Easy Enchiladas

These are the easiest enchilada's ever. I have wanted to post this for a while...

Take 3 pieces of chicken
1 can of black beans
1 can of corn
1 can of salsa

Throw these ingredients into the crock pot on low to cook for about 6 hours.

Take the ingredients out of the crock pot and put into a bowl and shred the chicken.

Mix in some cheese and enchilada sauce.

Take some tortillas and put the mixture in the tortillas, roll them up then place them in a pan.

Take some more enchilada sauce and pour over the top, I am generous with the amount I put on and tried green enchilada sauce last time (which is Jared's favorite) and it was delicious. Then you douse the top with cheese and cook at 350 for about 25 minutes, until the cheese melts. Delicious!!!

Just a thought

Does anyone commiserate with me on this one...how am I supposed to see my eyebrows when I pluck them, when I cannot do it with my glasses on, but I need my glasses to be able to see, but I am not yet blind enough for my insurance to pay for full-time contacts? It is a little difficult!

I Give Up!

So I get asked often my age. People tell me I look like I am 16, and although I do still feel like a teenager, I have no idea how I reached my old age of 28, but my crows feet around my eyes, and laugh lines on my face are beginning to show- I guess people just don't look close enough. Last summer I was asked if I was my kid's nanny as I was vacationing in Newport Beach getting an ice cream while tugging the kids behind me in the wagon. When I told the man I was their mother, he said "What are you, 12?" Last week I was at a scrapbook retreat and a woman stopped me just before I was about to leave (I had been looking at her all day long as there were only about 24 of us in this big scrapbook room) and she said, I have been watching you and it doesn't look like you are here with your mom, please tell me you are not a mother yourself. I told here I was scrapbooking books for my two children, 4 1/2 and 2. She couldn't believe it. I was told yesterday that I look like I am a teenager and way too young to have any kids.
Over a year ago, I cut my hair short, equating that shorter hair, when styled I should ad, usually makes one look older. I even went as far as shopping in the women's department in clothing stores trying to find something more mature. I threw away a bunch of my high school clothes, feeling that time was way over due, although I have to admit I do still have a few items of clothing that I wear, from 11 years ago and I have to say I think they are still in good taste for the most part. Anyhow, today I am doing away with any attempts to try to make myself look older and I will embrace my youthfulness. So, I threw on some jeans, a dragon shirt and pulled my hair back in a pony, I have officially given up and it feels great.

Princess

Carson and I were in the office, as you can see the mess behind Carson. He was playing in my craft drawer and pulled out our Happy Birthday sign. Well, I turned my attention back to the computer and he came up to me and said "Look, I am a Princess." My boys love princesses and why not, they are usually beautiful. I think they have Jared a teensy bit worried about the whole princess thing. I wish you could have heard Carson telling me he was a princess. It was priceless, as most everything he does and says is.

Ode to Jar

So, yesterday I had an ALL-DAY scrapbooking event with my good friend Rachel down in San Diego. It was such a blast. I have to plan these retreats so that I can actually set time aside to scrapbook without a whole lot of distraction. It is so great. Well, apparently I need to go away a little bit more often because the boys all do so well without me. Jared was so incredibly productive he made me feel a little bit guilty. He told me everything he did on Saturday, took Hayden to his soccer game, folded all the clean clothes (which by the way were several loads that had been piling up on our bedroom floor), including washing a new load of whites, and put the clothes by the kids doors, vacuumed the downstairs, painted two coats of paint on our kitchen chairs, mowed the grass, showered the kids, cleaned the kitchen, mopped the floor, and had playtime outside with the kids in the cul-de-sac. He even ventured out with the kids and treated them to dinner because they had such a great day. I was so impressed. The kids woke up so happy today. I told him he was hired and I was leaving next Saturday. Anyone have any ideas of someplace to go??? hehe. What a great guy.

Crack

Carson woke up a little grumpy the other day. He was a lot happier when he saw me jump in over the side of his crib. The great thing about him is that he is easy to crack, and he has the most adorable smile so he is fun to get laugh. Hayden was quick to grab the camera and capture the moment.

Front Fell Off

This is Hilarious!!! If you want a good laugh, have a listen.

Carson's Expressions

Carson is such a hoot and all the pictures below were all within seconds of each other. He is so expressive and fun!!!

First Day of Kinder Prep Academy

Here is our big guy on his first (ok so really it is the second day, the first day was too crazy) of Kinder Prep Academy.

