Crock pot Egg Bake

My family loves breakfast food.  This is a super easy recipe that you can throw in the crock pot before you head to work.  

• 1 bag 26 oz. frozen hash browns
• Could use real potatoes too
• 12 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon ground mustard
• 1 16 oz. roll sausage
• I've used the maple sausage, and I really liked. This time I just used regular.
• Salt and pepper
• 16 oz. bag shredded cheddar cheese.

Spray crock pot with pam.  Add hasbrowns.  Cook sausage.  Put eggs in a large bowl and whisk. Add milk, dry mustard, salt and pepper and whisk.  Put cooked/drained sausage over hashbrowns.  Then dump on eggs, then cheese. Stir all together and cook 6 hours in crock pot!

Fit Tip Friday - Road trip snacks

We travel all summer long and its key to have a ton of healthy snacks to keep us from stopping and getting unhealthy ones.  Here are some of my favorite go to on the road snacks:

1) Fruit - blueberries, grapes, or apple are best for the road.  They are easy and not messy!
2) Nut butter and jelly sandwich - doesn't need to be refrigerated to taste good and keeps you full with the protein of any kind of nut butter and Ezekiel bread.
3) Nuts or seeds - cashews, almonds, sunflower seeds.  Give you the saltiness of chips and keeps you full.
4) Shakeology packets - dump in a shaker cup with water!  Not as good as having a blender and some special ingredients to add but gets the job done.
5) Eggs - hard boiled are easy to take on the road - make sure you peel them before you leave!
6) Carrots and hummus
7) Homemade energy bars or energy balls - (click for recipe).  These don't have bunch of fillers and you know exactly what goes into them because you made them!
8) Veggies - Any veggies are easy to take as long as you wash and cut them and bag the before you hit the road.
9) Roasted Chick peas - see recipe here
10) Baked Chips or Popcorn - not the best option on the list but better than regular chips!

Tuesday Tip: Bedwetting/Illness quick change

This is something I have been doing since my kids have been in cribs to save myself time, stress and sleep! 

I bought two sets of sheets and two sets of waterproof mattress pads.  Make the bed first using the first mattress pad cover (goes on top of mattress), then following with the fitted sheet, and regular sheet.  On top of that, put the next waterproof mattress pad, 2nd fitted sheet, and 2nd regular sheet. 

When your child gets sick in the middle of the night or wets the bed, you can do this fix in the dark so that everyone can get right back to bed.  And as they get older they will learn to do it themselves!!! 

The reason I posted this today is because this happened just last night.  Brody wet the bed and he knew to pull off the top layers, change his clothes and get a new big blanket out of a drawer in his room.  I didn't even know all this happened until he got up this morning and told me. 

So to add to this, what I have done was put a spare set of jammies, undies and a big comforter in the bottom drawer of his dresser.  He knows it is in there, so if he has an accident, he can change the sheets himself, change himself and get right back to bed, barely interrupting his sleep and not interrupting mine at all :)  Since he is five now, I think this is a fine thing for him to be doing on his own.  Even though it was an accident, it causes him to be responsible for it and hopefully he will have less accidents.  

Here is a picture:  The blue set of sheets are the first set which are over the 1st mattress pad cover.  The white is the 2nd mattress cover, and the orange is the 2nd set of sheets. 

Sledding

As everyone knows, it's been a cold winter.  My kids beg to play out in the snow but it's been way too cold!  Thankfully we've had a few good days to be able to enjoy this snow.  I don't mind being "snowed" in.  It allows me to get things done inside that I haven't been able to do.

Jersey Hill

 Right before my sledding accident :(  Couldn't sit for a week!

This is our unending task...build a snow fort in the cul de sac!  The snow plow dumps the snow at the end of our street creating a snow mountain.  We dig holes in it and make forts in it...then the snow plow comes again and we have to start all over!

 Sledding on the back of the four wheeler.

Sledding at the cabin

 

We use our toy box lid as a sled!

Christmas Break - St Louis

During Christmas break we took a little trip with our closest friends to St Louis to visit the American Girl Doll store and the City Museum.  Since it was 50 degrees that weekend, we also hit up the St Louis Zoo.

 Saige getting her hair done.

 Sumer, Reece, Mady with their dolls.

Of Course the moms had fun too :)

Christmas Pictures

I did a few Christmas shoots over the holiday season.  I managed to get a few of my own kids as well :)

 

This is soooo his personality

 All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth :)

Bauer photos 2013

Every year we try to get family photos.  Instead of paying someone, I trade off with a friend.  She takes mine with my camera and I do all the editing.  Then I take hers on her camera and she does all the editing.  Works out nicely!!!  Got some great ones this year!

Here's us with the old finished 53 Ford.

There's the beauty with all the missing teeth.  I think all the other teeth loss photos are on my phone :(