San Antonio, Tx and a file system

Hey everyone!  We have been busy around here, but what else is new!  Going back to work has been interesting and I am only gone from the house for about 4 hours a day.  It makes such a difference as far as getting stuff done!  But the extra money will be nice.  Anyway, on to what we have been up to here!

My mom came down and we took the kids to see The Lorax.  Now, I am a big fan of the original but this one was really good!  The kids did a great job watching and my mom and I had a lots of laughs!  The message is still there and that is awesome!  Friday we took the kids to the park to play and have lunch.  Saturday my husband and I took the kiddos to the San Antonio Zoo.  We stopped at Chickafila on the way out there and my daughter must have drank some bad milk.  She puked as soon as we pulled up to the zoo.  Yikes and Yuck!  We went and cleaned up the van, got back to the zoo and bought her a shirt!  She felt much better after she got the yucky milk out of her system.  Poor baby!  We told her, next time the milk tastes ewww, you can give it to us!

We had lots of fun at the zoo.  Lots of beautiful animals.  We got to see baby otters, tons of birds, black bears and a white rhino.  I have to admit, the animals were a little lazy for a spring day but ah well!  Maybe it was their naptime!  The butterfly house was super amazing!  That was my favorite part of the day!
Here are a few pics!

 My son really liked the komodo dragons.

The train around the park next to the zoo was really fun!  The kids loved it!  We went down to the river walk and ate dinner but didn't stay.  St. Patrick's day and spring break make for a crowded downtown!  We will have to go back when there are not two events going on!

I did mange to finish one of the tasks I had been working on.  A file system for the kids and some home information.  I got the idea from Pinterest.  I saw a clear 3section vertical filer at The Container Store and some really cute file folders.  They were both on sale and I picked them up.  Here is a before and after of the shelf I am using for the filer and the filer with the pretty new folders!

Shelf with too much stuff and shelf cleared off!

The filer with the file folders.  I went through our papers and threw out lots of paper!  I labeled the folders and finished!  I would like to do one of these again just because it was so easy and inexpensive to do.  I am thinking one for the desk since we still have paper piling up there.  We just switched to paperless billing and I for one am super excited!  The less paper around here the better!  Thanks for reading this long post everyone!  Hope you all had a great weekend and took some time to organize!


I linked up with:

My Favorite Finds

A few things to do

Hope everyone's week is going great.  We are having Spring Break here.  I still have to work(boo) but I am looking forward to my mom coming tomorrow and spending time with the kids.  We are going to try and make it down to San Antonio and go to the zoo.  I hope the weather cooperates for us.


I have been working on a few things around here and am in the middle of all of them.  I am going to try in the next few days to work on each of them and get them finished!  We will see how that goes.  Here is a little sneak peek at what I have been up to lately!

A lot of stuff going on here!  I am looking forward to finishing each of these little projects and sharing the afters with you all. 

Parties I linked up with:

Hating Martha

Easy Menu Monday

I don't know what it is like at your house on a Monday but around mine it gets nuts!  Getting homework done, karate, and trying to recuperate from a busy weekend the last thing I want to do is cook a big meal.  So I always try and make something easy.  That also means an easy cleanup after dinner!


I have decided from all this to have a weekly series called Easy Menu Monday.  Every Monday I will post an easy recipe or easy menu.  When I get more skilled at blogging I hope to host a link up party for Easy Menu Monday, but that is a little ways into the future.  Please feel free to share with me any easy meals that you like to make and I will share them on the weekly series.  Here is the first Easy Menu Monday Recipe.  Enjoy!


Chicken Quesadillas


This recipe is a throw together!  I don't measure anything.  I just use as much as I think I will need for the number of people I am going to feed.  Crazy right?  No!  Here are the ingredients I use but you can take away or add anything you want!

I saute yellow onion and bell pepper in a little olive oil.  Usually 5 minutes is all it takes.  I only used half an onion and half a bell pepper because my husband and I were the only ones getting veggies.  Set this aside when done.

Here is Kraft Mexican cheese, tortillas, and shredded white meat rotisserie chicken.  The tortillas are HEB brand and that I find in the refrigerator section at my store.  If you don't have an HEB, just look for these type or get fresh.  I like these kind because they keep longer in the fridge.  I got the chicken from the deli section. They are really good and the chicken is a whole one so you could use it for more than one meal.


Now depending on how easy you want this to be you could heat the tortillas up on the stove and then place your ingredients on or just add your ingredients and then put into the oven.  Even if I heat mine up on the stove(the tortillas that is)  I still put them in the oven to bake.  If you don't heat up on the stove, just bake a few minutes longer.  I used eight tortillas for four people.


So here is a list of ingredients:


Onion
Bell pepper
Cheese of your liking
White Meat Chicken
Tortillas
Olive Oil


Remember, depending on how many people you are feeding, the amounts of ingredients will change.  What you see above was feeding four people.


Instructions:


Saute your onion and bell pepper in olive oil for 5 minutes or until veggies are tender.  Set aside.

Shred your chicken into bite size pieces and set aside.


Heat up tortillas on stove until they bubble up if you are using refrigerated tortillas.  But for fresh tortillas or if you want to skip the heat up, just place tortillas on a baking sheet.  I place foil on my baking sheet and spray with a little Pam before I bake.  This makes for an easy clean up.


Now put chicken, veggies and cheese on your tortilla.  Place another tortilla on top and they are ready to bake.


I bake mine at 350 degrees for 5 - 8 minutes or until a little brown on top.  Now, if you didn't heat up the tortillas on the stove, you may want to bake for 7- 10 minutes.


Here is the finished dish:

Enjoy!



I linked up with:


a bowl full of lemons
Southern Lovely
Fireflies and Jellybeans
Fantastical Sharing of Recipes