Blog Worthy Moment

So, let me tell you a little bit about our morning. I dropped off Hayden at his second day of pre-school, came home and showered and thought I would take advantage of the time I have with just one child to go get some shopping done. So, I went to several different stores with Carson and at the last store, Kohl's I thought to myself, self you forgot the stroller and Khol's doesn't have shopping carts for kids to sit in, so now would be a great time to teach Carson how to walk beside me. I needed to return an item and thought I would do some quick browsing of the clearance items, which are always great, and I had timed it perfectly to give me about 15 minutes in the store, not too much time to do damage but just right to pick up Hayden on time from school. So about 5 minutes prior to us needing to leave, Carson and I were browsing and Carson wondered off too far from me, so I asked him to come back and stand beside me. He came by me for a minute then he was gone again and it took me about 30 seconds to realize he hadn't come back. I started softly calling and will usually hear his feet running towards me, nothing. I started broadening my search a little still calling him but hearing nothing and not seeing him anywhere. Within about a minute of calling him this lady who was shopping next to me said, "you haven't found him yet?" then a Kohl's worker was standing right there and came over and we told her we were missing a little boy. She called in code yellow, still I was thinking we will find him any minute. Well, 10 minutes later, I am running through the store yelling his name, looking low, I searched in the bathrooms- yes men's too, I didn't care what I might find in there, I went outside to see if he had gone to the car, then as I turned to come back inside I was sweating bullets and started sobbing and panic totally set in. This sweet angel came and put her arm around me reassuring me we would find him. There were about 30 people looking for him. Luckily I had a picture on my phone of what he looked like and started showing it to people as I am still running through the store. Employees all had to drop whatever they were doing and search, they had all the entrances locked down and all security personnel out. I had to call Jared to have him get a hold of Hayden's teacher, since I was already late to pick up Hayden- I had been late all week taking him and picking him up and I was so determined to be on time today, no such luck. After 20 torturous minutes of searching and panic, I was told he had been found. There were about 15 people all rallied around us when they gave Carson back to me and I started sobbing. People were clapping and so elated at the reunion. So, turns out he wanted to play a little game of hide and seek with mommy. He hid behind the jeans on the wall right behind me, we had thoroughly searched all the middle racks but not so much the outside ones on the wall. He told me he had poops, and he likes his privacy when he wants to go to the bathroom, so it made sense to me that he hid. When he got home he kept saying, "Mommy, you sad? I give you kiss." Thank heaven for all the angels who stopped shopping and helped me look for my little boy. I had an instant support team and I was so thankful for that. Now I just hope I can go back and find those clearance items I threw down in a pile, hehe.

Labor Day Fun

Our neighbors have an annual Labor Day party on the cul-de-sac right next us. It was so much fun. They rent a huge water slide, everyone brings chairs and a side dish and we ate and talked and played. They block off the street and all the kids run around, going from house to house having a blast. We took the kids out at 11:30 a.m. and came back inside at 6:30 p.m. It was really a blast.

Slip n' Sliden

Mmmm, yummy ice cream. He wore more than he got in his mouth, but he loved every minute of it.

I think this is about how he was feeling about mid-afternoon, he was so exhausted.

Weeeeeeee

Question Time

I asked Hayden, age 4 the following questions and wrote down his first responses...
1. What is something mom always says to you?
No
2. What makes mom happy?
When I do things you ask me to do
3. What makes mom sad?.
When I don’t do things you ask me to do
4. How does your mom make you laugh?
Tickling me
5. What was your mom like as a child?
Like me
6. How old is your mom?
35
7. How tall is your mom?
Taller than me and Carson and smaller than dad
8. What is her favorite thing to do?
Go to church
9. What does your mom do when you're not around?
Play with Carson
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?
I don’t know what famous means!
11. What is your mom really good at?
You are really good at playing basketball (???)
12. What is your mom not very good at?
Not so good at getting us toys (He would mean buying him all the toys he asks for)
13. What does your mom do for her job?
Work on the computer and take care of us
14. What is your mom's favorite food?
Pineapple
15. What makes you proud of your mom?
Like when I share my food with a friend or something when they don’t have any food.
16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be?
Leo on Little Einsteins.
17. What do you and your mom do together?
Play games and stuff.
18. How are you and your mom the same?
We have the same skin.
19. How are you and your mom different?
Cause I am a boy and you are a girl.
20. How do you know your mom loves you?
Cause you say that almost every day.

Warning...Blog under Construction

We are having some blogging issues. As I am sure you who check our blog regularly know, we have been in need of some major re-modeling, hehe, and in the process, I lost A LOT of stuff- oops. So, if you don't see your link posted, it means I lost it in the process so please leave it in a comment so I can re-post it, please.