Crock Pot Chicken and Black Beans

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Crock Pot Chicken and Black Beans
July 21, 2009 | By admin In Mexican chicken |

My family loves Mexican food. This makes such a good stuffing for burritos or you can just serve it over rice. Either way if you like Mexican food, you’ll love this easy recipe.

Crock Pot Chicken and Black Beans
3 to 4 boneless chicken breast halves, cut in strips
1 can (12 to 15 ounces) corn, drained
1 can (15 oz) black beans, rinsed and drained
2 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 onion, halved and thinly sliced
1 green bell pepper, cut in strips
1 can (14.5 ounces) diced tomatoes
1 can (6 ounces) tomato paste

Combine all ingredients in the crockpot and cook on LOW about 6 hours.
I usually leave out the green peppers and I only add 1 tsp of cumin. But do what suits your taste. Now warm some tortillas. Place your crock pot mixture in the tortilla, add lettuce, cheese and sour cream. Roll it up and you have a fabulous burrito!

Cool Nightstands

I've been looking for

a cool bedside table and I wanted 

it to be unique.  After lots of internet surfing,

I ran across this site.

1stdibs

I am sure that I couldn't touch these, so

I am going to have to get creative and come up 

with something similar.  Wish me luck! 

Family Vacation and Reunion Time

We are up here at beautiful Wolf Creek.

We are up here for 4 days with just our family

and then on Friday we will be joined by ALL the 

Johnsons for a Fabulous Fun Filled reunion!!!!  We are so excited.

I will post more soon with some photos of this fabulous place.

Finishing Touches

I have been searching for fabric

to make some curtains

for the bedroom redo.

I found this at Fabricdirect.com

What do you think?

Will it be a good contrast to the walls or

should I do plain brown with no swirls?

If you remember we did the 

bottom 3/4th of our wall

with this stencil.

Let me know what you think.

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I am so making this!!!

I have been on the search for some new bedding for

the bedroom makeover when I found this duvet cover.

It is from pottery barn.  I also saw a pretty one from Empress

I currently do not or ever will have the budget for either of these.

pottery barn goes for $179.00 and the Empress goes for a whooping

$383.00 from dealtime.

Sooo, I googled "How to make a scrunchie bedspread".

I guess the proper term for the potter barn spread is

ruching or ruched, but that is not what I googled.

Any way in my searching I came across this blog

Fussy Monkey

She has done a knock off tutorial on this exact duvet cover!

I am so excited because I am going to make this.

Thank you Fussy Monkey for your 

Awesomeness!!!

Sweet Baby Harley

Today my Family and I went to my grand nieces blessing.  Such a sweet baby girl.  My nephew and his wife named her Harley Kelseylee (I am not 100% sure of the spelling on the middle name) She is a beautiful baby.  It kind of makes me want to hurry my kids along and get some grandbabies of my own!!!

How sweet are they!

The perfect Robins Egg Blue!!!

So, I wanted the perfect robins egg blue.  I had scoured the blogs trying to get

all the input and ideas that I could, but in the end we color matched a valspar paint chip at 

home depot with behr paint.  I think the color was summer cottage but I will have to 

check to be sure.  Anywho, I love it.  I'm not sure about the HH but at this point I 

think he just wants to be done.  He said that it was more green than he

he had expected but that it was a nice color.  That could be code for

ahhhhh!  but he won't admit it cuz he doesn't want to paint again.

SO 

here are the pictures of the paint.  I hope that the color on the screen 

is close to the color on the wall because I really do a love it.

P-A-I-N-T Yahoo!!!!

Finally 

the painting post...

we did all the yucky

paint prep work.

Why is getting ready 

to paint soooo much more

work than actually painting?

Oh, but how rewarding it

is to have the room

all painted!  It just gives

me warm fuzzies.  

Or is that just

the paint fumes?

Anyway, here are

the pictures!

Vaulted ceilings are awesome to tape for painting ;(

But once the prep work was finished, the fun began!

 

 

 

 

New Trim Work

We had lots of fun putting up

new door and window

trim.

You know the lovely builders grade 

windows do not come with any

trim work.  So we added that.

Doesn't that look so much better?!

We used decorative corner pieces, 

not sure what the technical 

term is, but that's 

what is under the tape.  

We glued them 

so the tape is holding them on

until the glue dries.

We also wanted to add chuckier

baseboards.  But with 

the budget being what it is

we decided to follow the

lead of some fellow bloggers out there

and do some "pretend" chucky

baseboards.

We found a baseboard that matched 

the original, then my Handyman used a 

wood piece as a spacer and then 

nailed the new base upside down above the original.

