Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we had dinner with our good friends Nick and Chelsey and their new baby Jade.  It was an amazingly delicious feast!

Nate brined the turkey - SO GOOD

Nate's full plate

The babies hanging out together while we ate

So happy sitting with her Daddy!

We also got the chance to take some family pictures for the first time with all 3 of us.  For once I wasn't the goofy looking one in every picture!  Nate and Olivia also had their fair share of non-photogenic faces.

 This one's my favorite

 We got photo bombed by Indie

Olivia decided to wave at the camera in this one :)

Summer Barbeque

Last weekend, Nate decided we should have a bbq.  So while I was at work, he went grocery shopping and got all the stuff.  Lucky me, I got to come home to homemade potato salad, fresh tomato and mozzarella salad, and juicy burgers just waiting to be grilled!  I know what you're thinking, and yes, I DO have the best husband in the world.  We thought this would be a good opportunity to take a picture of my 26 week belly but my face just wouldn't cooperate with the camera!  So just look at the belly part and not the face part :)

We took our yummy burgers to rock canyon park and had a little picnic.  It has been about a million degrees here every day all summer so we were lucky to get a slightly cooler evening.  The trees all around us probably helped too.

They look SO GOOD!

It was definitely a fun and delicious end to a stressful week for both of us.  Also, just for the record, Nate made those buns.  Then we put guacamole on them.  It was the best burger I've had in a long time!  Now I'm hungry again.

Mmmmm Tasty!

Normally I don't do this kind of thing... but I actually cooked dinner yesterday!  Since being pregnant, I've actually felt the need to make myself real dinners even when I'm home by myself at night.  I think a lot of that probably has to do with me craving every type of Mexican food and that I only get to eat those foods if I cook them for myself when Nate isn't home.  Yesterday in particular, I really really wanted some chili verde.  I figured in the crock pot would be the easiest way to make it.  I found a recipe online that seemed pretty good but I made some adjustments to make it more what I wanted.  And here is what I ended up with!

My rice and chili cooking

Don't they look yummy?  (yes... they do.)

The chili is amazing on top of the rice.  Or also wrapped up in a tortilla.  I tried them both, they were SO good!

I suppose you might want the recipe for my yummy tastiness.  Here it is:

6 chicken tenders, cut into pieces

1 medium yellow onion, diced

5 cloves of garlic, minced

olive oil

saute all of that together just long enough to cook the outside of the chicken, then add to the crock pot and dump in all of the following:

3-16 oz jars of Herdez salsa verde (it doesn't HAVE to be Herdez, but that's the best salsa verde ever so you should)

1 can of white beans

1 can of rotel original diced tomatoes (you could also use mild if you want less spicy but it's not that spicy)

1 1/2 cups of frozen white corn

stir it all together and leave it in the pot until it's all hot and bubbly and you're ready to eat it.  It can be ready in as little as 3 hours if you cook it on high.

as for the rice on the side, it was just basic mexican rice but it was the perfect addition.  I will absolutely be making this again.

Cinco de Mayo

I've decided that I apparently don't get blog posts up until about a month after they've actually happened.  So...  You can look for the 4th of July post in August!  For now, here was our cinco de mayo yummy dinner :)

This was the mango salsa.  The bowl on the left was mine because it didn't have as much cilantro

 Nate made homemade Chicken, feta and lime taquitos

This is actually leprechaun stew but since I didn't get a change to make any for St. Patrick's day this year, Nate let me make it for Cinco de Mayo instead :)  Lime still works for mexican food right?

Nate also made his own refried beans with black beans.  They were SO good!

I'd say the meal was a success.  And the leftovers even tasted good!

In Other News

I just want everyone to know that every once in a while. A tiny amount of Nate's cooking talents rub off on me and I decide to cook something. Occasionally it actually turns out! This was mine and Charity's (for those who don't know, Nate's sister) attempt at Navajo Tacos. They were actually delicious! It was a success.