Food for the Soul.

Doesn't everyone have a favorite fall/winter meal? One that's warm and makes you feel perfectly full and you could just curl up on the couch with a good movie and a bowl or plate of it? I know I do :) My friend, Summer, is from Louisiana and introduced me to corn & crawfish chowder and I've been in love with it ever since! I decided to share the recipe with you today :)

First, I'm sure you're all "where the hell can I get crawfish?" Most Super Walmarts have it actually! It's in the frozen seafood section and looks like this:

You just need one bag per batch. Obviously more if you double or triple recipes.

The Recipe:

1 bunch green onions, chopped
1 stick butter
8 oz. softened cream cheese
1 lb. Crawfish tails
2 cans Niblet corn with juice
2 cans cream of potato soup
1 pint of half & half

Sauté onions in butter. Add cream cheese, corn, potato soup, and crawfish (make sure the cheese 

doesn't stick to the bottom). Add cream and stir. Heat until crawfish are warm.

**Very important: Do NOT drain crawfish. The juice is very important in flavoring your chowder!

In other news, I rearranged the living room :) and I've gotta say I LOVE throw pillows. The room is so open now and I finally got a little basket to put Noahs toys in so they aren't scattered everywhere.

Exciting News!!

It's just been one stinkin exciting week! First off, we got a new vehicle! We traded in my Jeep (that we just got in July) for a MINI VAN! Heck yeah! Here's a picture of my new swaggin wagon

And here's the reason we got the mini van!

Doggy number 2! He wouldn't stay still very long, sorry for the blurry picture!

Basically, we've been talking about a mini van anyway, just so that's one less stress when we do get pregnant again (down the road) and we just went to go look on Thursday morning...and like 837298361 hours later, we came home with a mini van! It's a 2010 Dodge Caravan...only 30some thousand miles. We're loving it! 

Now here's the short story about the new pup. His name is Sammy, btw. The other day we were noticing that Sadie (pup #1) has been super depressed since she's been here. She used to always have other dogs to play with when we lived back in Michigan, so we decided to start looking for a friend for her. Adoption only of course. So I looked at www.lycomingspca.com and found him :) I fell in love almost immediately! We went in and filled out an adoption survey and we were approved and then we took him out to play! He came right up to Noah and licked his hand, so 

We're going back to Michigan for Christmas...and we're driving since it's only 8-9 hours. But we didn't have a vehicle that would fit our luggage, ourselves, and the dogs. This is just such a perfect solution! It did take a lot of convincing and pride swallowing to get myself to drive a mini van, but I am SO glad I did it now. 

Here's some pictures from that last few days :)

First coffee in the swaggin' wagon!

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I can't even describe my excitement on this one. SUCH a huge accomplishment for me!

Big grocery trip!

BEST EMAIL EVER! Hence first picture :P

Ready for the 2 weeks.

Matt works 4 weeks on, 2 weeks off. I'm sure I've mentioned that before. But with the prime teething, I am SO ready for his 2 weeks off. Only 3 more days after today, THANK GOD. Noah's been waking up a few times every night. I'm just glad he finally has a tooth so I know that that's what the problem is. I just keep telling myself that this is the reason that God made coffee. And boy, am I right about that. I go through like a bag and a half of coffee a week. I'm definitely going to be purchasing a Sam's Club membership and buying the 40 oz bag. I'll be lucky if that last's me a month.

I'm really loving life here in Williamsport :) I met a super awesome girl named Megan, who has an adorable little boy named Trace. She's super fun to hang out with and the boys are so cute together! Her husband works for IPS too! It's a lot more fun to get to the mall and Target with a girlfriend than alone. And even more fun going with her rather than my husband, haha!

Here's a few pictures from the last few days.

Recipe: (I only made enough for me, and I made it up. Bare with me)

Linguine

Frozen Shrimp, thawed

Grape Tomatoes

Spoonful Philidephia savory garlic cooking creme

Tony Chachere's creole seasoning

2 tbsp butter

Make noodles according to box instructions

Melt butter and cooking creme in a frying pan

Add shrimp

Season to liking

Add grape tomatoes

Mix all together

Enjoy!

