Friday: Day 1

here we go... starting out being creative with the menu!

BREAKFAST: nothing! ugh, not a good start, we have tons of options in the house but Fridays are an unusual day for us because we both sleep in. Kevin woke up late and rushed out the door (mind you we went from 65 degrees on thursday to this morning having 5 inches of snow). I slept in late with Moose because Friday is our day off together! So... on to lunch I guess :)

LUNCH: kevin comes home from work so we always eat together on Fridays we both had: chicken and cheese taquitos (freezer), and homemade salsa with tortilla chips

DINNER: Crockpot Veggie Stew (chicken broth w/cilantro, garlic, onion, chili powder and frozen corn, lima beans, eggplant, asparagus, squash, and some pinto beans mixed in) with Tastefully Simple Beer Bread! WELL, that was at least the "plan" instead we ended up babysitting and having a pizza party with the girls! Soup for tomorrow?

Not too bad for our first day!

cleaning out the freezer...

Well I have set myself up for a challenge this next week. I am actually pretty excited about it as I see it coming together.

BACKGROUND: I am a once a week shopper when it comes to feeding Kevin and I. We have found that this is the best way to save money and have fresh items on hand. Weekly we eat all three meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks too of course) homemade. We seldom go out to eat and I more so than not make everything from scratch or it is a Tastefully Simple product, if I am needing something super quick. When things are on sale or I have an abundance in my garden (like last summer) I like to freeze for later use.

PROBLEM: the freezer is getting REALLY full AND it is springtime so that means time to start making room for this coming seasons on sale items and fresh garden vegetable and fruits!

THE CHALLENGE: to not enter the grocery store at all this week but to use up items in the pantry and freezer.

So... here it goes!!! (i'll post fridays menu tomorrow and go from there!)

a beautiful saturday

I can feel spring coming, hopefully sooner than later! Today it was only 52 degrees outside but it felt so warm and wonderful. We opened up a bunch of windows and sat out on the porch planting the starts for our garden. Our garden last year was so much fun and a great success. It added to our meal planning and allowed us to have weekly fresh flowers in the house. This year we hope to double that success. Here is our planting list so far:

sweet peppers

hot peppers

squash

eggplant

onions

zinnas

wildflowers

daisies

AND tomatoes

The tomatoes should be the exciting part. We ordered a sweet deal off of gardener's choice website (www.gardenerschoice.com) Two tomato trees for 6.98!!! They have a 100% satisfaction guarantee and are advertised as growing to be 8 ft tall with 2 lb tomatoes, that is about the size of a very large grapefruit! Can't wait to see these tomatoes!

We ended our beautiful saturday by going to the library and catching up on our magazine reading and eating Sushi for dinner. Now time for a movie and snuggle time with Moose.

Can't wait to post pictures of our garden!

Feb 2010

Wow, we are really behind… who could have predicted that one!  So I just posted (see below Jan update). Now that we are headed into March it is time for Feb. so here we go:

February has been a quick month! We are both still at our jobs which we thank God for everyday to have paychecks coming in. There have been so many cutbacks and we along with everybody else are waiting for the economy to take that upward turn!

We celebrated the Superbowl with Kevin’s mom, her boyfriend Rob and his son Ryan. Heidi was of course cheering for the Colts but was none-the-less happy to have a deserving city and team end with the win. And as usual Kevin was still cheering for the Cowboys, oh wait were they even a team this year? 

For Valentine’s we spent a day in Boulder, one of our favorite close by hangouts. We hung out at the All Natural Pet Store, Ellie’s Eco Home Store, ate lunch at LarkBurger (yummy!) and went shopping on Pearl Street. It was such a beautiful and relaxing day for both of us.

Some of you have asked about our travel plans for 2010. After much praying and tough conversations we have decided on the three trips we can financially afford this year. As of right now our wedding number is up to 11 and feels like weekly it keeps growing. We are excited for everyone who is getting married, just wish all those weddings were in Colorado so we could get to them!

January 2010

Well, with the holidays over we had hoped for life to slow down a little bit but instead got a run for our money with another busy month. We enjoyed having a quiet Christmas just the three of us. Moose got more toys than he knows what to do with and often seems overwhelmed with his options. He is well loved by our families and friends for sure! We enjoyed spending New Years in Fort Collins with Kevin’s side of the family, we celebrated both Christmas and 2010 and enjoyed lots of fun and laughter with family.

January started with work slow for both of us. Kevin is still doing computer work with Colorado Concept Lighting and Heidi still working as a preschool teacher at Cradle to Crayons. We both love and appreciate our jobs and are anticipating God’s faithfulness to provide for our lives and for work to pick up.

Mid January Heidi started her own business with Tastefully Simple (www.tastefullysimple.com). She is excited about the new opportunity and freedom of the company and is slowly working on growing her business with parties and host opportunities with friends and family.

Other events of January included:

• attending the National Western Stock Show with good friends Noah and Sarah
• celebrating with newly engaged friends (we are now up to nine couples who are getting married between april and august 2010!
  
• spending time in Breckenridge for the National Championship of Ice Sculpture

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Thanksgiving with the Bullers

Wanted to post this and forgot to a couple months ago. This is from the week of Thanksgiving when Heidi's parents came to visit us for a week. We went on a carriage ride downtown Golden.

New Email Address

We have changed our family email account to:

gunnfamily07@gmail.com

Please delete all other family emails for us (kh_gunn@hotmail.com).

If you would like our personal email address feel free to contact us for that information.

Thanks

*** jan update coming soon! ***