I LOVE yummy recipes!!!

My favorite two meals! I love, love, love crock pots! Sorry I don't have any pictures!

Teryaki Shredded Pork:
1 1/2 cups soy sauce
4 cups water
2 cups sugar
1 Tbsp. cornstarch
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 Tbsp. ginger
5 lbs. pork loin/roast

Bring soy sauce, water, sugar, cornstarch, garlic, and ginger to boil. Take 1/2 of sauce and put with pork in crock pot for 4-5 hours on low heat. Set other 1/2 of sauce aside for later. Cook pork until tender with fork. Drain sauce from crock pot and take any excess fat off pork. Shred. Add remaining sauce back into crock pot until ready to serve. Serve over jasmine rice with stir fry veggies.

Creamy Crock Pot Chicken Tacos:
5 Chicken breasts, skinless and boneless
1 1/2 cups salsa
2 cans cream of chicken soup
2 1/2 Tbsp. taco seasoning
1 Tbsp. brown sugar
1 tsp. fresh lime juice
1 Tbsp. butter
1/2 cup sour cream

Spray inside of crock pot or use crock pot liner, place thawed chicken in.
In a small bowl, stir together everything but the butter and sour cream.
Pour sauce over chicken. Cover and cook high for 4 hours, or low for 6 hours.
Take chicken our of crock pot and put onto plate. Shred with fork and put back in.
Add the butter and sour cream, stir until incorporated.
Serve on tortillas with lettuce, cheese, and cilantro. YUMMY!

Evelette has been very busy lately discovering her hands and the fact that she can hold things all by herself. It's been really fun to watch her, she gets SO excited when you put something in her hands. She is to the stage where no matter what I am eating or holding she HAS to be holding it too. She is silly, she has to mark her territory by slobbering on anything she can get her cute little hands on, and when I say slobber I mean SLOBBER! haha. I just love how curious she is about all her surroundings, watching my EVERY move!

I feel so thankful that I am able to be a stay at home mom so that I get to experience all these little things! Mother's day was such a great day. There is truely nothing better than being a mom and having a wonderful husband who appreciates all I do. I am very blessed to have my wonderful little family!



Mother's day :)

  Evelette is one lucky little gal, she has the best dad!! He is so loving and takes her around the house with him everywhere. He loves to play with her and tickle her. He sure knows how to make her giggle!

Far too long..

As all of you know, I am TERRIBLE at updating my blog. My baby girl may just be my excuse haha.
Life has been amazing lately, nothing much to complain about! :) We have visited family in Utah quite a bit over the last few months and even went on a big camping/dirtbiking trip to Winnemucca with the Meinzer's and Wooden's. It was a LOT of fun, well until the massive hail and wind storm came that like demolished our tent and campsite. Everything was covered in sand and mud haha it was lovely! Thank goodness for my father-in-law's motorhome for a safe haven from the crazy storm! Luckily it was our last day there so it wasn't too bad to deal with. Evelette was SOO happy on that trip, loving being outside in the sunshine for pretty much the first time in her life, except walks, thanks to this unpredictable weather lately!

Don't you just love her cute sunhats?! Thanks to Grandma Blackwell her cute little head didn't get sunburnt :)

Mike had the time of his life riding hours on end at the sand dunes. There were a lot of fun ppl there to ride with him, my brother Brent Jr, Mike's dad Lynn, and brother's Jordan and Spencer, Cousin Terry Thompson who is always a crack up, and all of the wonderful Woodens!! Camping is always just that much more fun when you are surrounded with great people! :)



Michael, Brent, Terry, Lynn, Jordan



Mike and his brand new bike. What a cutie.

Brent's first big riding trip on his new bike!

I love this picture of Brent and Evey. Evey looks SO much like her uncle Brent!