 It might look funny at the moment

but wait for the magic of paint.

One last addition...

A 

MEGA

  shelf.   I am hoping that it will

bring some life to this boring wall.

 It is approximately 15ft. long.

The brilliant HH came up with 

the design plan.

He bought the long shelf.

(I wanted it to be at least 5" wide)

he also bought the 

crown molding to go under it.

But HH didn't like the amount of space

that was left under the shelf.

He felt like it was too much empty space, so...

He bought another piece of wood that he

stood up underneath the long shelf

behind the crown molding.

Does that make sense?

So, basically it is behind the molding 

and pushes it out so that there is not as much

space in the front.  It also offers a 

little dimension to the bottom of

the shelf too.

There is also a small wood rail 

placed on the top edge of the shelf to 

kind of act as a plate rail (so things don't fall off)

Is that a plate rail?


Oh, I almost forgot to mention,
we took the baseboard that supports the shelf
(the purple X)
and wrapped that all the way around the room.

Any who...

Now to prep for painting.

Why is the prep work always

so much more work than

the actual painting?

That drives me crazy!

Room Update

I have been so horrible at keeping up with my blogging updates!

Truly, we are about that slow with 

our

room progress as well.

So, first I'll try to take you around the room.

Here is the entrance to our

room.

 If you walk straight in you will see

this little short wall 

before the entrance to the master bathroom.
It's about 47" long.

We will skip past the bathroom for now.

(That redo will be next)

 On the other side of the bathroom door is 

this short wall.

It's about 70" long  The corner connects us
to the window wall...

The window wall is about 13 ft. long

 Then around the next corner is the long wall.

I call that the long wall because it's the only

wall with nothing on it.  No windows or doors.

You can also see that the vaulted

ceiling starts at that wall 

and because the vaulted ceiling carries

over into the bathroom, the wall opposite of this one

has an open shelf above the bathroom doors.

I don't have a picture of the whole wall.
 

 That brings us back around the corner,

Sorry no picture of this corner

this wall is about 8ft long before 

you get back to the door.

So all in all the room is about

15ft x 13ft

not the biggest of rooms, 

but not the smallest of rooms either.

What do we need to accomplish with this makeover of sorts?

We need some COLOR, some STORAGE and some

personality fused in.

After 16 years of plain white walls with nothing hanging on them, NOTHING!

Needless to say

I am very anxious for this to happen.

So, first things first we

(and by we I mean mostly HH

He likes to be in charge, it's a man thing I think)

Anywho I am getting ok with that.  REALLY, I am!

removed all of the door casings.

 Here are most of the old casings.

We are on our way now.

More to come
soon.
(pinky promise)

The Master Bedroom Make-Over

It's finally MY turn!

After 16 (ish) years living in this house,

we are finally going to decorate our bedroom.

Not re-decorate, decorate for the very first time.

Yes it is true, we have lived here for a little more than 16 

years and we have never painted, hung a picture, curtains, absolutely

NOTHING has been done in our room.

But it's my turn now BABY!

I am so excited.

 I am going to post every step here and for those of

you who would like too, I would love for you to follow along.

My head is spinning with idea's.  You can imagine that someone who

loves to follow decorating blogs has an idea file the

size of ..... what...... I don't know, but it's BIG

and obviously I am not going to be able

to use every fabulous idea that I have collected from ya 'all.

So stay tuned and follow along with me as I we decide

what we will do with our room.  Do I have to 

let HH have input?

Arrgggg

Wait, did I say that out loud?  Of course I want 

my HH's input.  

Anywho, so far I know that the

room will involve 

 this paint color "summer cottage" color matched at Home Depot

at 50%

I found it originally at Lowes in their Waverly Collection

 this picture gave me some inspiration

(I think this picture was on Decorpad but I'm not 100% sure)

and this stencil from Cutting Edge Stencils

Stay tuned for more...

This is HILARIOUS!

O.K.

This is just too hilarious not to share.

I want to fancify 

(it is a word)

my light fixtures or create one or something.

Anywho, I was blog searching for some idea's when 

I stumbled upon this this site.

  Oh my heck, this is outrageous!

I am still laughing about this.

Just had to share!!!

Grrrrrr!

I am really having a hard time trying to link my blog to facebook. 

I  have tried to do this in the past and always end up giving up.

  Of course my problems seem to grow the more I try to figure it out. 

I just keep thinking of other things that I wanted to do as well. 

So For about 3 hrs I have managed to go from one problem to MANY problems.  

