Freezer Meals

Ok. I'm completely a newbie at this. I wanted to try doing freezer meals to
1. Cut our grocery bill
2. I'm sick of cooking once 5:00 hits
3. Do it sometime in the future

I decided the night before shopping to gather a menu. There's plenty of resources out there, but I'm really picky with my meals so I found some good crockpot recipes. I got all the recipes together and put a shopping list together as well. I'm so glad Clay was home this weekend to help watch Kort otherwise I would have been a complete mess.

Just before I was going to get everything started, I realized a rookie mistake. I bought frozen chicken. Now how are you supposed to cut chicken to freeze it? You surely can't thaw then refreeze it without cooking, which would have defeated the whole purpose of my plan. I was completely bummed out. So to make a long story short, lesson learned to buy fresh everything first. However, I did have a pork roast and round steak not frozen so I was at least able to make 4 freezer meals. Maybe one of these days I'll find someone who is a pro and can help me out and we can do a day of freezer meals :) ha ha

Sunday drive

Clay heard at church that the scouts were going camping at the Glass Mountains, just outside of town. He wanted in on this because, well, you know Oklahoma, there's no mountains anywhere so where just was this special place?!

We took off and threw the destination in our phones. This is what we came upon. 

It had to be the place.

Not quite what we had hoped for. Oh well. We got out and took a walk around. Stretched our legs, and were pretty much back on the road minutes later. 

I guess this is as good as you're going to get out here on the plains. 

Hope those scouts have fun camping :) 

It was then that Clay decided he couldn't live here for the rest of his life. Me neither. Ha Ha Nice Sunday drive, however. 

Twister

For Clay's last rotation weekend, we wanted to try and find something to do outside of Enid. I heard about a fair and parade in this town called Pond Creek, population like 500? I don't know. The parade wasn't too bad. Nothing compared to what I'm used to for Burley's during fair week. I tried to get Kort to get candy, mostly for myself :)

We tried to find the fair grounds but never did. So, we had another plan. About half hour north of there was the Twister Museum. You know, the movie?! In the town of Wakita, Oklahoma. Kort fell asleep on the way there and it was lunch time. We decided to just look up a place there on the GPS which was appropriately called Twister Cafe. Sounded fine. We get there and it's practically desolate. And that cafe? Um, totally shut down. Luckily we found a little grocery store/convenient store and bought some nasty pizza and chili dogs. We made it to the museum/little building and took an hour tour while Kort made the place even more like a twister, tearing everything apart.

Wakita's water tower. The one you see in the movie.

Location map of places filmed at, all pretty close to Enid where we live.

The outside of the "museum".

Bill Paxton's pinball machine :)

The original Dorothy from the movie.

Aunt Meg's house before and after the F4 hit.

What the crew did to the town of Wakita. Literally made it a disaster. And to top it off, they left it like that for 2 weeks after filming, just in case they needed to come back and fix scenes.

It was actually pretty cool checking out all the stuff and hearing stories about the movie, since I actually knew the movie and like watching it. There have been people from all over the world that have come to the museum. There are actual storm chasers around here from England which made them stop by as well. Don't think I'd drive/travel 10+ hours just to come check out the museum, so it was pretty nice that we lived so close to check it out.

Labor Day

I thought it would be fun to explore a little more of Oklahoma, so I wanted to go check out Tulsa. I thought the zoo would be fun to take Kort to, so I kind of had that planned out. Well, after 94 hours and 7 days of work later, I didn't think Clay would want to go anywhere and would just want to relax. So I put those plans on hold. It was going to be 100+ degrees so we decided no on the zoo, and Clay wanted to get out of the house, so we opted for OKC instead.

Bricktown was our new destination. Come to think of it, we drove past the Thunder's stadium, and I didn't even get a picture. Guess that means we'll just have to go to a game this season to get one :) The only thing I can compare Bricktown to is a mini downtown with a bunch of restaurants - the party place after the games. They have a riverfront type thing similar to San Antonio (of what Clay told me) that you can take a water taxi on. We just ended up stopping at Bass Pro Shop and finding a place to eat lunch.

We ate at Jazmo'z Bourbon Street Cafe just off the riverwalk. Pretty good food, I got chicken fettucine alfredo, but I wouldn't get that again, even though it was good. Half the plate was full of grease after I almost finished. Clay got an appetizer of "alligator bites". He said it was just fried meat and had me try a piece. Dumb blonde of me. It was real alligator meat. Nasty. Ok, so it really wasn't all that bad, just really bland.

We had parked a ways away at the Botanical Gardens and I had planned on maybe letting Kort play in their splash area and us walking around. Well, it all lasted about 5 minutes until it was sweating hot and we just hopped in the car and left. Kort was getting cranky so I told Clay to just find a Target and they could take a nap while I went in.

Oh how I have missed Target! Well, the one we found quickly on the GPS was similar to the one we had in Austin, MN so not big and not a Super Target. Oh well. Kind of in the ghetto area too. I felt good when I walked into the store. However, that feeling soon dwindled as I wasn't finding any great deals. I then realized the one main reason I have loved Target was for their clearance and couponing. Don't get me wrong, I love all their stuff, I'm just a cheap-o and rarely buy full priced items there. I left the store with only the purchase of a bottled water for Clay.

Kort never ended up falling asleep so we headed home and entertained him with a water bottle and twizzlers. He went to bed early. We bought Battleship and it was AWESOME! Rihanna wasn't too bad of an actor and Liam Neeson is brilliant as always. It was such a great day though to be able to spend with Clay, seeing how I pretty much hadn't seen him for the last week. Good thing it's his rotation this weekend and it's fair time here!!! Yee-haw!