Girls Only!

Just recently, I decided to start a girls' night. I thought that all of us girls could use one night away from the hubbies, kid(s), work, whatever the case! Us women never get time to visit with just the girls without our impatient husbands hurrying us up or our children distracting us from actually listening to a grown up convo, having to step away to change a poopy diaper, having a little one eat off your plate and try to grab at everything on it etc, etc. I could go on and on! I decided one night a month would be good (though actually us women need more than that in my opinion!) to play games, eat snacks, and just enjoy some girl time! I held the first girls' night at my house last night. And what a big time we had! All 17 of us! We had a plethora of yummy food and with all the people we had, the only game we could really play was Guesstures! You talk about some loud girls! Oh, and the competitiveness! You really would have thought there was some grand money prize at the end or something! We had two girls that were pregnant and man, those girls can play some Guesstures! Especially Audra who was running all over the place and one time getting down in the floor to make a snow angel. I nearly wet myself when she did that so thanks Audra! Not sure how I would have explained that wet spot on the couch to my husband! The game stayed so close the entire time. We actually tied and had to break it so we played to 100. My team kicked butt and made it to 109. Unfortanately though, the other team had "last bat". They needed 15 points to win and in Guesstures that's hard to do because you have to pick all the hard cards. April got up there and of course had to use all 4 point cards. I knew they couldn't get it! Well by golly they completed all the cards and pulled through and kicked our butts! What a blast we all had though. I haven't laughed that much in a while! It was a much needed night for me, and I'm sure it was for the other 16 girls that were there. I actually told my sister-in-law last night that I wish we could do that once a week instead of once a month. Not sure that would go over very well with our men! ;-) Thanks girls for coming and I look forward to many more girls' nights together!

-Lisa E

Taco Pie

Ok so this is something I made just 5 minutes ago! It's just waiting for me in the kitchen to be put in the oven. I've made this several times but today I just thought to myself, "This is so darn simple!" that I wanted to share. I actually got this idea from my friend, Chelsea, who actually buys the Taco Pie kit at the store. Well I only shop at Kroger and they don't have it there so I sort of just make my own. All you'll need:

1 lb ground turkey or beef
3 tortillas (wide enough to fit in a pie pan)
taco seasoning
shredded cheese
Velveeta cheese (which I used for the first time today)
Your choice of what you want to top it with (sour cream, salsa, taco sauce)

1. Brown your meat
2. Drain and rinse
3. Put back in pan
4. Prepare taco meat with seasoning
5. Add in some bits of Velveeta (however cheesy you want the meat to be) and stir till melted.
6. Put 1st tortilla in bottom of pie pan.
7. Sprinkle a little (or a lot, whatever you wish!) of shredded cheese on tortilla
8. Spread half of cheesy meat mixture over that.
9. Sprinkle a little more shredded cheese.
10. Add 2nd tortilla and repeat numbers 7-9
11. Top with remaining tortilla
12. Bake in oven on 350 for 10-15 min.
13. Enjoy with your choice of toppings :)

And if you have any refried beans on hand, Chelsea will sometimes add that to her pie. Just spread on tortillas and add meat.