Happily Ever Mock

12 weeks Pregnant!


How far along: 12 weeks
Gender: We are thinking boy, but it’s still debatable 
Weight gain: 3 lbs!! 
Maternity clothes: Some…mostly just wearing leggings!! 
Stretch marks: None yet, thank goodness! 
Belly button in or out: In
Sleep: a lot! Granted baby likes to wake me up around 3am to pee! 
Best moment this week: Christmas and announcing our news! 
Worst moment this week: Poor Christopher has had flu like symptoms for a couple days
Miss anything: Turkey Sandwiches! I want a Jimmy Johns Beach Club in a BAD way! 
Movement: I thought I felt popcornish movements a couple days ago…hmm…
Cravings: Oranges and Carbs! 
Queasy or sick: On occasion 
Looking forward to: Our next ultrasound! I love watching baby move! And I can’t wait to find out if baby Mock is a he or a she! 

My New Business

I know it has been quite some time, but I just wanted to share some news with everyone….


I am now an independent consultant with Jamberry Nails! 


Please check out my website:


http://dancinfeet.jamberrynails.net/


and contact me if you are interested in learning more or hosting a party: catalog/home! 


Happy Shopping!


-Mrs. Mock


Entertaining Sadie

This past week Cleo (my almost 10 year old) has been at sleep away camp.  That left just Sadie (my energetic 6 year old) and I to make our own fun! I have to say at times it can be tricky to keep this little 6 year old entertained, but this week, we did some pretty fun things! 


Monday- We spent the day at the pool


Tuesday- We took her new library card to the library and picked out some books, and she signed up for the Summer reading program! This little thing cracks me up! She is always so determined! The program requires that you read 15 books by August 4th and this week Sadie has read 7! 


Wednesday- Sadie got to meet baby Luke! Then she helped me make more of my homemade pasta! Yum!




































































































Thursday- Sadie invited a friend over and we made homemade pizza and homemade kool-aid dough! It was so much fun! 




























Everyone needs to try this out!


Recipe:

What you need:
1 1/4 Cups Flour
1/4 Cup Salt
1 Kool-Aid packet…any color
1 Tablespoon Cream of Tartar
1 cup boiling water
1 1/2 Tablespoon canola oil
Wax paper
Helping hands















Making the playdough:
Mix Flour, salt, Kool-Aid and cream of tartar. Add boiling water and oil. Mix with spoon until cool. Then mix with hands to form ball. Add flour if still sticky.
Play on wax paper.


Enjoy! 





































Cleo comes home today and I am so anxious to hear about her week away!

4th of July Crafts

The girls and I had a really fun time preparing for 4th of July!


First we made yummy 4th of July cookies


























Then we made Festive Tiaras



































The last thing we did was “Firework” painting!  I had the girls dip koosh balls we got at the dollar store into red and blue paint and smack them onto poster board!



They had so much fun…I think maybe a little too much fun! Haha! 

























Click on the little links to pin on Pinterest


I hope everyone had a fun and
safe Fourth of July! 
-Mrs. Mock

Spaghetti Night!

Wednesday night was spaghetti night at our house! And not just regular spaghetti night….HOMEMADE SPAGHETTI NIGHT! If you have never had hand made pasta, you should march yourself over to your nearest Williams Sonoma and get a pasta machine ASAP! 
We were fortunate enough to get one for our wedding and this was the first night to put it to use! It was SO much fun and ridiculously delicious! Seriously! 
We had to take our rings off for this messy task!
     
We started out by making a fresh Marinara Sauce with some fresh ingredients:
   

 Tomato Squashing….really fun!

 YUMMY!!!!!

Then we started on the dough…

First We hand rolled it out! 

 
Then we fed the dough through the first part of the machine that flattens it out as thin as you want.  

Next we fed the flattened piece through the pasta cutter, and ended up with a ton of spaghetti strings! 

Before it was cooked

 During

 
After! I told you…a ton!

I grated some fresh Parmesan! 

 Put a salad together!

Poured some wine 
 And we sat down to the most delicious meal I have ever had! It was so good! I can’t wait to do it again!

