the marlboro man sandwich

this afternoon while i was at walmart and dreading already the idea of making dinner, i walked past the meat section and saw cube steak on sale.  i grabbed it knowing i had a delicious recipe for it.  but then when i got honey's "i'll be home in 45 mins" text i checked out the recipe and saw that it was supposed to simmer for two hours.  hmmm, i hadn't remembered that part.

enter pioneer woman's marlboro man sandwich!  i already had all of the ingredients and nothing was too difficult and it didn't require me to multitask and it only dirtied one pan and it had tons of butter so it would probably be delicious.

next time i make it i'll: 

     remember to buy sandwich rolls... we may have eaten this on tiny french bread slices which was delicious but messy.  

    be more generous with seasonings and sauce.

    maybe split it in half and make christopher's spicy.

    definitely add more onions.  onions are always the best part.

pioneer woman's marlboro man sandwich

mmm delish.

in other news: 

tonight we went to a small birthday get together for one of abigail's closest friends.  i need to have jodi email me the pictures because oh my goodness those girls were soooo cute.  we had tons of fun and baby girl had the time of her life.

my anxiety is kinda out of control.  i have way too much to do before we leave town.  as a side note... my suitcase is sitting in my closet and has been for months... it's still not fully unpacked from dubai.  if that gives you any idea of how much i dislike packing/unpacking.

BABY GIRL SAID "THANK YOU" before bed tonight!!!  i was waiting for the kissing noise and instead, she actually said the words!  it was exciting but very bittersweet.  although it does sometimes get tiring explaining that when baby girl blows them a kiss after stealing their cheese-itz, she's actually saying thank you in sign language. 

and because she's been unloading tons of new words on us lately i have to note just a couple more.  at elle's party, baby girl picked out bubbles as her party favor.  it was probably the lamest thing in the basket but i let her make the decision and when we got home i put them on the counter and forgot about them.  as we were heading up for bed she kept pointing at them saying "bubbles! bubbles!" clear as day.  bubbles is a very cute toddler word.  

and then of course we were reading one of those picture vocabulary board books before bed and when i'd say the word i'd ask her to say the word and she did a good job with the words for at least half of the pictures and so many of them are words she's never tried to say before.  it's seriously crazy how fast kids learn.