Krause Family Blog
Monday, February 13, 2012
Snow Day
This year however is a completely different story. The first snow was on December 6th, and I wouldn't really call it a snow. It was a mere dusting and somewhat pathetic. If it's only going to snow a bit, I'd rather it didn't snow at all. That was it, until a few weeks ago, when again we got another dusting. I was beginning to lose all hope of a snow day. Teacher's love them just as much as the kids do. It's a nice surprise getting that early morning phone call (or text message in my case) that we don't have school. When this year's school calendar was being created, we put in ten extra days to account for all the possible snow that we might get this year. Yeah, those won't be necessary.
So today, Feb. 13 of 2012, was my first official snow day. And what did I do? Well, besides going outside for about 20 minutes to help build the first snowman of the season, nothing. The medicine that I'm on for my mishap last week (I sliced my thumb open on a glass while doing the dishes) has literally made me want to do nothing but sleep. I'll be glad to have that stuff out of my system in time for Dade's bowling party next Sunday. I was happily watching Dade play with his cars and race track this morning, and next thing I know I'm waking up 30 minutes later. I then went back to bed and go up around 1pm when a neighbor kid knocked on the door thus creating chaos in the house between Slinky barking and Dade yelling at him to stop.
Here are some pictures from our little snow day fun!
For Christmas my co-teacher Patrick and his family gave us a snowman building kit. Inside the red hat was the scarf, pine cones, nose, and buttons. It also had the original Frosty the Snowman movie, and some yummy treats. We've been waiting since then to use it. We made a simple head (mainly because Clint and I didn't have any gloves), but it turned out quite nicely. Dade was rather excited about it.
Dade is always wanting to shove the driveway, so Clint gave him the snow shovel. He felt very big because we let him help clear everything out.
Dade got tired quickly after shoveling the driveway. Luckily, Clint was there to lend a helping hand.
It was nice to have an extra day off and spend it with Clint and Dade. The next two weeks are going to busy around here. Our 6th wedding anniversary is the 18th, Dade's birthday party is the 19th (Robot Themed Bowling Party), Clint's big 3-0 is the 24th, and then Dade's actual birthday the 26th.
Fun filled times ahead.
Sunday, February 05, 2012
My Almost 4 Year Old
I cannot believe that in a few short weeks Dade will be four. That is just mind blowing. I am not exactly sure where the time as gone. It feels like not that long ago we were bringing him home from the hospital for the first time. We took him yesterday to get his pictures taken. He doesn't particularly enjoy posing ( you cannot tell this from the pictures, but it is true), so we had him pick out his own outfits and let him bring some of his favorite things. He picked out a really cute outfit that had dinosaurs on it, and decided to bring his "baby". Then Friday night while we were at Target, he got all excited because they had a shirt there that looked like a shirt Clint would wear, but for little boys. He said he had to have that shirt for his pictures. He then told me that he wanted to take his drum sticks with. He actually wanted to take his whole drum-set, but we told him that he couldn't do that. Here are the results of the pictures. The results were too cute, even though we had a breakdown between the first outfit and the second.
Sunday, January 08, 2012
To Sell or Not to Sell: That Is The Question
Somewhat Therapeutic
Sunday, January 01, 2012
Reading Goal
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Cookie Crazy
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups coarsely chopped caramel popcorn
- 1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
- 1 cup Butterscotch Flavored Morsels
- 1 cup peanuts or chopped, toasted almond slices
COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in popcorn, morsels and peanuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.
BAKE for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 pkg. (4 serving size) instant vanilla, butterscotch or chocolate pudding mix
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg white
- 2 cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini Morsels
COMBINE flour and pudding mix in small bowl. Beat butter in large mixing bowl on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Beat in brown sugar and baking soda until well combined. Beat in egg and egg white. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels. Drop dough by rounded teaspoon 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.
BAKE for 10 to 12 minutes or until set. Cool on baking sheets 2 to 3 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt (optional)
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
- 2 cups coarsely broken rippled potato chips
- 1 cup small pretzel twists, broken into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1/2 cup unsalted peanuts (optional)
COMBINE flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels, potato chips, pretzel pieces and peanuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.
BAKE for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Halloween!
I'd say that Clint and I did a pretty good job of getting it to look like the original version. In the video game when the little kid in the costume knocks on a door of a house and there's a bad guy inside he turns into this
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Crock Pot Queen!
Bag of frozen chicken tenderloins
8 oz. cream cheese
Can of black beans (rinsed and drained)
Can or corn (drained)
Can of Rotel
Put everything in the crock pot in the order they are listed above. Cook on high for 6-8 hours. Serve over rice.
I will say that this recipe is better the second day because it's thicker. I particularly enjoy this on a flour tortilla.