Wordless Wednesday

Recipe - French Toast Casserole

For our new recipe this week, I tried a breakfast item I had heard great things about.  We loved this French Toast Casserole, but I especially loved that I was able to put it together on Saturday evening and let it sit in the fridge all night and just pop it in the oven in the morning.  The blog is awesome because it gives you step by step photo directions and you can see just how she made it.  Then at the bottom (just for you mom) you'll see that you can select how you want to print it...full page, or in smaller card sizes to put in a recipe box.  We baked ours for a little over an hour, since the bread pudding result was not what we wanted.  It was super delicious, and made a lot.  Jarrod and I both had some leftovers yesterday morning and I had some more today...and there is still some left!  Gavin is in a weird eating phase lately and wasn't interested in this.  He eventually took his 'one bite' that is our rule, but that was it.  


Anyway, here's the link again:  French Toast Casserole  Enjoy!  

11 Weeks!

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along: 11 Weeks

Size of baby: Baby Hamm is the size of a lime - 

his/her head is almost half of the entire length of the body and fingernails are starting to appear.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: +5.5lbs - up half a pound from last week...not surprising considering the cinnamon rolls 

and french toast casserole we made this weekend.

Maternity Clothes: Still in my clothes, but have been wearing my belly band most days 

and occasionally a pair of maternity pants just for comfort,

Gender: Unknown....my gut says it's another boy right now though.

Movement: Too early.

Sleep: I'm sleeping pretty good but getting up once or twice to pee is getting old already.  Naps are common these days.

What I miss:  Allergy medicine for the days I have parties and the host has cats!

Cravings: Spicy foods all of a sudden are very appealing to me.

Symptoms:  I'm still very tired most of the time and my sense of smell is definitely heightened!  Which is especially nice when your dog decides to eat poop and throw up on your bedroom carpet - twice!

Best Moment this week: Seeing how excited Jarrod was when he put the crib together, 

or how Gavin was when we got him a baby doll to practice with.  :)

Jarrod started on the nursery this weekend....which is super early to most people, but let's be honest.  Jarrod isn't like most people.  I took Gavin to get his haircut on Saturday and got home to find all of the crib pieces in the nursery ready for assembly.  We tried very hard to make the futon work in the playroom so we still had a "guest room" but it just wasn't working.  Luckily for us, there are tons of great hotels less than 10 minutes away for guests who still decide to come visit until we get a bigger house.  It's amazing how much stuff kids accumulate!  We just kept looking around in the attic at all the stuff we have to bring back down wondering where it was all going to go!  

Adding to my list...

I decided to make it another goal this year to try at least one new recipe each week.  We've been good lately about trying new things, but I really want to start using some recipes I've collected from blogs and the cookbooks I have and never open.  I'll share any I recommend here.


Last night we had Chicken and Dumplings in the crockpot.  I found the recipe on a blog and was excited to try it.  It was DELICIOUS and I can't wait for lunch to reheat leftovers.  You can find the recipe here:  Chicken and Dumplings

The only thing I did differently was shred the chicken before adding the vegetables (it doesn't say to in the recipe) and I only used half a bag of the veggies since Jarrod isn't a huge fan of peas and the bag I had included peas.  It was a perfect ratio of chicken and veggies and the dumplings were so yummy!  Enjoy!  Let me know what you think.  :)

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