The Famous Chicken Tortilla Soup

Even if you don't like chicken tortilla soup from any restaurant I know you will like this one. This is the only CTS I have ever found to actually like. My friends have been asking me for the recipe lately so I thought I would share it here. It is so easy I made it recently on a girls week-end get away. It make a lot but you can half it or freeze the portion not eaten for another time which is what I often do with my husband and I. Even though my son doesn't like it my niece does so even if you have children you will be able to serve this. I hope you enjoy!

The Best Chicken Tortilla Soup Ever!!

2 cans of Tomato soup
2 cans of Chicken Broth
2 cans of Beef Broth
2 cans of Pinto Beans
2 cans of Kidney Beans
2 cans of Rotelle tomatoes (original)
-It is a brand name it has chili's in it but it is mild as long as you get the original
1 can diced mild green chili's
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon chili powder
3 or 4 chicken breast cut into cubes

toppings suggested, to taste
-tortilla chips
-avocado
-sour cream
-shredded cheese

Put all the ingredients in the same pot and bring to a boil, turn heat down slightly and cook for about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Soup is finished when the chicken floats.
-You can use already cooked chicken but I think it hold the flavor better if you cook it in the soup, reduce the time if you use already cooked chicken.


On a different note my cousins family has set up a web-site for her son who was just diagnosed with Leukemia and you can check it out if you want. www.rally4ridgway.com Thanks for all your prayers they are coveted!!

Scrapbook Garage Sale / Craft Fair

Craft Fair and Garage Sale
-Make CASH just in time for Christmas shopping, not store credit-

Metropolitan Scrapbook Company is having a Craft Fair / scrapbook garage sale

O.k. ladies I know it seems early but we want to give you plenty of time to reserve your spot and to get creative. We will be having a craft fair and a garage sale all on the same day and want you to join us. If you have extra scrapbook supplies you want to sell or are crafty and want to sell your creations for a little extra holiday spending money here is your chance.

Saturday, October 24 from 10 am - 5 pm
Call now to pay for your table $25 for a 6 ft table or $15 for a 3 ft table. You must pre pay to hold your spot and you will need to be present to work your own table. Bring your own bank you will be selling your items for cash and not store credit. Craft supplies or handmade items only, please. Space is limited so don't wait.

If you know of a crafty person who does not get our e-mails please forward this on so they can reserve their spot as well.

1-909-547-2008

I finished Junes Circle Journal

I am so excited I just finished June Circle Journal pages for my friend Jorgie. Elena from Scrapbook Royalty and 11 other really talented ladies are doing a scrapbook of each others last year in a circle journal fashion. Well I was so excited about the idea and concept when they first announced it that I asked a group of my close friends if they would want to do the same thing. We started in February sending out pictures from January or whenever they chose and we are scrapping each others pictures. One person each month you send your pictures to and one person each month you get pictures from. It has been a blast. I have challenged myself to think outside the box and learn new techniques for this project. I hope and pray that some of them are not to far out there for the person receiving them. I am excited to see the finished project next January.

Here are the pages I created for Jorgie with her pictures of her sweet boy Adin.

Every year Arcadia fire department has a pancake breakfast to help raise money for local charities. My sister is an amazing party planner and is in charge of organizing it. Our kids always have such an amazing time there, here are a few pictures of my children from this years event.
This year they raised over $8,000 even with the swine flu threat and threat of rain, every year it gets a little bigger.

Tattered Angels - Glimmer Mist

Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels, if you scrapbook you need it. What a fun glimmery product. It adds so much to every project. Guess what, it has a new look, check it out at http://www.mytatteredangels.com/

The Girls Loft

The Girls Loft, go check it out.
http://www.margieromney-aslett.typepad.com/

When you listen he will talk!

My husband and I have been trying to find a church we like up by our new house since before we moved up here. We have been to at least 4 with a preference for 2 of them. It is so hard to not compare the churches up here to Revival Christian Fellowship our home church for over 4 years. We had a great group we were not only friends with but family and when we left it just has not been the same for us. We had it narrowed down between two churches and just not sure because there are things we liked about both of them. Well around Thanksgiving The Lord helped me to meet Dawn from Water Of Life one of the churches. She attends a once a month Free scrapbook night help at the church. I have been there twice and love it, we also started attending Water of Life every week and thought it might be our new home church. I am very grateful for the Lords guidance in meeting Dawn and helping me to get connected. Well that is not the church Caleb liked the best. He has been asking us to go back to Hillside for many weeks now. We tried to get there for the last 2 weeks and just could not make it. Well last week-end we finally went back to the one Caleb liked Hillside Christian. We dropped the kids off and heard 2 songs, the pastor came up to pray and then a couple came on stage and did a mini play. They were actors doing a skit as part of the thought provoking opening to the service. Well after the first or second line I knew God had a lot to say to me and that I needed to open my ears. The couple on stage, had just lost their home and were moving out. Humbling and humiliating was how they described it. At that moment I knew we were in the right church. I recieved a lot of peice that day. Thank you Lord for meeting me, holding me and getting us through. You are ever so faithful.
Trust in the Lord