Snowmaggedon!

Today is one of the days that you dream about when you're growing up. A day when you wake up, roll over to open your blinds and the first thing you see is this:

And then you run out into the living room because you can hardly believe your eyes and your met with this view:

 

And for the icing on the cake, we opened our front door and this was all that we could see:

Keep in mind that this is at eye level, not ground level. As in almost 6 foot tall drifts. Yup.

It's official: we are snowed in!!!

The only negative thing about being snowed in now versus when you're say, 10 years old is a little thing called a job. Thankfully though, it seems like everything around here is closed down so neither of us had to go into work. Which is probably a good thing since it was a few hours before we could get out our front door.

So I've spent my day with this handsome man shoveling!

Ok so maybe he did most of the shoveling.

But spending the day together is definitely the best part of this snow day. 

We're staying in our pj's, eating blueberry pancakes, watching movies and playing phase ten. 

It has been a fabulous day. 

Wishing everyone a safe, fun and warm snow day! Enjoy it! These things never happen in Wisconsin.

 

What you need to know right now:

1. Jason is STILL being a sore loser. Yes, that's right, the Green Bay Packers won the NFC Divisional game and we are headed to the SUPERBOWL baby!!!!! Now, me being the caring and concerned wife I am, gave Jason plenty of space after the game to calm down. Day 1 we hardly acknowledged the game. Day 3 he let me show him a picture of me celebrating after we won. Day 6 he announces that he will be in fact cheering for the Steelers during the Superbowl. Um...wait...what?! I get that his team lost. And I get that you'd be mad for a little bit, but c'mon now! Why would he not want to cheer for MY team?? Doesn't love cover a multitude or something like that??? All I'm saying is that I would've cheered for HIS team if they had made it into the Superbowl. Would I have told my dad? Not a chance, but I would've cheered next to my man for him team and I think that the least he could do is cheer for my team. Pray for him people. 

2. The sickness has landed. You know, the one that is circulating seemingly everywhere. That horrible flu/fever/sore throat/cough thing. Yup, I got it Monday. I have not been that sick in a long time and it put everything on hold. I stayed home from work for a day and Jason even had to go to the grocery store for us! Thank goodness for my mom and her tinctures! I was taking an immunity booster, oregano oil and drinking her teas on a daily basis and I am convinced that they helped me kick this sickness. My cough is still lingering but I'm definitely feeling better. Now to catch up on everything that's fallen behind this past week...

3. Jason. Is. DONE! Final class and test was done on Wednesday night and we are SO excited!!! I had such plans of celebrating his being done that night but unfortunately that was the day that I was the sickest. :( We postponed the celebration till Friday and I made his favorite, Chicken Parmesan. We are so very happy that he is done and ready to move onto the job search!  

 

Yuuuum!!

If anyone is looking for something easy and delicious for dinner I would absolutely suggest this recipe: 

Slow Cooker Chipotle-Lime Chicken Thighs

, 2006, Robin Miller, All rights reserved

• Yield: 4 servings

Times:

Prep :20 min

Cook: 3 hr 0 min

Total: 3 hr 20 min

Ingredients

• 1 cup sliced onion
• 1 cup chopped celery
• 1 cup chopped carrots
• 4 pounds skinless chicken thighs
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 (15-ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1/4 cup lime juice
• 1 tablespoon minced chipotle chiles in adobo sauce with 1 teaspoon sauce from can
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 avocado, diced
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves
• Lime wedges, for garnish

Directions

Arrange onion, celery and carrots in bottom of slow cooker. Season chicken thighs with salt and pepper and arrange over vegetables.

In a medium bowl, whisk together tomato sauce, lime juice, chipotle chiles with sauce, and garlic. Pour mixture over chicken.

Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or high for 3 to 4 hours. Serve half of the thighs with this meal (topped with diced avocado and cilantro and garnished with lime wedges) and reserve remaining thighs for another meal. 

The best part of this meal is that it's (1) super easy, (2) you make it in a crock-pot (nuff said, right?) and it's really, really good. 

The only thing I would change is that the recipe originally included a Jamaican rice that was made with scallions, coconut milk and red beans and I would nix it. In fact, I deleted it from the recipe above so consider it nixed. I just felt that it didn't really add to the meal and between the beans and coconut milk it added a lot of calories and fat that you wouldn't miss. So next time, I'm just doing straight brown rice. We topped ours with plenty of avocado and cilantro and wa-laaaa! An easy, delish dinner! 

Jason recently commented on how most of the new recipes I've been trying are very spicy. The recipe above left my lips burning but it was soo good! 

Let me know if any of you try it and what you think! Enjoy!

Feeling so incredibly blessed by my husband today.

I am so lucky to have a man who serves and loves me the way Jason does. He always knows how to make me feel better and the thing is..I know he's not just trying to say the "right" thing, he's really speaking from his heart. 

Last night I was thinking about him and it really hit me: I KNOW that he is the man my mama always prayed I would marry. You might be thinking "umm...good, because you married him!" True. But when I married him I don't think I understood how your love grows and strengthens; how I fall in love with him more and more every day.

I hoped he would make me a better person but I don't think I knew just how much he would challenge me.

I didn't know that I could respect a person as much as I do him.

Just feeling blessed...that's all. :)

We are officially entering what will no doubt be an interesting week for me and my man! 

For those of you who don't know, Jason and I are passionate about a few things: each other and our marriage, our faith, family, friends and our football. As luck would have it we cheer for some of the biggest rivals in the league: Packers and Bears! Things typically get a little tense when they play each other but this coming Sunday they'll be competing to be the NFC division champ!

Yikes!!  

I think that it's funny though that the game happens to fall on the weekend that I'll be up in Door County for two of my sisters' baptisms! I will miss Jason like crazy BUT I think being apart for the game maaay be a good thing. ;)  

May the best team win, right??

Oooh don't you worry, we will! :)