Finishing First Week & Football Foods

A successful first week of school is finished! However, I am utterly exhausted. I always forget how much walking and talking I do that my body isn't used to (from being lazy all summer). The week was spent learning the rules and establishing classroom procedures. My students really enjoyed this Post-It note activity that I came across on Pinterest. 

The week ended with the start of college football for my MSU Spartans! Check out Iivana's fabulous new jersey.

Despite being tired from the work week (and looking that way too), Iivana and I were ecstatic about the game and Sparty's win. It wasn't the prettiest, but I'll take it.

This photo cracks me up! Iivana is crazy. I was trying to take a picture with her...but she wanted to show you her pearly whites.

I tried to continue the tradition that Justin and I started by making football appetizers for the game. (Check out some of the finger foods we made last year: here, here, and here.) I decided to make a pizza inspired appetizer. Remember I bought some pizza crust mix at Marshall's? My random mixture that didn't follow the box recipe, didn't turn out the way I had hoped. It was still edible, but not great.

My experimented creation wasn't worthy enough to share all the details. But these gluten free pizza puffs are a much better recipe to share. I've made them before and they are soft and delicious!

Happy Easter!

This Easter was very different for several reasons.

1. Breakfast

Last Year: Monkey Bread full of gluten!

This Year: A Sugar Dumplin' sans gluten!

These were fairly simple, and included one of my favorite GF products, Bisquick. The dough was a little crumbly so I rolled them in balls. In hind sight, I should have just scooped the dough into the pan tins because I think I compacted it too much.

The original recipe calls for pecans, which I decided not to use because well...I'm not a huge fan of nuts in my food. Justin said he thought they would be delicious with the pecans. Next time, I'll make some that way for him. I will definitely make these again, thanks Marlow!

2. Easter Baskets

Last Year: We did Easter baskets and Justin hid eggs for me around the house.

This year: I'm going to get a new pair of Tom's instead of a candy basket!

 (We are each getting a new pair, but we still need to order them. As you can see, I love Tom's!) You'll have to wait to see which pair I'm getting. Here are some I already own.

I got red ones for Xmas.

Remember how dirty my navy Tom's got?

And of course, when I rocked the MJ look!

3. Church

This year we were unable to go to church. We stayed home with our sleeping beauty!

Tomorrow I'll post about dinner.

Put a Fork in Me, I'm done

I still have some posts I need to make about my recent Michigan trip, but they require more thinking. I've used most of my brain power today on homework for class and grading so I could verify my grades for progress reports. The other night Justin and I were in the mood for dessert, but I couldn't decide what I was in the mood for. I began searching on the internet and came across a GF blog "The Gluten Free Fork" dedicated to eating out in Texas. I've actually eaten at all the places on the San Antonio list, except for the seafood place. Although two of the places on the SA list I ate at pre-diagnosis. Justin and I like to go to Austin and Houston, so this list will be helpful for when we go there. Of course we want to go to Dallas too!

In case you were wondering, we decided to go to the class six to fill our sweet tooth. Justin bought a pint of ice cream and I bought some Swedish Fish.