Brown Sugar balsamic glazed chicken

AKA deliciousness, is that a word? That's not a word. I've been trying to make dinner every day by the time Travis is off work, I've been pretty successful and it saves money on groceries having a set dinner for each day. My absolute favorite is this awesome Brown sugary balsamic glazed goodness.. like honestly, it's amazeballs. (That's not a word either) Today, we tried it on subs and I made baked potatoes and it was pretty good. We usually have it as it's own dish with lots of extra sauce on top and a side of mashed potatoes. (We clearly love carbs in this house)

This recipe is SO yummy, I wanted to share it with you guys! 

 I put 2 chicken breasts in the slow cooker with a 1/4 cup of water and cook on low for 4 hours, sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper and flip it after 2 hours. An hour before the chicken breasts are done cooking you start glazing the chicken every 15 minutes until it's done. You probably want to start your glaze 15 minutes beforehand.

 Brown Sugar Balsamic glaze
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 Tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/2 cup water
2 Tablespoon soy sauce
1 Tablespoon Honey

 Combine all the ingredients in a small sauce pan whisk frequently until it thickens slightly, then remove from heat. Then you glaze your chicken with this yummy goodness every 15 minutes and then usually I take my chicken out and cut it up and dump more deliciousness on it! If you decide to make this for yourself, let me know how you like it! Happy eating ;)

Bath time!

It's an oldie, but look at those baby blues :D i'm so in love.

The cutest lion.

1.5 year wait? No biggie.

So, it's been about a year and a half since I last posted.. I'm not really sure what happened. I decided to make a few changes here and allow my husband access to post (i'm not sure if I'll regret this later ha). I need to keep a blog - with my forgetful mind, writing in a journal and reading it later makes so much sense. Right now, i'm dealing with a busy toddler who thinks putting his spit on every item in the living room is hilarious.. so I'm not sure how much time i'll actually get to post, but something is better than nothing. Right? Right!

This weekend, we will be driving down to L.A. to celebrate Dustin's 2nd birthday, I can't believe that he's already 2 years old. He's so independent it's insane. 4 years ago I didn't even think I was going to have kids, now I have a son who keeps me on my toes. I'm pretty lucky, even when he's terrible.. he's not that terrible. 

I think I basically stopped posting when things got a little crazily hectic for us. After we moved into our townhouse in vegas, I was working at Zappos and it was easily the most amazing job I've ever had and ever will have in my life. Our focus was for Travis to find a job making enough money so that I could stay home and raise our son. The idea of putting Dustin into daycare and giving someone else control to take care of my child 8 hours a day 5 days a week is terrifying. We knew our goal would be to do whatever it took to make sure that didn't happened. Unfortunately Zappos didn't pay enough and Travis wasn't able to find a good enough paying job for me to stay home.. in fact, he wasn't able to find a job at all. Depressing, right? Insanely depressing. We stayed in our perfect little townhouse for 6 months and around the end of July decided to move 8 hours away to northern nevada and live with my parents. Not ideal for any married couple with a small child. I hate Reno, it's an awful place and I don't know why it exists.. but the things we do for our children. He turned 1 while we were living there and it was the first time I was able to stay home with him, despite feeling like it was the worst decision we made, it gave me so much.. it gave me time that I couldn't get back.. I watched him learn to really talk and to walk.. walking is something I really really didn't want to miss out on. Travis found a job down there in less than a month, the pay wasn't ideal, but we weren't paying rent. Our focus was to get my car paid off, get more on our feet and then decide where we were going to plant our feet after we left the shit hole that I call Reno. Did I mention it's really cold there? Because it is and its awful. 

We lived there for what seemed like eternity and in reality it was less than a year. My parents decided to buy a condo where I grew up in the small town of Boulder City.. the wait was long and I was impatient, but after I think 3 months, we were packing our stuff for hopefully the very last long move and heading back to vegas. We still had the idea in mind for me to stay home, or for Travis to stay home. Travis ended up getting a contract job, the contract job likes him and promotes him within a month (pay wise) and then promotes him again and gives him a year contract job, making enough money for me to stay home AND for us to have a small amount of spending money. We rented our own house and things are good. We're hoping that after his year, he will have enough experience to apply to be a full time employee with his employer and things will finally fall into place and we can buy a house. We're not there yet, but we have our fingers crossed. I still don't want Dustin in daycare, not until he's old enough to tell us if someone is hurting him or treating him badly. I might be paranoid, but I love that little human and I'll do anything to protect him. 

