big hungry caterpillars.

It has been amazing outside the past few days!! This is the exact type of weather I was hoping for before we get into the really cold months. 
Yesterday, we took advantage of the nice weather..playing outside a bit and finally releasing Nolan's butterflies.  Such a cool little project... we will definitely do it every year now that i know how easy and neat it is.  The whole thing started one day when Nolan was playing at my parents house.  He found this big, green caterpillar and my dad poked holes in the lid of a coffee container and put the Caterpillar in along with some grass... Nolan brought it home and of course did not want to let his new friend go outside.. so that night i went online and did some Caterpillar research.  Apparently, caterpillars don't really need anything to survive.. just a container with holes to breath.  So we turned it into our little project and would go for "caterpillar hunts" everyday to find as many as we could.  We found 6 total - 3 different types.  All but one are in cocoons now. We opened the lid a few days ago to discover two had turned into butterflies.. so yesterday was the day we had been waiting for.. to finally let them go "home".  Next year we will definitely use a bug cage of some sort so we can actually see whats going on.. although we did sit and watch one make a cocoon one day... So cool!

I finally got my etsy shop back up and running :)  Only 3 listings on there so far.. but hoping to add more soon! I did finish another hat but it's already in the mail on its way to someone special :)

And last but not least.. since I have been slacking on the recipes lately.  Here's a super easy one that we use a lot.
Chicken Enchiladas
2 cups shredded cooked chicken
1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar or mexican cheese
1/2 cup ranch dressing
1/4 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons diced green chilli's, drained
tortillas
- mix chicken, 3/4 cups of cheese, ranch dressing, sour cream & green chilli's all together in a bowl. divide mixture into tortillas, wrap, place in baking dish and top with remaining cheese.  Bake at 350 for 20 min,
These can be made healthier by using all organic ingredients and using light dressing, sour cream and whole wheat tortillas.  A friends mom use to always make these when i ate over and they were always sooo good.   I got the recipe from her when I started dating Aaron because I knew it was something he would actually eat... He was SOOOOO picky when we first met- thank god hes gotten better!!