Keep Calm It's Almost Summer

         Ahhhhhh that sweet 6 letter word that all teachers look forward to!  SUMMER!  As of today we have 25 1/2 more days left of school.  We started MAP testing today so now we are on the down hill slide.  Once MAP testing is over comes the field trips, the field days, and reward days.  Pure bliss!  I can't wait for summer.  My little monster is going to be so much fun this summer but will be a real handful when we go camping because he will want to run everywhere!  I will worry about that when the time comes! 
           We will start off the summer with my birthday on May 20th!  Then its off to the woods and lake we go!  A little camping, a little boating, a little floating, and a little fishing.  Sounds like heaven to me!

            Next up will be our anniverary on June 12th.  We will be celebrating 2 years!  This year for our anniversary we are going to Alabama to visit our honeymoon friends.  We met 3 couples on our honeymoon that we automatically connected with and have been friends ever since.  Last year for our 1 year they all came to St. Louis.  This year we are going to Alabama.  Next year will be either Texas or West Virginia and the next year vice versa.  On our 5th year anniversary we will all go someplace tropical again together.  Later in the month of June we will be back at it camping again. Please keep in mind these are only "scheduled" camping trips.  We like to be gone camping almost every weekend! 


              That's all that is on our summer plates for now.  What do you all have planned??
  

                                                       

Happy Easter!!

I hope that you all had a fantastic Easter and ate lots of yummy food! I know we have been eating all week.  It was finally nice to sit down tonight just DJ, Jackson and I and relax.  I have tomorrow off and that's it till the last day of school which is May 17.  YAY!! So excited! Can not wait to be off for three whole months! I hope that you all have an amazing week and you remember to say your prayers and count your blessings!!!  Here are a few pictures from this weekend.  ENJOY!

 My mom made this little rabbit here for all the grandkids for their Easter Baskets.  Makes me tear up reading it knowing one day she will be gone.

Megan's Recipe Binder

Good Wednesday Morning!!!!! Here we go again.  More binders!

So some of your kitchen drawers or cabinents probably looked the same as mine.  You know--someone gives you a recipe on paper or you print it off the computer and you have no where to put it but shove it in a drawer or if you were like me I folded it and put it in my recipe cabinent.  I had tons and tons of printed off recipes and recipes that people had given me and it was driving me nuts.  So I found on pinterest (imagine that) a recipe binder that I knew was just calling my name for me to make!

What you will need :

a 3-ring binder-I used 1 1/2 inches but I think I will be upgrading soon

dividers ( I used Avery)

clear plastic sleeves

cute paper (I got my super cute paisley paper from Office Max)

construction paper--optional

I started by making my tabs off the computer.  On www.avery.com you can pick the labels that you bought and it will give you a template to upload in a word document so your labels are just right!

In this picture its hard to see my labels on the tabels but they are there.  You can kind of see the word breakfast on the top tab.  Here are the tabs I used:

*Breakfast

*Appetizers

*Sides

*Soups/Salads

*Poultry Entrees

*Beef/Pork Entrees

*Crockpot

*Desserts

*Beverages

You are probably wondering where the fish/deer meat receipes are.  That's my husbands area of expertise and he just gos with the flow when it comes to cooking deer and fish.

I then started putting all my recipes into the clear plastic sleeves.  Some of them I had to retype because they were written in pencil and were starting to fad. 

On some of the recipes that weren't a full sheet I cut them down in size and was able to put more than one recipe in a clear plastic sleeve.  I used construction paper and tape to make it pretty.

After filling my plastic sleeves with recipes I then got my cute paper out.  I tested a piece of white paper in the printer first so I knew which way it would print out so I wasn't wasting any.  I then typed up all my sections in Word and printed them out.