Weddings, Babies and Water Balloon Painting!

So a lot of exciting things have been happening! 
Friends Matt and Olivia were married last weekend! It was a beautiful wedding! I made the Flower Girl’s tutu:



































They seem so Happy!!!










We also have a brand new baby that entered the world on Monday!
Jennifer had baby Luke on Monday at 6:28 p.m! He weighed in at 8 lbs 2 oz!


























And he is ABSOLUTELY precious! 


My latest fun activity with the kiddos was Water Balloon painting!


I filled a bunch of water balloons with paint and they had fun throwing them at the fence! Here are the pictures:

 

I have some  better ideas for next time to make the paint brighter and to have them pop better(Thanks to my cousin Hannah!)…a lot of them ended up in the grass! 

Tonight Christopher and I are breaking out the pasta maker we got as a wedding gift and making homemade pasta and sauce!! I am SUPER excited!!! Pictures on that to come!!

Until then,
Mrs. Mock

Happy Fathers Day and 1st week of Summer with my Girlies

This past week was my first week at home with the girlies and we had A LOT of fun!!!


Monday: We had a “Backwards Sleepover”- We started at 9 a.m. with donuts and the girls friends left around 3 p.m.



We did all the things kids do at sleepovers…except sleep over! 🙂


We had a scavenger hunt and the girls looked for all the items they needed for their sleepover:
     >Popcorn Buckets
     >Popcorn
     >Candy
     >Nail Polish
     >Movies
     >Quiz Books
I divided the girls into 2 teams…Team Pink and Team Purple- All the items had a pink or purple tie on them so the girls knew which items belonged to them!

After they found all the items we played a couple of games:


>Who’s in the Bag- the girls played musical sleeping bags, and the other girls had to guess who was in each bag.  


























>Where’s My Stuffy- The girls were blindfolded and they each had to find the stuffed animal they brought in a pile of stuffys! 


























After the games we painted nails

























Took Quizzes


































Then we made mini pizzas 


























Finally the girls “settled down” in their sleeping bags to watch a movie and each popcorn and candy

  

Tuesday: We went swimming. We took a picnic to the neighborhood pool! 

Wednesday: We played a game of Life-size Scrabble and Finger painted  


   Best Word on the board!!!!! 

 Thursday: We went swimming AGAIN! This time at my parent’s house

 Friday: We made father’s day crafts and bandanna flip flops! 
 
 
 Bandanna Flip Flops

 Father’s Day Cards


  Coasters- We lined the bottom of tiles with camouflage felt, and mod podged pictures on top!



 


















Looking forward to all the fun next week brings! 


On a closing note:
Happy Father’s day to both my Daddy and my father in law!

 Me and my Daddy 🙂

Summer has officially begun!

Summer has officially begun! So to catch you up on what has been happening lately…

My cousin Hannah and my Uncle Steve have moved back to the big D! 

We celebrated with a pool party the weekend before school ended for the kiddos:
 Fishy Matty
  Stella chilling in the pool…actually that was the most I could convince her to get in!


 Katie, Me and Amanda 
 
Me and Hannah!


For the pool party, Matthew and I made S’mores Krispy Treats…


Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients: 
4 Tbsp butter
1 bag mini marshmallows 
1 tsp vanilla
1 box of golden grahams 
1 1/2 cup chocolate chips


Step 1: Melt Butter in microwave: 
Step 2: Mix in Marshmallows and melt in microwave 

Step 3: Stir in Vanilla

Step 4:Add and Stir in Chocolate Chips

Step 5: Slowly pour in golden grahams and stir

 


Step 6: Spread into pan (May add extra chips on top and gently press into pan,
 refrigerate for 10 minutes

Step 7: Cut into squares and enjoy!


So in other news….

My beautiful baby sister graduated!!! So proud!


So this week begins my Fun summer with my little girlies! I will have to keep everyone posted on all of the neat things we have planned! I also have some yummy recipes I am making this week…some of which include a pretty amazing ingredient…


ONIONS! From OUR backyard! Christopher began gardening in March, and these are the first veggies ready for use! They smell delicious and I am sooo excited to cook with them!!


