30 Day Challenge~ Day 4 ~ Church, Food, Frappes and Kids

Woo Hoo! Day 4 is done! Only…uh…26! more days to go…oy! nbsp;Today was a GREAT day! I got up at 7AM with my littlest man i{that wasn’t the great part…stay with me}. /iAt 8:30AM I switched places with my slumbering husband and he got up with the boys so I got to take a morning nap!!br /br /After my nap, I got up, had some breakfast, and my husband told me my mom called and invited us over for dinner! Hallelujah! That solved my i”What do I feed these people tonight?”/inbsp;dilemma. I made lunch for my boys which is sooooo easy since they like routine andnbsp;consistency i{ie same lunch every day}/i and put my littlest man down for a nap.br /br /My awesome husband took the two older kids fishing while I did the bills.br /br /bWhat? You don’t like doing bills?nbsp;/bbr /br /I’ll admit, I really enjoy getting everything squared away and seeing debt go down. In our case, the debt we are working on is our HELOC. More on that another time.br /br /Dinner. We went to “Per Paws” house which is toddler speak for Grandpa. It used to be “Pee Paw” but it’s morphing to sound more like Grandpa… but I digress.br /br /I LOVE going to my mom’s for dinner because she is an amazing cook and that means I don’t have to. Tonight she made it easy, but it still was delish.br /br /div class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CZbcrvgu2ms/TmQlYudjYdI/AAAAAAAAAl8/3pzgLnhiMjg/s1600/food2.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”214″ src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CZbcrvgu2ms/TmQlYudjYdI/AAAAAAAAAl8/3pzgLnhiMjg/s320/food2.jpg” width=”320″ //a/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”Lunch meat on ciabatta bread, cubed caprese salad, pasta with some kind of seasoning, and eclairs for dessert. Mmmmmm…..good! nbsp;She also had a crockpot FULL of pickling goodness but that won’t be completely pickled until Friday. i{C/iirockpot was not on-it was just the container.}/i/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”ibr //i/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CGyl9sj1Ah0/TmQctg9pYDI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/_ukK8BysV1k/s1600/IMAG0678.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”191″ src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CGyl9sj1Ah0/TmQctg9pYDI/AAAAAAAAAlQ/_ukK8BysV1k/s320/IMAG0678.jpg” width=”320″ //a/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”After dinner we headed off to church, where, believe it or not, one can be tempted:/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AztZ3CEJKIM/TmQeWbKtMhI/AAAAAAAAAlY/Y_8Xcz3SOY8/s1600/sbux.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”320″ src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AztZ3CEJKIM/TmQeWbKtMhI/AAAAAAAAAlY/Y_8Xcz3SOY8/s320/sbux.jpg” width=”205″ //a/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”br //divYes, what you are seeing is not an illusion. We have a Starbucks in our a href=”http://12stone.com/”church/a! After we dropped off the younger two kiddos my thoughts flew to the little coffee shop on the lower level. But I’ve experienced this temptation before so I was ready for it! I did not go anywhere near the Starbucks. I had my daughter take this picture.br /br /When we left, I knew exactly what I was going to do when we got home. I was going to make myself a homemade Frappe with the freshly roasted coffee beans my husband whipped up yesterday i{Post about that process coming soon…I swear!}/ibr /div class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G9fn0k50fOg/TmQfuTcOe6I/AAAAAAAAAlk/vUS7TytRR-0/s1600/DSC_0680+%25282%2529.JPG” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”320″ src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G9fn0k50fOg/TmQfuTcOe6I/AAAAAAAAAlk/vUS7TytRR-0/s320/DSC_0680+%25282%2529.JPG” width=”212″ //a/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y3sGkgGK9Bc/TmQfzQTMrPI/AAAAAAAAAlo/oHsdkICJVnw/s1600/DSC_0684+%25282%2529.JPG” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”320″ src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y3sGkgGK9Bc/TmQfzQTMrPI/AAAAAAAAAlo/oHsdkICJVnw/s320/DSC_0684+%25282%2529.JPG” width=”212″ //a/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”Admit it, you want one!/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”It’s soooo goood!! As I was heading upstairs to write about our day, I noticed the quiet. When you have two little boys quiet doesn’t normally mean good. When I reached the top step I heard my sweet daughter reading to her brothers. I snuck in the room and got a few of these pics:/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lTa6Se_SvIY/TmQgWkhdiHI/AAAAAAAAAls/Lqi8LCumGXo/s1600/DSC_0696.JPG” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”277″ src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lTa6Se_SvIY/TmQgWkhdiHI/AAAAAAAAAls/Lqi8LCumGXo/s320/DSC_0696.JPG” width=”320″ //a/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: left;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zLrgFODsxiI/TmQgZo3EssI/AAAAAAAAAlw/HUY83ztoFxg/s1600/DSC_0689.JPG” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”229″ src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zLrgFODsxiI/TmQgZo3EssI/AAAAAAAAAlw/HUY83ztoFxg/s320/DSC_0689.JPG” width=”320″ //a/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”Awww…aren’t they cute?!? Well, they are until you get one like this one:/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”a href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I0cWg6WcTEw/TmQhGtUjzTI/AAAAAAAAAl4/Op0XrJvuVIE/s1600/DSC_0692.JPG” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”img border=”0″ height=”294″ src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I0cWg6WcTEw/TmQhGtUjzTI/AAAAAAAAAl4/Op0XrJvuVIE/s320/DSC_0692.JPG” width=”320″ //a/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”br //divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”Have finger…will pick. Ahh…BOYS…gotta love ’em!/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”/divdiv class=”separator” style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”br //diva href=”http://www.aghdesigns.com/images/blogs/siggy4.png” target=”_blank”img alt=”Anna” border=”0″ src=”http://www.aghdesigns.com/images/blogs/siggy4.png” //a