Santa Fe Chicken recipe

This is what I made for dinner tonight. It's one of our favorite meals! Last year when Joe started dieting I stopped making a lot of the recipes I used to cook so I searched online for some healthier recipes. I came across Skinnytaste.com. It's a wonderful place to find healthier recipes of things you might already make. I have made a few other recipes but this has been our favorite so far! We like it over brown rice but a friend recently said she likes it in a tortilla almost like chicken tacos I guess. http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/02/crock-pot-santa-fe-chicken-425-pts.html# If you haven't tried this yet you should!! Have a great weekend!!

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Halloween Banner and Mantle

I quickly made a banner tonight. I saw this idea on Pinterest. While at Home Depot last week I remembered that I wanted some orange paint chips for a project. I thought it was made with paint chips but once I checked it tonight I realized it was wooden. Oh well I still made it work and they aren't exactly the color of candy corns but close enough. I have been making seasonal cut outs to clip on some twine on our dining room mirror and it still had summer on it.

My supplies

And after

Now my mantle is complete!

That's all for tonight! Good night! Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

A scrapbook page!

I am sad to say this is the first page that I have created for Lauren! :( I made this page the night before her party for our guests to sign. I got this idea from my friend Michelle. I had done it a few times for Daniel as well. When I was making this page I realized how much I have and that I really need to find the time to scrapbook again!!

That's all for now!

Organized Pantry

So I said I would do this organization challenge but I slacked off a bit. Last Wednesday I had the day to myself so I did work on organizing our paperwork and shredded a bag full of old bills! Paperwork always seems to pull up quick around here. I organized the pantry today and it felt great to clean it out!! I found things I forgot I had and threw away many out dated items. Here is my before of the top half of the pantry area

I took everything out, one shelf at a time and wiped it clean before putting things back. I also tried to get rid of as many boxes as I could to save space and I think I did pretty good! Here is an after picture of this half.

This next picture is not the pantry but it is above the stove and I didn't organize it. It had some of Joe's Keurig coffees and other instant coffees in it. So while cleaning the pantry I found more teas and coffees so I moved them here so that they are all together now. Makes sense. I used a black basket I had to put some of them in.

And the after picture

Back to the Pantry. The bottom half was pretty bad. And I found lots here that I forgot I had or that I had many of the same thing.

Again I took out everything one shelf at a time. Cleaned the shelf and sorted through everything. It looks much better and is organized better. You can't see but I added one new basket next to that black wire basket.

Speaking of the black wire basket... I love it, found only 2 at Home Goods about two weeks ago. I put all of the fruit snacks in it.

I put the second one on top of the fridge for now with misc. snacks. Love it!

That's all for now! Guess I should start organizing another area!