Taco Soup

I love this easy soup. We eat it all year. Easy & yummy... My 2 favorite things.

What you'll need:
1-2 lbs hamburger meat (browned & drained)
2 cans corn
2 cans black beans*
2 cans kidney beans*
1 can Rotel
1/2 pkg taco seasoning
1/2 pkg ranch dressing mix
* if you have pinto beans you may use instead of black or kidney. Any combo works. Make sure you rinse & drain your beans.

Mix all of these things in your big pot. Cook with lid on for about 20-30 minutes. Serve with cheese, sour cream, avocado & chips. Mmmm!!!

Southwest Chicken

One of my favorite recipes is Southwest Chicken. It's so easy & everyone in my family eats at least something out of it.



You'll need:
Boneless skinless chicken breasts (3-6)
Can corn (1 or 2)*
Can black beans (1 or 2)*
Jar of Salsa

* I use 2 jars of one & 1 jar of the other. Does not matter which one.




Pour cans & about 1 cup salsa into crock pot. Stir it up.


Place chicken on top of vegetables & then cover chicken with the remaining salsa. Cook on high for 4 hours.



When chicken is about 10 minutes from being done, add some shredded cheese. Cook until melted.



I believe the original recipe said to serve over rice, but we love Mexican food & we love chips, so this is how we eat it. Yummy!

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Pulled Pork

One of our favorite meals...

I got this from Pinterest & my family loves it. And I love it! I'm not a big fan of cooking, but I've been a lot better. Well, if you count cooking in the crockpot. My boys are actually starting to eat and it is expensive to eat out! Plus we just have too many kids and too many meltdowns. And I'm just too tired and lazy. :) So, about the food. Here is the original recipe.

You will need:
pork butt
a soda of your choice
Lawry's Seasoning Salt
Sweet Baby Ray's barbeque sauce
Kaiser Rolls

Coat the pork butt in Lawry's Season Salt & place in crock pot

Cover with about 1/2 - 3/4 of BBQ sauce

Pour in the soda & cook on high for about 4 hours. Once almost ready, pull apart with 2 forks & let it soak up the soda. Serve on kaiser rolls. Delish!!!

The Day before Easter - Traditions

On Saturday we went to Scott's side and hunted eggs with all of our cousins.


Each year we make a bunny cake. Here is this year's. Caleb & Gavin were so proud - it was their favorite one so far.


Dying eggs


This was Lyla's first year to dye eggs. She loved it! However, she did not understand that the eggs would break and she was really rough dropping them in the dye and throwing them into the egg carton. So cute & fun!


Baskets left for Easter bunny

April Fools Day

Because I am such a great cook and believe that everything that goes into my family's mouth should be healthy, I whipped up a balanced meal and took it to Caleb & Gavin for lunch. I started out with cupcakes...



My friend, Christie & I added peas & carrots to the first couple, AKA Jelly Beans shaped like peas & carrots.



We knew they would love some buttery corn on the cob, so we added some yellow icing and popcorn flavored jellybeans. Later on in the photos you will see that the corn begged for more butter. Our butter consisted of Banana Laffy Taffy. Pepper = poppy seeds


Everyone loves mashed potatoes and gravy. Especially when it is white icing, carmel sauce and Laffy Taffy!


The popcorn made of marshmallows...


The entire balanced meal. I didn't get a close up of my favorite, Spaghetti & meatballs. We used White icing piped through a baggie snipped at the corner, one Chocolate Truffle covered in Raspberry jelly. YUM!


Caleb & Gavin were so excited about their special meal. Just to clarify, I did give them a real lunch... if you count Sonic!



* I did not come up with this idea. We got it from a cute blog www.ourbestbites.com Check it out! Cute stuff!