Mexican Chicken Casserole

I was told no more grocery shopping before we move so we can use up what we have in the house already.  I'm getting creative with my cooking now lol.  I made this the one night, and it turned out surprisingly good, leftovers were even better!!

Chicken Mexican Casserole (serves at least 9)

1 can Rotel
1 can creamed chicken soup
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 small container sour cream
1 small can jalapenos (optional)
4 cooked chicken breasts
1 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
1 box cooked pasta (penne rigate,something small)

Mix all the soups, Rotel, cheese together in large bowl.  Add your choice of peppers and chicken, when well mixed, add pasta.  Pour into 9x12 baking pan and pop into the oven for 30 minutes.

My Scarf Addiction

While I'm at work I do devote a portion of my day to my pinning to perserve what's left of my sanity. I'm a proud Pinterest addict (which you can find me here.) Since I'm slowly packing up all my treasured junk, I've been paying special attention to how to get myself organized. No better time that the present right? I've seen a million pins about how to hang my "few" scarves, which I think makes it easier to find than all thrown in a pile on my dresser.  I bought the heavy wood hangers (less than $5) and clear shower hooks ($1.16) from WalMart.  I guess I didn't realize how many I have because I needed two of the hangers.  Then I thought it was such a great idea, I hung all my bras that way too.  For your protection, I'm only showing the scarves!!!

Looking for New Roofs

As my post a month ago said, I'm in the market to find a new roof to have over my head.  I did discover one thing while looking, rent is outrageous here. To find similar square footage is around $1200 a month. So after looking at countless apartments, we decided to go big and buy a house. You'd think that at almost 40 we would have already did that, but we have a habit of doing things a little backwards. Now, onto finding a house, and finding a house fast. We enlisted the help of a realtor (hi Bev!) who has the patience of a saint. Scott and I have in mind what we want and realize it's not going to happen so we have to find something that we can work with.

I was told this was common in older homes, it's planter

I saw A LOT of purple,pink, and yellow bathrooms with matching tubs

The hunting wasn't going well...until what I thought was the house of my dreams...this beautiful 3 bedroom on 18 acres!!!

This house had everything that I could ever ask for...a master bedroom/bath/closet of my dreams, fireplaces, 2 car garage, and out in the middle of nowhere. It had been on the market for a long time, but it wasn't selling. The bank dropped the price to the most amazing figure, and we immediately put in an offer, but it just wasn't enough. There was 16 offers on the house sadly enough. It was quite a distance from where we are now, so maybe it was a sign...off to keep looking.

Baby Shower Lovelies

Better late than never, here are some pictures of the baby shower that I hosted for my step daughter.  I didn't get to put as much effort as I wanted with everything else going on, but it went great and I received a ton of compliments (thanks Pinterest!)   Daughter was happy and that's what matters most.  We hosted in a local state park cottage, and I highly recommend doing it!!  We were comparing prices and this won out by a landslide.  Since it was on short notice to begin with (had less than a month), it was difficult to find spots and most averaged around $100 an hour.  WHOA!  This beautiful all wood cottage with a fabby kitchen and fireplace was only $95 for the whole day!!!

Beautiful Cottage with a deck and grilling area



All wood inside and held about 40 people

The cake balls were a big hit

Scott divided everything up so it was rotating

Cannot believe how much soda we went through
Didn't think to take a picture of the actual food

Lots of gifts, her first so she needed everything

Everyone filled out a wishes for the baby and mommy sheet

One of the centerpieces

My Sad iPhone & How it Almost Caused Divorce

I heard you ask why my iPhone is sad, thank you for asking =)  I know you're really puzzled over the divorce part.  Last Saturday I texted the Love of my Life if he wanted me to bring him lunch at work.  I sent him an adorable pic of Layla with one of her little rubber cheeseburgers and told him that she wanted cheeseburgers for lunch.  No answer.  So I went back to bed.  Woke up, still no answer.  Fine, he's busy.  We're two hours past the end of lunch, and I still haven't heard a peep from him.  Now I'm not gonna lie, I was a "little" pissed.  When I took my LaylaBoo out for a little sun time she was playing with the neighbor girls and I snapped a few pics and sent him one.  Nothing.  Nada.  Crickets.  Now he works a twelve hour shift, so I have a long time to mull over my pissedoffness.  By the time 8pm rolls around and now the crickets aren't even chirping, I have decided I'm going to break his cell phone with a hammer...a small craft one of course.  That way I can pound on it a couple of times.

So...he walks in the door, I'm nice, I'm polite, there's smoke coming out of my ears.  I ask why he couldn't answer my texts to which the reply was "I did, right after you sent them.  I was wondering where my cheeseburgers were."  HUH?  He showed me where he had indeed replied.  Fresh crow served daily.  Now I'm in love with my iPhone, I sleep with it for pete's sake.  So I KNOW it can't be my precious that isn't working.  We were going to CiCi's for pizza (ironically they have Cheeseburger Pizzas, my puppy would be in heaven) and as we're about a mile from the house, all these texts start coming through.  Like I said, fresh crow served daily.  Still not my phone.  No matter that the texts were from different people, not just him.

Fast forward to Monday.  He texted me twice to tell me he's not going to make it home for dinner.  I cooked dinner, veal parm.  Now those that follow my blog know it's a special day when I cook dammit.  He's not home, I'm not happy.  Puppy is, but she's always happy.  I have now come to realization that my precious is causing a divorce.  I've already divided up the furniture, and decided the happy puppy is mine.

Today I spend a little Googly time and realize that my precious iPhone has a problem.  Apparently there's a lot of preciouses that have problems.  It's a common, well known issue, dating back to last fall.  THEN FIX IT DAMMIT!!!  We could have had a fatherless puppy.  I found some directions on Verizon's website that say update by dialing *228 and do option 2.  That updates your roaming capabilities.  Now I know I wander around the house aimlessly for hours on end, but I wouldn't consider it roaming.  If that doesn't work, reprogram your phone by using option 1 instead.  If all else fails, reformat the phone?!  And lose all the pictures of my beloveds?!  WHAT?!  Insert iCloud here.  Apparently I can put all my photos on a cloud and it will save them.

Current time update:  Have precious plugged into my computer with her USB cord and it's doing a back up.  It's been going at it for 2 hours already, and has a guestimated four hours left.  I have two gigs of pics, etc on my phone.  Holy cow.  Thankfully no music or we'd be here all week.  As far as I can tell, just updating the roaming has worked, I test texted two people and we had conversations about buttered popcorn (thanks Christina, you made me eat half a box of Cheeze-its).  When all my pics are happily stored on the cloud, I will let ya'll see what I've been up to this month.  Loves to you all!!