Green Giant Veggie Snack Chips

Green Giant isn't all about canned or frozen vegetables - now they even make a snack chip... and it's really good!!

It comes in either Multigrain Sweet Potato Chips in Sea Salt OR Roasted Veggie Tortilla Chips in Zesty Cheddar.

I had both kids try each of these and they liked both kinds. I have kids that are particular about what kind of snack chips they like, and thought maybe they would be hesitant to try the veggie chips, but they gobbled up a few snack bags of the chips happily.

Meanwhile, my husband, who also was skeptical, tried the Roasted Veggie Tortilla Chips in Zesty Cheddar. I was waiting for his response, and he also agreed that these are very good.

They have a nice crisp, and are surprisingly light. If you are looking for a new multigrain snack, try Green Giant's new Veggie Snack Chips!

I'm a bzzagent (www.bzzagent.com) and received these chips for free to try out and report to you what I thought about them! :)

Mother's Day

Today was a fabulous day. Justin woke me up about 9:30 and brought me a Mother's Day card that he made all by himself. I looked at Joe to see if he had prompted him to make it and he said, no, that Justin made the card for me all by himself. I guess Justin has been telling Joe that he has something he was getting me for Mother's Day and wouldn't even tell Joe - mostly because he finally knows how to keep a secret. The problem was Joe thought it was something he had to buy and he kept telling Justin, well you need to tell someone and he said, nope. This is the adorable card he made me all by himself. He knew how to spell all the words except from AND he colored this for me in the game room upstairs because he wanted it to be a secret.

After we woke up and got dressed we went out to Two Rows for Mother's Day brunch. The buffet was so good. Everyone, including the kids, found something they loved. 

This was my Mother's Day brunch. I was not a fan of the mimosa. Ick.

Justin and I. I love my little man. He wanted to sit by me and rested up against me most of the brunch. He loves his mommy!!

Another with my sweetie!

Last night we took the boys to a FC Dallas game. I've never been and I was AMAZED at how good these soccer players were. It was amazing!!

This was when they won!! 3-2.

When we won!

My sweet boys! They are holding these horns that they blow at soccer games.

The people behind us were playing these huge bongo drums and waving flags. People at FC Dallas games are gung ho fans!!!!

View of the field. We were only 8 rows up. This was a shot from the upper stairs.

National Anthem

Love this!

My sweet boys outside the park! They are wearing their favorite shirts - Star Wars for Justin and Minecraft for Joey.

The game was awesome. We spent like $50 for food - it was ridiculous. We would have eaten before but Joey and Joe had baseball practice and came right from practice. It was a great time! We even ran into a few friends. I want to go back. It was really cool to watch. 

Mmmm Café Escapes®

When you say Keurig, you think of coffee, correct?

Café Escapes® is trying to change the way you view your Keurig.

I was sent a variety of k-cups for my Keurig as part of being a bzzagent (www.bzzagent.com). Joe was most excited about these, as he is the person in the house who uses our coffee maker the most (which makes me giggle because it was a Christmas gift for ME!)

Joe tried all of the different flavors. It was a perfect time, too. It was cold and dreary in February in Dallas, Texas. He would be sitting under a blanket on the couch, watching a hockey game, drinking a cup of hot cocoa.

He raved about the Dark Chocolate Hot Cocoa flavor. I remember the other flavors he enjoyed but he said the Dark Chocolate was by far his favorite and he would buy it at our local Kroger store, he liked it so much.

You can find more about these great flavors at Green Mountain's website at http://www.greenmountaincoffee.com/cafe-escapes.aspx

These are the wonderful flavors you can choose from -

•  K-Cup packs: Milk Chocolate Hot Cocoa, Dark Chocolate Hot Cocoa, Chai Latte, Cafe Mocha, Cafe Vanilla, Cafe Caramel. 
•  Vue packs: Milk Chocolate Hot Cocoa, Chai Latte, Cafe Mocha, Cafe Caramel

Enjoy!!

Date night with mom

Joe went out with Mike for a beer and I had the boys. I asked them where they wanted to go to eat and they both said Mooyah's (a burger place), and follow it up with dessert at Cherry Berry (frozen yogurt place).

Here are photos from the visit. Justin is a complete goofball. Yes, he is kissing the hot dog in this photo. He is a complete dork!!

The other photo is of Joey doing his homework. He comes home from school and then does his homework before he does anything else. In the third grade he has a spelling word packet, a math packet, reading 20 min each night, a reading comprehension packet and has to go on a website to do other math. Sometimes he even has to study for a test. It is amazing how much they have to do in the third grade!

A few more recent photos

I bought a keyboard for Joey's ipad and I can hook it up to my cell phone as well. What does this mean? It means I can blog from my phone and I can include photos from my phone. Before I had to transfer them from my phone to my computer and it was such a pain I just stopped blogging.

The entire family has been reading from my blog book from 2006 all this week before bed. That has reignited my passion for blogging again - so my boys can relive their lives through this blog and they can see how much their dad and I love them!

This photo shows my camera and my 70-200 2.8 IIS lens. Oh boy is that lens a beast. It is heavy but the photos it takes are phenomenal! The camera strap was made by my friend, Marcie.

Recent photos

Our school has a fund raiser where we can buy frames for our child's artwork. Here is Joey and Justin with their framed artwork. I love that they do this! I take the art work and decorate my laundry room. My laundry room is already bright and sunny yellow, and now it has beautiful artwork adorning the walls.

The other photo was the other evening when we went out to dinner at a local restaurant. The pizza slices they have there are HUGE!

Recovering

Yesterday I had the sentinel node biopsy. Today I was recovering. I woke up really sleepy and getting the kids ready for school was a little bit of a challenge but I was able to get it done.

Afterwards I relaxed and played on Joey's ipad. I have pretty much hijacked his ipad and use it to play my games - like restaurant and bakery story, and a few others. Afterwards I took a long nap.

Diana came today and cleaned the house. Boy, did it ever need it. Diana is the best at cleaning our house - she does an amazing job and our house sparkles when she leaves. Joe and I both agree it is so worth the money. Joe says when he gets home from work, the last thing he wants to do is clean the shower.

The photo shown is of Rascal, our rat terrier, playing with his new squeaky toy.

Not much else going on. Joey's soccer practice was cancelled today and instead, he went to baseball practice.

Justin is doing well. He went over Caden's house for a little bit today, and has dumped out all the legos upstairs and has been searching for Mace Windu.

The other photo is last night Rascal was sitting on the blanket and looked adorable!