Robbie's Birthday

Oh what a wonderful day today was. Everyone woke up bright and early...5:30 a.m.! Someone was excited!!! We finished cleaning up the house (re cleaning really) and I got started fixing all the yumminess. All of our friends came over and we played outside and ate while enjoying the beautiful day. Robbie had a blast with his friends, some of his pals from MyGym came, and he really ejoyed them. He ran around outside, nonstop, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. When we finally made him come inside he found the pile of toys. My favorite part of the day was watching him lay on the floor and play with his trucks, making little boy truck sounds. It just melts my heart to see what a sweet boy he is. He played with everyone and really had a ball. He passed out in bed with Daddy for a couple hours and was right back up to play with his toys. For what it's worth the AquaDoodle is really cool. It's a special mat that you draw on with a pen filled with water! No mess! After nap time we spent a couple hours putting toys together. I had to download a bunch of stuff for his Leapfrog toys, but he has a leap pad and the tag jr to play with now. Timmy was right in the mix on the floor seeing what was going on. Robbie let him play with some of his new trucks and Timmy just loved that. Robbie refused to eat anything other than chips for dinner! Who cares, he'll eat better tomorrow. :)
It was a wonderful day! And we are truly blessed to have so many wonderful, caring friends. Our menu for the party was a taco bar. Below are a few recipes.

Shredded Chicken tacos

1. 5 lbs of chicken breasts
2 packets of taco seasoning
1 Cup of water

Put all the ingredients in a crock pot (reserve 1 pkt of seasoning) set at low and cook for 4 hrs. Remove lid and shred chicken, if there is too much liquid pour some off and then add the second pack of seasoning. Place lid back on and let it cook for another couple hours. You want the chicken to be moist, but not soupy.

Beef tacos

3 pounds of ground beef
2 packets of taco seasoning
1 cup of water

Put all ingreients in a crockpot, set to low for 5 hrs. Use a potato masher to mash meet up. Stir it every now and then and make sure it doesn't cook dry.

Melissa's salsa

1/2 white onion
3 ripe plum tomatoes
small handful of fresh cilantro
1/2 teaspoon of sea salt
1 lime

chop onion, plum and cilantro finely and add to a bowl. Add salt and lime juice and let it sit in the fridge for a couple hrs before serving.

Queso Dip

1 can of canned chili
6 oz of can/jar cheese or velveta cheese

Combine in a dish and mix together, pop in a 350 oven for 15 mins until it's heated through.

Guacamole

1 ripe avacado (big green ones)
1/2 cup of salsa

mash avacado and mix in salsa.