Chicken Fajita Quesadillas

Do you love chicken fajitas? Do you love quesadillas? Combine the two and you have one amazing quesadilla you'll want to make over and over! Quesadillas are one of those things I love to order when we go out to eat. They’re easy to eat and fun to dip and top with things. Chicken not your thing? Switch up the protein and use steak, or shrimp, or any vegetarian protein!

I never pass up a good quesadilla. Combine it with the flavors of a fajita and my taste buds do flips! My favorite part about quesadillas is the fact that they are SO family friendly and can easily be modified to everyone's personal taste. 

I love to dip my quesadillas in guacamole. I will basically dip *ANYTHING* in guacamole. 

I found this recipe on pinterest a while back and we can't get enough of it. I make this meal 1-2 times a week now! It's our new family favorite and I'm so excited to share this special find with you all. Enjoy!

(The only thing I changed from this recipe is when my tortilla is heating up I add a layer of cheese first THEN all the filling followed by another layer of cheese before putting the other tortilla on top. I'm a cheese fiend.)

Chicken Fajita Quesadilla recipe

Van Gogh / Doctor Who Cake

Being a military wife is pretty stressful. We move a lot, our husbands are barely ever there, we spend years raising our kids alone, we worry when they're deployed, we spend long periods of time without talking to our spouses, we have zero control over any life decisions because the military controls everything. There are some good point, though. Not many, but some. One of them is when you're lucky enough to meet a fellow military wife that knows exactly what you're going through. Someone that you won't live near for a very long time because the military is bound to move one of you soon, yet for a short while you have found a really good friend. 

I have one here in El Paso. She's a fellow whovian and lover of most geeky things just as I am. She has a lovely family and we are going to miss them like crazy once we move away in a few months. If nothing else, then I am extremely grateful for this insane military life we lead because it brought her into my life. Chances are we won't ever live near each other again, but we won't ever forget her, her husband, her beautiful kids, and puppies. 

Her birthday is tomorrow so naturally I made her a cake. Doctor Who fans will take one look at this cake and they will instantly know exactly what episode this cake is inspired by. 

I added the sunflowers because Van Gogh :) 

Here is a quick synopsis of that episode followed by a short clip of the best scene.

{The Doctor and Amy travel back in time to meet Vincent Van Gogh because of some usual Doctor Who/Alien drama that I won't get into because it's hard to explain. In 1890, they find Vincent at a cafe, a lonely man with a bad reputation. They befriend him and later that evening the artist confesses that his works have little value to anyone else, but he believes the universe is filled with wonders that he must paint. The next day, the Doctor and Amy prepare to leave. Vincent asks Amy to return and marry him should she leave the Doctor. As Vincent turns to leave, the Doctor offers to show him something. The Doctor and Amy take Vincent in the TARDIS (blue police box/time traveling spaceship) to the present and the Van Gogh exhibit at the Musée d'Orsay. Vincent is stunned at the display, and becomes emotionally overwhelmed when he overhears an art curator say that Van Gogh was "the greatest painter of them all" and "one of the greatest men who ever lived". They return an emotionally changed Vincent back to the past and say their final goodbyes. As the Doctor and Amy return to the present, Amy hopes that there will be several more paintings by Vincent waiting for them, but instead learn that Vincent still committed suicide at the age of 37. The Doctor explains that life is a mixture of bad and good, and while their brief encounter with Vincent couldn't undo everything wrong, they added some good to his life. The evidence is in Vincent's displayed works since now a there is a painting of a vase with 12 sunflowers that bears the inscription "For Amy".}

- click on the cake photo to enlarge it - 

Starry Night Cake

Add a light up TARDIS and Boom! Instant Doctor Who episode cake.

Sunflowers "For Amy"

Superhero Party!

My daughter LOVES superheroes. This is the first birthday party theme that she actually picked out herself. I decided to do a blend of random superheroes because she loves them all. The geek in me originally had a mildly hard time mixing up Marvel and DC as if they're all the same... but I got over it. lol

This party was Rosie's most recent one. She just turned 4 this past November. Daddy was actually home for this party since he returned from his deployment only a few weeks before. 

We hired "professionals" to come dressed as Captain America and Batman but an hour before the party he texted me saying that they can't come. I was beyond livid since I had told Rose for weeks that Captain America and Batman were both coming to her party and she was so excited about meeting them. We had to come up with a new plan so my husband rushed over to Party City to buy an adult sized Captain America costume that he would wear himself. 

Till this day Rose doesn't know it was her dad. She still talks to us about how she met Captain America and that she was so excited about it. #ParentWin 

Batman not showing up turned out to be a good thing anyway. The party guests came dressed up as heroes and villains. One person dressed up as Batman (deep batman voice and all) and Rose was terrified. He was just a kid so I can't imagine how horrified she would have been if a huge adult male walked in our house with that deep batman voice in full costume from head to toe. She loves Batman, in theory. Not so much in person I guess lol

Here are the pics from her birthday photo shoot. I edited them in a way that they'd look cartoon-y and comic book-like since her party had a lot of comic book themed decorations on top of all the superhero stuff. She told me she wanted to dress up as The Hulk so I made her a costume. The shirt was from Amazon, my friend at Ittie Bittie Moccs made her shoes, and I made everything else.

Daddy was the bank robber :) Click on the photo to make it larger.

Party photos:

Dinosaur Party!

I originally didn't plan on throwing Rose a 3rd birthday party because I was super pregnant at the time and my husband was deployed. I didn't have much help and assumed planning a party would be too stressful for me during this time. I decided to just fly home to NJ with Rosie and take her to this really cool outdoor Dinosaur exhibit not far from where my family lived. 

We ended up not being able to enjoy the dinosaur exhibit because it was absolutely FREEZING outside and even though Rosie was bundled up she still kept shivering. We went to NJ for just three days specifically to go to the exhibit and now we won't even be experiencing it. I felt so bad for Rose because I had gotten her all hyped up for it beforehand. The NJ trip wasn't a total waste, though. We spent time with my family so it was nice.

Once we returned to Texas I decided to throw her a a very short notice party. I quickly created the invites with a party date of a week and a half away so I got to crafting right away! If Rose wasn't going to have the Dinosaurs from NJ then I wanted her to at least have a party here at home. 

Here are the photos from the little birthday shoot I did a few days before the party:

Party photos: