He is risen!

Austin & I got to teach this concept to our primary class of 4 year olds today. He lives! He is my Savior and Redeemer and through Him, we can be perfected as He is and live again. His act of love is what makes everything possible...eternal families, the plan of salvation, forgiveness, and the ability to return to our Heavenly Father. What a true & beautiful comfort and blessing.

Happy Easter!

homemaker

Moving from San Diego to Washington to Missouri has made it difficult to keep all of my stuff together. We had to leave quite a bit of my stuff in San Diego because we didn't really have space in Washington for it and it was just a little too much to handle trying to transport it on the airplane. Little by little, we have brought our stuff together and just a month ago when my parents came to visit, they brought a heaping load of my junk from home and some other wedding gifts that were too big and were left behind. One item that I was really looking forward to getting and having here in Missouri was the crockpot my mom has for us.

Sadly, it is sitting in a box in my family's garage so we still don't have it here yet. Pinterest was taunting me with delicious slow cooker recipes that I was dying to try out and so luckily our friends, the Shilligs, let us borrow one of their crockpots this past week!

I was super excited to try something out and that is what I want to share with you in this post! Today, I made barbecue chicken in the crockpot. Crockpots are so fun because you hardly have to do anything and it is wonderful. The barbecue chicken consisted of chopped red onion, 4 chicken breasts, sweet baby ray's barbecue sauce (yum), garlic, and pepper. Seriously, so easy. I turned it on mid-morning and let it slow cook while we were at church. The chicken got so nice after cooking for awhile and I was able to pull it apart so easily!

Another thing I made (last minute because I forgot that we needed to use up our potatoes), was parmesan roasted potatoes. I whipped out my laptop and looked up "roasted potatoes" on the ever-so handy dandy Pinterest. I immediately found a super easy recipe for Parmesan Roasted Potatoes from Chicho's Kitchen:

http://chichoskitchen.blogspot.com/2011/03/parmesan-roasted-potatoes.html

All it takes is:

1/3 cup parmesan

1 tsp paprika

salt & pepper

minced garlic

2 tbsp olive oil

4 potatoes

Here's how mine turned out:

They were super delicious too!

Our Sunday dinner consisted of pulled barbecue chicken, vegetables and parmesan roasted potatoes and it was delicious. Oh, and I love cooking in my cute apron that my mother in law made for me :)