E-Z Beef Stroganoff - Slow-cooker Recipe!

Finally, I have some time to blog. It has been a long time and it's mainly because I started my new job 3 weeks ago and it's CRAZY BUSY. My schedule is so thrown off that I now have to dust off the old slow-cooker just to stop from eating out every night. 

So Brandon HATES mushrooms, but I love them. I hate the fact that it limits me to certain recipes because it contains mushroom. The other day I asked him if I used a recipe that had cream of mushroom soup in it would he be open to trying and he said sure. Made this recipe for the first time and even he said it wasn't bad. Probably by far one of my favorite and easiest slow-cooker recipes.

Beef Stroganoff

• 1 lb cubed stew meat
• 1 (10.75 oz) can condensed golden mushroom soup
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 cup of water
• 4 oz cream cheese (soften)

1. Combine meat, onion, soup and Worcestershire sauce and water in slow-cooker. Cook on low for 8 hours or 5 hrs on high.
2. Stir in cream cheese just before serving. 

I suggest to soften the cream cheese because it's really hard for it to mix. You still do get little bits and chunks of it. Personally, I don't mind.

Urban Decay Family & Friends Sale-20% Off!

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First off, if you guys follow my blog you'll know that I LOVE UD. I love their sales & most of all their products. So, when I got this email that they're having a 20% off sale on all of their products I got so excited! I'm kind of tight on money right now so I don't know if I will be able to get anything.

What I recommend:

Eyeshadow Primer Potion. I got it as a sample and I refuse to use anything else. It's great if you have greasy lids. There are days when it still smudges but for the most part it has outlasted any other type of eyeshadow primer I've used. It is the only hope for Asian lids.

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Pencil. I have it in ZERO and another vintage color. This is another liner that I've fallen in love with. I refuse to use anything else because this DOES NOT BUDGE! It's my go-to bottom liner if I'm not using my gel liner.

Super Saturated High Gloss Lip Color. I have not personally tried this, but I want to try this sooo bad!


There are a couple items that I've fallen in love with from them but I don't see it available anymore. Boohoo!

One weekend, two milestones!

Okay, it's been a while since I've blogged because I've started my new job. I really don't have time to do much of anything but there are so many things I want to blog about.

As of October 5th...

Milestone #1 Chase is officially potty trained! Can we say HALLELUJAH! This is a MAJOR milestone for parents of toddlers. At the age of 3 years and 3 1/2 months old. He now tells me when he needs to go poop and pee! NO MORE DIAPERS! NO MORE CHANGING GROSS POOPIE DIAPERS! Yes, he still wears pull-ups at night and nap time but this has been such a long journey. I've done the stickers, in fact his chart is full with no more space. It wasn't that he wouldn't go on the potty, he just wouldn't tell me. So it's just me reminding him for months and months, like a broken record. Poop was also the hardest to overcome. I mean, it's like you're asking him for blood. I'm so excited and proud of my boy. It's also just a reminder of how much he's not a baby anymore. The only thing that sucks is that we have a very high toilet. Every time he needs to go, we still need to help him get on the potty.

Milestone #2 Trent CAN WALK!! At the age of 1 years and 1 1/2 month he's a walker!! It started off with just a couple steps here and there, gradually more throughout the week. Then, last weekend he just started walking where ever. Mind you, he still walks like a sloppy drunken zombie. But, walking is his preference. It's so much fun watching him. He also seems to love it even more himself! It's amazing how all of this can just happen over a weekend.

Things has been kind of crazy with my new schedule at work. It's been very hard to get things done. I now work from 8:30-5pm. It's the same distance, but I commute during rush hour. So instead of taking me the 25 minutes to get home, it's bumper to bumper. It takes me about 40 minutes to get home. So now, I don't get home until close to 6 which leaves me no time to prepare dinner. I've been experimenting with different ways to manage my time. When Brandon was dropping off the kids in the morning, it freed up my time to prepare or cook dinner in the morning, do the dishes, clean the house, get the kids clothes and school things ready. The downside is, when I have to pick up the kids after work I don't get home until about 6 and it sucks having the kids stuck at school so late. So now, I've been dropping the kids off in the morning and I don't have as much time to accomplish as much housework and it's still just a 15 minute different coming home.

I guess everything will just work out once we get a good schedule going. It'll all take work.

Trent is just the cutest thing ever. He's such much fun and such a goofy kid. He's so dramatic with his emotions and I can tell that he's going to be a handful when he gets older. Right now, he's just silly but so mischievous. I remember when Chase was his age, he was so mild mannered. If we told him not to do something, he wouldn't do it. Trent will stare you down and cry then throw himself on the ground or continue doing it. But, he's twice as affectionate as Chase was at that age. I don't want him to grow up!