Newborn Photo Shoot - Mama LOVES Babies!

What joy it is to be able to capture 

those precious early moments with 

a new baby in the house!

PRECIOUS

BEYOND

WORDS

WELCOME TO THE WORLD

SWEET BABY GIRL

A Brave and Beautiful Mama

Meet 

Mama Whitney

She is BRAVE

BEAUTIFUL

STRONG

FAITHFUL

LOVING

AND

DID I SAY

BEAUTIFUL?

Well she is all of that and MORE!

AND

She needs are love and prayers.

Please take some time today to head over to her blog

and leave her a note of encouragement and love.

Go HERE to her blog.

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, 

there can be no more hurt,

 only more love."
~ Mother Teresa

Chicken Pot Pie - Skillet Style

How good does this look!

GOOD

REAL

GOOD

Baby Girl #2 really likes, (correction) 

really LOVES

a

GOOD

Chicken Pot Pie

So we have studied many recipes and created 

our very own favorite pie!

We like to make it in a skillet as it makes the crust really crispy!

Crispy is important!

So here ya go mamas!

Chicken Pot Pie - Skillet Style 

3 Cups of chicken breasts diced and cooked (can be a rotisserie chicken if you like)

1 Cup of  diced celery

2 Cups of carrots sliced

3/4 Cup of onion diced

2 Cups water

1 Tablespoon of Knorr's Caldo Con Sabor de Pollo (or any other chicken bouillon)

2 Tablespoons of flour

1 Cup of Half and Half

1/2 Cup of water

Dash of nutmeg

Salt and Pepper to taste

2 Tablespoons of butter or margarine 

1 box of refrigerated pie crust

Take pie crust out of box to bring to room temperature.

Preheat oven to 425.

Cook carrots in a soup pot with 1 Tablespoon of butter and 1 cup of water for about 8 minutes on medium heat. Add onions and celery, cover pot and cook 5 minutes.

While this is cooking whisk the tablespoon of Knorr's in a small bowl with the 1 cup of water and set aside. Add flour and mix to coat all veggies evenly. Slowly add the chicken flavored water to the pot while stirring constantly. It will continue to make a thick sauce. Add half and half and continue to stir over medium heat. Add salt, pepper and nutmeg to pot. Add cooked chicken to the pot and stir on low heat for a few minutes and then turn off the heat. Butter your cast iron skillet with the remaining butter.

Line the skillet with one pie crust. Put the skillet in the oven for about 5 minutes. The sides may fall down but it doesn't matter. Take it out of the oven and add the chicken and veggie mixture and take the remaining pie crust and lay on top. Make a few slits with a knife to vent. Place the skillet in the oven and cover lightly with a sheet of foil. Cook for about 30 minutes and then add 5 minutes without the foil on top.

Take it out and EAT!

I like to serve this with a crisp green garden salad.

Such a comfort meal that mamas love to feed their babies!

Check out more recipes

HERE!

Mama Goes Shopping on Etsy

Mama LOVES a GOOD shop!

I needed a gift for a sweet high school graduate

so I grabbed my laptop and visited Etsy.

I landed on Miss Amber's

darling shop titled

GLASS POPPIES!

Cute name is it not!

Her jewelry is amazing, 

customer service is superb

and her prices are perfect!

Thank you Amber!

I am a HAPPY Mama!

Naked Cupids and Some Cupcakes!

Mama was baking some Valentine's Day 

treats and she needed some HEARTS!

I found these little naked guys

at The Graphics Fairy!

I stole a few hearts from them to finish off my treats!

Thank you little naked guys!

and

Thank you Graphics Fairy!

oh and I almost forgot…….

Happy Valentine's Day to all the Mamas

out there in Blogland!

Papas too!

XXOO

The AMAZING Graphics Fairy 

graciously allows you to print her graphics 

to assist you in your Valentine projects!

Visit The Graphics Fairy to see 

more of her amazing images!

Linking up!

Guns and Coffee - Texas Mamas

Baby Girl #1 and I were back to Texas recently.

I enjoyed stuffing my face with Mexican food,

several trips to Whataburger and maybe some 

fried chicken and such!

(but you didn't hear that from me)

As you are aware this mama really likes her

Starbuck's cocktail around 2:00pm.

While I was tooling around I saw this!

What an amazingly brilliant bumper sticker!

GUNS

and 

COFFEE

Yes, in TEXAS the mama's can drive around

packing guns and caffeine!

So you best NOT

MESS

with 

these BAD Mamas!

No sir!

Missing some good Texas Food?
Check out these favorite Texas Recipes!

Tex Mex 7 Layer Dip

Colleen's Texas Queso

Holli's Hotsauce

More Recipes!
Go HERE!

Mama Loves Crayons!

NO 

this 

is 

NOT Candy 
NOR Soap

NOR Vitamins, 

          Drugs or 

              Jello Shots

It's CRAYONS Silly!

Who doesn't LOVE crayons!

Mama decided to be a little crafty today and melted down some old crayon stubs

to make some pretty new chunky ones! 

Here is how I did it.

Peel the paper off of the old crayons.

Spray the inside of muffin tin or oven proof baking mold.

Drop the crayons in the mold.

Bake it for about 10 minutes in an oven at 275 degrees.

Let them cool nice and long.

Pop them in the freezer if you have to!

Then POP those babies out and

get to coloring!

Nice and CHUNKY for little hands or old hands like mine!

So fun to do with the kids or NOT and say you did!  ;)

Mama LOVES A Good Burger!

Oh how I LOVE a good burger!

In Texas we grill our burgers outside and then bring them inside

to dress them up nice and pretty!

My hubby always laughs at me because by the time

he has finished his burger I am about done "fixin" mine up!

Usually I like mayo and mustard on my buns but every

now and then I like some special Texas sauce!

My special Texas sauce tastes a little like the sauce from

In N Out

Just a little.

Here is my recipe………

Texas Special Sauce

1/2 Cup Olive Oil Mayo

1 1/2 T Ketchup

1 T Apple Cider Vinegar

3 t  Sweet Pickle Relish

3 t chopped white onion

1 drop of Tabasco

Stir it up, chill and then slap it on a burger bun! Good on burgers, chicken, and even shrimp poboy sandwiches! 

YUM!!

Baby Cakes

Baby Girl #2 Can BAKE A cake!

I mean REALLY BAKE a cake!

She made her very first wedding cake!

It turned out beautiful, tasty and so very moist.

It was all from scratch.

She tried out three recipes and had a taste test.

I was so proud of her! She baked it the day before 

and decorated it the morning of the wedding so it

would be fresh and perfect!

It was a LONG drive to the venue

but the cake made it safe and sound!

Vanilla cake from scratch!

One layer at a time!

Buttercream Frosting

3 Layers!

Here she is with her cake at the wedding!

Pretty girl

Pretty Cake

Proud Mama