drama!!!!!

OH MY GOODNESS....I had to figure out how to detach my old biola email address from this blog to a new one...I thought I was techy-I apparently am not since it took me a hour to figure it out. SO...It's been almost a year since my/our last post about our family adventures. I want to try to fix that. I have a LOT to catch you up on....i'll attempt to post a small novel (i promise!) each day to start to update you. In the meantime...we off to Basketball practice for the little guy! Talk to you soon : )

Let the snowball begin!!!

For those of you who have followed our journey through debt....I just wanted to share a wonderful bit of news!! Back in November, I was asked to sub in my mom-in-laws district office to help out with office work. As of today, March 10th, we have paid off our first credit card!!! We have four more to go....but, we need to celebrate the 'wins' here!! We are celebrating by having a 'destroy the card' night with the kids since they have sacrificed as well with me going back to work.

Also...be praying. There might be the opportunity to have a permanent job at the district only working 25hrs a week for 11 months!! That would make sure i'd be home in time to pick up the kids from school....and have July off with them this summer!! We'd have to figure out two weeks in June and two weeks in August....BUT....it'd be pretty awesome.

Thank you all for your support over these months and years. It's been such a blessing.

YAHOO!!!!!

catching up

Do you ever feel like you are constantly catching up!??! I just found our small digital camera with photos from before christmas!! Here is one of our Adventures in Glendale to see the 'snow' and santa...




At the Americana, they did that bubble snow for about 15m. We ran so fast to get to where the snow would be (we were stuck in traffic getting there) while Ry drove to find a parking spot.



And every mad dash to see snow and santa would only be complete by an In n Out dinner!!!

So....at least it's not Easter when i'm posting these!!

SNOW

We experienced this beautiful view this morning outside our window

I don't think that I will ever get used to this lovely view...I love our foothills

This is right outside our porch. Good Morning, Sunday! We love this welcomed cold weather!
have a great Sunday, friends!

Back to school...

I'm back to school at Biola now. Last Monday was the first Monday back. Sitting here at the computer getting my Monday schedule down...planning out direction sessions...thinking of questions to ask about the books the classes are reading...realizing I should have read more this weekend than clean and watch the Super Bowl and write a short post on the blog...sigh...

BUT...the weekend was a.maz.ing! The weather was beautiful and we had plans all weekend and all of a sudden they all got dropped due to illness (we have been sick on and off since we moved here-hurray allergies). So we were home all weekend instead of traveling all about. How nice was that to just have a free weekend!

What did you all do? How was your Super Bowl ? : ) Have a great week!

latest crock pot find

This recipe was very well received. We had friends who also needed a meal that night (don't you hate when you discover that you have NO food in your fridge!) and it yielded enough food for their family of six and ours of four! We just added a quick quesadilla for their dear veggie daughter, a bag of salad and made a full pot of couscous (didn't have enough rice, which I think would have been the best side for this dish) and it fed us all...well!!! and even the kids loved it and went back for more. In case the link doesn't work, here is the recipe:

--12 boneless, skinless chicken thighs, or 6 boneless, skinless breast halves
--1 cup brown sugar (it's okay. you can brush your teeth after.)
--1/4 cup lemon-lime soda (stay with me...)
--2/3 cup vinegar (I used white wine, but think regular white would be fine)
--3 cloves smashed and chopped garlic
--2 T soy sauce
--1 tsp ground black pepper

The Directions.

Use a 4 quart crockpot for this recipe.

Plop the chicken into your crockpot. Cover with the brown sugar, pepper, chopped garlic, and soy sauce. Add the vinegar, and pour in the soda. It will bubble!

Cover and cook on low for 6-9 hours, or on high for 4-5. The chicken is done when it is cooked through and has reached desired consistency. The longer you cook it, the more tender it will be.

Serve over a bowl of white rice with a ladle full of the broth.

Enjoy!!

Yummy chicken!

So...this is sooooo so simple....the latest crock pot meal!

take your frozen chicken...dump it in your crock pot....
pour over a bottle of salsa (we use pace picante medium)
turn on low for the day...
come home. turn off. pull out chicken. it just tears all apart...it's shredded amazing juicy chicken for burritos and nachos for dinner.

do it!!
if you have more crock pot meals, send them my way : ) i'll test them out on our fam. the kids loved the chicken-but i didn't tell them about it-i just made their burritos and they ate them! if i would have told them salsa was the main ingredient-i would have lost them!

enjoy!