Crazy week!

Hello everyone!

  Sorry for the delay on posting! I've gotten back to work full time and I am trying to get everything back into balance. I cannot wait to start my volunteering! Also, school starts back relatively soon. I have many things getting ready to start soon, and I am only hoping for the best out of it all.
  I have been trying to get back into my artistic side of things, and hoping someone will soon approach me about custom things. I will be starting back on tutus, and hair accessories. I love doing these kind of things as they make me so happy and appreciate the little things.

A couple of pictures of things I've been working on:

Alright, well to finish off my post, I'm going to post a recipe. Today will be:

Grilled Chicken Skewers

(6 servings)

1 lb skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut into 1 inch chunks

1 C of beer

2 T lemon juice

1 T olive oil

1 t paprika

1 t oregano

1 t sea salt

Ground black pepper to taste

Combine beer, lemon juice  oil, paprika, oregano, salt  and pepper in a zip lock baggie; add the chicken chunks. Seal the bag, shake lightly and coat chicken, let marinate in refrigerator for 1 hour, turning occasionally. Soak wooden skewers in hot water for at least 30 minutes. 

Place marinade in a saucepan, and bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 5 minutes.

Divide chicken on about 12 skewers. Grill or broil skewers until lightly browned, about 3 minutes, turn and brush with reduced marinade. cook until chicken is done, about 2 more minutes. Serve immediately. Also, this tastes great with brown rice. 

Enjoy!

Birthday party today!

Alright, so Keagan's birthday party was today! It was so much fun! His daddy sent him a Harley tricycle, a soccer net with ball, and spongebob bedding. Alan loves his kids, that one thing I know for a fact. I had a few friends over with their children, and we had a great time.

My sister in law came in last night. It was so stormy, I'm not sure how my mother and sister in law made it back from the airport!

I shall be working on my Christmas decorating, and putting pictures in their places the next few weeks. Alrighty, well I'm sorry this is short, but I am so tired, but I will post more tomorrow!

Modern Handmades: Our Giving Tree

Modern Handmades: Our Giving Tree: "My grandson and I made a giving tree table decoration yesterday. We only had stickers, construction paper and markers to work with so I wasn..."

This is my mother in law. The story is about her and my soon to be three year old. You have to see what they made, he had a blast :)

Learning to blog!

My mother-n-law has been helping me to configure my blog! We are still confused but its coming along!

Me, Keagan and Alan

What a day

So welcome into my life. It is hectic at times, my toddler is rowdy, my newborn is quiet, my husband is deployed, and I constantly have a million things running through my head. My name is Coyeatta.

I enjoy spending time with my children, and my husband. My son is close to three, and as obnoxious as his father. We enjoy doing different crafts together, and learning new things. He helps me in the kitchen whenever he possibly can, and I love it! He also loves to be outside, which makes me happy :) Hopefully we can start camping with him when daddy gets home.

My daughter is a newborn, and she likes to sleep, eat, and well, poop! She seems to like the outdoors so far, or at least is comfortable enough to eat and sleep.

My husband is my hero, and we began young and foolish, but head over heels in love. I was 18 and he was 19. A month into it, we decided we should get married. So far we have gone through just about every test a relationship can go through, and we have persevered. I could not ask for a better man, best friend, or father for my children. He is my hero, and has helped me stay sane in a lot of situations. I can truly say I am honored to be married to him, and so happy that we've stuck it out and kept going strong.

As an Army wife, I can tell you, it's not easy. Deployments are long, but you learn a lot about yourself and your strengths. When they are home, doing field trainings can seem like forever as well. You start to think every civilian could never understand every trial you go through.

There is so much to ramble on about, but I will just add more in later blogs, so you'll have to follow to learn more about my pretty average army wife life.

Today I made some lunch from leftovers.. It was pretty good actually. I experiment all of the time, and sometimes with not so good results, but most of the time they are good :) of course, my husband would never know the bad meals, because they get thrown out before he knows it!

Today though, as I was saying, I took some leftover pork roast, left over rice, some frozen edamame, some cooked carrots, and leftover chopped pineapple, threw it in the pan, added some rice vinegar, sesame oil, paprika, cumin, chilli powder, teriyaki sauce, and soy sauce... all to taste, which was very little of each, just enough for flavor, and it turned out AMAZING. Yep. Well that is about it for now, I've got to get my little guy to take a nap. Tomorrow I will write about care packages, and maybe some more food experiments :)

Have a great Veteran's day, and thank you to all the Military and their families!