Salsa Chicken

I was given this super yummy and super easy recipe from a co-worker.  Lets just say its probably one of the greatest inventions known to man! 

Salsa Chicken
Ingredients:
Chicken Breast
Green Salsa (about half a container for each salsa)
Red Salsa
Sweet Salsa (we used a mango habanero.)
Salt (to taste)
Pepper (to taste)
Garlic (to taste)

First I needed to grab out that crock pot, which I have never used before,  set it to low.  Pour all of the salsa in as well as the salt pepper and garlic.  Give it a stir.  Then add the chicken.  Sean and I used four extremely large one which come from the freezer section of Costco. Then cover the crock pot and let it cook for six hours. Grab your egg beater and use it on low to shred your chicken inside the crock pot, it won't take long as the chicken just falls apart.  Then serve however you wish.  Here are some ideas on how to serve it.
Chicken Quesadilla
Chicken Burrito
On top of rice
Chicken Taco
Pulled Chicken Sandwich

However you serve it you can't go wrong this easy dish is so delicious I like to eat it plain!!

Henna Hair... WHAT?!

If you know me you know that I am pretty Bi-polar with my hair color, though I have never made my hair pink or purple (I want to I am just scared!!), I do change it often between red, brown and blonde.  My go to color is always blonde though.  When I got pregnant my hair just went nuts, what was once a wavy curl became something rather special looking.  I decided to try to re-train and make my hair healthy again so that my curls can come back to life.  Obviously this would take a long time if I keep bleaching my poor hair, so Henna caught my eye.  I did not think it was possible to do this since I really enjoy my blonde hair as Henna can sometimes cause some funky colors to come out of processed hair.  I work at Lush and my manager one day told me that she bleaches our Henna out fine this is because we do not use metallic salts in our Henna line.  I was sold.  If I could bleach it out I would do it.  So let me tell you about why I made this decision.
When you dye your hair using Henna its not like a typical dye.  Typical dye will change the color of the hair it touches from the inside out.  Henna is like staining furniture,  you just coat your hair in color.  Why is this good?  Well just coating your hair in color is less damaging the opening and closing the cuticle of you hair a thousand times.  Also, like staining, the integrity of your hair is kept intact.  This means that any highlights, low lights or gray hairs will be coated with color but you will still keep that dimension in the finished color.  Henna won't give you the all over one color, but will have lighter and darker sections based on the highlights and lowlights you had before.  Then to top of the whole not going to damage your hair Lush puts their Henna in a brick of Cocoa Butter!! YUMMY! So anyways here is my Henna process.

 I figured out the type of color that I wanted, I knew I wanted something more coppery but I am coming from blonde so it was going to be a multi coat process.  Day one I coated my hair with Caca Rouge  which is a pretty simple process. 

1: Break up large chunks of the henna.  I cut off two squares and put it in a heat proof bowl and placed that in bowl in a larger bowl.  Then I added hot water to the bowl with the Henna inside it and to the bowl it was sitting in.  Think of it as a double boiler, or just use a double boiler!  Let the Henna sit in the hot water for a bit to start melting it down and mix until it becomes a brownie batter consistency (I made mine a little bit thinner because I thought it was easier to spread.)  Then coat all your hair with it, starting with your roots makes the process easier.  If you want a vibrant red wrap your covered hair with cling wrap for a darker color leave it uncovered.  Then leave it on your hair for two to four hours.  I decided to sleep in mine though so the cocoa butter could really penetrate my hair.  When I shampooed out the next morning this was my result.

 

It was a little too Fred and George Weasley so I decided to do one layer of Caca Marron on top the next night  and this was my result!

Sorry about the awkward pictures I feel weird when I take selfies! haha!  Also my hair was tied back and that is why it looks so funky in the picture! But on a serious note, I LOVE the color that came out!  I am going to keep using Henna on my hair at least until all of the blonde is out of my hair.  I will for sure recommend using it to anyone who likes a red, brown or black hair color!
*Its important to always do a strand test just to make sure nothing funky will happen.  Enjoy and check out the Lush Henna's!

Date Nights

Throughout our relationship Sean and I have always done the same thing when it came to spending time together, we watch T.V., movies, play video games and card games.  Don't get me wrong I love doing those things after a long day of work, school and of course hanging with Briggs all day its nice to have that lazy time where we don't have to get dressed up or do my hair and make up.  There are times though when I go crazy because we have done the same thing all week, but we still get into the same routine.  So I decided to come up with a date night jar to help us be creative for the times when we say, "I don't care, what do you want to do?"  We spent a night coming up with a list of fun activities which for the most part do not require us to go out and buy anything.  Here are a couple of things that we have done so far.

1.  Carved Soap
This is just as simple as it sounds.  We each grabbed a bar of soap and a knife and began to make some "art" with it.

2. Made a Fort and watched some scary movies.
I am a sucker for a good scary movie so it was fun to cuddle up in our lovely fort!  I know I said we were trying to avoid watching movies but this was more interactive as we made an amazing piece of architecture!

3.  Love Mugs
Ok so I don't really know what to call this so I just wrote the first thing that came to my mind.  We grabbed these mugs at the dollar store and began to write on them with sharpies.  Sean chose to write about our love story and I wrote the lyrics to our first dance together which is "Never Let Go" by Hanson ( I am so lucky that he was game for that!)  After we were done we baked them in the oven at 350 for 20 min.  Now we have these cute mugs.

4. Caramel Apple Spice Starbucks Copy Cat
So we got this amazing hot chocolate maker for Christmas and we put it to great use.  To make it you just combine apple juice, caramel and clove.  This bad boy mixes, heats, and froths it for us but you could easily do this on the stove.  Then top with whipped cream and more caramel.  Oh its so good!

5.  I don't have a picture for this but it was a fun night.  We went to a thrift shop and had a $10 spending limit and went out separate ways.  We each picked out a gift for the other.  Sean on this occasion found a super cute bread box and I scored a badminton set.  This was a very fun one.

Well there are just a couple of things that have come out of our date night jar.  I will post some more as we do them. Have fun shaking up your routine.