Chicken Tortilla Soup and Taco Seasoning

I thought I'd share a yummy Crock pot recipe with everyone this week! YOu can click on the banner and it will take you to, Diary of a Stay at Home Mom, our awesome hostess, Sandra. There you will find many more great slow cooking/ crock pot recipes.

Chicken Tortilla Soup

2 cups (cooked and shreeded chicken or cubed chicken)

1 small to medium onion, chopped

1 - 2 jalapenos, seeded and chopped

2 garlic cloves, pressed or chopped

1 TBSP taco Seasoning (I make my own now, and will post that recipe at the bottom)

6 cups of chicken broth

1/2 cup thick and chunky salsa

1/4 cup lime juice

1/4 cup of fresh cilantro

I add everything together in my crockpot. I usually cook on high for 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours, or on low 3 to 4. Serve or tortilla chips or strips, and garnish with cheese, sour cream, and diced tomatoes (if desired).

Taco Seasoning

6 tsp chilli powder

5 tsp cumin

2 1/2 tsp onion powder

1 tsp of garlic powder

1/2 tsp cayenne pepper

Mix together and store in air tight container!

Hope all enjoy!

Hugs and Blessings,

Silly Pumpkin Monsters

Today we had gone to Wal Mart and while there Lil E found these cute lil pieces to make faces on your pumpkins. Well there were different sets to pick from, but we had to have these silly crazy monster face ones! What better way to celebrate Lil E's Gotcha Day!!!! WOW!!! In 2004 Mommy flew there, and got to you about 11 at night, and held you in her arms for so long!!! The sweetest moments ever!!! Now it's' been 5 years and look at all you have become and all you are! YOu are my sweet sweet baby girl always!!!! Your Mommy and Daddy Love you very much!



So after we got home, we had lots of fun! We decorated our pumpkins!

And yes, she had have that crazy pumpkin mask, and they both loved it and had so much! They chased each other around for an hour out side! It was so awesome!!!!

HOpe yall have a great weekend!

Hugs and Blessings,

Pumpkin Patch and Faithful Fridays

Hope yall are having a great week and that everyone is staying healthy! We have many that we know that are in need of prayers, for swine flu cases. It was a beautiful fall day here today! So we headed out to another pumpkin patch! The girls loved it!!! How do you not have a blast chasing each other around the pumpkins! And it was a site to see, to watch Lil K trying to pick up all the bigger pumpkins! They had so much fun riding in the wagon too. It was really a great day! I thought I'd share a few pictures with yall.....

I love how they were both working together! Doesn't get much sweeter than this! *big grins*

My 2 favorite individual shots of each of the girls.

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Faithful Fridays

You can check other great Faithful Friday posts over of Doodlebug.

This week is a very different Faithful Friday for me.... As it is day after, Infant and Pregnancy Loss Day, this brings me to a very special prayer request, and that is for all that have been affected by this tragedy in life. And for all that are dealing with Infertility. One of my best friends, is struggling greatly with this very thing. They (Deborah and Paul) are on their last IUI, and we find out Monday if levels are high enough. Please pray they are!!!! She has great desires to be have another baby! They have struggled greatly with both infertility and miscarriage.

I am so happy to report that all is going great with the move and plans! God has opened so many doors that I never dreamed could be opened! I'm beyond happy with all that he is doing in our lives! We are so blessed!!! And we can't wait to get settled into our new home!!!

Just remember that God is with us always, and nothing is impossible for him! Even in our darkest hours, keep on praising him!

Luke 18:27

But he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

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Life around here! We have been very busy packing and cleaning out, as well as repainting the place we are in now, getting it all ready for us to move out. We are trying to have it ready to go the morning we pull out of here! As well as planning a trip to help move my parents next weekend. And we are going to be blessed with Company Halloween Weekend! Grandma and Papa will be visiting us for a few days! WE are so so so excited for this! And can't wait! Then it's the move! Wow, I can't believe it is nearly upon us! But excited too.

Hope everyone is doing well! Yall take care!

Hugs and Blessings,

October15th

Today is a very important day in my family! This brings up lots of sad emotions, and very happy and thankful too. Today is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Rememberance Day. You can go to www.october15th.com for information on this and to find out lots of support places, and all kinds of stuff.

This is near and dear to me for many reasons, my own loss, my family has been hit greatly with losses, and so have my friends. I have an Angel sister watching down. My mom's first born. It's very hard sometimes!

And I know many are saying, but you have 2 girls now. Yes I do! They are my everything, they are my gifts from God, and I'm so glad he has blessed us! But my heart breaks for the losses, and for everyone out their who has had to deal with this.

Go hugs and kiss your kids today, maybe read an extra story to them or something. Just know how blessed you are because of them!!!

And please please do remember all that have lost with a special prayer today!

I have a special thank you to my sweet friend, who made this banner for me! Thank you for helping me honor this day for the last several years!

