Easy Chicken Fajitas

We love Chicken Fajitas at our home.

I mostly love them because it is a fast meal you can serve your family in no time!

I always make extra everything because my husband takes leftovers to work the next day.

 

Serves: 3-4

 

Ingredients:

3 Chicken Breasts (Cut Into Cubes)

1 Fajita Seasoning Mix

1 Green Bell Pepper (Srips)

1 Yellow Bell Pepper (Strips)

1/2 Yellow Onion (Strips)

1 Tomato (Diced)

Wheat or Flour Tortillas

 

I like to buy all my vegetables from the produce section, but if you're in a hurry I think a bag of fajita vegetable mix would also taste great!

First, I cut my chicken and vegetables. It's the part that takes the longest, so if my husband is home we split the work. He does the chicken and I'll do the vegetables. Cooking is more fun with a partner anyway. :)

Sometimes, I season my chicken with garlic salt and onion powder. 

Once all my chicken and vegetables are cubed, sliced and diced I cook my chicken on a skillet that I've sprayed with olive oil.

Once the chicken is completely cooked I sprinkle the Fajita Seasoning Mix all over the chicken. I usually will add about 1/4 cup of water so it doesn't become dry.

Add the vegetables, cover the skillet and occasionally stir.

Cook until the vegetables become soft.

 

 

We like to add sour cream, 4 cheese (Mexican) and salsa to our chicken fajitas. I also use wheat tortillas to make me believe we're eating healthier. ;)

 

ENJOY! 

 

 

Verb:

Making : Coffee
Cooking : Salmon, brown rice and steamed vegetables for dinner.
Drinking : Going to be drinking coffee with my new favorite creamer. SO Delicious coconut milk creamer.
Reading:  Gangsters Without Borders - GREAT ETHNOGRAPHY!
Wanting: A bag of peanut M&M's
Looking: Laptop screen
Playing: House Wife and Mommy, my fave!
Wasting: TIME! I'm always wasting time.
Wishing: For this semester to be over.
Enjoying: Life
Waiting: For my order from SlyFoxThreads to get here.
Liking: Green tea and boiled eggs.
Wondering: What time husby will be home.
Loving: My bareminerals foundation, Fall Clothes & my Revlon black cherry lipstick
Hoping: I do well on my exams next week.
Needing: A getaway with husby. :)
Smelling: My pumpkin marshmallow Scentsy
Wearing: Victoria's Secret jammies
Following: Fitness Moms on Instagram
Noticing: Anistyn is getting two new teeth!
Knowing: I should be studying instead.
Thinking: Of my husband.
Feeling: On top of the world!
Opening: A box of Honey Nut Cheerios
Giggling: Anistyn's facial expressions
Feeling: Grateful for the beautiful life I am blessed with.

MIA

A couple of weeks ago I made a life changing decision...I DEACTIVATED my Facebook. Okay, life changing sounds a little drastic, but it has been...kind of, sort of...but not really. I always had a love/hate relationship with Facebook. I am a social person and I love to share, share, SHARE! I love to share positivity, I love to share pictures of my loved ones and occasionally something exciting or funny would happen in my life/our lives and I could share it with all my friends and family in a matter of seconds through a status update. How CONVENIENT, right?

Many reasons led to my decision, but my two biggest reasons were my family and Fall Semester 2014. The moment I deactivated my Facebook I felt relieved. Literally! But a couple hours later I felt lost. I realized that an app on my phone had so much control over my time, my attention and my soul! Okay, again with the drama queen, but seriously. For now the Robinsons will be 80% MIA because I'll be damned if we aren't on Instagram. :) 

 

Early Morning

GOOD MORNING!!!

I wake up with my husband every morning at 4 AM to fix him breakfast, help him prepare his lunch and kiss him goodbye as he walks out the door to do what a man does. He never works Sundays, so today is a first. Some days I go back to bed for an hour or two, but days like today...I just don't wanna.

I am feeling INSPIRED this morning. I am feeling GRACEFUL. I am feeling PEACE. I am loving this rain. I have a cup of coffee in hand. I am blabbing on this blog post for no reason at all. I am just happy.

I am a positive person. I have days when I am a grump too, but for the most part I realize life is too short to be negative. I love quotes! If I ever need a pick me up I always either get on Pinterest and search for quotes or I Google them. Here are a few quotes that have absolutely filled my heart this morning.

"If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sun beams and you will always look lovely." - Beautiful! Who doesn't want to always look lovely?

"My entire life I wanted to be an artist. Then one day I looked around my home and realized I am an artist and my canvas is my home." - I am an artist! Wow!

