The wacky world of the Klauer Klan!

I know I already posted 2x today but ...... Adam started Crawling today just thought I would share it with the world.. He was trying so hard it was cute I think it startled him.. I was watching out of my peripheral vision while working on my knitting! So of course I had to stop and get down and coax him along. Nick, Noah and I were all down on all 4s cheering Adam on. Guess I need to start putting the gate to the stairs up again and vacuuming everyday and sweeping a couple times a day to make sure he can't get anything.

Also on another note after 2 calls to our crib company I finally gave up and called the regular number and they directed me to a website to order our kit to turn our drop side unsafe crib into a non drop side.. I so dislike automated phone answering systems.

Well time to get the eldest in bed the other 2 are already down and Nick is already on the road to Rock Island, Illinois. So nighty night

Just ran to Copps and had a great stock up experience.. Bought only on special or coupon except the milk.
lol so I thought I would share my savings soo excited..

1st order

2 pkgs of Thomas English muffins
1 pkg of OM hotdogs
2 pkg of family chicken breasts (reg $15.70 and $11.84)
1 pkg Butter
4 pkgs 8oz cheese brick

Spent $20.59

SAVED $26.11

2nd order

1 jar Motts Applesauce
1 jug Applejuice
2 pkg Thomas English Muffins
1 box of 5pks of blueberry muffins to go
2 pk om hotdogs
1 loaf of SL whole wheat bread
1 box of Barilla noodles
1 jar speg sauce
4 boxes of Lean Cusine hotpockets
1 3pk of extra gum
1lb of deli sliced turkey
1 44ct pkg of fishsticks
1 SL pkg of hotdog buns
2pkg of family size chicken breasts (reg $ 18.62 and $14.33)
1pk OM bologne
5lb bag potatos
1 bag of salad mix
1 pkg butter 4 pgs 8oz cheese bricks
2 gal milk

Spent $53.04

SAVED $53.25


woo hoo total spent $73.63

Total SAVED $79.36

gotta love when you save more than you spent...

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This week my project was a new pantry.. Of course I am one of those people who never start with something easy.. So I went straight for this monster.. I got the plans off of Ana's awesome blog.





It was fun to build though I have come to the conclusion that I need a table saw.. So I found a nice Portable one for about $120 so time to save up and buy myself a saw.. Along with that I also need to save up for a storage unit to store all my awesome tools and projects.. whoo hoo.

Other new things are that Adam is eating lots of new yummy foods... I am back to making my homemade baby food. He has had Sweet Potato, Carrots, Avacado and Mango.. He has loved all of them.. Bananas are next yum yum! He is still only up on all 4s going backwards still hasn't started going forward yet but he is really quick at going from All 4s to a seated position. That one took Isaac and Noah a while to get they used to just cry on all 4s waiting for help to go sit.. But Adam is a pro...

New with Noah~ he is talking more and more daily. He is still hard to understand most of the time! I have yet to even attempt to start potty training.. I need to start figuring out when we are going to introduce the potty because he is such a sweet chunky monkey that he is in size 6 diapers and the higher number you go the less you get for the same price so we are buying buying lots of diapers since he has out grown my cloth diapers for him.

New with Isaac is that he is working on his reading Eggs program and is now interested in coming up to me and asking "Momma, how do you spell _____!" So I sound out what ever word he has chosen like Box Sounding it out letter at a time! and he can recognize the sound and spell it.. We celebrate with High fives it is AWESOME!! he is just blooming with Knowledge.

Well this weekend is again a Drill weekend so just the boys and me!! I am hoping to go down for my FILs birthday. I just need to get the details and ideas for his birthday present I am coming up short!! Well have a good weekend..

Well the family loved it so I guess I would post it.

Garlicy Shrimp Scampi

bag of already cooked lil shrimps.. (thawed)
8T Butter
2T Minced Garlic
6T white wine
2t dried parsley
4T Flour
Dash of lemon to taste
Salt and pepper to taste
1lb pasta

Cook pasta according to package. Melt butter and add garlic, wine, parsley cook for 5 min add flour let thicken. Add Shrimp and cooked pasta then salt pepper and lemon to taste.. Serve..

Chicken Pot Pie filing over Biscuits.

1/2 stick butter
1/2 cup finely diced onion
1/2 cup finely diced carrot
1/2 cup finely diced celery
2 cups Chicken, diced or shredded (or both!)
1/4 cup flour
2 cups low-sodium chicken
splash of white wine (optional)
1 cup heavy cream
Frozen peas (optional)
Fresh thyme, chopped
salt and pepper to taste

1. Melt butter in a skillet or dutch oven. Add onion, carrots, and celery, and cook until translucent (a couple of minutes.)
2. Add Chicken and stir. Sprinkle flour over mixture and stir. Cook over medium heat for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly.
3. Pour in chicken broth, stirring constantly. Splash in wine (you can leave this out if you’d like.) Pour in cream. (May add frozen peas at this point if you’d like.)
4.Bring to a slow boil and allow mixture to cook and thicken for a few minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste (do not underseason), and fresh or dried thyme to taste. Do one final taste at the end and add what it needs.
5.Pour mixture over Biscuits right before serving.

