Baby Wyatt

Today I went to take pictures of Xander's little brother Wyatt : ) He is so cute! Thank you Nadine for asking me to do these pictures...it was a great time : ) Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Wyatt : )

dude...get me out of this wagon!

trying to re-create the Target shot : )

and the sad face version...

he is so cute!!!

someone's hungry!

this is my life man...eat, puke, eat, puke...it's not so bad!

just hanging out

i'm trying to nap here...

 

night night...

probably my favorite!

 

thanks again guys!! : )

Time Suck

I promised myself that I wouldn't post a recipe or even a paragraph before I finished my homework assignment and graded one whole group of assignments for clinical. I am proud to say I have accomplished that. Sad to say I have a shit ton more to do still! But that, my friend, is for another day...well I guess it's 1:30 am so it's technically for later today. After sleep. So I won't worry about that for the next 20 minutes or so. And then I will finish this blog post, lay in bed and worry some more.
I am excited to report that I will have more pictures to post from a photo session I will be doing tomorrow and I have booked several more sessions this month which I am so very excited about! : ) I feel quite lucky.
Before I post my recipe I'd like to say that I have found yet another internet time suck which until the other day I had resisted even looking at. But it happened...Pinterest has sucked me in. I love it. It's awesome. And horrible. If you haven't checked it out you probably should. I wish I would have invented it!
Alrighty. My eyes are half closed so here goes the recipe. It holds very special meaning to me for the simple fact that when Jason and I went on our first date, we both ordered this same meal (well a version of it). It was a blind date and I was so nervous and almost backed out at the last minute. So glad I suffered through it ; ). Anyways, it's fast, easy, and SO FREAKING TASTY!!

Buffalo Chicken Fajitas

Ingredients:

• 2 chicken breasts, sliced
• 2 bell peppers, sliced (any color)
• 1 red or yellow onion, sliced
• olive oil, 1 tbsp
• Frank's Red Hot Sauce, 1/2-3/4 cup (depending on the spiciness you desire)
• butter, 1 tbsp
• Worcestershire sauce, 2 tsp
• 4 flour tortillas
• guacamole, salsa, ranch dressing, or shredded cheese if desired

Slice up peppers and onions (I LOVE that my garden is still giving me peppers right now!!)

Saute peppers and onions in olive oil until soft

Enjoy the smell of those peppers because your house will smell like them for at least 2 days....but it's worth it...trust me!

Slice chicken, cook until no longer pink, add butter, hot sauce, and worchestershire sauce and mix until sauce is heated through

Warm up tortillas and serve....they are SO good!!

Add guacamole, shredded cheese, salsa, and/or ranch dressing to spice it up a bit...ENJOY!!

 Alright y'all. I'm outtie. I just can't stay up to 4 am like I used to...I guess that's ok!

Get Your Freak On

Last night we went to a beautiful wedding at the Walker Arts Center Skyline Room. It was elegant, modern, and I had to resist bringing my nice camera and practicing my photog skills   : ) The point and shoot camera did us just fine last night. Plus, my buzzed self would have likely dropped it on the floor and ruined it.

Now I don't know if it's because before heading to the wedding I cut a huge gash in my leg while shaving that I was overly emotional or if it's truly a pattern but...I am convinced that my womanly cycle (sorry boys) is determined by whether or not I am attending a wedding. I'm not exactly on a 'regular' schedule in that department but I kid you not, without fail...I always, always, and always get 'hormonal' at weddings, ugly cry during the ceremony, and wake up with aunt flo the next morning. It's crazy. Kind of disturbing if you ask me. But if I ever have a hard time conceiving children I guess all I have to do is attend a wedding to kick me back into gear.
I'm sure you all wanted to know that.
Anyhoo. Last night was fun because instead of Jason being the sober-cab it was me! So I got to see some dance moves that I didn't know existed in this world until last night. We started off the night feeling quite buzzed (both of us) and then I switched to water and Jason switched to little ghetto girl dance moves... (sorry...not sure how to put this right side up...I tried!) It was hilarious.

Here are some pictures from the rest of our night.

out on the balcony at the Walker

pondering life

this might have been before switching to water...

open bars are dangerous

me keeping it classy with a bright blue bandaid on my leg gash

Jason keeping it classy by sticking out his pinky while drinking

the best thing ever

Jason has three dance moves: fist pumping, backwards shuffling, and hip thrusting

see??

