Delicious!

(I know...it's been a while, but I'm back. That is, until the craziness of school, both attending and teaching, catches up with me!)

The other night I made Hawaiian Chicken for dinner. It was delicious! And easy....even better! So I thought I'd share:

4 to 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 can (8 oz.) crushed pineapple
1 bottle (16 oz.) barbecue sauce
4 to 6 cups rice, cooked

Place meat in greased 31/2 to 5-qt. slow cooker. Combine pineapple and barbecue sauce and pour over meat. Cover and cook on high heat for 3-4 hours or on low heat 6-8 hours. Serve over rice. Makes 4-6 servings.

Enjoy! (Recipe from the book "101 Things To Do With a Slow Cooker")

Disney World

Hello everyone.....Kenyan and I are off to Disney World for a week so no posts for me for a bit. But I wanted to tell you about something else I'm doing in a couple weeks. On Thursday, January 29th I am having a Heritage Makers party at my house. Heritage Makers is a digital scrapbooking website (my favorite)! The party will be at 7:00pm. They have a variety of different things you can make: books, posters, cards, calendars, playing cards. I made my mom and dad a deck of cards with all of our family pictures on them for their birthdays....they loved them! And if you need good gifts for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthdays. Out of all the websites I've looked at for digital scrapbooking they are the best! So come on over! (If you need my address let me know.)

And a Happy New Year!

We decided to have our own, Rockin' New Year's Eve party this year.
One of our Christmas presents to ourselves was Guitar Hero World Tour. We invited our friends over to rock out with us and dress up like rock stars. We had a lot of fun! And even Mason had a wonderful time! I think the pictures pretty much explain it all, so Happy New Year everyone!

Sean and Kenyan

Sean, Mason and Jeff
My favorite part was Mason was totally rocking out with us and getting into playing that guitar!

The Band
(Sorry Beej, I don't sing as well as you do!)

Jeff, Marci, Kenyan and Sean

Mason rockin' out on the drums!

I'm married to the band leader! What a hottie!

Merry Christmas...

Don't worry that it has only taken me a week to get these pictures posted....and I don't even have that many, apparently I did more video taping then picture taking.

Christmas was wonderful, a little different, but wonderful. Kenyan made a delicious roast beef dinner that we had with his mom, sister and brother-in-law. We came home and put out presents and went to bed, woke up in the morning.....at 6:30 (but I might add that is an hour and a half later than last year!) We're like little kids, we get so excited!! Kenyan got me the Anne of Green Gables series on DVD (to his own dismay) and a Mosaic Mickey puzzle-which I completed in about a total of 8-10 hours! Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. (Thanks to Kenyan for keeping up the puzzle tradition which my parents started!) And since I am a Disney fanatic I also asked for a couple of Disney movies that we don't own: Monster's Inc. and Beauty and the Beast, and he got me both. And my favorite gift of all.......the leather storage ottoman....it holds so much!

This was one of Kenyan's favorite games when he was younger that I managed to find. (Don't worry.....I kicked his trash the first time we played!)
That's not the only thing he got......he also got some Wii games and movies and a new sweater, but his most favorite thing is the mini-fridge. (I know what you're thinking....???? Kenyan ALWAYS gets thirsty in the middle of the night and always talks about wanting a fridge next to the bed so he doesn't have to get up in the middle of the night to get a drink. So if you ask him what he got for Christmas, he'll tell ya, "A new nightstand."

Bring Him Home Santa

This is a tear jerker!!

Thank goodness for stand-by

I know, I know, you are probably asking yourselves, "Why in the world anyone would ever be thankful to be on stand-by?" The chance of not getting on, your baggage making it to your destination before you do, not being able to sit by the person or people you're flying with, having to wait until the very last minute to board (because that's when you find out if you have a seat) and having people stare you down like you are the reason for the hold up of the plane departing.

Well, I was very grateful for stand-by last week when my sister-in-law didn't make her flight. I wasn't going to be able to see her, but lo and behold the stand-by gods didn't let her on. (Hooray for me.....sad for her and my brother!) But this meant that I got to see her and two of my nieces instead! (One of which is new to the family and I haven't had a chance to meet yet.)

Thanks Lu for sticking around so I could see you and the girls! (I know you didn't plan it, but thanks anyway!!)

I went to help Layla play my dad's new Wii, and she kept telling me, "I know how to play this Wii." She did a wonderful job teaching Ama how to "golf correctly." I just wish we had Guitar Hero with us so I could have heard her sing "Heartbreaker." Maybe next time, as long as the stand-by gods cooperate with me again. :)This is just too cute!

I think she loves her Aunt Nicole!

Me and the girls!

He sure is going to make a cute dad one day!Fore!

'Tis the Season

I love Christmastime....the lights, decorations, traditions....everything that goes along with it. A couple weeks ago we went with our friends to see the lights at Temple Square-beautiful, gorgeous! We had the perfect night to go, it was still around 60 degrees outside! It doesn't get much better than that to walk around and see all the lights and displays. As most of you know, pictures don't do it justice, but here you go:

That would be our friend Jeff behind us....need I say more? (J/K, we still love him!)I love the reflection!I love this picture! Pretty good job if I do say so myself!! A Nicole original. :)