Heidi’s Sweet and Sour Chicken
First start your rice….just make as much as your family wants.
Getting the Chicken Ready:
In a plastic baggie, put 1 cup flour, dash of salt and pepper, and 1 teaspoon of paprika.
Once you dice your chicken into cubes place in baggie, shake to coat each piece of chicken. Again dice up as much chicken as your family will eat. We usually use 3 large chicken breasts cut up into small cubes.
Once your chicken is done, heat up 3 Tablespoons of oil in a large skillet. Place chicken in hot oil and fry until it is all cooked.
Remove chicken from pan once done and place on a plate.
Cooking the Veggies:
Then in the remaining oil fry 1 onion finely chopped, 1/2 green bell pepper, 4 carrots finely chopped, 1/2 red bell pepper finely chopped. Fry until tender, and then place on top of your chicken, that is on the plate. If you need to add more oil for the frying, just add as much as you think you need.
Cooking the Sauce:
In the same pan, add 1- 10 ounce can of pineapple tidbits (including the juice), 3/4 cup brown sugar, 4 tablespoons of corn starch, 1 cup of water, 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar. Once you see that it is beginning to thicken add the plate of chicken and fried veggies. Let simmer for 5 minutes. Now it is all done.
Serve over cooked rice.
NOTE: if it is to sour due to the vinegar, add more brown sugar. I usually end up adding about 1 tablespoon extra. My kids like it more sweet then sour! 
This is a very easy recipe to make and the kids love it.
SECOND NOTE: If you don’t like chicken, you can just add meatballs to the sauce and veggies. My kids love that too. We go to Sam’s Club and get a bag of the precooked meatballs, and I just add as many as I want frozen. The rest of the recipe remains the same.
So on the way to the movie last night with the boys we found a baby blue jay in our drive way…the boys wanted to keep it and raise it.
As far as Wall-E goes….that was the dumbest movie ever. My little kids laughed a few times, but me and my oldest were so bored. And actually the little kids had a hard time focusing. It was not as good as I thought it would be. So it is not one that I am going to recommend to friends. There was no talking in the movie. This is just my opinion. I am sure someone else will say it is the best ever!
Be sure to stay on the look out for my oldest. He will be cooking dinner tonight with me and we are going to film it and put it up on my website! He is so excited. He says this is his break through to being famous!
Okay, we are off to the pool.
Dutch Babies
When we go to the Original Pancake House we always order Dutch Babies…oh so yummy. And then my brother (aka my brother in law Kyle) got a recipe to make them. Number 1 they are better than the pancake house, and Number 2 MUCH CHEAPER!
Dutch Babies Recipe:
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
1/2 cup flour
dash of nutmeg
dash of cinnamon
MIX very well.
While you are mixing your batter preheat your oven to 400 and put 2 Tablespoons of butter in a pie pan. Once the butter is melted put your batter in the pan and cook for 15 minutes. They should rise pretty big. Once you take them out of the oven sprinkle with powdered sugar and lemon juice. We also put strawberries and syrup on ours.
You can split the above batter into 2 pie pans, but we like ours a little thicker and taller so we use that recipe for just one pie pan.
I took the kids to see Kung Fu Panda yesterday. It was SO good. I highly recommend it. Lots of good lessons for kids to hear throughout the movie. And it was funny. I laughed quite a bit. Today I think we are going to go see Wall-E. We will see how our day goes.
My oldest came home from camp yesterday. He was so ready to be home. He was SOOOO tired. It made my heart happy to hear him talk about the alter calls and the time in prayer that they spent. It had a great impact on him. He came home with some things that make his mouth light up. I think I am going to have to try them out!
We still have not found a puppy yet that we want. But we are looking. We talked to a breeder at Tony’s work. I need to do some more research Australian Cattle Dogs. But they seem to be good dogs. Who knows what we will end up with.
Here is my Ben. Yesterday in the store we were holding hands and he said “mom do you know why I am so special?
, and I said no ben why are you so special, “because you are my mom” He could have asked for anything at that point. Totally melted my heart.
And this little girl. She always makes me smile. She always says thank you for things, and please, and I love you mommy. Seriously can it get any better than that! She is my little princess.
What a weekend
So we had a really crazy weekend, and now we are already half way through another week. The kids are doing better without Oreo. It is sad though because my middle child will go upstairs and call for him, and then remember that he is not coming back. 
Makes me so sad.
Today my oldest left for kids camp. I know he is going to have a BLAST! I cant wait to hear all about it. A friend just came back from the same camp that he is going too, and said the services at night were great. And all the kids were really seeking Jesus. Awesome stuff.
God has really been teaching me to love more. And to give of myself more to others. That is hard to do when you know you can be hurt in the process. But that is how the Lord loves us. Even though we hurt him with the different decisions we make. He still loves us. I think of how I feel when I love and then get hurt. How does he feel when he loves us…so many of us, and we reject him or sin against him, how His heart must hurt, but he keeps on loving. Wow what a lesson. And what gets me every time. He is ALWAYS there for us, even though he knows we will probably fail again. Now do we do the same for others? No we usually close them off and say well I wont be doing that again. Just a thought.
Here are some of my favorite photos from the past few days…enjoy
He has just told me “mom do we have to do pictures” Yes now smile!!!!
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