Yummy most definitely one of my favorites.

Well this weekend We tilled the garden and got stuff around for building a bookshelf with doors for a pantry in the house we are getting ready to sand and paint then I will post the awesome photos!! But for my first big project with little to no help it looks pretty good.

Today Zoe and I went to Menard's and got material to build the raised garden bed.


While I put it together with support and camera action from Zoe, the kids played in the front yard.. Pretty Hard too lol.. Noah didn't get a nap and you can plainly see he still needs on.. lol..

Later I made a breakfast cookie recipe that I altered a bit but they are supposed to resemble the Erin Bakers breakfast cookie.

Super yummy heres the recipe

Ingredients:
2 cups brown sugar
2 1/2 cups rolled oats
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup canola oil
1/2 cup prune puree
2 tablespoons water
5 egg whites
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup raisins
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
1/3 cup chopped dried apricots

1/3 cup unsweetend applesauce

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.

In a large bowl, stir together the oats, sugar, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Make a well in the center and pour in the canola oil, prune puree, water, egg whites, applesauce and vanilla. Mix until well blended. Stir in the raisins, walnuts and apricots. Scoop cookies using an ice cream scoop, or roll into golf ball sized balls. Place cookies 2 inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets and flatten to 1/2 tall with wet hands. These cookies do not flatten very much while baking. bake 14-16 min.. looks slightly underdone

I know I am a day late putting this up but crazy busy around here.

So anyways my baby is 6mts old yesterday. At his 6mt old check up Adam is 26.75 inches tall (65%) and 17lb 4 oz (48%) and his head circumference is 44cm (59%). my big guy.. he is doing well he just started Sweet Potatos with oatmeal.. And love love love loves them. So he eats the new food with oatmeal at lunch and a bowl of oatmeal for dinner. he is working on crawling.. He can go backwards but not forwards! He does know how to sit by himself and get from his tummy to a sitting position.


Tuesday we had our dr appts Adams 6mt and Isaac's 4 year they both got shots and they were not happy at all.. Really hard thing to do when you are by yourself with 3 kids at the Drs is try to comfort both during and after shots.. Geez.
Isaac is 40 inches tall and 37lbs
While we were there Noah hoped on the scale and he is 34lbs.. BIG GUY

Tuesday I watched me nephew Troy while his mom and dad and sister went to an appt! He had a great time with the boys! Heres a photo of them pretending to take a nap! :D

Got home on Saturday afternoon. We spent the rest of the weekend getting groceries and trying to settle down the boys who were still in the constant go go go mode. Even though I cleaned the house before we left and we only came back with one set of dirty clothe my house looks like a tornado hit it. Geez.. Well Sunday night we decided to start some seeds for an herb garden in my window sill we are started Sweet Basil, Oregano, and Parsley.






Today (Monday April 12th)

Today Noah and I had Dermatology appointments for our awful Eczema. Noah is now on a few medicines to see if we can get his flare ups under control.. This is just miserable I wish someone would come up with a cure.

This week is a busy one. Like I said we had 2 appointments today and I also scheduled a tune up on the Saturn. Tonight we have Isaac's swim lessons. Tomorrow we have Adam's 6mt check up and Isaac's 4 year check up. Along with we will be hanging out with our nephew Troy while his mom and dad and sister are at appointments here in Madison. Wednesday is our normal play and learn day also my brother Kody will go pick up my Brother Kory to spend the night up here before taking him to the bus on Thursday for his trip to space camp. Also Nick will be packing up to go to his long Drill this month. He has drill Thursday through Sunday. So as I said Thursday we drop off Kory to the bus to take him to Space Camp... Fun I want to go.. I always wanted to do space camp especially after watching the movie. Friday Kody will go home and then it will be just the boys and I for the weekend. BUSY BUSY

Our first big family trip. My mom and brothers and Our Family headed down to Florida to meet up with my Aunt Cissi and family for some sun shine and to visit Disney. We had 2 flying days, 2 days off and 7 days of Disney.. WHEW We went to all 4 parks.. We did 3 days at Magic Kingdom, 2 Days at Hollywood Studios, 1 day at Animal Kingdom and 1 Day at Epcot.

March 31st we head out at 11am from Madison to Chicago to Charlotte to Florida. We got into the awesome 2 bedroom 2 bath with loft condo. Very nice place to hold all 13 of us.

Animal Kingdom




Magic Kingdom



Hollywood studios
Day 1

Day2


Epcot

Well trying to catch up so there will be a few posts. Lets start with March 31st

HAPPY 4th BIRTHDAY MY SWEET ISAAC.
Isaac Jacob Klauer
Born 3-31-2006
at 1:50am
7lb 6oz and 19in

Not only did Isaac Turn 4 on the 31st of March but we all packed up and headed to Florida. Isaac's second time on planes and Noah and Adam 1st times in the air. We were off and on our way to enjoy some family time and vacationing.