This casserole is super easy to put together and just perfect for a chilly fall night! Ingredients: 1 Tbs butter 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 garlic clove, minced 1 pound ground beef 1 package taco seasoning mix 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed 1 can pinto beans, drained and rinsed 1 can diced tomatoes […]
UPDATE! The winner of the $20 Outback gift card is Bobbi! Thanks for everyone who entered and remember to take your military loved ones to Outback through July 4th! Last week I shared about the Best Mates program going on at Outback during which they are giving 10% off to military families from May 27 […]
I love me some steak. Outback just gave me even more reason to love it! Being a military family is hard work, it’s nice to be recognized like this; 10% off a meal is pretty great! A deployment can be a lonely, stressful time for military families. Sometimes, going out for dinner is a life […]
When we first walked through the living room of this house, we were concerned. It was split up into two narrow spaces. There was no way it would work for us. We immediately knew that the only way we could buy this house was if the walls could be taken down. Our first step was […]
My boys’ new favorite show is Survivorman on the Discovery channel. We are generally pretty picky about what we let our boys watch. We don’t watch Spongebob. We don’t watch those dumb teenager comedies. I just don’t feel like my young boys need to get caught up in shows about boyfriends and girlfriends and all that drama. […]
We are a military family. It is fairly new to us. Even though many of our family members have been in the military, Matt just joined about three (or four? is it bad I can’t remember?) years ago. So it’s new to us on the level where it affects our every day life. The longest […]
Almost fourteen years ago, when Matt and I started our lives together, he worked at the mall. It was a good position in a sports store. Sometimes we think back to those days and wonder how we made it though. Once we had our first son, things changed. Matt decided it was time to go […]
When Irene ripped through the East Coast we were fairly new to Vermont. I was shocked to see the devastation that a hurricane turned tropical storm could cause so far up here! There was news of flooding that wiped away entire homes. Many families lost everything. While we were not affected immediately, there was definitely an urge inside […]
We bought a house! We bought a house! For the past year and a half we have been living in a very tiny apartment here in Vermont. When we moved here it was our intention of it being very temporary. But life doesn’t like to follow our rules so here we are. We were finally […]
I told you guys I was going to visit my family in Indiana. Well, that vacation turned out to be more than we bargained for! While we were there my Mom’s town, Henryville, was hit by an EF4 tornado. We heard that some serious storms were coming our way and since my Mom doesn’t have […]