What's for dinner?

I found a really good and easy chicken enchilada recipe from Pinterest...That site is AMAZING...and very addictive. I found myself on the site hours at at time..whoops! If you're in the mood for mexican, these are REALLY good and REALLY easy to make, which I love. I'm not much of a cook and it was a piece of cake for me to whip up. Here's the recipe and link if you want to check it out. What are you waiting for...go make some..NOW!! lol

White Chicken Enchiladas

Chicken enchiladas with green chili sour cream sauce

*These are seriously so so good*

10 soft taco shells

2 cups cooked, shredded chicken

2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese

3 Tbsp. butter

3 Tbsp. flour

2 cups chicken broth

1 cup sour cream

1 (4 oz) can diced green chillies

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a 9x13 pan

2. Mix chicken and 1 cup cheese.  Roll up in tortillas and place in pan.

3. In a sauce pan, melt butter, stir in flour and cook 1 minute.  Add broth and whisk until smooth.  Heat over medium heat until thick and bubbly.  

4. Stir in sour cream and chilies.  Do not bring to boil, you don't want curdled sour cream.

5. Pour over enchiladas and top with remaining cheese.

6. Bake 22 min and then under high broil for 3 min to brown the cheese.

even Hunter liked them..  ; )

Operation potty train

Well, I should clarify this...I don't fully intend on getting Hunter completely potty trained right away but I'd like to at least start making an effort. He has used his potty chair before and even gone potty in it a couple of times!! I don't feel it needs to be rushed and frankly I know boys often train later than girls this age but he many times will bring me a new diaper and wipes and lay down wanting to be changed. So I know he knows when he goes in his diaper, which is a good sign. I plan on staying home mostly for a couple days and offer the potty chair to him often and just see where this goes...No pressure, Hunty...but I have lots of M&M's with your name on them...... ; )    

his new big boy underwear

Missing Gram....

I've been really missing my Grandma lately. I still think to myself multiple times a week "I need to call Gram and update her on Hunter etc"...Only to remember, I can't. She won't be answering her phone...I've known her number by heart for as long as I can remember and sometimes I think I want to call it just to hear it ring and maybe hope for a split second she might just pick up.

I still have not really started to even begin to fully grieve her loss just yet. My brain in packed full of all things Hunter right now. It's also that I don't want to just yet. I am not ready. I miss her so much though. It's almost surreal to look back just a few short months when I got to see her just days before she passed. I had to leave early for my flight that morning and I told her I loved her and I know I said something else, but I can't remember exactly what it was. I knew in my head it was the last time I'd see her alive but in my heart I wished that weren't true. We said our goodbyes just as we had done before, whenever I'd go home to visit. I wanted to hug her a little longer and a little harder but I didn't want her to think I knew she was going to be gone soon. I wanted it to be like before when we'd hug and say goodbye and know that I'd see her on my next visit home....<3

Picasso??

Hunter tried out his finger paints tonight....he started out liking it, then he got freaked out when the paint was on his hands...needless to say a bath in the sink was in order! I think his paintings are masterpieces...and not just because he's my child....they are awesome ; )

And after his painting and bath were done...there's nothing like a snack before bed and some PBS kids on the ipad....Good night everyone!

Happy 4th of July!!!!!

We celebrated the 4th by going to a local parade...Hunter was much more interested in the small planes that were flying over head. That boy and planes, trains and automobiles...he LOVES them. Cannot get enough. of them, it cracks me up. Later we went over to my mom's friend, Larry's house for a BBQ and some pool time fun for Hunter. Thank you Larry for having us over! Hunter was in the pool much of the day...he was having a great time eating chips and crackers in the pool, dunking them and eating them...GROSS i know!

We were all a little bummed the parade was mostly cars and politicians, no bands or twirling batons...we figured you have to live in a really small town to still see those =(  None the less it was a great day. Here are some pictures to enjoy. I actually have a lot more pictures on my camera but our card reader is acting up so until I can get those pictures...these are the ones from my phone =)

Glamma and Larry

One of the blogs I read is IROCKSOWHAT. She is a great blogger..she blogs about her son, clothes, health, you name it. Check her out! She found a fun picture app that I thought I'd share as well, she blogged about it recently and I downloaded it and so far am really loving it. It's called Picfx. You have so many options to add really cool effects to your pictures on your phone. I highly recommend it as well. Check it out. I haven't even discovered half of all the cool things you can do but here are some fun pics I did today. I love taking a picture a creating something different with it! I'm no pro at this by any means but I sure love to play around with it!

I never mean for it to be so long in between posts but better late than never right? Today we had a fun pot luck with my mommy group at a nearby park. I haven't seen most of the mom's in a few months with traveling for Hunter's stuff etc. So it was nice to catch up a bit. I wish I could have chatted more but watching Hunter proved to be a bit challenging. He is ALL OVER THE PLACE! Swings, now slide, now monkey bars, now running, now trying to hide from mommy...you name it! He had a blast though. I tried to get him to eat some of the yummy food that was there but he wasn't having it, he wanted to play instead.

Westside Babies and Momma's!

watching for airplanes!

YUM!!

Hunter has continued to do awesome with his capping. He caps all day and at night he wears a humidity collar around his trach or an HME. I still pray he stays healthy for our next big trip to Cincinnati...fingers crossed! August is creeping up on us already...I need to start checking out flights again for Jeremy and get in touch with insurance about getting flights for Hunter and I. We are so thankful to have help with all the travel expenses. It sure would be much harder without them paying for some.

Tomorrow we are going to the Rio Rancho 4th of July parade. I can't wait to see Hunter's reaction. He LOVES trucks, cars, motorcycles etc...and it's full of them! We went last year and Hunter was a little young to appreciate it still. Unfortunately, Jeremy won't make it but he'll be with us the rest of the day after he leaves work.

Work for myself is going good. We are in a temporary location (same building though) while they decide if they are going to remodel our old store or we just got word they may even look for a whole new retail location for us. So until they decide, we stay in our temporary location. It's not too bad, it took a while getting used to though.

Hmm what else....oh Grandpa and Grandma Lampkin came into town last week..They drive a semi truck cross country so the pass through his every now and then. Hunter had a blast checking out the HUGE truck. He was on cloud nine watching all the trucks drive by. His favorite word is truck..or as he says "hut"...

I took a couple of pics but none with all of them looking at the same time!

Well that's all for now I suppose...I'm having a tough time thinking of topics to write about (other than Hunter of course)!....I think I will check out some idea's to write about online and see what interests me. Hope everyone has a wonderful and safe 4th of July! Tomorrow I'll have some fun pics from our celebrations!