Hugs and Blessings,

Scentsy Wickless Candles

I wasn't going to share this on the blog, but I have decided I would. I can't even begin to tell you how Happy I am. Have you ever heard about Scentsy? If not, they are the best candles around! They flameless and wickless! They have awesome burners for all styles. And the scents are so awesome and strong! I've been buying for a while, but decided to start selling. I have my website set up and you may check it out by clicking on the Scentsy logo up top. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Have a awesome Scentsy Day!

Hugs and Blessinigs,

Pumpkin Patch

My favorite time of the year has started! I love fall and Winter! I can't get enough of either one of these two! I love the colors, the crisp weather, the fun, the food, and and and... I could just keep going and going. I really do love it!

Things have been busy around here. On Friday we had to do some running around, and so I told the girls we could visit this pumpkin patch on our way home. The girls were both asleep and Mommy had to wake them. But they still had some fun! Each picked their own pumpkins. It was just to fun!!! It reminds me of taking Lil E the very first time. (her 2nd Halloween too). They ran from group to group!

Lil e ~ "Mom, how about these?"

Lil K ~"I can't pick it up!"

Getting the girls to stand for a picture, was near impossible! Especially Lil K, she was ready to run around for the freedom!

And here she is, picking her very own lil pumpkin! She wanted to carry one, so we found the small ones, so she could carry her own.

Look at what Lil E has found.... She come to me, saying "MOM MOM, LOOK it's a STRAWBERRY pumpkin!" "Can I have it? I want it."... and the answer was yes! It was just too cool to pass up!

Then it was home and time to get ready for homecoming! We first put our pumpkins out! :) So here is a pic of the 3 pumpkins we brought home from the lil pumpkin patch!

Even though the girls had lots of fun picking pumpkins and running free, what stood out the most to Lil E was watching the tractor with two trailers of pumpkins! She was blown away by the many pumpkins he had and was bringing up to sale!

Hope everyone had a great weekend and that you all have a wonderful and blessed week!

Hugs and Blessings,

Excited ~ I heart Faces!

I have decided to participate in the "I heart Faces" weekly challange. This weeks theme is ~ Excited! So I am using one of my new favorite pictures!

This was taken of Lil K last weekend! :) We were doing some Halloween pictures, and this just happens to be one of my favorites. She was busy running around and being silly! And was excited when we "Boo'd" her!

You can see many other excited faces, (i heart faces) by clicking the link!

Hugs and Blessigns,

Happy Fall!

It's so awesome! The weather is screaming fall! Everywhere we look, we are seeing fall! It is just so awesome! So this makes me super happy!!!!

Thought I'd share a couple of pictures of the girls! We love fall!

Happy Fall Yall!!!!!

Hugs and Blessings,

It's Official

We are moving! I can't believe it, but we are! And yes this will be our new home! (new to us) We are moving early Nov. And I can't wait! We are all excited and happy about the move! It is really a very positive move for our family!

We had hoped to, but things weren't working out. So I trully handed this to God, put it in his hands! And let it go! I asked the Lord to please make the way, open the closed doors, but in his time, not ours! Then out of no where, it it came to be! And when we got the call about the house, I was concerned. Is it cute, is it this or that. And even tried to talk myself out of us going to see it! But then we decided it go see the house!

The morning of the day we had planned to go see the house, started off bad! Everything that could go wrong this day, did! It was crazy!!! While driving in town before leaving here, I had 2 very very close calls with accidents! God had his hands on us and kept us safe and clear. I was about to give up! And then I said, oh no! This has to mean this is for sure God's will and that devil is trying to ruin it! Not going to happen! I picked up the phone, still shaked by the last near miss, and I tell James. "Hi honey, all I can say is things must be about to get really GREAT, and that devil is working over time. Just keep Praising him in these storms! Don't let the devil in." Of course he is then wanting to know what all is happening. I tell him about all that had gone wrong and that I had almost cancelled the appointment! But God didn't let me!

Before I knew it, I was there! I loved the outside! But let me tell you, when I walked inside, I feel in love!!! It has lots of character and charm! Just darling! I can't wait to get it all set up and ready to go, and share a few pictures too!

Everyone loved it! And let me tell you, OH MY! It's the American Dream to have the house with a white picket fence, or it was mine! The fence around the back, is a white picket fence! Just the cutest! I can't wait to get it all decorated and fixed up for the holidays too! I love Christmas!

Hope everyone is doing great!

Hugs and Blessings,

Faithful Friday

You can click on the button and it will take you to Joy's blog where you can take part in this awesome sharing of our Faith!

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This week's post is a lil different. I am sharing a video of Praise you in the Storm by Casting Crowns, this is something I thought I'd share with you all this week, because it's been a big help to me. We are dealing with some difficult issues in our lives right now, but I know that God has a plan that is greater than we are! And I have to keep praising him and walking in his faith! Even though it's hard.

Hope it may inspire you too.

Hugs and Blessings,