Foster Farms Makes Great Chicken Breast Patties

I know it seems like I talk about football all the time, but with my two boys playing and Bossy's four boys on a total of five separate teams, Saturdays have become major gamedays.

Many of our games are played on Bingham's home field, and that makes it much closer to my house than to Bossy, so naturally we tend to congregate here both before and after the games. She runs my kids this way and I run her kids that way, you get the idea. It's fun, but pretty exhausting!

We try really hard to plan ahead meals so that we don't find ourselves eating out all the time, especially at the field; it's just way too expensive. So when I read about this Foster Farms Gameday Sweepstakes in an email, I was all over it. Who else has 6 boys proudly sporting the same uniform? And that doesn't even count the extra jerseys all the rest of us wear.

I immediately contacted my friend, Jason, at Foster Farms and he offered to send me some free coupons so we could try their sandwiches. I have sort of avoided these frozen chicken patties, just assuming they would be too expensive for our large crew. I was totally shocked when Drama Queen brought me home 3 bags (that's a total of 33 Foster Farms Chicken Breast Patties) for under $15. A couple of bags of buns and some chips and lunch was easy.

Since Saturday also had a merit badge pow wow, ballet rehearsals, Baby Doll's birthday tea, and Crafty's birthday party, as well as all the games, we ate in crazy shifts. It didn't matter though, these sandwiches were even good cold. I added lettuce, mayo, mustard and a slice of tomato from the garden. It was so good! But my sweetie ate his with bacon and a spoonful of Sweet Baby Ray's and he was pretty happy.

It was way better and way cheaper than we could have visited the golden arches and we had fun snapping pics and sharing our gameday. If you want to plan one like we did, you can actually win prizes by posting it on social media.

Hey, let me know if you participate, I would love to see your pictures!

Here are the details and a link for you.

Foster Farms Gameday Sweepstakes

How you do gameday with Foster Farms Chicken Breast Patties?... post a photo or video (less than 2 minutes) with #FosterFarmsGamedaySweepstakes and you could win a $100 retailer gift card this week, plus be entered to win a $1000 GameDay Party or VIP trip for 4 to the Foster Farms Bowl in Santa Clara, CA. For Foster Farms Game Day Sweepstakes official rules visit https://www.fosterfarms.com/fosterfarms-gameday-sweepstakes/

A Little Adventure

I told you my littlest 3 are off track from school for a month, but we haven't had much time to plan any adventures so today we took advantage of the fact that Baby Doll had rehearsal in Ogden. After their dentist appointments, we piled into the car along with Bossy, a couple of her kids, and Grandpa and we headed north.

We dropped Grandpa at Temple Square downtown (I'll let him tell you why in a couple of weeks) and then we kidnapped my sweetie from work. He loves the Hill Air Force Museum and we couldn't possibly go without him. It was a whole new adventure for Hot Sauce and Chips.

Chips absolutely loved the big planes! He is so full of life it is fun to watch him discover new things (a little exhausting, maybe...). After a couple of hours of wandering, we ate our picnic lunch outside on the tables and piled back into the car.

After delivering Baby Doll to Prima Donna at Weber, we reversed the trip. Sweetie went back to work, we got Grandpa from Temple Square, and made it home just in time to get kids to dance and football.

Guest Blog: It's a"MAZE"ing to See, by the Dog Walker

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Well, it's about that time of year again. About every year, I always have been the expert to putting up holiday lights on our house. Just like last year, the year before, the year-year before, the year-year-year before, and the year-year-year-year-before. So pretty much every year I've been in charge of setting up the most amazing Halloween display that anybody in my neighborhood or anywhere would come up with for the most spooktacular day of the year. 

