Spring?

Hmmmmmm, while the calendar says Spring is officially here, I think good ole' Momma Nature is a bit confused. This was the snow progression yesterday afternoon starting about 4 pm (so much for the snow arriving at midnight like the forecasters originally said). We ended up with about 2" after everything was all said & done. Hmmmph, not sure about you, but we are MORE than ready for Spring. We've got bulbs that are already coming up.......crazy Michigan weather!

This past week has been pretty busy - we've had a lot of things going on. Wednesday was the first Kronk Gym Fundraiser that took place at the Townsend in Birminghan. You can check out some of the "seen & be seen" photos from the event here. It was a great event - I think everyone enjoyed themselves and funds were raised to help with the gym.
Then, Saturday, I hosted my Entertaining at Home Party. It was a nice afternoon I got to spend with some girlfriends and our mom's as well. Dad and Glen were banished to the 'Man Cave' ;o) and spent the afternoon searching for sports to watch, unfortunately, Food Network was the best they could do.
And HOW ABOUT THOSE SPARTANS?! Although we are a Maize & Blue household, we are more than happy to root for the Green & White when they're not playing the Wolverines. Needless to say, you know what we'll be tuned into this weekend!
Well, hang in there on this cold winter like Monday!
Min & Glen

Congrats to Tom & Teri!

My cousin Teri, her husband Tom and big brother Adam welcomed a new baby girl into their family this morning at 4:58 am. Baby was 9lbs, 11oz, 21" long. Mom & baby are both doing fine. Can't wait to see the photos. Congrats again!!

I hope everyone had a nice weekend! Of course, it's NCAA Tourney time - I think my bracket is worthy of being delivered to the circular file at this point after the weekend. But Glen, he's still hanging strong! We were hoping for some nice spring time weather this weekend to finish up a few more things around the house - imagine our surprise when we woke up Saturday morning to snow flurries!? What the Heck?! It warmed up in the afternoon and we were able to open the windows a bit - only in Michigan I tell ya! Things have been busy at our house. Amazing how much cleaning you can do with a new vacuum!! ;) We're getting ready for my Entertaining At Home party this Saturday afternoon. If you can't make it to the party, but want to check out some of the great serving dishes, trays and other items, check out Christie's website. They've got some great entertaining products!!

We're also helping my folks this Wednesday with the Kronk Gym Fund Raiser selling Kronk merchandise, so we're wrapping things up here, updating sale signs, printing tags - all that fun stuff! Have to run to the mall at lunch today and see if I can't find something to wear.

We also found out that my dad is an internet star Saturday. Turns out the man who told President Obama he'd take him on in bowling from the special olympics group, bowls with my dad. Here's the link to the video they did on Kolan McConiughey. You can View the video here. Special Olympics Champ to Barack - bring it on! I think it's a great story about

Well, that's about all the excitement here - not sure we could handle too much more excitement on a Monday! ;o) Hope you have a great day!

Min & Glen

Our New Addition

It doesn't have a name yet, but boy does it SUCK! This thing will suck the nose off Michael Jackson!!

How funny is this that the older we get, the less it takes to excite us? Isn't it cute? And I LOVE the color!! It matches the decor - nice & tropical! It was a super productive weekend here at the Kay house. Yesterday morning, I had hairapy, which was seriously needed. Yesterday afternoon, we had an appointment with our tax lady to finish our taxes. So after we left her office doing the Happy Tax Dance, we stopped at the vacuum store. We've been talking about getting a new vacuum. We wanted to check out the Dyson and see how we liked it. Having Giz and Tuck, we have a ton of fur and vaccum on a super regular basis. Anyway, an hour and a half later, we left with our Riccar. What you may ask? Riccar - it's a canister vacuum (they have uprights too), but this thing is so cool - it doesn't blow stuff around on the tile, one swipe on the carpet and the whatever is gone. It's absolutely amazing!! Funny how a new gadget makes a chore not so bad, huh? After that Glen got his hair did and we went to the pet store to pick up a few more fish. We ended up with 9 more and BOY has our tank been active.We picked up some Sunset Platty's, a blue dwarf gourami for our guy who lost his Buddie not too long ago, two scissor tail, two sword tail (I think that's what they are) and I can't remember what the other two are. But, they sure are busy!

So, today, the vacuum came out again and we've been on our spring cleaning mission, despite losing an hour - Spring is RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER! (Did you remember to turn your clock forward and change your smoke detector batteries?) Talk about progress! And this weekend really was a good weekend for cleaning. It was so rainy & yucky.

We hope your weekend was productive. Now we're listening to THUNDERSTORMS! Ah, good ole Michigan weather!

Min & Glen

Quick & Easy Dinner

YUMMO! Glen and I tried a new recipe last night - some how or another we've never made stuffed peppers before. Well, we found a recipe that sounded good to us and made a few changes - we used sweet red peppers instead of the green peppers and gave it a try last night! A DEFINITE DO OVER!!! So I thought I'd share.

Sweet Stuffed Red Peppers

2 Medium Sweet Red Peppers

1 pound ground beef

2 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce, divided

1/2 cup uncooked instant rice

6 tablespoons shredded cheddar cheese, divided

2 tablespoon chopped onion

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

2 egg, beaten

Slice peppers in half long way (I guess you could cut them in half short ways to and make mini cups), remove seeds and discard tops & stems. Blanch peppers in boiling water for 5 minutes (this was a first - I've never done any blanching - was kind of cool - yep, lame I know, amazing what small things entertain me). Drain and rinse in cold water; set aside.

In a bowl, combine beef, 1/2 cup of tomato sauce, rice, 4 tablespoons of cheese, onion, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper and egg; mix well. Stuff the peppers; place in an ungreased 1-1/2-qt. baking dish. Pour the remaining tomato sauce over peppers. Cover and bake at 350° for 45-60 minutes or until meat is no longer pink and peppers are tender. Sprinkle with remaining cheese; return to the oven for 5 minutes or until cheese is melted.

Enjoy with a little sour cream on the side (Sounds weird, but we're a Polish family and eat our cabbage rolls with sour cream too)!

Enjoy!

Min & Glen

A chance to sit down with a legend

What a cool night we had Thursday night. For quite sometime my mom has been doing all the embroidery and heat sets for the Kronk Gym. Both my mom and dad have worked on a regular basis with Emanuel Steward's daughter on all the clothing as well as charity events.

Well, we had a chance to sit down with Emanuel, Sylvia and my mom and dad Thursday night. What a super cool way to spend the evening.

We got to meet Andy Lee also, one of Emanuel's current boxers.

If you'd like to get your hands on some of the cool Kronk merchandise, you can order directly from the Kronk store website.

Check it out.

Happy Snowy Day!

Min & Glen