Slow Cooker Chicken Pot Pie

  Here's another tasty crockpot recipe!

Ingredients:

4 cans of cream of chicken soup

2.5 ibs chicken breasts

2 1/2 tsp dill

3/4 tsp black pepper

2 tbsp onion powder

2 rolls of pillsbury biscuits

2 16oz bags of frozen veggies

  Mix cans of cream of chicken soup together with pepper, onion powder and dill in a bowl. Then place defrosted chicken breasts into the slow cooker and fully cover with the mixture. Put your lid on the crockpot and leave it covered on high for 4 hours.

  After the 4 hours, use spoon to break up the chicken breasts and add frozen veggies to the mix. Replace lid for another 30 minutes. While you wait, put the rolls in the oven.

  When you're ready to eat, split the rolls and poor the chicken and veggie mixture on top. Enjoy!!

Instant family favorite!

Thoughts?

How to Make a Hair Wrap

  My cousins are always asking me to make string wraps in their hair. It's actually a pretty relaxing and easy project, and the girlies love them because they can show their personalities and they can stay in for up to 6 weeks!

   I figured I'd share a how to!

Pick out up to three string colors and three medium-large beads. These are the same strings you would use to make friendship bracelets and are fairly cheap. You can pick them up at a craft store for around 50 cents. Make sure each string is 3 times the length of the hair you'll be wrapping. Once their all cut make a small knot at the end of the strings.

Part her hair like you would normally and clip back a fairly thick section of hair (so that it will cover the top knot)

  Use a tiny plastic rubber band to determine where you want the braid. You want to place the braid back far enough that it won't be in their face. 

  Tie the strings around the rubber band with a tight knot. Decide which color you'd like to have first, in our case we used blue. Hold the other strings with her hair and wrap the "blue" string around the hair and other string going clockwise. Repeatedly wrap the string around. Make sure it's right or it will unravel. 

Continue the first color all the way down until you'd like to switch and add the rest of the "blue" string in with the hair and the rest of the strings. Then take out the next color string and start again, wrapping clockwise around the hair and other two color strings. Repeat in whatever pattern of thicknesses you'd like.

When you get to the point where you'd like to add beads (in this case we put them at the end) twist the remaining hair and all three strings clockwise tightly and bend it. This way you will easily be able to slip it through the holes of the beads.

Knot the strings under the beads several times until the bead is no longer able to slide over it. An this point you can continue clockwise with the strings or end the braid. (We chose to end the braid).

Cut off any fly away strings and you're done! Remember, the tighter you wrap the strings, the longer it will last.

  To remove braid, carefully cut either the bottom or top knots and unravel. 

Have you tried this? How did yours turn out? Share and let us know!

Childhood Photos Recreated

  I came across Awkward Family Photos Facebook today and laughed my rear off.
(see right)

  Which got me thinking, what if the photo was recreated with the children as adults? Would it be creepy? Funny?

  Yea, well I wasn't the first person to think of this...
when I did a search I came up with some of the most bizarre results, and I just don't know exactly how I'm supposed to feel. So I figured I'd show all of you
and see what you think of them.

That chest hair though...

found at http://imgur.com/a/e0iIj

It's cute and sweet... until...

found at http://runt-of-the-web.com/

Nailed it.

found at http://bunchfamily.ca

This one is actually pretty adorable.
What kills me is that the lamp is still
in the same place...
I hope they at least dusted.

http://cdn.lotoflaughters.com

I can't.

found at http://4.bp.blogspot.com

found at http://www.oddee.com

Have you ever recreated old photos?

I have some plans in the works thanks to these pictures.

Books to Read Before They Become Movies

  It seems that a majority of the movies and tv shows hitting the screens lately have been adapted from books. I've been reading up a storm this winter break and was interested to find out that many of the books I enjoyed the most will soon be available for everyone to watch, rather than read.
  I, for one, love a good book where it's easy to imagine the characters and how you feel they would be. Some movies have made me disappointed in how the characters turned out, such as in Twilight, and others have been pleasantly surprising, as in Hunger Games.
  Here are my favorite books that will be heading to theaters.