Anyway, throughout some of the year, ever since April, I've been employed to work at Walmart temporarily, because Mom and Dad just want me to earn money and learn to work much harder than an average person can do. That got me worried a lot about what the holidays would be like for me if I'm not around the house preparing traditional ideas for the holidays or even having a holiday off of employment. Mom and Dad kept on telling me that I should try to earn enough money for tuition of a college semester. I thought that was a bit brutal to having me to pay for college tuition. Some of the time, I kept on saying to myself and even saying it to Mom and Dad that earning money isn't making me a better person, it's just making me a jerk. They just keep on telling me that it's part of life and I need money to make a living of my own. I'm not quite sure about that, because I thought having money would just make you selfish and only use it for yourself and avoid the poor, needy, homeless, and/or even people who are into trouble of some sort.

So, on the days when I need to go to work, I start to feel worried that I don't want to miss a holiday spending with the family, especially Thanksgiving and Christmas. I just don't know if I can really bear having to have to work on special holidays, because they're way too special to be missed spending time with families. I've made some requests to my employer if I can have the holidays off. But I just kept on getting rejections! :( I kept on requesting for the days off again, and right now they're still pendering to see if I can have those days off. I just keep on hoping I'll have the holidays off so I can spend those entire days with the family.

I probably shouldn't get off subject, because you all want to know about the display processing. Every year, I've been making mostly the same design of it, but I just had to keep on coming up with other ideas that would be fun for different. Every year, there are just two entrances to the front door for Trick-or-treaters, but this year, there's only one entrance right in the middle edge of our front yard. There are some added part of the display that you may have not seen before, like some were given to me for my birthday when they were on clearance after Halloween last year. For example, I've been giving the 15-foot tall ghost blow-up and I had to figure out ways on how to get it to stay up and not trip anybody. It might as well be the main part to pay attention to from everyone who either walks or drives by to see it. There are even some parts that I felt like I had to go buy in order for everything in the display to be complete.

 It always happens every year, because some strands of lights that may have been new from the previous year are just broken for the year to come. It really annoys me and I bet it annoys all of you as well. I just always try to go with everything perfect, but it some of it doesn't always go exactly my way. And speaking about that, every year on the 31st of October, I just hope that every trick-or-treater would try to go through the maze before and after coming to the front door for the treats. But some are just walking to the door without even trying the maze. Probably because children are told by their parents that it's not polite to walk on people's lawns. But I just want all the parents if they're reading this post that at this time of year, it's an exception and the children can walk through the corn maze if they want to. I'll just hope that every trick-or-treater will go through the maze before and after getting the treats from us.

Last year, you probably remember that I uploaded my display on KSL so that almost everybody around Utah would be able to come see my display creation and how it can bring the holiday spirit into everybody. I'm not quite sure if KSL is doing it again this year, but it they are, I most definitely will upload the display on KSL so everyone will find it and be aMAZEd on how it looks. I hope you all enjoyed it and have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN (or if you prefer Happy All Hallows Eve)! :)

Baby Doll's Family Birthday Party

I know you think we party all the time around here. You are probably right, but today was pretty easy. You know what Baby Doll wanted for her birthday dinner? Frozen Pizza!!

It seemed sort of ridiculous to cook pizza like that for about 30 people, but we did it. We added in some salads and cheesy garlic bread, but it was way easier than what we did for Crafty last week. And it's a good thing because last night Drama Queen asked me if my sweetie and I would sub for her in the nursery today. I have been doing that for a while anyway, so of course I agreed. It's a cakey job with usually 3 or 4 little ones.

Today we had seven! And one of them was a screamer. For nearly two solid hours...

By the time we got home from church, we were both ready for a long nap. That turned into a Broncos game and me wrapping gifts for Baby Doll, but at least no one was screaming. Well, Curly did get pretty upset when the Broncos lost to the Falcons...

But I digress...

Let me show you more fun pics of my Baby Doll. She had a super fun party and she actually blew out the candles before we were even finished with the Happy Birthday song! She loved all of her gifts and was spoiled rotten by her brothers and sisters, grandpa and daddy.