The Holidays....

       Every year I tell myself that I'm going to do better about starting my Christmas presents early. And Of course I NEVER do. So these past two months have been filled with sewing machines, knitting needles, crochet hooks, slow cookers and of course my favorite baby in the entire world!! Which adding all of those together adds up to a very slow going at completing Christmas. But thanks to my AMAZING husband I was able to get everything done tonight!!! So I'm officially done and ready for Christmas and now I just get to sit back and relax!! (However, we still haven't sent out our Christmas Card this year... so for those of you getting it late I blame the baby ;) jk) I'm not going to spill any of what my needles and hooks have been doing since most of it will all go to family members, however for my lovely co-workers I made them all some amazing Apple Butter. I was planning on making them all some kind of snow flake to go with it, but I decided that my sanity and lack of stress was worth not doing them this year.

       But just to update on the Matthew Long family. We are all doing great and loving having that Dad is done with finals and can now help Mom get everything ready for our trip to Vegas. I'm loving that I can leave Eric home when I go to work this week, especially with how crazy it's been with last min gifts. I have to admit, with all the crazy kids/parents I see at work, I'm so grateful that Matt and I came from semi-normal families.

       Other then that life has been the same old thing, with bursts of joy watching Eric learn and grow. He's currently trying to figure out crawling and has moved a few times, but then Bray'Tac walks by or comes into his view and he just starts laughing and forgets about crawling. If I had to guess though,  I'd say Bray'Tac is soon going to be chased around the house by our little guy (at which point I will either spend the day filming the chase or playing hide and seek with Bray'Tac).

       But that's all the news for now!!


Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!

Becuase it turned out amazing!!!

       So I've been a victim of a Dinner Rut (can't think of anything to make and nothing sounds good.. grilled chicken and ... salad sounds dinner ish to me!) for the past week ish.. So I decided to surprise my wonderful husband who never complained about my terrible dinner ideas (or lack thereof...) by making Cafe Rio's sweet pork burritos. And I have to say it was the easiest dinner I've made in a long time and it turned out amazing! All I did was take a pork roast (or any pork/chicken you have on hand) throw it in the slow cooker with 2 cups homemade salsa (I used the salsa that my wonderful sister Whitney canned) 1 1/2 c brown sugar and let it cook all day. when I got home from work I just broke up the meat into little pieces (and since it was so tender all I did was take a spoon and pull it apart). Let it cook a little longer while I cut up some lettuce, tomatoes, limes, grated cheese, pulled out sour cream, and set the table. Matt fried the tortillas for us and melted the cheese on top. It really was so good and so freaking easy!! And cleaning up was even easier because I'd used a slow cooker liner for the meat so all I did was put everything in containers, throw away the liner and wash our plates, cups and silverware! Seriously doesn't get any better then that!!