Scentsy & Cloth Diapers

So, as I mentioned in my last post...I'm officially a Scentsy consultant! And I'm SUPER stoked about it! I set up my launch party last night so if ANYONE could help me out, that'd be awesome! This is my website. I'd really appreciate it!

***THIS IS MOMMY TMI:

On another note, we've finally decided to start making the switch to cloth diapers! I was always so turned off by it because of the poop...but we finally experience our first cloth diaper poop yesterday and we survived!! AND it came clean! I was absolutely stoked! Excuse the blurry phone picture, but here's my babe and his fluffy butt!

BIG NEWS!: Noah got his first tooth!! YAY!!

Sorry for the short entry....but I've got a very active 5 1/2 month old on my hands!

Friday!

Fall is seriously the best time of year. Late fall/early winter is my particular favorite. I cannot get enough soup! Soup on the stove, crockpot soup, everything! Today, I made crock pot zuppa toscana. Super excited to try it! Crock pot meals are seriously the best with crazy work schedules. I mean obviously I don't work, but we never ever know what time Matt will be home. This way, once it's done, I can just turn it on warm and call it good!

There's just something about Friday's that I love. I don't know why, cause it doesn't mean anything for us since hubby works through the weekend. But it just reminds me of high school football games. And being in elementary school and knowing that mom and dad were ordering pizza tonight! I miss a lot of things about childhood, but I'm so excited to watch Noah experience it all too :) I can't wait to make sure he gets the best childhood ever, along with our future children of course.

We decided to not buy Noah a full blown costume since he'll only be 6 months old. We may get together with friends and just enjoy the night! My mom sent him a little skelton pj set that we're going to put him in! It's going to be SO cute! Halloween is only 2 weeks away!! YAY!

Side note: I'm officially a Scentsy Consultant!! My link is: www.mollieockerman.scentsy.us if you're interested in shopping!

Teething blows.

We all love our children to death right? Of course. I love my son more than anything. But holy shit, teething is not a game for the weak. I don't think there was a consequtive 30 minutes of no crying today. I feel so so so bad for him but I do everything I can and nothing helps! He's been teething for a couple months now, but today was easily the worst day we've had. I just want to snuggle him and tell him it'll be okay :( Poor babes.

Epic fail at some cute fall pictures.

I'm starting to get a hang of my camera now :) And I'm learing editing too! No where near professional quality, but good enough to hang up on the walls in our home! :)

Hubby is on nights right now and I am missing him :( I love our dog, but she's just a tad too hairy for my liking. We're currently laying in bed listening to all of the b.s. of the presidential debate. *yawn*

Here are a few more pictures from today :)

Love his little blonde baby mohawk :)

Here's to hoping Noah sleeps all night and praying that tomorrow is a better day!

Cute with a side of adorable

I seriously cannot get over how cute my son is. I know every mom thinks the exact same way. Just the way he smiles when I get him out of his crib after he wakes up in the morning and after his naps, MELTS MY HEART. He is the happiest, most precious baby. He wasn't planned by any means, but he is the biggest, and best surprise in our lives!

He's seriously only 5 months old and already starting to crawl! He can sit up by himself, and get on his hands and knees and rock back and forth. Now he's working on getting one knee in front of the other! Such a big boy! He is so determined! I remember bringing him home from the hospital and being SO tiny! (Okay, 8 lbs 10 oz, not so tiny)

Just a couple days old!

SO! Lately I've been allllllll over coffee (nothing new) but I bought Dunkin Donuts turbo, and holy crap. That stuff just gives a whole new meaning to coffee. Strong, but still a medium roast, and such a yummy flavor. I seriously look forward to going to bed JUST to wake up in the morning to drink coffee (ok, all day) I even make it at night, so I don't have to do any extra work in the morning. Yup, I'm THAT lady.

My trusty & huge Starbucks Christmas cup! My favorite!

Speaking of that picture, my recent project has been the blank canvas above that shelf. I think It's finally done, for now.  I'm sure I'll add to it as soon as I find some cute new frames.

And, one last thing..I want to share my new leg warmers from freakin' KMART. $7.99, holler.

Have a great Sunday everyone! :)