Friday we celebrated with Austin during his school awards ceremony where he receive an award for all E's! We are so proud of what he has done in school and he is growing and learning so much.
Then today after celebrating our little friend Jackson's 4th birthday at Bounce-a-Rama, Austin and Tony went to begin building Austin's first Pinewood Derby Car. I think that Tony was as excited to start this project as Austin was. Tony still has his cars from when he was in Boy Scouts and Austin has been playing with them for years and now, he gets to make his own. They made great progress on it and now to the painting process. We will reveal the final car soon, so stay tuned.
I have also been getting into experimenting with some new recipes. I have made it a goal to try and eat as little processed foods as possible, knowing this can be a big task I am taking it slow and picking certain foods that I feel I can replicate with out a lot of extra purchases. I have found two recipes that I really like and plan to make again. Thanks to Pinterest for making it easy to find many choices!
Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins (with optional Nutella Swirl)
Recipe here {in our house we ALWAYS opt for Nutella!}
They were soooo good, I have to warn you thought- I got about 30 regular size muffins out of this recipe! So plan on eating them a lot or giving them away :)
We love taquitos and we usually buy them by the 30 pack. I thought I might mix up some homemade ones.
Creamy Chicken Taquitos Recipe here
I was concerned about them being too spicy for me (not a spicy eater) or Austin so I cut back on the spices and left out the jalapeno. In the end they were a little bland, so next time Ill add all spices and no jalapenos and we will see what that version tastes like. These came out about 2x the size of the frozen store bought ones, so even though the recipe didn't make 30 we will actually eat less per serving than normally. But over all very delicious!
