The Memories Project

Embarrassingly I let my pictures get out of hand. Our coffee table/chest had loose pictures everywhere and pictures still in the paper sleeves that they came in. I've wanted to start the project of organizing them and putting them in albums for months now but they were out of sight, out of mind. Finally this weekend I bought new albums and tackled it.

I sorted them by:

Brad's Childhood

My Childhood

Dating/Married

The birth of Dane

I worked on this Sunday, it looked like my living room just puked up pictures. I sat hunched over on the floor from 11 to 3! My back has not fully recovered yet, but I got it done and I feel alot better about it!

Dress-up and Spring Thoughts

Dane wearing Brad's hat and boots and my gloves.

What a beautiful day today. Blue skies, sunshine, 40degrees. Only one thing could make it better........no snow! Hoping that the weather continues to improve and that the snow is gone soon. Yeah, I realize it's only March and that it'll probably snow again but I'm choosing to be optimistic for now.

Can't wait to start my garden and play outside in the dirt with Dane.

In regards to the garden this year, I'll be moving it closer to the garage so watering is easier and I'm working on Brad about building me some raised beds. We have to add some good soil and peat moss into the ground anyway, we have too much clay in the soil here to grow what I want to so we might as well build up some beds right? I plan on growing tomatoes, potatoes, onions, green beans, squash, broccoli, jalapeno peppers, lettuce and maybe corn. We'll see. Can't wait!

My Muse

A rare moment occured a few days ago, Dane sat relatively still and allowed me to take his picture with no complaints. I love when that happens and I can play with my camera settings and just watch him through the camera lens. When I got up to put the camera away he even complained he wanted his picture taken more!

Dane and his railroad hat! Somedays he refuses to take it off.

Dane had been doing and saying some pretty funny things lately. This age of his right now can be so difficult. One minute he's happy and the next he's throwing a major fit. He's taking to wanting to do EVERYTHING himself, and that's hard for me. He now wants to dress and undress himself and you dare not try to assist! He's now almost potty trained which was alot easier than I thought it would be seeing as he's a boy I'd heard all sorts of things about the hardness. Give the boy candy and he'll do whatever you want :)

Chicken Piccata

You ever get into a cooking rut? I get that way sometimes. I'd had this package of chicken breasts in the fridge for a few days and just couldn't decide what to make with it. I feel sometimes like I've made everything I can make with chicken and I'm tired of it but I happened to find a recipe for Chicken Piccata that sounded good to me and Brad approved so I gave it a whirl. I'd seen Barefoot Contessa make it before so I felt pretty confident. I love cooking new things! Turns out it was super easy to make and it was sooooo good. Loved it. I will be making this again.

I made garlic mashed potatoes to go along with it and I think it complimented the lemony chicken quite well.

Here's the ingredients list.

3-4 boneless chicken breasts pounded 1/4 inch thin

breadcrumbs

egg/water

flour

salt

pepper

lemon pepper seasoning

garlic powder

butter

evoo

white wine

lemon juice

parsley

If your interested in making this and want the exact recipe just let me know or check out The Food Network website and choose The Barefoot Contessa's recipe. You won't be disappointed!