That's Life!: It's been a while...

...but it's time for a few

Today I finally went on the walk I thought I would be able to take every day once school started. I was already dressed for the day but when I found Katie Anne would be learing about exercise and being healthy at playgroup, I decided I should do something. I loved walking by one house and smelling something so good that I had to name it out loud in a delicious voice...Bacon.

Later I saw this side of a bunch of bushes...

they just looked so exposed like they didn't know their dress was stuck in their underwear and they were walking around all unknowing and happy. I remembered this older gentleman that I knew on my mission who painted just such a picture on the old glass Mrs. Butterworth's bottles. He would paint them in the most wonderful dresses, right on the front of the bottle, then when you turned it around you just had to laugh, with her bloomers showing and she having absolutely no idea! So delightful!

I tried to take a picture of the front of the bushes but I couldn't tell how the picture turned out thanks to the bright sun shining on my ipod. But still, doesn't that just make you smile?

When I got home from my walk I ate one of Dani's s'more bars. Trust me when I say they are divine.

After I picked up Katie Anne she was so excited to eat the carrots she was sent home with that I added to it and called it lunch. I decided to make dinner before I ate lunch, and ended up getting jalapeno residue on my eyelid. OUCH! Don't do that.

What was I making? Shredded beef for enchiladas or tacos...

I don't know who to give credit to for this recipe...I just read a whole bunch of recipes and wrote down what I thought would be good and now it's the recipe I use.

1 beef roast, cut into three or four sections, just to make it cook quicker to shreddable stage

In a bowl mix...

1 T paprika

1 T dried celery leaves

1 T garlic powder

1T dried parsley

1/2 T pepper

1/2 T chili powder

3 cloves garlic, minced

stir all of this together and rub it on the meat. Get messy and use your fingers!

In another bowl combine...

1 cup beef stock

1 1/2 T worcestershire

1 T hot sauce

Pour this over the meat. Toss in a sliced up onion, a green pepper, and a couple of jalapenos.

Cook in a crockpot all day!

***John always adds hot sauce so that is really taste specific. We LOVE this meat in tacos with fresh cooked (read: fried) corn tortillas, a bunch of cilantro, tomatoes, cheese, and lime.

It makes a lot but it freezes really well.

When I picked the green pepper and jalapeno right from my garden I spotted a tomato that just needed to be eaten. I smiled as I remembered the hatred I had for tomatoes as a kid! But, time goes on and things change. Isn't that great when we realize we can change? I have plenty of things I'm working on but today that little tomato gave me just the boost I needed to remember that I can change {for the better!}. I ate that thing on toasted homemade bread with (say it deliciously) Bacon. Yeah, it was good.

Just for laughs...