17

She was tiny

She was beautiful

She was fierce

She still is

My sweet Savannah girl

Happy Happy 17th Birthday

May God bless you with an amazing year ahead.

Dad, Robert and I love you very much

So proud of your dedication to your grades this year

It certainly paid off

Job well done

First Birthday - All ruffles and bows! 

Her best buddy Bella - she's never too far from her side.

Sav and Bella on Easter

My beautiful princess

Happy Birthday Sav 

xo

Trying to keep Weight Watchers tasty

In an effort to keep weight watchers tasty,

I tweaked an old recipe that was totally 

not weight watchers

1 small package turkey sausage

1/2 box of bow tie pasta

1 can crushed tomatoes

1 can low sodium corn

1 can black beans (drained and rinsed)

1 can low sodium chicken broth 

salt, pepper, red pepper, garlic

I boiled the pasta - drained most of the water

add all other ingredients

Bake the turkey sausage in the oven - I removed the casing from the links and cut into small pieces before baking - when it finished baking I rinsed under water to remove all possible fat.

Add the sausage to the soup and simmer

 for about 30 minutes 

after it all simmered together I added 1/2 container (small) of fat free sour cream - it will melt immediately and thicken the soup. 

If I figured right, there are 8 weight watchers points in a cup - add a toss salad and I was full !

Hope you like it as much as I did.

Bread and Wine after a long week!

This has been a very long week

Last night was my first night at home with nothing to do

Well, except cook dinner for the family

Luckily I did that in the crock pot

Made some white rice to go with it 

and ta da - dinner complete

Hurried in my PJ's and headed to my bed

Coffee and this book

was just what I needed

to top the night off 

it rained the entire night

perfect!

 This is a great book

not so much about the recipes

(however they are good too)

but just good for the soul

I love cooking and serving people

I love hosting parties

and all that goes along with it

I love after we all eat together,

sitting around my table and talking 

and enjoying each other 

I haven't tried my new bread maker yet

 but I'm thinking tonight I will

It's still raining like crazy 

but I'm not complaining one bit

happy weekend blogger friends