Family Favorite Recipe–Verde Chicken

Everyone in our house loves our homemade Verde Chicken.  Our teenage son will request it on a regular basis. In fact, we usually eat it about every other week.  The ingredients are all good for you! We like to serve ours over Jasmine rice. If you don’t want to use the jasmine rice you could …

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Prime Day Deals 2018

Amazon Prime Day just went live and we’re sharing some of our favorite deals Prime Day Deals 2018 with you.   First, if you are not an Amazon Prime member yet,  you can get a 30-day FREE trial here:   If you’re already a member of Amazon Prime, go ahead and keep reading! The LifeStraw …

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Kindle Unlimited 3 months for .99 cents

If you’re an Amazon Prime member and you’ve never tried Kindle Unlimited now is a great time to give it a try. You can get a three-month subscription for Kindle Unlimited for only .99 cents! (It’s normally $9.99 a month.) So you’re saving about $29 with this deal! Kindle Unlimited gives you access to over …

Are you ready for Amazon Prime Day?

Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something that we have recommended. While clicking these links won’t cost you any extra money, they will help us keep this site up and running. It’s almost Christmas in July!  Oops! I mean Amazon …

10 Last Minute Mother’s Day Gifts on Amazon Prime

  Running a little behind on Mother’s Day gifts?  Need a few ideas?  Have Amazon Prime? We’re here to help! 10. Keurig Classic Coffee Maker If your mom likes coffee, hot tea, hot cocoa, or apple cider this is a gift she will love.  We have had ours for 8 years now and it’s still …

How to Sneak Exercise into Your Day Everyday

Why is it so hard to get to the gym on Thursdays to exercise?  Ugh.  Is it because it’s almost Friday and you’ve been dragging yourself through the week up until now and you just can’t make yourself get off of the couch? Tell me it’s not just me, right? #1 I will tell you …

REI Backpacking Cooking Class Review

Last weekend our family of four attended an REI Backpacking Cooking Class, all four of us!  We are hoping to do a few days of backpack camping this summer on our family trip to Colorado.  None of us have ever backpacked camped before.  We’ve pretty much car camped or cabin camped.  But for several years …

Our Top Ways to Save Money for Family Trips!

Hey y’all! I’m sharing some of our best ways to save money for family trips! Oh, the power of a penny!  In 2007 our family took our first official family of 4 trip.  It was the beginning of August and school was about to start back in a week and I had watched (on Facebook) …

Visiting San Antonio

San Antonio is one of our family’s favorite places to visit. We’ve been numerous times over the years since Greg and I married in 1996. It was actually where Greg and I spent our honeymoon. All seven days. I definitely fell in love with San Antonio on our honeymoon. I didn’t want to come back …

I Quit My Job With 11¢ in the Bank

So I quit my job this morning with $.11 in the bank. Yeah, I kinda felt like I was crazy walking over to talk to talk to my boss, but somehow I have peace that this was the right thing to do. I feel certain that this is the right step and that God’s going …