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17 October - 23 October

17 October

Today we went to Nelson's Pumpkin Patch.  I will do another post just for this visit.  This is our 3rd year and we always have fun!

23 October

Jason's cousin and his wife had a Halloween party this night and we went as a priest and a pregnant nun.  Here's a pic of us before we left the house.

10 October - 16 October

10 October

Today we got to meet our new niece Preslee.  She was such a sweet little baby.

11 October

12 October

16 October

Today Canden was actually able to move while on this little car.  He can only go backwards, but it's a start!

3 October - 9 October

4 October

Every once in a while Maddie actually gets a good picture!

6 October

Another picture courtesy of Maddie!

7 October

8 October

9 October

A beautiful day for the UND Homecoming parade!

Kitchen Monki

I have been wanting to find an online site (that was free) where I could store all of my recipes.  Right now I keep them in a million different places and I find new ones that I want to try and never do because the recipe gets lost.  Well, I found Kitchen Monki and think it might just fit the bill.  It seems like a pretty small community so far, so if you are looking for a place with lots of discussion and millions of recipes to search through this won't be the place for you.  Since I am mostly looking for a place to store my own recipes and add new ones that I would like to try, this will work great for me!

Features of Kitchen Monki
I have yet to try out most of their features since I am still working on getting all of my recipes input in the system.  Needless to say, I can't tell if they are as great as they sound.  Here is  a list of what you can do on the Kitchen Monki site:

• Enter your own recipes
• View and bookmark recipes submitted by other members
• Tag and search by tags for recipes.  There are a few required tags that every recipe needs including how long it takes to cook, type of cuisine (American, Mexican, etc.), type of meal (breakfast, lunch, entree, side, dish, etc.)
• Create menu plans (printable)
• Create shopping lists based on the menu plans

I am really excited to try out the menu plan and shopping list features. Each week after I make my menu I sit down and find the recipe to make sure that I have everything I need to make each meal.  Even after doing this I still miss things and have to run to the store later.  Hopefully this will make the planning process a little quicker.

We had Meatless Mexican Lasagna last night and this is one of the recipes I have already added.  Click here to see it at Kitchen Monki, or click here to see it embedded in a post.  It gives you the script on each recipe so that you can embed it right into your post and not have to direct your reader away from your site!  It didn't format quite right, so I am going to do a little investigative work to see how wide my posting area needs to be to make it fit.  If I can't make it work, this feature might not be as nice as I would have hoped.

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