I need to de-stress

With work & school keeping me super busy I have been stressed lately and decided to take today to de-stress by doing my favorite thing: CRAFTS!!!!
I have an old pair of heels that I love too much to throw away but they are too beat up to wear out.So I decided to give them a make-over.

I picked out my favorite color extra fine glitter mixed it with mod podge and painted over my entire shoe

Then sprinkled glitter over entire shoe with a nice coat of the extra fine glitter

I let them dry completely, my fiance suggested spraying a clear coat on them to make sure the glitter stays put so I did just that.

Now I am ready for girls night out next week!!!!!!!!!!! I am super excited to take my made over shoes out for a night on the town. The best part is that unlike new shoes they are already broken in.

BBQ Hawaiian chicken

My fiance loves pineapple, I on the other hand am not a huge fan of pineapple when its cooked. But decided to try to make him a batch. I started with the following:

4 frozen chicken breasts
1 can of pineapple tidbits drained
9oz original BBQ sauce
6oz honey BBQ sauce

put all in crock-pot on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours.

My fiance said it tasted AMAZING! and I needed to add it to our menu rotation. I like to make per-portioned meals for him and freeze for him to eat when he is away since he is still on active duty and stationed in Georgia.

Boss chicken nacho dip

Boss chicken nacho dip is so easy to make and will disappear soooo quick. I had seen a recipe for this somewhere I'm sure on pinterest but for the life of me I can't seem to find it again to know what it is called so I asked my fiance and son what we should call it as we sat at the dinning room table eating a bowl of it. My fiance suggested Boss chicken and my son suggested nacho dip so of course I combined the two and voila! Now for the recipe.

4 frozen chicken breasts
16 oz jar of your favorite salsa (I like to use HOT)
1 can of corn drained
1 can of black beans drained
1 pkg of cream cheese
Put everything in the crock-pot and cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours. Pull chicken out of crock-pot and shred then place back in crock-pot and stir. Place lid back on for at least 30 minutes then it will be ready to serve. We like to eat it with a bag of chips but it is good on rice too!!!

ENJOY!!!! It wont last long.

Time to shake things up! Flip a coin day

Between work, school, family functions, and errands we have been super busy with no time to relax on the weekends. When I realized this past weekend we had zero plans on Saturday I wanted to come up with something fun for my fiance, son, and I to do. I came up with a couple of ideas that would be fun and checked the weather to make sure outside activities were safe. I wanted to come up with a fun way to let the guys pick what we would do without arguing and complaining. I found small note-cards with envelops in the sale bin at a craft store for a dollar.

          I narrowed it down to two options per activity. Breakfast card had an A option and a B option I asked them each to pick a letter and if they agreed I would open the envelope and we would have the breakfast option they choose. But, if they disagreed I would choose which option would be heads and which would be tails and flipped a coin .
         Next was the activity note-card again two different options we ended up playing miniature golf.
         My son gets free meal coupons from school for honor roll so I decided lunch that day would be free but what we had to drink would be determined by the note-card.
         Now comes the BONUS card option, if everything is done per the decision card and there was no complaining the BONUS card is the finally for the day. A special treat for playing together as a family <3 We ended up with ice cream after a day of fun.. For any other decisions that were not covered on the cards we used the coin to determine our choice. Since I made the cards I was in charge of the coin flipping.
         My fiance and son loved it so much they want a mandatory "Flip a coin day" once a month. You can put anything on the cards and it doesn't even have to be an activity that costs money. A trip to the park to play Frisbee or soccer.Makes for a great family day can't wait until next months flip a coin day.

Chicken + Crock-pot = Yum

I love using my crock-pot being a busy mom it helps to have dinner cooking while I'm at work. I came across a recipe for buffalo chicken I changed it a bit and put my own spin on it.

24oz of Franks Red Hot
1 packet ranch seasoning
2Tbs butter
4 frozen boneless skinless chicken breasts

Put all ingredients in crock-pot cook on low for 8 hours after 8 hours shred chicken and put back into crock-pot for at least 30 minutes.

I like to serve the shredded chicken on a sub roll with mozzarella sprinkled on top and my fiance and son likes to add ranch dressing as well.

Since this will produce a lot of chicken I get creative with other ways to serve this chicken. Here is another delicous way to serve this chicken.

1/2 pint heavy whipping cream
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup mozzarella
2 cups of buffalo chicken
1/2 package of no yolks noodles

Mix whipping cream, sour cream & mozzarella in a pot heat until cheese is melted. Add chicken to mix. Cook noodles in separate pot per instructions on bag. After draining noodles add them to sauce pot and mix.

There were NO LEFTOVERS! I will be making this again.

Christmas break

Well it was nice to have almost 2 weeks off for Christmas. My fiance and I headed to Iowa on the 22nd to surprise his mom for Christmas. BOY was she surprised!We drove all the way to Iowa in ninja monkey footie pajamas.

It was great to spend the Christmas with her and the rest of the family. But, it was sooooo cold. We took sometime to head up north to Dubuque to go snowboarding. It was fun but left us both super sore.

 I hated to leave :-( but I know we will be back in June to visit.