Yummy Tortilla Soup

This is the best smooth tortilla soup ever! I don't even like tomato's or onions and I will make this and eat it for three days straight! TRY it an dyou will NOT be disappointed. In fact, everyone I give this recipe too ends up loving it and becoming obsessed with it to.


Tortilla Soup


Start by boiling 8 cups chicken broth with two to three chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. ( leave them in whole because you will take them out later ) Two for good heat and three for very hot

PUT
14.5 oz can diced tomatoes
1 small 8 oz can tomato sauce
4 tbsp snipped cilantro
2 cloves of garlic
1 small onion

Blend together in food processor or Blender. Once the chicken broth is boiling, pour mixture into soup and let come to boil again. Then reduce heat to a simmer for 20 minutes.

Now at this point you can take the peppers out or leave them in. It's up to you. The longer you leave them in, the hotter the soup gets. I usually store left overs with a pepper still in it because it will keep it hot! If its already plenty hot for you, take them out.

Now whatever you add next is up to you. These are a few suggestions:
cheese
shredded chicken
tortilla chips
lime juice
avocado
rice
black beans

I personally love adding cheese and shredded chicken. I also have grow to love the rice in it and I know it is called TORTILLA soup but with the cheese, chicken and rice, I don't even need the tortillas. The scoop chips work best because they make little bowls in your soup. My sisters can't have it without the lime so try everything and see what you like. Also, if you like things chunky you don't have to blend everything. Just add it to the soup how it already is for some chunks. Enjoy and let me know if you make it how you like it!!! I'm going to make some today! MMMMMMMMMMMMM

Valentines Day suggestions

If my last Valentines day suggestion of the "sex pillow" wasn't for you, let me suggested a few more for you. There are all for adults just so you know. Our first Valentines day together we were newly married and BROKE! We had NO money and I didn't even have my license so I was at a lose of what to do for Cody. I knew I could try and make him something but even that was a challenge. I was looking at all of my craft stuff, which at the time wasn't much and then I saw a Victoria Secrets catalog and started flipping through it. Then inspiration struck.....sorta. I started picking up the really sexy outfits in the magazine and gluing them onto paper. Then I took pictures of me and cut my face out and pasted them over the models. It was hilarious. The other day I was flipping through some of our stuff and I found them! I thought I was gonna die laughing. SO I thought I would share so you could get a laugh too. So here are a couple of the ones I did for him




I thought I scanned more then just two, but I guess not! haha Any ways. Cody thought this was pretty funny and I love looking back on them now. They make me laugh. I love making memories when you try and create stuff. Now this was a silly suggestion that will get your husband laughing. If you want to get him excited you can do something else I did for my husband. I bought a calendar from the dollar store. I bought one of those little ones that practically fits in your hand but still looks exactly like a regular calendar. I took sexy pictures of myself and printed them at home, cut them up and I became the center fold on every month! Be as sexy or unsexy as you want. I did some sexy pictures and some pictures that I just thought were good pictures of me. He loved it! I mean what guy wouldn't like that right.

Another idea if you have a traveling man like myself is to buy a pillow case and some t-shirt transfer. I again, printed out a bunch of pictures but this time I did ones of the whole family. Some of my son by himself, some of our daughter by herself and then some mix and match ones of everyone together. I put them all over one side of the pillow case. THEN on the OTHER side I did one huge sexy picture of me and then a bunch of other ones around the center one. That way my man can have the family side up in the hotel and then at night he can flip it over and drool all over my sexy pictures and hopefully have nice dreams. I have done other things in the past but I am drawing a blank for now. Hope this helps someone or at least makes you laugh at the pictures of me as a Victoria Secrets model. : )

Busy

I have been busy lately with kids being sick and then me being sick. Then I got to pick up my husband from the air port. So no crafty stuff for me since Monday. But check out this cute tutorial for a wallet made out of tags from clothes. It's really cute, not to mention pretty clever. Go check it out HERE

Valentines Day Dirty

Okay so EVERYONE in the crafting blog world is making all these cutesy valentines stuff. Lots of hearts and lace and pink sparkly things. I am not really that girly. I have been WAY more since I had my girl but even then, pink is usually a little too much for me still. I wanted to make something for my husband that wasn't cute or girly. I actually wanted to make him something dirty. I bought a hanging plaque from the dollar store and was going to paint him a sign to hang on the door of our room. I figured it could be a "Come in" or "Don't Come In" kind of thing and I went from there. My brain works in strange ways. So then I was thinking, "What would a boy want on Valentines day?" Dumb question right? They want sex. So then I was thinking, boys always complain that they never know when girls WANT to have sex and when we don't. Now I have something.....SO this is what I came up with

After using the plaque for something else, I decided maybe I would try embroidery. I had never done it before so I looked at some videos on line. I ended up making a pillow that let's my man know when he is getting some and when he isn't.


NOT GETTING SOME


GETTING SOME

So what do you think? I still need to sew it closed so don't pay too much attention to the side that is still open. haha

Oh My!

Check out this cute Owl flash drive! I mean, it just doesn't get much cuter then this! HERE

Did I Mention I Love Owls?

Have I mentioned that I love owls....? I think once or twice right?! It's kind of annoying that owls are so popular because it makes me feel all trendy but I have been into them WAYYYYYYYYYY before you could find them any where other then thrift stores. Now you can find them at Walmart. It's nice but annoying. Any ways...I made me a wallet with some cute owl fabric I got a month or so ago. I think it turned out really cute.






Kayla LOVES her snuggy pictured here




She sleeps with it. She HAS to have it with her to sleep. That and her thumb in her mouth. So I wanted to make her a new one. Her's used to be Tyler's and it's looking pretty sad. So I made her an owl one. I think it came out cute. The blanket I made is one of the worse sewing jobs ever but that's okay. She won't know. HAHA





She was loving the button eyes and nose. I hope she'll grow to love it.

Been A While

Sorry it's been a while without a new blog. I have been crafting lots.....BUT I have not been finishing the projects. It's kind of hard to blog about things when you don't finish them. SOOOOOOOOOO here is the ONE thing I finished this week...Actually I finished it last week but never took pictures of it.




It's a reversible purse. I LOVE the fabrics together but I am not super happy with the results. The size is all wrong. Now I am going to have to try it again. I really like it in theory though and can't wait to try and make it again. I guess I should have just bought the pattern for 8 bucks but I couldn't resist trying it on my own first. haha