1. Divergent by Veronica Roth

  















  This trilogy is as addicting as it gets. I wouldn't be surprised if these films get almost as big as The Hunger Games. The book is about a dystopian society made up of 5 factions and the main character, Tris. Tris is set with a choice whether she should stay with her family, or leave to be apart of a new faction. When she takes a test to determine where she belongs, she finds out that she doesn't belong in any one place. The entire book is high energy and makes you flip through pages incredibly fast in the need to know what comes next. Personally, I am bouncing on my toes in excitement waiting for the movie to come out.
  Starring Shailene Woodley, Kate Winslet and Theo James.
  Coming to theaters March 21st, 2014.

2. Matched by Ally Condie

  Another amazing trilogy! These books are centered around Cassia, whose entire life is decided by officials who use statistics to determine everything. They even determine who her perfect match is. When they determine that her best friend Xander is her perfect match, she couldn't be happier. That is until she finds out that she might have another match, Ky, who she is not allowed to love. The entire book is running with Cassia and her up and down emotions on whether she should trust herself or the safe society she has grown up in. It's really fascinating and I soaked all of it up. It was hard to decide who I wanted to root for when it came to Xander and Ky and I finally made a decision, but I'll let you decide for yourselves.
  The cast has yet to be determined, but author Ally Condie has made a statement that her dream cast would be Nina Dobrev, Logan Lerman and Nathan Fillion. I have to say as far as Nina and Logan go, I agree whole heartedly!
  The release date is also not available yet, but Disney has everything in the works!

3. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray

  This is another book series (of which I've only been able to read this, the first, book) about Gemma Doyle who is a 16 year old girl. Her mother dies and is sent to a girls academy in Victorian England. She ends up finding out that she has a connection to a mystical Order and is able to enter realms filled with magical powers. The entire time I was reading this, I was pretty jumpy. Bray's enticing way of writing makes you want to read more, but hesitantly. I say this only because you never know what kind of turn the book can make. It's as if your watching a scary movie and waiting for something scary to pop out. It is definitely a must read!
  Again, the cast hasn't been announced but the planning is supposedly about finished.
  The release date is set for 2015, but with filming not being started yet, it is likely to be later.



Are there any books that you can't wait to watch? Do you agree or disagree with one of my choices? Let us know!

Super Duper Fudge Lava Cake - Slow Cooker Recipe

  I'm sure we've all had that kitchen obsession at some point. I've been from baking cupcakes to the perfect frosting, college dorm microwaved food to healthy green eating. Now here I am, blissfully in love with my slow cooker.

  The amount of delicious recipes seems never ending. Everyday I dedicate some time to searching for something new and never come up short. After a little tweaking and love, I'm ready to serve a yummy dinner or desserts to my family. Let's just say, they never fail to ask for seconds!

  Here is tonight's latest!

Ingredients

❤ 1 box triple chocolate fudge cake mix

❤ 2 cups milk

❤ 1 1/4 cups water

❤ 1/2 cup vegetable oil

❤ 3 eggs

❤ 1 box (4-serving size) instant chocolate pudding

❤ 2 cups milk chocolate chips (12 oz bag)

Directions

❤ Spray slow cooker with cooking spray.

❤ In mixing bowl add cake mix, water, vegetable oil and eggs.

❤ Beat with an electric mixer.

❤ Poor evenly into slow cooker and turn on low heat.

❤ In a separate mixing bowl add pudding mix and milk.

❤ Whisk until smooth.

❤ Poor pudding mix into slow cooker on top of cake batter as

evenly as possible.

❤ DO NOT MIX. ❤

❤ Layer chocolate chips over the top.

❤ Cover with lid and DO NOT REMOVE until at least 2.5 hours

into slow cooking.

❤ Slow cook time could vary based on slow cooker. It should

be done between 2.5-4 hours.

❤ The cake is done when it looks mostly solid and the pudding

is beginning to bubble out of the top of the cake.

Side Notes

❤ The amount of water and milk you add is very important, if

you add too much the cake will be more liquid than solid.

❤ This isn't a cake meant to be cut and served. You will spoon

it out so it won't stay in a perfect form.

❤ I checked to see if it was done with a wooden skewer. it came

out clean on the bottom and top and gooey in the middle.

❤ Warning! VERY chocolatey (as that is the main ingredient) so

take in small servings.

❤ Best served with vanilla ice cream ❤

Try it out and let us know what you think!

What could be done to improve the recipe?

What did you think of the consistency?

Was it too much chocolate to handle?

❤Katy