the playgound is pretty genric, we hope to find different ones very soon!

This was Landon's first time in the swing. He loved it! And if you look closely you can see Lance smiling!!!! Not too often do we get that on camera! Jake thought it was real cool he was swinging with Landon!

Annabelle, Mathew, and Jacob love to climb. I always have to remind them to be careful when there are other families on the playground.

You even get to see me on the playground, to bad my bum doesn't fit on the kid slide to well anymore HA!

Here's to fun family days!

Rachel and Family