March Visiting Teaching Message Ideas

For the month of March I printed off this cute handout for the women I and my partner visit and teach for St. Patrick's Day!

They really enjoyed them and I do have to say they were super easy and very cute!

Here is the link to download your own handouts. I know it's kinda late in the month, but there is 5 days left!

Free March Handout 

Here is some other options as well...

Idea #2

  

Idea #3

Chicken Penne Bake

- eAsY ChIcKeN pEnNe BaKe-

-Ingredients-

1 Box Penne Pasta Cooked

3 C of Cheese -your choice

8-10 sliced mushrooms

1/4 C chopped onion

3 handfuls of fresh spinach leaves

3 Chicken Breasts grilled-sliced or cubed

1.5-2 Cups of Alfredo Sauce

1/2 C of Cottage cheese or Ricotta

Salt and pepper to taste

Mixed all ingredients together and place in baking dish covered w/aluminum foil.

Bake in oven on 375 degrees for 25-30 minutes.

All of my ingredients and directions are estimates. Most the time I never measure anything.

So, IF you want more of one thing, go ahead and do it!

Enjoy

Awesome Quinoa Salad

WARNING!!!!!!!!! This is SO Delicious!

-Quinoa Black Bean Salad-

Ingredients

1 Cup of Pre washed Quinoa
1.5 Cups of Black Beans (about 1 can drained)
1 1/2 T Red Wine Vinegar
1 Cup Corn
1 Red/Green Bell Pepper
4 small Green Onions
1 t Garlic- minced
1/4 t Cayenne
1/4 Cup Fresh Cilantro Chopped
1/3 C Lime juice
1/2 t Salt
1 1/4 t Cumin
2 T Olive Oil
1/2 Cup Craisins

Directions

Cook 1 Cup Quinoa with 2 Cups of water. Simmer for about 20 minutes until Quinoa is done. Fluff, & Cool. Mix beans with vinegar and salt. Add drained beans, corn, bell pepper, onions, garlic, cayenne, craisins and cilantro to quinoa, and toss. Whisk lime juice, a pinch of extra salt, cumin and oil. Drizzle and toss with salad. Make ahead, refridgerate, but serve at room temperature.

Makes: 8
Nutritional Info: Carbohydrates 36.1g Calories 213.5 Protein 7.8g

Chili Lime Butter Chicken Drumsticks

WOW, These are so good!!! I was so excited to make these chicken wings for the Superbowl this year! They turned out great. Not sure how good they are for you, BUT they taste delicious.

                                          Chili Lime Butter Chicken Drumsticks

Ingredients include:

4 lds of chicken wings or drumsticks
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Kosher salt & ground pepper
8 Tablespoon of unsalted Butter, Softened
1 BIG fat rounded Tablespoon of Thai Kitchen Red Curry Paste (Found @ Target)
1/4 C Honey
1/4 C Soy Sauce
1 Lime
Chopped Cilantro, for garnish

Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees
Rinse chicken under cool water and pat dry. Put them in a large bowl with olive oil and season well with salt and pepper. Toss to coat with the seasoning. Spread the wings out on a baking sheet and roast about 25 minutes until the skin gets crisp and brown, and the meat is tender.

While you wait, throw the butter, red curry paste, honey and soy sauce into the blender. Season with salt and puree. Scrape into a big bowl. When the chicken comes out of the oven mix together with the sauce. Squeeze the juice of the lime over the wings. Give it a toss and you're done. Garnish with cilantro.

YUMMY!!!!

Zipper Bracelet Giveaway!

Alright friends....go to this blog http://paula-heartandsewl.blogspot.com/ and see how to win one of these adorable personalized ZIPPER BRACELETS!!!! My cousin Paula who made these is so talented! Check it out! Who knows you may be the next winner!

Organization Finally!

Over the past two+ years I have kept all of our paid bills, important paperwork and whatever else into one of those plastic three drawer stacker things that turned into a huge mess! I had to take action and do something about it! It was driving me nuts.

I ended up shredding SO much paper and recycling it all afterwards.

I didn't take a picture of it before, but this picture below is just some of what I have to shred still. I couldn't believe how thinking keeping things means you are organized....it just means you worry too much and its not necessary!

This is 3 huge drawer fulls of stuff into ONE!!!!! I was so impressed, and Ryan was too.

I found the 2-drawer Steel filing cabinet at Walmart for like $35.

Totally worth all the work and time shredding stuff!

I feel so much more organized!

Things I've made the past couple weeks!

My Three Trees! I purchased these tree wood cut outs at the Wood Connection here in Murray. Sanded, painted and cut the paper out and modged podged it on! I think they turned out cute for the Christmas holiday!  

This is a magnetic board I made up as well for a friend at work for Christmas. You can also find the actual magnetic board and vinyl wording at the Wood Connection ! I love that place. I just found some odds and end scrapbook paper from home and tore the edges and glued them on with modge podge! Found some cute ribbon to hang it up with. Simple and easy! 

 She loved it.

I found this recipe on Glutenfreely.com and made it for Christmas Eve morning for Ryan and I. It was delicious and made a ton for the two of us. We had enough to last us the following week. I used blueberry filling. Delicious!

Our Family Christmas Party we had to make a $5.00 homemade gift for two of our nephews. With the help of my mother we came up with these little car caddy's for Jared and Logan. They took about an hour or two to finish them both. I loved how they turned out and hope they have fun playing with them! I did Logan's in Blue lettering and blue "CARS" material inside.

These are the chocolate covered peppermint crushed oreos I found off of Pinterest! I made them for some neighbor/friend gifts this year! Super easy and cute.

Ryan really liked them a lot.