Summertime Recipes

I tried two new recipes Saturday Night, Tequila Lime Chicken and Limeade Pie. Both were amazing and will definitely go into regular rotation at our house. Enjoy!

Tequila Lime Chicken (Barefoot Contessa, but passed along to me by my friend Jayne)
Ingredients
1/2 c gold tequila< ( I could only find a regular size bottle of tequila, so we'll be having this recipe a lot!)
1 c fresh lime juice
1/2 c fresh orange juice
1 TBL chili powder<
1 TBL minced fresh jalapeno
1 TBL minced fresh garlic<
2 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp ground pepper
3 whole boneless chicken breasts, skin on

Procedure
Combine tequila, lime juice, orange juice, chili powder, jalapeno pepper, garlic, salt and pepper in large bowl. Add chicken and refrigerate overnight
Remove chicken from marinade and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grill them skin side down for about 5 minutes until nicely browned. Turn and cook another 10 minutes or until just cooked through. Remove from grill and allow to rest for 5 minutes. Serve hot or room temperature.



Limeade Pie (From Happy Homemaker)

Ingredients
1 tub of Cool Whip
1 can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk!)
1 small can limeade (in the freezer section)
1 ready-made graham cracker pie crust
a few drops green food coloring if you really want to throw them off!
lime slices to garnish

Procedure
Combine the first three ingredients and pour into the pie shell. Garnish with the lime slices. Refrigerate for at least two hours, preferably longer so it will set up well.

I want these!

Mikasa Antique White dishware! I coulld ask for them as a Christmas present, but I want them to use by Thanksgiving!

Family Traditions

And no, not the Hank Williams Jr. kind. I’m talking about the real family traditions that you observe in your home.

I love holidays. Love, love, love them. For fall we go to the apple farm and the pumpkin patch and decorate the house. Halloween is Boo at the Zoo and Trunk or Treat at church. Thanksgiving we watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade and this year we’re going to make turkey cupcakes. And Christmas………… Let’s not even get started on Christmas!

Other than the big holidays, I’m really trying to do something special for even the little ones. For birthdays we do streamers and balloons and the person’s favorite dinner. The 4th of July requires decorations and the annual Flag shirt from Old Navy. Valentine’s Day will be homemade valentines, a pink heart-shaped cake and little gifts for everyone.


These are the things he’ll remember when he grows up, just like I remember that every Christmas we had blueberry muffins for breakfast. Some of these things he might even take on to his own family.

What traditions from when you were growing up have you brought over to your own family? What new traditions have you started? Please share!

VBS Pictures

Here are a few pictures from VBS. I hope to get some more posted soon.

Blog Roll Woes

My poor blog roll desperatley needs to be updated. I'll be doing that sometime this week, hopefully.

Happy Monday!

Finally Friday!

Yes, I’m still here. This week has been kicking my butt! But, today’s Friday! One more day of work and one more night of Vacation Bible School. I know I may have complained a bit about my group and while they are very challenging, there are some great kids in it, too. I’ll be sad to see some of them go tonight!

As for the upcoming weekend, we have a whole lot of NOTHING planned. Tomorrow we’re sleeping in as late as we want, having a big breakfast, Brady’s going to play in his pool and we’re just going to relax. I will need to do some housework as I don’t think I’ve used anything containing bleach once this week and Brady will be getting a haircut. Sunday we have Sunday School and church and that evening we’re having an ice cream social after the evening service. It will be a fun day and I know we’ll be talking about VBS a lot.

Hopefully I’ll have some pictures to post next week from VBS! Have a great weekend!

Hand Motion Impaired

You know how when you were a kid and you’d learn songs at camp or church or school and they all had hand motions to go with them? You’d wiggle your fingers to represent the sea, raise them up to represent the sky, etc. And remember that kid who was always doing the wrong motion at the wrong time? Yeah, I was that kid. Apparently I’m that adult, too.

We’re learning a bunch of songs at VBS and I swear, I’m all over the place. I hope the kids aren’t following me too much!

I can hear it now “I’m sorry, you can’t help with VBS anymore because you can’t do the motions to the songs………………”