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." - I absolutely agree. I love lifting spirits and I love forgiveness.

Last, but not least, "What on Earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book and a cup of coffee?" Ummm, nothing! Except I wish I was reading a good book rather than my Accounting text book.

HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY.

Dear Anistyn

Dear Anistyn,

I often watch you sleep. Especially in the mornings after your Dad leaves to work and I am left wide awake to ponder on all the things I have to get done that day, what assignments or exams I have to prepare for or what I am going to make for dinner that evening. 

So, here I am, watching you sleep. You are almost 10 months old. You have started to sleep through the night, but have also started to refuse to sleep in your own bed. You have one bottom tooth on the right and one top tooth on the left. Can you say, hillbilly?! You can climb an entire flight of stairs, so a baby gate is written on the shopping list. Last week as I was washing dishes I looked over at you and you happily grinned at me while you chewed a mystery treat that I had not given you. First I pulled out a set of wings and then I pulled out a dead wasp. Girl, you're killin' me! Speaking of treats...you eat everything and anything. You can't stand to watch someone eat without them sharing. I love you, really, I do. Because when you pooped in the bath tub this weekend and I caught you with it on your hands I swiped you up so fast to save you. You then thanked me with a slight slap to my lips. So, thanks for the poopy lips that I left on so I could clean you off first. Sis, you're amazing in every way. Every day isn't perfect, but having you in my life is perfect in every way. Xoxo 

Our First Home

Since I can't shut up about becoming home owners on FB, Twitter, Instagram and for some of you - in person- I decided to blog about it too! 

Tomorrow would have been our closing day. We were blessed and closed early! My thoughts...this house was meant to be our home! Seriously though, it really was. 

Last New Year's Eve my husband and I wrote down 5 goals we each wanted to accomplish in the year 2014. Buying a home was top of the list. We had gotten married, had a baby...we were ready for the next big thing. 

Moving back to Vernal from SLC was always in the books for us. We aren't city people, we missed our families way too much and we wanted to raise our daughter in the sticks. For real.

We lived with my in-laws the past 7 months. I LOVED IT. Ben loved it. Anistyn loved it. As we went to get the last of our things tonight Ben stood in his old high school bedroom and looked around. K, this kid makes me tear up instantly. He says, "I've lived here the past 20 something years on and off. I'll never live here again. I am really going to miss it." I saw a twinkle (tear) in his eye. 

Home is where your favorite meals are made. Home is where your old school pictures are plastered all over the walls. Home is where you childhood memories were made. Home is where you were welcomed back after moving out several times. In all reality, you'll never outgrow your parents' home. You know that saying, There's No Place Like Home? Damn straight, there is no place like home. 

This evening I am thankful for my parents and for Ben's parents for making us miss their homes. We love our parents so much and are so grateful for their endless support.

Now..........it's our turn to create this HOUSE into a HOME for our family. XoXo 

Things I Am Excited About

Today I woke up feeling extra excited because:

1) Anistyn's FIRST tooth is starting to come through. Anistyn will be 8 months old tomorrow! In 4 months she will be a 1 year old. DON'T BLINK is right. She says DAD-DA-DA-DAD often and it makes me wonder when she will start saying MUM. She is a gem and the light of my life.

2) My sister gets married to the love of her life in 25 days! Her fiancé, Richard, has been in our family since 2009. Richard has felt like a brother to me for a long while now, but I am so excited to have him be a part of our CRAZY family permanently. He also has become great friends with my husband and is a wonderful uncle to Anistyn. 

3) DENVER. Need I say more? Yes? Okay, I will! My sister-in-law, Rachel, lives in Colorado, so the Robinson's are headed their way for some Water World fun! I can't wait to spend time with our family. I love my siblings. 

4) BAHAMAS. My husband and I are going to the BAHAMAS. In case you can't tell, I am excited! I keep calling this our REAL honeymoon, because Yellowstone National Park just didn't cut it. We are going with my brother and sister-in-law, Braden and Whitney. We like to think we are a party bunch. 'We' as in Whitney and I. 

5) Growing up I didn't know what I wanted to be. I felt wanting to be a wife and mother was sometimes frowned upon because women are supposed to be empowering now...a CEO, a world leader, running for president...you get my point! I've realized it's okay to just want to be a wife and mother. Now that I have made my first part of growing up dream come true I am excited to start school again. I am also grateful to have the support of my husband. 

6) My husband and I are on the hunt for our first home. So far it has been one of the most exciting experiences I have ever had and I would not want to share it with anyone other than my one and only. We have come a long ways since our one bedroom apartment. This man makes our dreams come true!

XOXO