After dinner I met up with a few friends from my ward (& a friend of Janet's from the north) to make some freezer meals. I did this by myself when I was pregnant with Caitlyn & it was HEAVENLY to open the freezer, defrost a healthy meal, & voila! I'm always looking for time/money saving ideas so I decided to give this a try. Ladies, I'm telling you it was 5 of the most productive hours of my whole month! I came home with 14 meals- most of which will feed my family at least 2x. The price was right, the company was great & I have a freezer full of meals! (Notice I didn't just say of 'food'.) Here we are assembling the last meals of the evening- phew! When I get the picture of how little space they take in the freezer, I'll share- you will be amazed.
Saturday was our every-other-month hair extravaganza. My good friend Lisa comes down from the north to cut & color mine and about 4 other people's hair in my kitchen. It's always so fun to see my old friend and my kids love the revolving play date with the children of her clients.And last night was our ward's Trunk-or-Treat. I was a witch- I received some purple fish net tights as a hand-me-down & I couldn't resist wearing them. Thanks to Natalie & Denett who completed my outfit. Caitlyn was the cutest witch I've ever seen- sadly, as you probably know, she's not very photogenic. She always has such a confused look when we're taking pictures... I can't figure it out. Madisen was the perfect princess & can't wait to wear her costume 4 more times this week! She was most elated when I told her she could finally wear make-up since it was Halloween. Bill pulled out the old disco outfit and even won himself a prize in the costume contest.
I passed out candy from the spider-web covered trunk while Bill took the girls out walking. The immediatley climbed up next to me once they were done to enjoy the fruits of their labors! Caitlyn is especially possessive of her 'special' pumpkin full of candy.
And this is my favorite picture of the night! My girls just love their friends McKinley & Reagan!The perfect way to complete the weekend was with some homemade caramel apples thanks to a recipe for microwave caramel found here. We LOVED them!
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What a fun week you had. Your girls looked so darling in their Halloween costumes. Next time you do the freezer meals let me know. They sound so perfect.
Can you do a more detailed post of how to do that whole freezer meal thing with the recipes. It sounds like something I should really do, especially since I work nights and Todd doesn't exactly fix the best meals. This would be perfect.
Do you need any tips for Hawaii? I miss the food so much.
Fun..Fun..Fun!! Your family is so cute. I love the whole freezer meal thing. I'm with Ashley, let me know the next time you do it :)
Holy moly! What fun!! I love this time of year. Where did you get the freezer meal recipes and if you don't mind, could you share them? I've been doing a little bit of research on this and a few of us want to do it too. :)
Cute pics, too! You're always a cutie patootie. :)
Great costumes!!
Freezer meal assembling was fun! Glad you had such a fun weekend. Your girls look adorable, and I love yours and Bill's costumes!
WHOA.. what a weekend! Sounds like we need to post the recipes somewhere.. or send them out in a mass email. Do you have that you can forward to your friends?
And to those of you who feel excluded, please don't! We will have to start another group because it's best to have 6.. (for the recipes and it's cost effective.) Anyway, I have LOVED throwing dinner in the oven or crockpot the last few days!! It's so great!
Ps. I loved your outfits at the halloween party! Bill totally deserved his award and your little witch looks pretty photogenic to me!
Oh I wish I had freezer space to do this. I hope to invest in a big freezer soon so I can do this. I love the curly hair...you always look so great! Miss you lots!
I hope you guys liked Metro Pizza. That was my high school hangout. I love going there because it's not too expensive, and you get a lot of food. And you guys all looked great at the Trunk or Treat. I wish I got a better look at your purple fixnets. They looked black in the dark. And Bill's outfit was a hoot.
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