What a great last couple days!  Yesterday was very productive on the home front.  I absolutely HATE filing stuff and to say that I had let it get out of control is well a grand understatement.  We had stacks of papers on top of our nice thrift store filing cabinet find and nothing in it.  I have been dreading that project for a while now and yesterday I finally mustered up the will power to face it.  I am happy to report that while it can certainly be improved upon in terms of finer organizing of the files and a more visually appealing set of folders and labels, it is closer to where is needs to be and that is huge.  I also managed to end the day with that yummy dinner I already posted about last night.

Today was not forecasting to be as amazing given my poor night of sleep, but it turned out to be a success as well.  I'm on a roll what can I say!  I finally had the appointment to get Lana's car seat inspected and I am happy to report we passed!  The seat is installed correctly and ready for her precious presence.  Then after the appointment, I made my second huge trip to the grocery store this week.  Yes that is correct my second day at the grocery store this week.  Hey maybe I'll make some new friends.  I did discover that this pregnancy does have it perks for getting through a grocery checkout lane.  Both Monday and today I was approached by a store employee and had a lane opened for me.  It was my VIP moment for sure.  Anyway, I digress.

I found a crockpot freezer cooking pin on Pinterest last night that looked ideal for my prep work before baby girl arrives.  I don't want us to starve or go broke or get fat eating out so preparing I am doing.  The blog included a handy grocery list of all of the items I need to complete the mission.  The link for the blog I mentioned is Who Needs a Cape.  Tomorrow while Daniel is working around the house and missing the awesome powder at Steamboat, sorry babe, I will be preparing the freezer to hold all of these nutritiously delicious meals.  A post will follow with how it goes so cross your fingers.

After unloading everything, I began preparing another yummy dinner for us.  Tonight's menu included Creamy Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas and a Pineapple Sheet Cake for dessert.  Yep you guessed it, these were also Pinterest finds and they were DELICIOUS!!  An odd combination maybe, but hey a pregnant lady wants what a pregnant lady wants okay.  To give credit where credit is due, the links so you too may enjoy these delicious treats.

Creamy Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas from mel's kitchen cafe
Miss Susan’s Pineapple Sheet Cake from Big Red Kitchen

Now I did not have monterey jack Cheese for the enchiladas so I used shredded cheddar and the cake called for more sugar than even I would like so I decreased it by at least a cup.  I have included pictures for you because I want to get better at photographing my adventures.  Sorry, but by the time I remembered to take the pictures I was too hungry to really do much so iPhone photo had to do.

As today is the first of the month and pay day it also seemed like a fine time to start trying the cash method as designed by Dave Ramsey.  We consistently have over spent in the areas of dining out, groceries, etc.  You may say well two trips to the grocery store in one week no wonder, I mean how much food do two people really need.  Really it has been because after working all day we felt we deserved good meals and we did not want to prepare them ourselves so laziness won those battles nine times out of ten.  I'm hopeful that my new role, the prep work in cooking ahead, and the cash method will keep us on track.  Our dear friends Diana and Brandon have been following the master and using the cash method for a while now and it has been a success as we have heard.  Wish us luck!!  Now as you can imagine I'm pretty tired so I'll write more tomorrow.  Good night!