First I just wanted to post a comment from my email onto my blog. 

I have done this before but now I can't figure out why it won't work.  

Then I remembered I wanted to have my blog link to facebook, 

still can't figure that out

and really what I got on to do was find a cool way to repurpose this frame I got. 

Why can't I stay focused? 

Why can't I figure things out more easily? 

WHY?  

WHY?  

WHY? 

ok I'm done now,

maybe.

What is the Weather Like Where You Live?

I joined a blog hop this morning. 

I think that it will be a fun way to make some 

new blog friends.  I have been blogging for a little while 

and I must say sometimes it feels lonely!  I need some LOVE

followers so that I feel connected.

Anyway, back to the blog hop Simply Stacie and Just Married with Coupons

are hosting a global blog hop and the question is:

What is the Weather Like Where you live?

Well, I live in Riverton, Utah 

and it is COLD here

20.6 F

This is actually the view from our front door.  So it is the neighbors house. 

HH (Handsome Hubby)  making a path.

Bear being buried in the snow.

Ahh, winter fun!

(That's our house in the background)

Well that's the weather in my neck of the woods.

How about you, 

what's it like where you live?

Year in Review

I've been doing some blog hopping this evening

and have LOVED seeing all the projects that people in blogland

have finished this year.

It has inspired me.

I have decided that I want to 

do a project a month next year.  This will be a great motivator 

for me to actually finish the projects that I start.

(No comments from the peanut gallery my sweet family, please)

I have several unfinished projects at the current moment and

I will be finishing those up

and posting about them soon. 

If any of you would like some inspiration you can go

check out these fabulously creative women at their blogs:

http://houseofsmiths.blogspot.com/

http://impatientlyprayingforpatience.blogspot.com/

http://theinspiredroom.net/

http://www.fingerprintsonthefridge.com/

http://shabbynest.blogspot.com/

The link below The Lettered Cottage shows some of her favorite room redo's

 from other bloggers and lets you add a link if you have something

that you have redone and would like to share it

http://theletteredcottage.net/

Happy Blog Hopping and Happy New Years too!

Decorations are up!

We are a little slow this year.  We like to have the tree up

Thanksgiving weekend, but it seems that 

two of our family Christmas parties

always fall on that weekend now, so

it makes for a hectic weekend and the tree thing just 

doesn't happen.  I guess we will have to 

start decorating the weekend before 

Thanksgiving.

Is that too early?

Anywho, I am going to  post 

some pictures soon.

Okay, so I have looong weeks

The word of the week?  It should be something fun, or at least interesting.  O.k. maybe just a word... Any word... how about...

los anuncios

that seems appropriate for the season

~after all aren't we bombarded with

adds this time of year~

so...

what does it mean

advertisements

Happy Shopping Everyone!

watch those adds and

get the best price you can

Word of the Week

Hola!

My sweet bear is learning Spanish this year.  One of the great benefits of
OHSU
is that I can participate in his lessons.
I have never taken Spanish before and I am loving learning all about it.

I thought that you would like to share in my learning, so I am going to have a "word of the week."  

This weeks word is going to be...

wait for it...

la cocina 
 (for those language impaired like me who need a little extra help

my version of how to pronounce this is la co-seen-a)

what does it mean...

The Kitchen

I thought that with all the time that we spend in the kitchen this time of year, that it would be
a great place to start.

HELP!

I know that it has been forever since my last post (I was going to be so good this time around) but I have a design dilemma.  We have lived here for 16 years and we have never done any decorating in our bedroom.  I finally convinced HH that it was time and he gave me the green light.  Last month over conference weekend was supposed to be the big work weekend, but..... it never got off the ground because I can't decide what to do!!!  That's where you all come in.  Help me!  I just can't seem to make up my mind about anything.  I thought a board and batten on the walls. I was also thinking a soft robin's egg blue  paint with a chocolate brown or maybe a grey-blue.  Tell me what you have done.  What's your favorite bedroom design?  Any suggestions would be so appreciated.

                   Source:

http://www.newenglandclassic.com/style.ca.html 

 

 I am not sure of the source for this picture I think that it came from

Rate my Space on HGTV. 

My Family is Awesome!

Months and Months ago I was shopping with DD2 and found this wonderful tree.  

I LOVED it! 

Of course is was totally out of the budget.

  I figured that I would just have to come up with a way to craft one that was similar.

Fast forward to now.  

My cute DD2 rallied the troops and they all pitched in and bought it for me for my birthday! 

Is this tree awesome or what! 

I can hardly wait to get our pictures in it.

Linking up to