My Weekend

Happy Monday, Friends!  Hope ya'll had a great weekend!  How many of you watched the Super Bowl??  Wasn't that just an intense ending??  Can't believe the Patriots lost to the Giants...again!

Anyways...back to the weekend stuff. On Friday our family had the opportunity to go spend the day at the Biltmore Estate. ( A friend of ours was given some free tickets and invited us.) Wow!  This place was SO amazing.  {more to come later!} 

On Saturday morning, we took our $5 off $5 coupons to Michaels and had fun!  I printed one for each of my kids and let them pick something.  They were so funny trying to make up their minds!  Caleb ended up with these little knights which are pretty cool.  There were battles taking place all day!

I got some yarn, a straw wreath and some felt for a whopping $0.79 after my coupon.  Can you guess what I'm making??  Oh yeah, and at the register the cashier goes, "Are those all yours?"  I started looking around like, "Is what all mine?  I didn't get that much stuff??"  And then I realized she was talking about my kids.  Yes, all those kids are mine, all four of them, thank-you-very-much.  People ask the craziest questions, cracks me up!

In the afternoon I purged a scary linen closet and washed up a stack of Miss Lucy's colorful (and cute!) cloth diapers.

Later I made a boatload of cinnamon rolls.  Mmmmm....the house smelled SO good!  It was really late when I got done though.  Can you see the clock?  10:50.  Yep.  And see the pan that's half devoured??  I may or may not have contributed to that...I plead the 5th ammendment. =)

I had big plans to take a pan of these to Sunday School and package up the others to give to some people "just because."  Well, my plans were foiled when our six year old decided to get sick in the middle of the night.  Poor fella! =(  He spent all day on the couch.  Or running to the bathroom. Or not making it all the way there. {yuck}  Let's just say that the hallway has now been scrubbed top to bottom!  This was one of the few times he actually sat up yesterday and that was during the super bowl!  

This little {big} gal was all alone at church with daddy yesterday.  He told her she could sit with whoever she wanted and in each service she picked a widow. She told me they always looked lonely and she wanted to cheer them up.  I was so proud of her. =)

Even though our plans to have friends over to watch the big game were ruined because of sickness, we still had some fun food!  I made "Cheeseburger Soup" for the first time and it was delish!  I took this crockpot recipe and Edie's recipe and made a hybrid.  My family loved this!

For dessert I made dark chocolate brownies and topped them with ganache made from these dark chocolate mint chips.  Wowsers....these were ah-mazing!

Guess what else I learned this weekend??  Eating dark chocolate M&M's means.....

....that this little peanut wants to party all. night. long.  Ugggh.  Sleep or dark chocolate, that's a tough decision!!! =P

So....how was your weekend???