Bacon Skillet Corn

I made this Bacon Skillet Corn to go perfectly with the Glazed Pork Chops I also made.

I started with can of corn, yep, a CAN of corn.

Next, I chopped up one whole green bell pepper and one whole yellow onion.

Of course, my little guy always steps in the help his mama out in the kitchen!

With the help of my little guy, the green peppers and onions were added to the corn. To corn mixture, I added about 1/2 teaspoon paprika, 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper and 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt. I mixed it all together and set aside.

I cooked 6 slices of bacon in the microwave. We have a bacon tray for the microwave. I cooked it as usual (3 minute increments until done with a paper towel over top to absorb some more grease).

After the bacon was done, I poured the bacon grease into a large skillet over medium/high heat added the corn mixture. I cooked until the onions were semi-transparent, stirring occasionally. Once finished, I crumbled the bacon and sprinkled over top of the corn mixture as I plated the corn.

Viola! Bacon Skillet Corn that was oh so yummy!

Let me know what you think!

Project Home Garden, In Progress

My hubby put in a garden this year. This year is his second year at attempting a garden. I am so proud of him as he has tried so hard to make this year's garden a big success.

Both of my boys have even gotten into helping him take care of it. The little guy even insisted on helping daddy till the garden.

Nothing is as cute as watching the boys out in the garden getting so excited over a red tomato!!

This weekend we were out in the garden and realized that we have a first ever WATERMELON...we attempted last year, but failed miserably at growing them!

We have WATERMELON!! woohoo!

There are a few of them growing, but we do have some odds against us...

1. being a cute little trouble maker of a beagle pup...Cooper.

 2. being a tomato loving beagle lady, Daisy! Yep, that would be my potted tomato plant that she was determined to get a GREEN tomato off of. She does not discriminate....green or red, she will eat them both! (don't worry though, she does not eat the leaves, which can be poisonous to dogs)

We are keeping our fingers crossed, to say the least, that we actually get to eat them!

It's the little things in life that us Watkins get excited about!

It's Lego Time

With the holidays and two boys, comes tons and tons of Legos. Which gives this mama a dilemma on a little bit of Lego storage. Of course, like any mommy these days, I headed over to Pinterest for ideas. Since we were building two Lego tables (one for each son to put in their room), we needed to go with a budget friendly option.

Low and behold, daddy and papa came up with a budget friendly, option that also allows us to move the tables from room to room or store them away, if needed.

We decided to use a folding table from Lowe's to allow us to move the tables around. For now we plan to keep them in their rooms, but may eventually move them to the playroom. We did place them in the center of their rooms to allow them to walk around the entire table as they play.

For each table we used 10 - Large Green Baseplates and 2 - Large Blue Baseplates, we decided to use a couple blue to use as "water" for the boats and ocean animals. With the table being 6 foot and the baseplates being 10 inch squares we were able to leave a border around the table as well as a small strip down the middle of the table.

First, we positioned the baseplates on the top of the table to get the proper layout. We actually connected the baseplates with Lego bricks to ensure they lined up correctly. Since we decided to leave a gap down the middle of the table, we actually built a little bridge to connect to the two baseplates to ensure the two sections were lined up properly. Once we had all the baseplates lined up and situated, we drew around the perimeter of all the baseplates with a marker to simply leave a border.

Next, we took all of the baseplates back off and taped off the inside of our baseplate border (drawn with the marker) to make sure no primer or paint got inside the area.We also taped off the legs to ensure no over-spray from the primer got on them.

We then lacquered the exposed, soon to "road" area. Since we are using the plastic based table, you have to lacquer the table to ensure the primer and paint will stick to the table with no peeling. Follow up by scuffing the table with steel wool or scotch bright. We used a medium grade steel wool.

After ensuring you have scuffed the entire painting area, simply primed the table. We used white spray Kilz White Latex Primer. The primer is available as a spray or brush on. We had a can of spray on hand so we just went with that. Once the primer dries we painted the table using Black Chalkboard Paint.

 

By using chalkboard paint, the boys can use chalk to draw road lines and anything else their little minds come up with. We allowed the tables to dry overnight.

The next day, we peeled the center coverings and tape off and glued down the baseplates. We used Loctite Spray Adhesive. Papa sprayed the glue as daddy quickly put the baseplate down connecting each glued baseplate with a lego brick to ensure the baseplates lined up properly.

We simply allowed the glue to dry and voila....you have a Lego table!

Of course, with Legos comes the need for storage. We went with the wide 3-drawer carts (we did not use the wheels). We used two carts for each table.

This 6 foot table is budget friendly and what kid would not love a 6 foot Lego table?! Are you in the market for a Lego table? What are your plans for fulfilling the Lego table needs?

**disclaimer: The above links are in no way affiliated with The Mommy Buzz. We received no compensation or exchanges for using the above links. We are simply showing the links to the stores we purchased the supplies from to build our tables.**

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