Taco Soup

Here's the Taco Soup for everyone who wanted it.


1 lb ground beef
1 onion (chopped)
1 green pepper (chopped)
2 large cans diced tomatoes
2 cans tomato soup
2 cans of corn
4 cans of bean (drained) (any combo of pinto, dark or light kidney beans)
1 pkg taco seasoning

Brown the beef, onion and green pepper. Add additional ingredients.
Cook on low for several hours in a crock pot or on your stove top for 1 hour.

Top with tortilla chips, cheese and sour cream.

You can freeze the left overs for another day!

Hope you enjoy! Yummy! Yummy!

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Now I don't have to update until after Halloween. Have a Happy Halloween!

Labor Day at Knolls

Jarrod trying to show off on the Sand Dunes.
Thanks Amanda for photoshopping this picture.

The kids thought that it would be fun to try rafting in the pond.

It was pretty funny watching them trying to row from one end to the other.

The kids liked searching in the rocks for the Horney Toads

they all thought it would be a great idea to take them home and

raise them, there were a lot of broken hearts... Shaylee thinks she wants a Gecko for Christmas now. Hmm... I don't think so!

Summer wrapped up

This was a bittersweet moment... They're excited
to be back at school. I'm not sure I'm ready to
be back at work, I've enjoyed my freedom.

Shaylee is headed off to FIFTH Grade! This is
her last year in elementary. It's going by way
too fast!!


Jacob is headed off to the THIRD Grade! It
seems like just yesterday I was sending him
to kindergarten.




and there they go....

GOOD QUOTE...

Ok I saw this qoute on a friends blog the other day and I feel that I need to share because its such a good one!
"I believe that everything happens for a reason. Things go
wrong so that you can appreciate them when they're right.
And sometimes good things fall apart so that better things
can fall together!"
-Marilyn Monroe

Baseball, Baseball, and more Baseball

Lately all we have is baseball, baseball, baseball.

The slugger and pitcher

So cute

Not another picture

Getting pumped up for the game

Mom get off the field

Hey batter batter

Swing!!!!

Camping at the Knolls

We went camping at the Knolls for our first camping trip of the year. We forgot our camera but luckily Shaylee remembered hers. Here are the pictures she wanted us to remember about our trip.


Of course there has to be a picture of Sadie

The roaring camp fire

The hole that later turned into a hot tub, sorry no pictures

The neighbors and if you look really close there is a cave at the end of the trail

The fire ring where some interesting stories were shared

Shaylee and Jacob working on the hole

Still working.....

Don't you dare take a picture of me

Kenny and Kenny "Don't ask they just wanted to be remembered too!"