MattandKayle: January 2013

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

A blog for teachers and teaching ideas

Some friends of mine just started a blog where they give great ideas to teachers for their classroom. Here is the link, check it out. It's really great! -Matt

http://www.squareheadteachers.com/

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Goals 2013

I know it's the middle of January already but I wanted to do a post about our goals for 2013. There are two traditions that Matt and I do for the new year. The first is we do is a new year's interview. It is meant for kids to see how they change over the years but I think it's fun to see how Matt and I are changing every year. The second tradition we do is we do a family home evening where we talk about goals and we make goals we want to achieve as a couple and we also tell each other the goals we have made for ourselves.

2012 Goals:
Only eat out 4 times a month...... C
Go to the temple once a month......A-
Be healthier/ go on 3 walks a week.....B
FHE every monday at 7pm.....B-
Read a Book of Mormon chapter every day.....A-

I saw one of our friends grade herself on how well she did on her goals and I really liked that idea and it goes perfectly with this quote I found.

So even though we didn't get straight A's on all our goals we did have a great year together! We are looking forward to an even better 2013!

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Crunchy Asian Salad

We love this meal because it is quick,healthy,and so easy! I don't know where the original recipe came from,but here is how we make it.

Ingredients:
Salad-
Shredded Cabbage
Sliced Almonds
Ramen noodles (we use chicken flavor)
1-2 Chicken breasts

Dressing-
Vinegar
oil
lemon juice(we sometimes use lime)
sugar
salt
flavor packet from Ramen noodles

Directions:
1.Cook chicken and season then shred.
2. Toast sliced almonds.
3. Crush dry Ramen noodles
4. Combine cabbage,almonds,ramen noodle,and chicken in a bowl. Mix it up!
5. In another bowl mix up the dressing.

We don't know really use measurements when we make salads. For the dressing it is all about how you like it.
Tonight when we made it we used half a bag of cabbage for the salad and for the dressing we used 1/4 cup vinegar, 1 and half Tbs sugar, and lime juice, 2-3 Tsp oil and salt to taste. Hope that helps!

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Texas Christmas

We spent Christmas in Texas this year with my family. We were there for about 2 weeks and we were able to do a lot of fun things while there.

Highlights:

Advent Candle

Chris spending Christmas with us

White Christmas

Ross Perot Science Museum

Family Pictures

Faldmo Wedding

Seeing Caiti and Dono

Loving on Bear cat

Playing Zero and Logo every night

Dating Matt

Homemade gifts for the sisters- Painted Corkboards

Jessi's

Allie's

Breanne's

On Christmas Eve there were thunderstorms all night so bear didn't sleep much,so on Christmas he was so tired and just let Matt hold him most of the morning!

Santa came!

Matt,mom,Chris,Jessi,and Allie

Opening their presents from us!

new sweater!

new bowls

bear sleeping under all the wrapping paper

The boys arrive and are excited to see uncle natt

The snow!

Perot Museum

Matt and I loved all the gems!

Gold and quartz

Our friend Samantha took our family pictures,but while we wait for her to do her magic. We took some of our own and since Andrew was visiting and is not family, Allie wanted some pictures of them together.