Thanksgiving weekend

Thanksgiving started out by spending some time with Matt's side of the family. Then we went to my parents house for the afternoon.

Christian was so cute and sweet with his newest cousin- Samuel.

Savannah

There are so many cute kids between mine and Matt's family. They're just asking you to take their pictures. :)

And of course it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without football. Some of Matt's brothers and all his bro-in-law's came over to Mom's to play football with my brothers.

 
It was great spending our first Thanksgiving together as a married couple! Thanks to Anna for the pictures.

We went out on Black Friday and got some good deals. We also set up our first Christmas tree. It was very bare for the first week, but it looks much better now. I'll post pics sometime of it and the tree skirt I made. I was really happy with how it turned out.

On Saturday we had two birthday parties. We met up with Matt's family at the bowling alley for Jeremy's birthday.

We then went to Hannah's house for Adrian's birthday party. They let people ride two of their horses, which the kids (and adults) loved.

 It was a big deal for Caden to ride this horse!

 And that would be my husband. :)

It's hard to believe that Christmas is next week! I'm excited about it, but don't want it to fly by like everything else these days. I will try to be more faithful with posting on my blogs, but I can only try.



I've been busy with house things and also making some things to sell on Etsy. Hopefully we'll be able to open the store in January and everyone will get to see what my sis and I have been up to.

an old post

I've had these pictures uploaded for over a week now, but never got to writing and posting it. These are just a couple pictures I've taken over the past month. I hope to post pictures from Thanksgiving week soon.

We went out to Inglis one night to watch the sunset and there were these beautiful flowers amongst a lot of mud in a field.

This picture is from the first fire we had in our fireplace. We've now had three fires. I absolutely love snuggling up next to a fire with Matt and enjoying some amazing hot chocolate that Matt makes.

I've been wanting to take pictures of Matt and I in the lot behind our house. So far that hasn't worked out, but I did take a couple of shots without us.

Chicken Ranch Fajitas

I've never posted a recipe on here, but this one was to good not to post.

I needed a fast chicken meal for last night and this is what I found on here. The recipe only serves two, but it's very easy to make more.

Ingredients:

12 oz. boneless skinless chicken, thawed and cut into strips (I used 2 pieces of chicken which makes 3-4 fajitas)

1/2 tsp. chili powder (I just sprinkled each side of the chicken strips in the pan)

1/4 tsp garlic powder (I also just sprinkled of each side of the chicken in the pan)

olive oil

1 small red, yellow, or green sweet pepper, seeded and cut into this strips

2 Tbsp ranch

2 - 10in tortilla shells

1/2 cup salsa

1/3 c. of shredded cheddar cheese

Directions:

Pour a little oil in non stick frying pan. Place chicken and pepper strips in the pan and sprinkle with chili powder and garlic powder. Heat over medium - high heat. Cook chicken and pepper strips in hot skillet over for 4-6  min or until chicken is done. Drain if necessary. Toss with salad dressing. Divide chicken and pepper mixture between warm tortillas. Top with cheese and salsa.

*The picture also came from recipe.com.

honeymoon: molokai

 Molokai was absolutely amazing...beautiful and peaceful! It was so desolate which was so neat and it really felt like our own paradise. We rented a little cottage right on the water where we had our own little beach.

  

the front yard

the little beach

Our cottage...the grounds were so gorgeous.

The island was so different from one side to the other. The east side was rocky and mountainous and the west side was red dirt and looked like out west.

Lots of roads looked just like the one below...this one took you to the beach.

our ride

The beach on the west side of the island. The sand in Hawaii is so different then Florida. You seriously sink in this sand and it's like walking through snow.

Matt took this picture and I think he did a really good job!

Driving around the island was so fun! The island was only 50 miles long and about 12 miles wide, but we managed to go 400 miles while we were there. Matt loved all the off-roading that he got to do.

 The sunsets were breathtaking.

Kalaupapa is a former leprosy village on Molokai. There are a couple of survivors that still live there today and you can't go into the village unless you are a doctor or you are being sponsored. This is as close as you can get.

Papohaku Beach-- we found this beautiful beach the day before we left. We watched one beautiful sunset there and then we went there the next day to hang out before our flight left. In the three mile stretch of sand, the most people we saw was a total of six.