Crock pot Chicken and Rice soup

Lately I've been attempting to create my own recipes. Just basing them off a recipe I'm already familiar with  but trying to do them a little different. Well let's just say we've had some not so delicious dinners lately;) However I finally had a success! This soup is super easy and delicious so if you need an easy yummy soup for these cold winter nights I highly recommend this one!

Crock pot Chicken and Rice Soup
Serves: 6
Ingredients:
6 Chicken Tenders
1 Onion
1 1/2 Cups Chopped Carrots
5-6 Celery sticks Chopped
2 cans Chicken Broth
1 tsp minced garlic
1/2tsp Seasoned Salt
2 bay leafs
1tsp Oregano
Salt and Pepper to taste

Cooked brown rice

Directions:
Place all ingredients except brown rice in Slow Cooker. Cook on high 4-5 hours or low 6-7 hours. One hour before soup is done cook brown rice (unless it's minute rice then of course just cook it a few minutes before it's done). Add cooked rice last 15 minutes before serving.

Enjoy!

Once upon a time I had a blog...

I often imagine myself posting things on my blog. Funny things my kids say, exciting things that happen to us. And then when it comes down to my 30 min. of free time do I a) shower b) pick up my house c)read a chapter of my current book or d) blog. I'll tell you which one never gets picked anymore and that's D. I really should be picking A today but for some reason I decided to blog. So here we are. The biggest reason is February has been an exciting month for The Paytons.

Exciting thing #1: For Brock's birthday we went downtown and stayed over night at a hotel. Way exciting right? Well I realized this is the FIRST time in almost 5 YEARS that I haven't put kids to bed. We've never gone anywhere by ourselves since Isaac was born. This blew me away, so needless to say our one night away was Fabtabulous! (those moments when 1 awesome word just doesn't do justice). Anyway, we were having way too much fun to take any pictures so we don't have any to capture this monumental moment.



Exciting thing #2: My Bro is getting hitched !?! What! How is my little Colton old enough to get married! Well let's face the facts when I was his age I had a 7 month old baby. So that's cool...Well I love my new sis in law to be and I couldn't be more excited for the happy couple! The big day is set for May 28th! I love weddings:)


Exciting thing #3: This is by far the topper of the month! We bought a house! We bought our condo when we were first married (coming up on 6 years ago!) and we rent that now but we have been renting a house for 2 1/2 years and we are THRILLED to finally own our own casa! We decided to head up to Davis County so we could be closer to Brock's work, I think it's going to be an adjustment for me but I am excited to start our new adventure! We'll probably move the first week in April or somewhere around there so let the packing begin!

Possibly I may blog again in the near future, but I won't make any promises I can't keep! I am however very excited to start decorating my new house and may do a before and after segment...but we'll see.