Please support me and the kids of St. Jude

Dear Blog Friends and Followers, I am participating in the St. Jude Memphis Marathon Weekend to support the kids of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. As a St. Jude Hero, I have a personal goal to raise $1000 for the kids of St. Jude. I have already pledged $50 myself and am looking for ways to increase donations to St. Jude! Will you help me support St. Jude by donating today? http://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/Heroes/Heroes?px=2229961&pg=personal&fr_id=4820 How your donation helps: Thanks to donors like you, no family ever pays St. Jude for anything, including lodging, food and travel. St. Jude will continue to improve treatment of childhood cancer and other deadly diseases through its groundbreaking research. For every child treated here, thousands more have been saved worldwide through St. Jude discoveries. Please visit my St. Jude Heroes fundraising page to make a donation. I hope you will join me in supporting the kids of St. Jude! Thank you for your support! Sincerely, Rachel Kannady View my page If the text above does not appear as a clickable link, you can cut and paste this Web address into your browser: http://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR?px=2229961&pg=personal&fr_id=4820&fl=en_US&et=Nf9yMRL0fTCAqJ0FSJZDeg&s_tafId=37539 © Copyright 2013. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 501 St. Jude Place Memphis, TN 38105

And so the wedding planning begins!!!

That's right....Wedding planning!!!

My little sister is getting married!!!!!

Claire and Jason are finally engaged and getting married next Spring!!!!

More to come on wedding planning for sure!

Love to all!

Quick Question

I have a quick and easy question...
Please comment to give me your answer.

Recently, I shared my birth day stories for all 4 of my kids, that's 4 stories, with a friend of mine. Would any of my readers be interested in reading these stories? I know there have to be a lot of questions out there and I feel like a lot of them don't get answered because people gloss over things.

So, birth stories? Yes, I'll post each one. No, I'll not post them right away... No answer means I have to decide for myself and obviously, if I am asking, I'm torn!

thanks all!

Recipe: Meatball Stroganoff

Continuing on with the great meal plan....Meatball Stroganoff!

And it was WELL received by the kids!

Here's the recipe. It's super easy. Seriously.

1 can of cream of mushroom
1 can of milk
1 8oz container of sour cream
1 can of mushrooms, sliced
2 tablespoons of worsteshire sauce
1/2 pound of meatballs (make them yourself or buy frozen ones)
1 bag of extra wide egg noodles

1. Cook the noodles. Read and follow package instructions

2. Take the liquid/cream ingredients and mushrooms and combine them in a deep sauce pan. Season with salt or pepper to taste. (Everything will end up here, so make sure it's big enough) Allow them to cook together before adding the cooked meatballs.

3. Give the meatballs and sauce time to blend, I gave mine about 10 minutes. Then add the noodles.

4. Enjoy!!!

Recipe: Chicken Enchilada Casserole Crock Pot

This week, we have reached an all new level of meal planning!!! I am so proud of us!

We have planned meals, shopped for them and made dinner AT HOME every night this week.

Here's what we've done so far:

Sunday:
Monday: Walking Tacos
Tuesday: Meatball Subs
Wednesday: burgers and dogs on the grill, greek salad and green bean casserole
Thursday: chicken enchilada casserole
Friday: leftovers!!!!
Saturday: meatball stroganoff

Last nite was the chicken enchilada casserole. Even Dilly loved it!I found the recipe in the Busy Bees Crockpot Cookbook. Once I read it, I knew it had to change, for starters, there were no veggies and i can't eat meat out of a can....just can't. So here's the recipe that I made:

1 10oz can of red enchilada sauce
1 cup sour cream
1 can corn
2 breasts of chicken cooked and shredded

Layer in the crockpot, from bottom to top:

a few spoonfuls of sauce and sour cream
tortilla shells, torn to cover the bottom
2 large handfuls of spinach
1/2 the chicken, corn and sauce mix
2 large handfuls of cheese
tortilla shells, torn to cover the layer
2 large handfuls of spinach
1/2 the chicken, corn and sauce mix
2 large handfuls of cheese

Cook on high for 1 hour and 15 minutes and enjoy some yummy goodness!!! Please forgive the lack of pics of food, but I do have a pic of Dilly eating up!

Want to run?

Many of you know and some of you may not, but my dad is a prostate cancer survivor. Many of you also know, I do NOT call myself a runner.

Several years ago, my dad underwent surgery to remove the cancer and has remained cancer free since then.

Here in Memphis, there is a run coming up to support the research and work being done to cure this disease affecting millions of men each year.

If you are interested in participating, this year's run will start at the Botanic Gardens at 7:30am on April 27. You can register here. If you'd rather just give to the cause, the website found here, has lots of great information! The event is sponsored by the Conrad Pearson Clinic and is part of a national event.

Obviously, I think this is an important cause, if you do too, or you just want another half marathon in before summer, please join us!

In my running shoes!

Thanks for the love!!!!!

Good morning friends!!!!

Just wanted to leave a little note for my readers to thank you guys for helping me reach 10,000 page hits!!!! Such an exciting time!!!

In honor of having reached this exciting milestone, I am doing a giveaway!

I will giveaway one item from my Sew Southern Style etsy shop...here's how to enter, all of these things have to be done to win....

You must comment on the blog that you have:

1.liked my facebook page
2. followed this blog
3. Joined this blog
4. followed my etsy page
5. Comment what it is you want to win!

The giveaway will only be generated based on the comments on this posting. Make sure you come back to this posting.

I'll keep the giveaway open until Sunday at 5 and announce the winner Monday morning!

Good luck! and thanks for reading!