The Best!

After a super rough day with short naps and sickness...this is how it ended!

Honestly, this was the best thing ever!! It was the absolutely most perfect way to remind me how amazing my son really is and how happy he makes me! 

Wordless Wednesday

So this is what I have been dealing with for the past 3 days or so...

Brayden hasn't been taking his regular 2-hour naps. They have been only 30 minutes!!! This is in the morning and in the afternoon..yikes! I am not sure if it's because he is sick or because we moved to a new apartment and he doesn't feel "at home" just yet but it. is. killing. me!! It has been so hard to get anything done because I am now so exhausted (he gave me his cold) and he clings to me when he is awake because he is still tired. We are both tired and grouchy!!  I am reminding you now to avoid us until this sickness is gone! Anyways, wish us luck!

And P.S. Brayden is totally awake in this photo and just woke up from his "nap."

Linking up with Jenni From the Blog

Target Portraits

While we had family visiting from Alabama during Brayden's birthday week, we decided to get portraits taken at Target. I could not be happier with how they turned out!! I had never taken pictures at Target before so I was a little nervous. I didn't want a bunch of money to be spent on pictures that looked cheesy! Well, to my surprise, they aren't cheesy at all and I love them!! Here are a few of my favorites...

Another huge bonus, Brayden did AMAZING!! He hardly cried or whined and as you can tell, smiled in a majority of the photos! I made sure to bring a toy that played a song he loved so the photographer could hold it up as she took photos. It worked!! I would definitely go back to take more photos and we probably will do it soon because I already bought a Groupon for it...and we didn't get any photos of Brayden with just Chance! Oops!! Anyways, I would recommend going to Target for family photos...it was great to finally get some pictures where I look decent and all 3 of us are in the photo...I don't think that has ever happened. I am a happy momma!!

Freezer Meals!

So this is my first try at making freezer Crock Pot meals and I am pretty excited about it! I found a few recipes on Pinterest that sounded delicious and EASY!! That was pretty important for me...the easy part. I don't get much time to be in the kitchen prepping food when I have a toddler running around so I needed something I could quickly put together and also something that would be easy when it was time to cook. So here we are with two freezer meals that I prepped today while Brayden was napping. (P.S. you will need gallon freezer bags!)

Teriyaki Chicken (2 bags)
-1 large bag of baby carrots split between the two bags
-1 red onion cut into large chunks and split between two bags
-2, 20 oz. cans of chunk pineapple, one can in each bag (undrained)
-4 garlic cloves, chopped (2 cloves in each bag)
-4 chicken breasts (2 in each bag)
-1 cup teriyaki sauce (1/2 cup in each bag)
*When ready to cook, place bag in refrigerator the night before and then add 1/4 cup of teriyaki sauce to the bag and place in Crock Pot. Cook on high for 4 hours or low for 8 hours. Serve over rice.

I made sure to write the name of the food and the directions on the bag before filling and placing it in the freezer! Now even the hubby could make this!

Healthy BBQ Chicken (2 bags)

-2 green peppers, sliced and split between the two bags

-1 red pepper, sliced and split between the two bags

-1 zucchini, chopped and split between the two bags

-3 yellow onions, chopped and split between the two bags

-6 red potatoes, chopped and split between the two bags

-4 garlic cloves, chopped and split between the two bags (do we see a pattern here?!?!)

-4 chicken breasts, 2 in each bag

-1/2 TBSP Quick Cooking Tapioca in each bag

-1, 15 oz. can tomato sauce split between the two bags

-1 TBSP brown sugar in each bag

-1 TBSP Worcestershire in each bag

-1 TBSP mustard in each bag

-1/4 tsp salt in each bag

*Cooking: high for 4 hours, low for 8 hours. Serve over rice or egg noodles. (Again, place bag in the refrigerator the night before to thaw it out a bit and so you aren't trying to get a frozen solid square into an oval Crock Pot!!)

I am so excited about these two simple meals and I can't wait to try more freezer Crock Pot meals! P.S. I am in no way credited with these recipes. I found these on Pinterest and you can go to the link by clicking here! There are also three more freezer Crock Pot meals on her blog post which I plan on trying very soon! Also, if you have any links or Crock Pot cooking suggestions, please leave them in a comment below! I love trying new recipes!

This face...

It kills me every time!! I love that I get to wake up to this every morning now that I don't have to leave for work. It has been so great to stay home and take care of this little monster especially since he has a cold! Poor guy! (And now I have his cold...poor me haha!)

Wordless Wednesday!

We made another trip to our favorite park last week and Brayden was completely interested in the big kids!! The park has two play areas, one for toddlers and one for big kids. Well as soon as Brayden heard all the yelling and shouting from the big kids, he was totally enthralled and made a beeline for them. Talk about scaring a mother half to death! The big kids of course don't pay attention to a little one-year old running around and Brayden wanted NOTHING to do with holding my hand! I just couldn't do it...I couldn't let him play over there. I scooped him up and took him to the swing! A much safer place! I think this is the beginning of the many scares that this little boy will give me! Wish me luck :)

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Moving...UGH!!

I mentioned a few posts ago about my new job and how we would be moving to a bigger apartment...well that move happened this past weekend! Lets just say, I don't want to move again for a long time!! The move wouldn't have been so bad except we didn't really get much notice of when we would be moving so I didn't have a lot of time to prepare, pack and organize! Thankfully my mom was able to help me get almost everything packed and then we had a handful of strong men to help us with the heavy lifting on Saturday. Since then, we have gotten everything moved to the new place except one HUGE item...the hutch! We have this awesome hutch in our old apartment dining room and we didn't move it on Saturday because it needs to go to the storage unit we have as it won't fit in our new apartment..boo! Well anyways, that big beluga will be moved today and then we will officially be moved!
It has been a LONG 4 days of packing, moving and unpacking and I really just can't wait to be unpacked and actually LIVE in our new apartment. On the upside, I have been really trying to organize as I unpack because 1) I love to organize anything and 2) our other apartment was so unorganized and I couldn't stand it! I have been getting rid of everything we don't use or need and giving a bunch of stuff to Goodwill!  So far I have the kitchen totally unpacked and organized and the bathrooms are insanely organized (I am even going to make labels for the baskets!).
So there you have it...my big, long excuse as to why I haven't been posting in the last week! I will be back to posting regularly this week and I will post all of my moving advice that I wish I had before I moved as well as how I am getting organized!

This was the start to the packing! Did I mention that I hate moving?!!?

In our new place...the boxes are slowing disappearing from my pile!

I get my OWN bathroom!!! And so I bought a floral shower curtain! 

Our pretty, new kitchen! Don't mind the mess!

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