Lasagna Cups

When I am super busy, (as I have been lately) the only shot my family has at decent dinners is if I plan really well.  I tried to do that this week and our dinner last night was such a hit I thought I'd share it with you all.

First, let me tell you what I loved about this dinner.

1. It was pretty simple to throw together.
2. I customized the cups for different kids. Some had meat and some didn't (I only used 1/2 lbs of hamburger vs. the 1lbs listed in the recipe.) You could also leave out the egg in some of the cups if you have kids with egg allergies etc.
3. The smaller cups were awesome because even my 2 year olds could just pick them up and eat them without making a giant mess. They stayed assembled really well, and even when my kids bit into them they didn't fall apart.
4. I'm not a huge Lasagna noodle fan, so I love that the wonton wrappers are a lot less dominating than lasagna noodles and when I ate these for lunch today (leftovers) I could actually swallow because there weren't giant soggy noodles that were crunchy on the edges, the thought literally makes me want to gag.  Way better leftovers than traditional lasagna.

Ingredients: 

1 1/2 C Cottage Cheese

1 1/2 C Ricotta Cheese

1 1/2 C Mozzarella Cheese

1 Egg

1 Package Wonton Wrappers 

(Don't use Eggroll wrappers)

1 Jar spaghetti Sauce

1 lbs ground beef (cooked-Salt and Pepper to taste)

 oops, I just realized I left the beef out of this photo.

Mix the 3 cheeses and egg together in a bowl

Place two wonton wrappers on top of each other so that the corners don't match to create an 8 point star. 

Push the wrappers into the 12 capacity cupcake pan. 

(I used one pan that holds 12 standard size cupcakes and 1 pan that holds 24 mini cupcakes - on the mini cupcake pan I only used 1 wonton wrapper per section, not two.)

If the wrapper cracks a little that's okay.

Once you've pushed all the wonton wrappers into place fill the cup half way with the cheese and egg mixture. 

Next put 2 T of sauce on top of the cheese mixture

(1 T of sauce on the mini cups)

If you're adding the hamburger, add that now.

Next Sprinkle the top of each cup with some Mozzarella cheese. 

 Bake at 350 degrees for 20 - 25 minutes or until cheese is bubbling. 

 I only decided to take pictures and post this after we'd already eaten a few. 

Bon Apetite!

Revamp

I figured since I'm blogging again, I'd give the blog a new look.  I don't know how I feel about it right now, keep watching, it may change again.

Just Precious

My sister Lisa took this photo of the girls in St. George last year.  It is one of my all time favorites.  I love the pictures of them snuggling each other.

OUCH!

A couple weeks apart, Kaylie and Sage both ended up with injuries that sent them to the doctor for staples and glue.

Sage got her hands on a miniature golf club Mark had received as a gift a while back and whacked Kaylie on the head with it.  It got her pretty good. She ended up with a staple on the top of her head.

A couple weeks later, Sage fell off of a barstool and hit her head on the corner of the little table we have in the kitchen.  She ended up with a dab of dermabond (medical super glue) to clos up her little gash. It's healing nice, but she'll always have a scar. 

I don't know where my pictures are of Sage. I'm pretty sure i took some. Sage chewed up an SD card that I can't retrieve photos from now so they are probably on there. Hopefully I can recover the photos. 

Still playing catch up.

The really bad part about getting behind in blogging, is having to play catch up.  Most of my posts this year will be out of order, but I print my blog every year (it serves as our family journal / scrapbook) so I really need to add some of this stuff, even if it is scattered all over 2011. At least it will be in here.

St. Geezy (AKA St. George)
Apparently I am old, because the "cool" way to refer to St. George is "St. Geezy" according to my much younger Dixie College friend.  And on top of it, I'm really old, because the term "cool" is no longer cool.  It is a term that makes old people old.  


A couple months ago we went on a trip to St. George with our in laws.  We were able to see the Little Mermaid at Tuacahn and it was magical! I loev tuacahn, and the Little Mermaid was no exception to the magic of that theater. I love fun family time and vacations like these are the best.  We left the twins with Pat so we could enjoy some much needed 1on1 time with Maddi and Wyatt.

Maddi made two really great friends in St. George.  Jerica, and Brooklyn, and we were lucky enough to be able to bring them to the show with us.  They are darling girls.  About 20 minutes before the show ended, Maddi's friend Brooklyn out of nowhere let out a blood curdling scream. Everyone in the theater turned to look at her, even the actors were distracted for a moment. She was super embarrassed and explained right away that a spider was crawling on her arm.  We never found the spider, but she later went on to explain that it was a tarantula. ;)   It sounded like someone was stabbing her - I think a few people thought for a moment that she was part of the play.

Somehow I ended up with all the kids in my car repeatedly the whole weekend. Good thing I love my nieces so much!  And lucky me, they slept most of the ride home.

Mark, the skeezy ice cream man.

A couple weeks before Halloween, Mark was in a training at work and as they were discussing a great target marketing tool on FB, Mark blurted out "so you mean we can target 13-15 year old girls on FB?"  If you don't know my husband very well, I'll insert here that he is famous for speaking before thinking or maybe a better word would be processing what comes out of his mouth.  His co workers teased him relentlessly, and one co worker even photo shopped these pictures of him looking like a skeezy ice cream truck driver/pedophile.

So, because of the relentless teasing that went on for a week, Mark decided it was only appropriate to show up to work dressed as the skeezy ice cream man.  We borrowed a white van from his brother's company and whipped up the sign that looks pretty darn close the version his coworker created.  

Mark showed up to work late on purpose knowing that his boss and co workers would be in the middle of a meeting. He pulled up in the van right next to the windows of the conference room and honked his horn.  He also brought a box of creamsicles for all in the office to enjoy.  Despite my nagging asking politely, I still have not received the photos his co workers took.  If I get my hands on them, I'll be sure to post.

This is Halloween everybody scream!

In my 32 years, I'm pretty sure I've only missed dressing up for Halloween once.  I love it!! This year was great because the twins started off not really understanding why we were making them go to all of the neighbors houses, but once they realized that everyone was giving them candy, they were hooked! I have better pictures on my other camera, so I'll add more photos later this week.

 The cutest little lady bugs you ever did see! 

Wyatt actually ended up being a ninja when he went trick or treating, but he likes to dress up as a cowboy fairly often so I guess that's what he was in the mood for when we went to Evans Farm. 

DONUTS

 This year I decided to add Maple bars to the traditional donut Factory on Halloween, and we did it on Saturday (Halloween was on Monday.)  Best two decisions I could have made.  I cooked donuts for 7 hours from the time I started making the dough to the last donut being frosted. I probably fried and frosted around 200 donuts. It is so much fun and so worth it. I love seeing all my neighbors and sharing this tradition with them. 

Before and After

                     Before                                                                               After

St. George Marathon

My hubby totally scored big points when he let me go to St. George with my sister, her hubby and my parents overnight.  My sister ran the St. George marathon, her first marathon!  She did great. Seriously, she's only walking in this photo to be polite, you know since we worked our butts off walking from the car to the race course so we could cheer her on.  Other than that she ran the whole entire 26.2 miles. ;)  She's amazing.  I told her I would run the SLC half marathon in April with her. I'm sure I'll run the entire race too. ;)

School Photos

 Maddi wants re-takes. I think this is adorable! (Yes, I know I should have cropped this photo before I posted it, but seriously, just give me credit for blogging. Maybe I'll go back and edit it later.) 

 He is super photogenic... what can I say other than he's adorable! My favorite son in the whole wide world.