YES

Clearly we had a fun time. We went out for a greasy delicious breakfast this morning to commemorate such a great night which is always necessary as well.
I also need to catch up on a few little easy recipe ideas so here they are.
We did appetizer Friday again a week ago but I had been working so we had to do some quick ones since we were so hungry.

Mini Pizza Bagels

Buy Thomas's mini bagels, toast them, spread pizza sauce, cheese and your choice of toppings, and bake at 400 until cheese is melted

Mini Pigs in a Blanket

1 package of crescent rolls split into triangular sections, 4 hot dogs sliced into three pieces each, 3 american cheese slices cut into smaller pieces. Wrap hot dogs and cheese in the crescent dough, bake at 375 until golden brown...

And this last Thursday night we made another quickie recipe...let's face it, no time for anything more these days. But it's one of my favorites and Jason's too!

Cheesy Chicken Enchiladas

Ingredients:

• Rotiserrie Chicken, shredded (you'll only use 1/2 the meat but it makes great leftovers)
• 1 package of shredded colby jack cheese
• 2 cans of enchilada sauce
• 5 flour tortillas

Shred chicken, place in tortillas, sprinkle shredded cheese in each tortilla

celebrate passing the bar with a double thumbs up/double hand gun combo

Heat up enchilada sauce until hot

pour small amt of sauce in each tortilla

wrap up tortillas tightly

align them close together in small baking dish

pour remaining sauce on top of wrapped up tortillas

smile...it's almost time to eat!

wrap in tin foil, bake at 425 for 20-30 minutes (until heated through), add remaining shredded cheese to top of enchiladas, bake until cheese is melted

serve...enjoy!!! they are SO good!

And if you didn't catch it in that photo up there...YES! Jason found out on Thursday that he passed the bar exam! That is a huge accomplishment and a huge weight off his (and my) shoulders : ) We can officially move on to the next phase of our lives : ) Congrats baby...you worked so hard and deserve it big time!
I think I worked about 10 days straight (many of those 12 hour shifts) in the last couple weeks...so I have enjoyed my weekend off with this fabulous weather. It's back to work tomorrow but I have Thursday and Saturday, Sunday off to look forward to this week so it's not so daunting.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!!

Busy Bee

As I sit here, drinking wine after quickly typing up my homework assignment for class that is due at midnight (wine make the words flow quickly I discovered tonight....) and after 2 days of clinical with a new group of students I can't help but smile. I am busy as hell but I freaking love it. I thrive on busyness. I have said this before but I will probably say it forever...I am a lazy bum when I don't have enough to do. Squeezing in my workout between breakfast, bills, grading papers, and reading for class before clinical instructing somehow seems more do-able then fitting in a workout on a day I have nothing to do. Strange? Yes. Do I give a rip? No.
I am also so excited because I have a few photography sessions lined up soon and this makes me feel so honored and so pumped. Yay!
As the late Steve Jobs said, "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do!" So true.
And I am also justifying this insane lifestyle by looking ahead to our trip to Florida/Georgia for Jason's best friend's wedding in a few weeks and then our big trip to South American in a month and a half. This hard work will be met by pure relaxation and fun...and probably some drunken wedding dancing if I'm lucky.
As I do my homework I usually have the TV on in the background for noise (it helps me somehow) and tonight it was the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. This show is so disturbing but addicting for that very reason. Now don't get me wrong, I love clothes, make-up, and trying to look pretty but someone please come up and clock me in the face if I ever spend $25,000 on sunglasses....and brag about it. Hey go ahead and clock me in the face if I ever spend $50 on sunglasses...I will probably break them in a month anyways. I mean, seriously? I can't imagine having so much money that I lace my champagne flutes in gold and complain when my friend is late to join me on my private jet. I'm sure it would be nice to buy anything you want whenever you want...but I bet they aren't satisfied either...there's always something more expensive and more fancy to upgrade to. Ok, I am done ranting. My wine glass is almost empty so I better stop typing or I might regret it in the morning ; )
Unfortunately I don't have any new pictures to share with you today because I haven't had time to take any since I last posted. But I will say/show you two things...and then I'm downing this glass of wine and going the f*** to sleep!

 I can't wait to see my crazy awesome nieces and family in Florida in November : ) I miss them and love them so much!! Watch out girls...I'm bringing my camera it's photo shoot time!!

And baby, thank you so much for being so awesome. You are ALWAYS supporting me and encouraging me to follow my dreams. I can't wait for all the fun stuff we have coming up together in the next few months. I am thankful for you the most...of course!!