What's for supper?

I am trying a new recipe tonight and hope it turns out yummy!

Here it is...

Slow Cooker Tex-Mex Chicken

4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts

1 cup salsa

1 package Taco Seasoning or Fajita Seasoning

1 can Cream of Mushroom soup

1/2 cup sour cream cream

Place chicken in bottom of slow cooker

Layer on seasoning mix

Layer on salsa

Add cream of mushroom soup

Cook on Low heat for 6 – 8 hours

Stir in sour cream

Serve on fajita sized tortillas with some shredded mexican belnd cheese

I will be sure to post some pics of the finished product and let you know if you need to try it too later!!

EDITED: This was wonderful!! You must try it! And boy did it smell yummy while it was cooking!! I served with Cheese Crisps and Corn.

Beach Bear Cupcakes

We are having Vacation Bible School at our church right now. We are a smaller church and last year decided that just incorporating the VBS curriculum for Wednesday nights throughout the summer would work better for us than to do the usual every day or night schedule. It worked great last year and is going great again this year too! We use Lifeway's Outrigger Island curriculum and were blessed to receive all the materials and decorations from our former church Westwood Baptist. This is such a blessing when you are working on a very limited budget!

So anyway, when we were at Westwood, I was always in charge of the snacks for the Preschool Children, and I did not like to do the normal cookies and juice snacks! :) I thought "why should the older kids get cool snacks and the younger ones not?" So I always tried to do some really neat/cute snacks for them. So my job of "snack maker" just carried over when we started VBS last year at Straightway. I try to theme my snacks around the theme of the curriculum, so this year we had fruit cocktail the first week, "Sand" (I will share pics and recipe later), and Beach Bear cupcakes so far. The Beach Bear cupcakes turned out so cute I wanted to share the pics and recipe with you.

Regular white cake mix and prepared as directed.

Canned whipped icing

Crushed graham crackers for the "sand"

Teddy grahams with a gummy lifesaver around the waist

Paper drink umbrella

Wordless Wednesday (a little late)

Now I lay me down to sleep...

Just peeking in....

Look what we found just peeking in this past weekend!! I can't believe a tooth---already!!

4 month old well-baby visit

I took Hayden in for his 4-month well-baby visit today. He is doing awesome! Obviously after our last reaction with the vaccines, we have chosen to delay them--at least for now. So we came away happy campers and aren't having to spend the evening in the ER like last time!

Just a few tidbits of info:

• He weighed 14 lbs 1 oz.
• He was 25 1/2" long
• We can "officially" start giving him some rice cereal now (and boy is he ready for it!! He wants everything we put in our mouths these days!!)
• He is now rolling, and rolling, and rolling! Gone are the days of laying him in the middle of my bed and knowing he was ok!
• He plays peek-a-boo with you now. He will put his bib or blanket over his face and when you say "peek-a-boo", he pulls it down and laughs.
• He imitates...today Granddaddy was turning his head to the side and Hayden started copying it everytime he did it--so cute!
• He is absolutely rotten to the core---but oh so adorable!!

50 Years--What A Testimony!

First of all, let me say I am LOVING these new collages done on Picasa. It makes adding lots of pictures so quick and easy! Remember too, that you can click on the picture itself and it will enlarge it so that you can see the pictures better! So cool!!

Ok, back to what this post is actually about. Frank's parents celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary on June 28th. Frank's sister did a fabulous job planning a surprise celebration for them. Saturday afternoon we walked over to their house (lugging baby carrier, base and all). They had no clue why we had walked over of course and we had to try to act nonchalant about it too. So we go inside their house...and sit. They knew that something was going on, but really had no clue of what was to come....which was a limousine no less. They had never even ridden in one before! It was one of those really really stretch ones and the kids thought they were in heaven (as you can tell by the pictures!). They loved driving by people and having people look and possibly wonder who was in there (and I have to admit it is kind of neat!) Frank's mother even cracked the window just a little bit and waved just her fingers out at some people on the side of the road and they waved back, kind of hesitantly. It would have made a funny "Funniest Home Videos".

So the limo took us down to the Chattanooga Choo Choo where we ate at The Station House, which features singing waiters and waitresses. They dedicated two songs to Frank's parents.

After the incredibly expensive dinner (the food is high, plus they added gratuity since we were a big party, PLUS they add a music/entertainment fee of 15%---WHAT????--And the food was not really even that good---oh well, the fellowship was worth it), we went on a horse carriage ride through downtown Chattanooga. It was kind of stormy right after we ate, so we had to wait just a little bit, but then it cleared up and was nice and cool and just the perfect night for the ride. All the grandkids (except Hayden) got to ride in the "Cinderella/Wedding" carriage with Grandmomma and Poppa (Frank's parents), other friends that went with us rode in a carriage, and Frank's sister and husband rode with Frank, Hayden (who loved the ride!), and me. We had a really nice evening. But the best part about it is having parents/in-laws who have survived 50 years with each other. That is such a testimony for their children and their grandchildren, not to mention all the other lives that they affect. I thank God for them and what they taught my husband about a healthy marriage and family.

Congratulations on 50 years and I pray you will be blessed with many many more!

Cloth Diapers????

Yes, these are the cloth diapers of this age!! Aren't they cute?? And some of you may ask---what in the world is she doing putting cloth diapers on that child?? Well, so far I haven't determined that they are "the best" for him or anything, but I am looking more at it as a way to save a little money in this day of every thing in the world has sky high prices!! I am only cloth diapering at night right now, because Hayden never has a poopy diaper at night and most of the time doesn't pee a whole lot either. So I figure saving 1 diaper a night is 30 diapers a month and that can add up at least a little bit of savings!! Isn't he just adorable???