Stay tuned!
Mrs. Mock 

Kitchen Update!

We just made a few little changes to our kitchen to make it feel more like our own!  There are still so many things I would like to do to it (Paint, redo cabinets and drawers, counter tops), but we are slowly taking baby steps! 


First, we got a pots and pans hanger for our wedding, and Christopher was so sweet to put it up the night before my birthday, to surprise me! 



























So, another change I have been meaning to make is to put up all of the adorable plates all of our guests signed at our wedding (In lieu of a guest book) 


Here are all the plates:































I bought some cheap plate hangers at Hobby Lobby (1.99 each) 































Here is the kitchen before:





























And After:

 
 


Looking forward to making more cute changes! 
-Mrs. Mock

Busy Bees

We have been busy bees this weekend!


Friday: We went to Twisted Root to Celebrate our 6 month Anniversary (1 week early! We are busy next weekend!) We were Fez and we got a free milkshake which just so happened to be my favorite kind (Cookie dough and brownie!) Yum!




























Saturday: I started off my day celebrating with Christopher’s cousin Jennifer at another baby shower! Then I high tailed it to meet Christopher so that we could go to Brad and Melissa’s engagement party.  After all the parties I had to go to work for the rest of the evening.


Sunday: Today we got up early and went to Mass. After Mass, we went to a reunion for the marriage preparation that Christopher and I had to complete before our wedding. 
              TANGENT: So I was super nervous about the 6 week marriage preparation we had to go through before the wedding, seriously I was super dreading it!!! Much to my surprise however, I honestly believe that it was the best thing Christopher and I have done as a couple! Not only did it get us to think of any and every scenario we might face in our marriage from finances to kids to healthy arguments to putting each other first, but we also got to get to know Mike and Judy, the BEST sponsor couple I could have ever imagined! They are fabulous!!!! To anyone getting married, I HIGHLY recommend finding something similar to what Christopher and I went through in preparing for our marriage!
ANYWAY…So we got to see Mike and Judy again, along with meeting other young married couples at our Church! We had a really wonderful time! 
After Church, we went to visit my Nana, she hasn’t been doing that well, and I am so glad we went to see her, even though it was tough seeing her that way…
This afternoon, Christopher’s Dad came over and helped him put in our new tank less water heater! HELLO LONG HOT SHOWERS!!!! 🙂 
While they worked, I cooked, and Oh Em Gee! Everyone needs to try this recipe! It was delicious!! We definitely enjoyed this one!!!! 


Chicken Rollatini (A fun spin on Chicken Parmesan!)


Ingredients: 

  • 4 Chicken breasts washed and cut in 1/2 down the seam to form 8 cutlets 
  • 3/4 a cup of Italian Bread Crumbs
  • 1/2 a cup of Parmesan Cheese Divided into fourths
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 blocks of frozen spinach (20 oz total) defrosted and drained (Get all the water out!)
  • 6 tbsp part skim ricotta cheese
  • 6 oz part skim mozzarella 
  • Olive oil non-stick spray
  • 1 cup your favorite marinara sauce
  • salt and pepper and garlic powder to taste
Preheat oven to 450 degrees and grease a casserole dish 

After cutting the chicken breasts in half, pat dry and season with salt, pepper and garlic

In one bowl, Mix bread crumbs and 1/4 of the Parmesan 

In another crack the eggs

In a last bowl, combine the spinach (completely drained), the remaining Parmesan, the Ricotta cheese and 2 oz mozzarella.  






















Next, scoop a generous helping of spinach mixture into each piece of chicken and roll it over.  

Then dip the breast into the egg and roll in bread crumbs.  Place into casserole dish and repeat with each breast.  Cook for 25 minutes.































Last, smother with marinara sauce and top with remaining mozzarella cheese and place back in the oven for 5 minutes until cheese is melted and it looks all amazing like this:












































Hope you enjoy!!!
Have a wonderful week! 
Mrs. Mock