As I said on the Paisley blog, we are enjoying some of our favorite things this New Years Day. Things like football, tacos, and sweet tea. Here in our favorite taco recipe, (adapted from a recipes.com recipe) :

• 1 (4 pound) boneless beef chuck roast
  1 package of taco seasoning and water the packet calls for,
  1 can chopped green chiles
  
  
• 1/2 cup of medium salsa
• 2 cloves of garlic

1. Place beef roast in crock of a slow cooker. Sprinkle taco seasoning over the beef; top with onion slices and other ingredients. Add water. 
2. Cook on Low 8 to 10 hours. Or high 4- 5 hours. 
3. Remove beef to a cutting board and shred with a pair of forks. Return beef to slow cooker and get the tortillas ready! 
4. *It is also so good with guac, and sour cream and black beans.
5. For next day, I make a casserole using the above ingredients in layers. Sometimes we even add rice and black olives for our do- overs. 

A post from a couple of months ago, from my Paisley blog:

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Sweet potato puffs and giving thanks..

Sitting here on this warmish fall afternoon with the 1 year old, eating potato puffs and scoping online sales.
Our Thanksgiving went without a hitch, and the simple turkey we made ( basted in broth and lots of butter) was delicious. Our newest tradition is eating cinn rolls and watching the Thanksgiving Day parade on Turkey Day morning. But not the big one, we catch some of that too, but we primarily watch our local parade. It's so much fun! We have fun trying to spot people we know in the crowd, and looking at the floats for local businesses.
My goal for the kids this Christmas is to have more experiences, and less "stuff." I am thinking of a museum membership, or tickets to an event. Also, we always do our Christmas lights drive, our Polar Express watching, and cocoa drinking traditions.
I have 4 days until December!!! Need more ideas!

In other good news, usually we have a sick kid on Halloween......it never fails. BUT this year, no one was sick and a good time was had by all.

Thank you Universe.

Home stuff

Some things I am hoping to do to our house in 2013!

Having all these people in a 1 bathroom bungalow can get tight, and we have almost no storage in our bathroom. I love the first idea for a place to put all of those bottles! Even meds would be good up there, to keep them away from the little ones.
The rest is self explanatory, but the second to last one...the owl cake topper is my favorite, but not really a household thing. Mr. O and I are getting hitched in the spring. ( Yes, after having a kid together. lol)
And we have a lot of owl things left to us from his mother. I love love love owls. I am on the look out for all owl stuff, and trying not to go overboard and be the crazy owl lady. ( If you want to be a crazy owl lady with me, you can buy these owls at This etsy shop) :-)

Testing 1, 2....

Hello world! Testing...1...2...3!
This is my new blog, wherein I can publicly share life with three little boys and fixing up my bungalow. Also, I love food and organizing. More to come! I will also be adding certain posts from my private blog, so that you can get to know us better.

Cheers! Happy New Year!