Deceptively Delicious

Last week on Oprah, Jessica Seinfeld, wife of Jerry Seinfeld, was on promoting her new cookbook, Deceptively Delicious. This is her method of getting her kids to eat veggies. Since we are not veggie eaters in our house, and being guilt ridden from this as I am the meal preparer, I thought I would give this a try. So I went out that evening and bought the cookbook and today started the process. Each of the recipes in the cookbook include a vegetable puree. So today I steamed or roasted veggies and here is a photo journal of the experience...

The Cast of Characters (stolen from Pioneer Woman Cooks)

Butternut squash, sweet potatoes, yellow squash, cauliflower, broccoli
The butternut squash and the sweet potatoes got roasted
for an hour at 400 degrees

The rest were steamed for 6-12 minutes (all instructions for the specific veggies are in the the cookbook)

Then everything gets pureed in the food processor for 2 minutes until smooth and creamy!! Gotta love the colors!

Then you divide your purees into 1/2cup servings and put them into storage baggies. I put a sandwich sized Ziploc bag over a juice glass which worked very well.

And here is the final results...32 bags with 1/2 cup servings of veggies. I also decided to add spinach and carrots to the cast of characters

The worst part....thank God for dishwashers!!

I have 10 of the recipes from the cook book on the menu for the next few weeks so my plan is to let you all know what I made and what the family thought of it! On tonight's menu....Pasta with Bolognese Sauce!

Lauren and Derricks Wedding

This is where the wedding was...absolutely beautiful

We all prayed over Lauren and Derrick after the rehersal

We have a picture taken in this same spot 4 years ago. It was just Brian and Andrew and Me then...actually Kelli too, but we didn't know it yet!

It was so cute...the girls hadn't realized that their shoes were all the same until I lined them up for this picture! They were thrilled!

This was super cool...instead of a guest book we all signed shells

Nikki did all the flowers again...gorgeous!!

The place cards
The happy couple getting ready to leave for their honeymoon

Sweet Eden LuAnn

These are some pics I took of my sister Heidi and her family this weekend. Out of all the grandkids on my side of the family, 7 month old Eden is the "gerberest"!! =) She is so beautiful, and such a sweet personality too!!

Our own version of the pioneer life!!

Most of you know that I am an avid fan of the "Confessions of a Pioneer Woman" blog. You can find a link for it under my favorite blogs. It is facinating! I realized, while uploading pictures of this weekend to my computer, that I have my own little pioneer world! These are pictures of our weekend. It was a pretty typical one around here. Brian, my marlboro man, working on some project to improve our home. This weekend it was leveling dirt and planting grass seed in the area of our yard that was torn up when he built a beautiful new garage earlier this year. Andrew and Kelli have been spending alot of time out side with Brian while I have been inside with Emily. Kelli discovered some "beans" that the neighbor is growing that have come over onto our side of the fence.

"Mom, what is in here?
Love the look of discovery!

Gotta love child labor! Andrew sure takes after his dad...what a hard worker!

After leveling 2 semi loads of dirt, roto-tilling it numerous times, planting grass seed, and spreading straw over it, Brian rolled it to help pack it down and level it more. He gave Kelli a ride and I just happened to snap this photo as they looked at eachother! Priceless!

Andrew wanted a ride too...He hopped up to get on Brian's lap, and when Andrew was up on the seat, Brian hopped off!! Andrew didn't flinch and did a great job!

I love the midwest life!

Jim and Amber

My sister in law Amber just got engaged 2 weeks ago to a great guy, Jim! They will be getting married June 21st of next year. Here are a couple pics of the happy couple I took yesterday!

Getting Bigger

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  I can't believe Emily will be 6 weeks old already on Wednesday!! How time flies when you are tired, I mean having fun!! =) Actually she is doing really well and things are starting to normalize around here! There isn't much of a routine yet during the day, but evenings and night time are starting to become pretty consistent. Evening is fussy time from about 7-9pm then she eats and goes to sleep and has been sleeping until 3 or 4 am. So that is a nice long stretch, and for that I am grateful!! She has also been going right back to sleep after eating as well! I am still working on getting her naps during the day to coordinate with having to pick Andrew up from school, so far with little success! It is hard to wake a sleeping baby, but we will get in our grove soon enough! I love these bath time pictures! It is one of my favorite times with little ones!
  

More Photos

A couple Pics of the kiddos