So, there's our life as of now. Exciting, right? 

Ignore how odd my teeth look in this picture. I don't know why.

My MMO life.

My world of warcraft life has consisted of; PVP and trying to tame every pet for the achievement. After spending hours of catching pets, I have come to the realization that #1 one of the pets is only available in the summertime, and number two there are at least 3 pets that just don't exist, I'm convinced of it. BUT, I did find the giraffe after searching for awhile.. it's probably the cutest pet in the game. :-) I've also been bugging my husband to run all the old raids with me to get the pets that can drop from bosses in those also. He's not the most patient person in the world, but he helped anyway :-P Scored full molten core transmog gear during our run, woo woo! :-D My magey is so cute. I still have to get her gear though. I ended up PVP-ing with my priest instead of my mage. So, my priest is full blue PVP gear. Shadow is NOT that good right now, so I'm thinking of going to my secondary spec - disc, and healing. I really want to level my lock right now, just based on how badly they kill me in BG's. (lol) Anyway below are my little pics of my toons. I'll end this nerdy post now ;-D

Neglectful

I know I've been entirely neglectful to my little blog. So much so, that I forgot to mention that I got a job! I found out on Dec 15th and completely forgot to post about it. Whoops! I'm still waiting for my start date, but I'm pretty sure my training class will start sometime in February, woohoo! I won't mind if it's closer to the end of February, just more time I'll get to spend with my little munchkin before I have to start working again.

I decided to post, mainly because I've been lurking blogs for the bast hour and a half. A little nostalgic for me, back when blogging was super popular and I was getting 1k visitors DAILY, what happened to those days! When everyone loved you based on how often you updated your webcam? ;-) I can't imagine why anyone would have read my blog when I was 18 anyway, all I talked about was my parents not letting me do what I wanted to do, or a boyfriend that I was fighting with. Not to mention how poorly my writing was. I wouldn't have read my blog.

So, back to what I was saying.. I was lurking blogs on this new site I joined, influenster.com. For some reason I keep wanting to type influenza. (lol) It's a website that you can submit reviews on products/games/tv shows/etc. You also get the chance to be sent a 'voxbox' with products to try out. Which, of course, I'm always up for! So anyway, I was reading through the World of Warcraft reviews and clicking on people that reviewed it an A, because most of these reviews are from girls and I'm so weird that I like to know other girl gamers. Yes, I AM a creep. Some of the people that review actually have blogs, so I was looking for people that had blogs that also liked world of warcraft. Sadly, I only found one blog that actually BLOGGED about world of warcraft. That makes me think that I actually need to blog about my gaming life, even though it has been severely decreased since having my little pumpkin (which is probably better haha).

I had actually tried to start a gaming channel at one time (prior to me having Dustin or being pregnant) just for the fact of possibly, maybe meeting other girl gamers. Which, didn't work out so well and I'm not so sure making videos at this point would be a go, considering I have a 4 month old who has recently discovered he has a voice and lets out the most demonic noises I've ever heard out of a small child. :-)

I think I kind of lost track about what I originally wanted to post about. It's 2 AM, I think that happens. I think this is going to get to the point of a "TL;DR" for most. ;-) However, tonight.. I'm going to make a separate post to world of warcraft.. mmhmm, you don't have to read it.. but I'm going to!

I'll end this post with pictures as usual of my growing guy. (Who btw already weighs almost 16 pounds! Talk about a chunker!)

His superhero cape, that STILL doesn't fit. :-P

The superseat my parents got him for Christmas and his sweet new gear that momma bought :-)

Still hates tummy time, but likes to rub his face on the floor ;-D

More pictures.

I've been meaning to make an actual post, but just haven't sat down to do it. I have some more pictures to post (REALLY!? I know right ;-) ) To tide you over until my next post.. not that I have that much to write about, but more than usual ;-)

I love my little monkey :-D

He was so over taking pictures at this point :-P

We have wonderful picture attire right? I didn't / couldn't find anything in his size that was cute and dressy, so we decided to just match him. We really don't have the money anyway right now to be spending on clothes. 

Ah, one that he's actually looking at the camera :-P

One of the very few things that makes him laugh.. almost always ends up with drool all over your face (and clothes)

Past his nap time, not a happy dude. :-(

I'll be incredibly happy if his eyes stay blue!

His expression... so cute! :3