Dinner time!

I love cooking and baking, which I know hasn't really shined through all that much on this blog. In fact, the hubby and I cook dinner together almost every night during the week, and use new recipes pretty often. Tonight I'm excited to say we'll be having Spinach stuffed shells!! We've been wanting to make them for awhile, but for some reason were having a hard time finding jumbo shells! Is that weird?? We'll be adapting from Macaroni and Cheesecake's recipe: http://macaroniandcheesecake.blogspot.com/2009/04/spinach-stuffed-shells.html

I'm thinking I'll saute up some chicken sausage and stir it in. Honestly, no recipe ever remains intact when I use it - I'm such a rebel!! But for some reason I have a serious addiction to refusing to follow a recipe TO THE LETTER. It's turned into a great habit, because for the most part I've found it improves whatever I'm making!! Becky, this excludes your recipe, of course. I'm hoping to follow dinner up - if I have the energy - with some of these; I've been wanting to make them for FOREVER!!

They're also taken from Mac and Cheese's website: http://macaroniandcheesecake.blogspot.com/2008/10/cinnamon-sugar-donut-muffins.html. I think they'd be perfect to welcome my sister, her husband, and my adorable niece (see below) when they get in to stay for a WEEK tomorrow!! Say hello to the cutest baby ever!!!

What are you making for dinner tonight and what are your plans for this weekend?

Into the Wilderness...

My brother in law and his wife were in town for this past week, so we - hubby's parents, BIL, SIL, hubby, and I - decided to go camping over Memorial Day weekend at the St Joe River, aka the "Shadowy" St Joe. It runs through an Idaho canyon (hence the "shadowy" portion of the name - I have no idea who Saint Joe was and whether he was really a saint) and empties out into Lake Coeur D'Alene. We were there Saturday and Sunday and came back Monday afternoon. Since my camera died THREE PICTURES into our mini vacay (I know, how rude!), SIL was nice enough to share her pictures (by the way, she was FASCINATED with all the water and trees, what with being from Phoenix, AZ and all).

This is SIL (below); That point MIL and I are standing on is actually pretty high and I forced her to stand that far out with me. She was FREAKED out!



















See the lime green trees?? (above) It was the coolest thing to drive past miles and miles of them.

This was our little blue friend that joined us while we were reading on the bridge; I think he's beeyooteeful.

We're both bookworms, yet neither of our husbands likes to read. Weird, huh?

We just baaarely fit.... :)

Waterfalls in the woods.

We had a LOT of fun getting out and about and away from camp!

Canyon Shot

All in all, it was a great time (other than the lack of air in the air mattress). And it wasn't as wild as it could've been, since we had a camper and pretty much everything under the sun, so even though we were surrounded by wilderness we had all the luxuries of home.

When will you go camping, and where will you go?