Codes and Links

Care/Of (Vitamin Packs)

https://takecareof.com/invites/mmwnkc

Thrive Market (This has been a complete game changer for us!)

http://thrv.me/5pfjWm

Ritual (Favorite Pre-Natal, and Daily Vitamins)

http://www.ritual.com

Billie Razor (Subscription Razor and Shaving Cream Service)

http://www.mybillie.com

Verb Energy Bars (Perfect For Those Afternoon PM Crashes!)

Kiwi Crate/Panda Crate

These are wonderful! Our son loves them, and it helps give you ideas of what you should be teaching your child at that stage! I highly recommend these!

https://www.kiwico.com/Refer?i=MeagenLeaM

Spaghetti Squash Pizza

I’ve made this a few times and I can officially say…I am HOOKED! A new spin on pizza, and to be completely honest, I think I may like it better than cauliflower pizza!

What you will need;

  • 1 medium spaghetti squash
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons of parmesan cheese
  • 2 tablespoons of Italian bread crumbs
  • 1/4 teaspoon of salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon of onion powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon of Italian seasoning
  • Pizza sauce/toppings of your choice, I used pizza sauce, turkey pepperoni and cheese.

You will first need to cook the spaghetti squash, so cut it in half and place in a baking pan upside down in about an inch or so of water for 30 minutes at 425 degrees.

Once that is done let it cool, once it is cool you will take a fork and scape it all out in to a bowl.

Next, you are going to take a towel or cheese cloth and place the spaghetti squash into it so you can get all the excess water out. You will have to ring it a few times, it is shocking how much water comes out!

Once you get all of the water out of the squash place half of it in to a bowl and place the other half for storage or if you want to make 2 pizzas go for it!

In a bowl place the breadcrumbs, eggs, seasonings and parmesan together and add in half of the shredded and drained squash and mix together! This is your dough.

Once it is all mixed together place it on a pizza stone (I highly recommend a stone over a pan, the first time I tried this, I used a metal pizza round pan and let me tell you, it was not my finest moment of cooking) A pizza stone works much, much better!

Smooth it all out on to your stone, and place it in the oven at 425 degrees for 15 minutes, then turn your oven to broil and broil for about 6-7 minutes or until the crust starts to lightly brown.

Now, the fun part! Add all your favorites to your pizza and put it back in the oven for about 5 minutes, or until your cheese is melted and enjoy!

Happy Friday!

x0_meagen lea

Four New Shot Glasses…

So let me start this post and section off by saying it all started with key chains from every state that my mom and I visited…my husband and I decided to carry on the tradition, but with shot glasses. So far we have 15…for those of you who do not know our full story…we have only been together since January 1st of 2019. Lots of traveling!

Looking back at this experience, we can laugh, but in the moment it was one of those things where we knew the over all experience would make our relationship much stronger and we could get through anything!

We had just bought a campsite in Gold Bar to move the RV from Peoria Illinois to Gold Bar, Washington so we could have an escape and it would be in the same state we live instead of storage sitting and not being used. Our plan was to drive from Peoria, IL to Washington over Memorial Day weekend (2019) since it is quite a long drive and we didn’t want to use vacation time away from work. So the plan was to check on the RV and truck the weekend of April 12th-14th and get everything ready for the 2,000 mile drive that would take place just a little over a month later.

We flew in and started right to work on getting everything ready, new battery in the truck, pulled the RV out, checked all the tires, generator, etc. it had sat thru a long cold (very cold winter) I won’t get into all of the nitty gritty, but basically one of the water lines on the exterior froze and broke, the generator was dead from not being run and wouldn’t work so we had to get a generator to start the generator so we could hook it up to the truck, it was a rough weekend with lots to get done to say the least. So as the weekend was coming to an end we rushed to get everything that we could done so it was an easy departure the next time we flew out to drive it back home. Well Sunday morning came around and our flight was scheduled in the afternoon, we woke up and there was snow….and it was coming down hard and quick!

My husband kept checking our flight status, everything was on time the snow wasn’t sticking to the runway and we were good. As we drove from Peoria to Chicago to the airport it just kept snowing, almost like a blizzard in some parts. Something I had never seen before! We dropped off our rental car and went into the airport to check in, there was a HUGE line of people so we were confused when the website and app kept saying our flight was on time and the snow wasn’t sticking to the ground. When we tried to check in at the kiosk, it was it was unable to find out flight…then we looked up at the monitors and our flight was cancelled. Let me also add in here that my husband had a HUGE meeting that Monday he couldn’t miss so we had to get home. So we got in line….1 hour….2 hours…2.5 hours…finally we spoke with someone. All flights were cancelled, not a single one was flying out. The earliest flight out was on Thursday….yes that is right THURSDAY…it was Sunday. So we started freaking out, both of us had to work on Monday and this was not going to work. So we started looking at other airports with flights to Seattle…well we found one…out of Omaha…yes you are reading that right…Omaha Nebraska…we were in Chicago, Illinois. We walked out of the airport went back to the car rentals, grabbed a car and started driving. By this time it was about 5pm we had about an 8 hour drive and a flight to catch at 5am from Omaha to Colorado, then Colorado to Paine Field (our car was parked at Sea-Tac airport).

From Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska we hit them all and made sure to get shot glasses at each state. We also stopped at the biggest truck stop off of I-80 I mean we had to! We made our flight and were beyond exhausted. Next stop Colorado…another shot glass to add! Then finally made our way to Paine Field and called an Uber to drive us back to our condo (luckily at the time we were living in Mill Creek/South Everett, so we were only a 15 minute drive from the airport). Oh what an adventure…on a side note, we won’t be flying Southwest anytime soon!

x0_meagen lea