Fun and productive week!

This was my kind of week!  Fun, free events and it was General Conference weekend for us LDS folk.  That means there is no church on Sunday, but rather, a conference session broadcast live on TV full of inspired talks from various leaders in the Church.  So while I listened to the talks, I was able to have a baking marathon in the kitchen!

Here's what I was able to accomplish and save this week:

-Made some baby food peas (she needs some veggie supplements as she is still quite picky)

-Made my weekly breakfast banana muffins!

-Peaches were on sale, so I made a peach cobbler for Sunday dinner at the in law's!

-Made 3 large loaves and 4 mini loaves of french bread.  The mini loaves will be used for french dips later this week with a double duty roast.  Aren't they cute?

-Made a large batch of cream of chicken soup mix.  Used two servings of it as part of the ingredients to make a crockpot potato soup with the last of my potatoes in the fridge that needed to be used up.  We had the soup for Sunday lunch and then I was able to bottle up a serving for my lunch and a quart to freeze for another weekend lunch.

-Made a quadruple batch of pancakes!  Two batches I mixed up to make pancakes for breakfast and some to freeze and the other two batches I mixed the dry ingredients only in a quart size mason jar with the directions for adding the wet ingredients for a future baking.

-Made a double batch of chocolate pudding mix, used part of it to make frozen pudding pops.

-Made a batch of homemade dishwasher detergent.

-Austin and I worked on some handmade cards and gifts for Halloween.  I found some cute glass jars at the 99 cents store, we added washi tape, ribbon and a tag and filled them with candy.  He is giving one to his teacher tomorrow!

-Ryan was able to spend his week of government furlough to help his dad with their house renovation project.  He has been doing this on Friday nights and Saturdays for the past few months, so he skipped this past Saturday so we could spend a nice day together as a family.  We took the kids to the Free Home Depot Kids Workshop/Safety Day.  They had a wooden plane kit to build and paint, free Lego sets with safety information, a fire truck and ambulance to tour, and other fun activities.  We then headed to Michael's where I paid $2 for the Scary Jewelry class and Austin made several fun bracelets and got his face painted.  We hit the park before going home to enjoy a the picnic lunch I packed for us.

Austin is sporting his pink and red face paint hearts! I love that he is such an individual! We had sandwiches, walked around the duck ponds, and Austin played catch with his dad while Amilia chased after the dogs.  Gorgeous Fall day in Vegas!

-I got free tickets to Gordie Brown at the Golden Nugget with my free 6 month membership to Fill A Seat I got for teacher appreciation week last Spring, so Ryan and I went out on a date for the first time in awhile and had a great time!  

-We did not eat out this week, but I went to an afterschool get together with teachers on Friday and had a soda and shared an appetizer.  It was fun to get to know some of the teachers at my new school.  Ryan and I also enjoyed some Cold Stone creamery for the first time since before the baby was born.  It was splurge well worthe $ and calories!

Hope you are all having a terrific October and enjoying the cooler weather!