Cami's 3rd Birthday

Our day in (mostly) pictures:

Of course we have to start the morning with chocolate milk

 Then we skyped with Mamaw and Pops, so they could see us open the  presents they sent us.

  Thanks Mamaw and Pops!! 

 Then Cami got in trouble. Gunnar thought it would be nice to sit in time out with her. (too sweet) 

 Cake pop for the birthday girl!

 

Off to the bookstore!! 

Cami needed to preform on the stage...

We found a very large basket at a thrift store.

Birthday lunch complete with coloring and lemons. 

Off to the Candy store!

Surprise visit from Ms. Jamie and Mr. Brad and baby triston!!

Skype with some cousins!! We also skyped with Uncle Corey and Aunt Jess but mommy forgot to take a picture.. (sorry)

Bedtime story from one of the new books

What a great 3rd Birthday! 

Clean Eating Turkey Roll

I normally sit down and make a meal plan for the week. This helps me to stay on budget and away from Prozac when it comes to dinner time. Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. While these two faces are cute, they are always hungry. Without fail they always seem to need 800 different things at dinner time, a drink, a diaper change, to go potty, to wash their hands, help with a toy, to watch a movie and of course the dog has to go potty too. You get the idea. Thus I have found the meal plan is key! 

This week I waited until grocery shopping day to make my list. This is always a bad idea! I quickly ran to Pinterest http://pinterest.com/adetamore/ to find some easy recipes. Lucky for me, I happened upon a lot of "clean eating" sites. So, I thought, its healthy I guess. I copied a bunch of recipes and nervously wrote them on my meal plan for the week. We hadn't ever tried anything on the list or anything like it. I crossed my fingers and hoped the meals would taste, at least, okay. This is what my list looks like. 

I like to organize my groceries into categories. I feel like the shopping goes faster that way. We all know the longer we are in the store, the more we buy. 

Anyway, all that to say we had our first meal today. It was Pasta Roll-Ups with Turkey and Spinach and they were was so good! I got the recipe from here http://punchfork.com/recipe/Pasta-Roll-ups-with-Turkey-and-Spinach-Clean-Eating . 

Basically this is what you do.. 
In a large skillet you cook some cut up onions and garlic and add some ground turkey. After your turkey is cooked you add your spices, a 28oz can of whole tomatoes, juice and all. Mix it up and let it simmer, stirring occasionally and trying to break up the tomatoes. It looks like this- 

While that is simmering, cook your pasta noodles, drain and lay them out to cool off. You can also be mixing your "stuffing" together. In a medium bowl you mix one egg, 15oz ricotta cheese, some mozzarella cheese, and spinach. The recipe calls for frozen, but I bought fresh and just chopped it myself. I also used Colby cheese instead of mozzarella because I pulled the mozzarella out and it was molded. Yuk! 

I forgot to take a picture while the mix was still in the bowl. (oops) Make sure you save some of your cheese to put on top. Next you use your fingers to put the mix on the pasta. It makes about 8 rolls. (This is really fun for the kids to help with.) 

Next you put some of your sauce on the bottom of a pan. Roll up your pasta rolls and put them right on top of the sauce like this. 

After you get them all in there, put the rest of your sauce on top of your rolls and then sprinkle the cheese on top of that. 

Cover and bake at 400 for 20mins, uncover and broil for 5min and viola!

The taste is really yummy and it's healthy! The kids even ate it!