Great New Recipe

Well, I have a recipe that I tried earlier this week that I highly recommend to all! Here it is:

Taco Lasagna

1 lb. ground beef
1 cup total - diced onion, diced green/red pepper and celery
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 Tbs. chili powder
1 (24 oz.) jar mild salsa
1 (15 oz.) can kidney beans (drained) - I think I would use black beans next time:)
1 (10 0z.) can enchilada sauce
10 oz. corn (I used canned but you can used frozen too, just thaw first)
16 (6 inch) corn tortillas
4 cups shredded Mexican four cheese blend
Toppings: sour cream, chopped tomatoes

Cook first 4 ingredients until meat is no longer pink and veggies are tender. Stir in salsa and next 3 ingredients. Cook for 5-10 min. until heated through. Put in lightly greased pan. Layer 1 cup of meat mixture, then layer 6 tortillas - overlapping then 2 cups of cheese. Then 1/3 beef mixture, tortillas, the rest of the beef mixture, more tortillas and the cheese. Bake at 350, covered, for 40 min. Remove foil and bake 10 min. more. Let stand for 10 min. before serving.


Enjoy!

I am just now eating the leftovers and it is just as good the second time as the first!!

Pumpking Carving

It was a cold and blowy day on Saturday so we decided to go to Grandma & Grandpa Feenstra's house and carve pumpkin's! Grandma has a great big garden and this year it grew many tall pumpkins. Why? We don't know....they were just tall not round like you think pumpkins usually are. Anyway, we spent the whole afternoon there....digging out the pumpkin "guts" then drawing the faces out on news paper so mom and dad could carve them into the pumpkins! After everything was done we made doughnuts! Nothing is better than homemade doughnuts!!!

The kids with their pumpkins!!!

Ian making a face like his pumpkins face.

Kendra with her pumpkin...it even has curls on the sides....even though you can't see them....they are really there!!!!

Lucas with his scary pumpkin!

Gavin found the only round pumpkin in the bunch!

Painted Pumpkin!

This one is for you Megan! Here is the finished pumpkin that Megan (my sister) and I painted. The kids think that there should be cookies in it, but I disagree because I know they wouldn't last long and the possibility of it being broken is high! Enjoy and enjoy fall!

Pumpkin Time Again!

Today was the Pumpkin Parade and it was a beautiful day! It was sunny and actually quite warm and muggy...sitting in the sun was not a good idea. This year Lucas was the only one scheduled to be in the parade, but Ian and Kendra found a way to be as well. Lucas rode with all of his friends from school, while Ian and Kendra walked with our next door neighbors through the parade.

Lucas' class...can you find him waving in the middle of the bunch?

Lucas loving his ride and waving to all of the people.

Ian walking with the Huizinga's. Bill Huizinga is our local state representative and just happens to live next door. They have 5 kids, the oldest two (Garriet & Adrian) play with Ian. Ally, the only girl of the bunch, (sound familiar), plays with Kendra. They asked if Ian and Kendra would like to walk with them and hand out candy...they of course jumped at the idea. The only bad part was that they were out of candy by the time they got to us at the end of the parade!

Kendra showing us her empty pumpkin!

After the parade we ate supper and fellowshipped with a group of friends from church. They happen to live on the parade route so we sat in their front yard during the parade and retired to the back yard after wards. The kids had tons of fun playing and got really dirty...can you see Gavin's legs? The bath water was pretty brown after bath's tonight:)