Chicken Roll Ups

School is kicking my trash. Well, that and being pregnant, I feel sucked dry for energy. On better news...I still have not thrown up, but I think I'm making up for that with migraines, so I don't know which is worse. And my birthday was 6 days ago, and it was swell, and I will post about it sometime. That, and my amazing Wingers knock offs I made over the weekend.

But for now, Chicken Roll Ups. A wonderous pocket of yummy in your tummy.

I don't remember why, or what was going on in life, but Sister Terry, a lady that lived up the street from my family in Orem called our house one day. My mom wasn't home, but she asked me if she had dinner ready yet. She didn't, so she then asked if she could bring us some, because she just "randomly" had extra. I said that would be fine, my parents were stressed out about something that I can't remember because I was like 10 I think. So Sis. Terry came by with Chicken Roll Ups, steamed veggies, a side salad, and a box of Twinkies. She helped me set the table all fancy for my parents, and when they got home, they were so surprised. I think my mom may have cried. I just remember how nice I thought it was that this kind woman in our neighborhood thought of us in a time that my family needed a little tender mercy. Whenever I make these, I think of Sister Terry and her kindness to our family. She probably doesn't even remember that day, but I definitely do, and she made an impact on my tender little 10 year old heart.

Chicken Roll Ups

Makes 16 rolls, or 8 servings

2 cans large biscuit dough (with 8 biscuits in each can)

1 package cream cheese, softened

1/4 c. chopped onions

1 stalk chopped celery

1 large-ish chicken breast, cooked, and shredded

1/2 t. ground sage

Melted Butter

Bread Crumbs

Preheat oven to temperature on instructions on biscuit dough can, a

Mix cream cheese, onions, celery, chicken, and sage together in a medium bowl.

Open up biscuits, take one biscuit at time, and flatten it slightly. Add about a tablespoon of mixture to the middle of the dough. Fold over the mixture, pinching edges, and then pull the dough around the cream cheese, pinching closed the ends, making like a balloon of dough with the cheese stuff inside. Then, dip the opposite, non pinched off side in the melted butter, then bread crumbs, and then place pinched side down in a casserole dish.

Repeat with all other biscuits until your pan is filled up, then bake in the oven for about 16-18 minutes, or until biscuits are fully baked and it's all golden brown and yummy on top.

While the roll ups are baking, make the "gravy" by mixing 1 can of Cream of Chicken soup with 1 can full of chicken broth.

After you pull the roll ups out of the oven, let sit for a while to cool off or you'll burn your mouth off. Serve with the gravy poured over the top.

So yummy, and they make great left over lunches the next day too.

New News (Big Time News) for Team Spence!!

Logan and I are going to have a baby!

This baby is due September 15, 2011.

We're super excited.

Super duper excited.

So far I'm 10 weeks along, almost 11. I haven't been TOO sick, which has been a blessing.

Now if I could just get myself through my very last semester at UVU, so we can start getting ready for this sweet baby!! (senioritis is running rampant at our house)

With any luck, our baby will look something like this:

I would just die of happiness.

Logan was the cutest-patootist baby.

Christmas Morning 2010 Spence Style

I know, failure for not posting about Christmas until almost Valentine's Day. My apologies.

Santa brought quite the loot this year, including a pretty clock to hang in our kitchen

and some new pillows for our bed.

Christmas is bizarre when you're married with no children, folks.

Bill and Deana (and this year Aaron) go to each of their married children's homes to check out what Santa brought to each of them. Since we were severely uneventful, having no kids to watch get excited about Christmas morning and the magic of it all, we invited them over for breakfast. That morning we made biscuits and sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, and juice, which might just have to be a yearly tradition because it was delicious!!

Logan's favorite gift was his Seinfeild Soup Nazi shirt I gave to him.

He looks mighty handsome in it, if I do say so myself.

And my most FAVORITE gift (ever!!!) is my candy apple red Kitchen Aid mixer.

My husband freaking rocks.

And well, happy holidays yo.

Spence Family Christmas Party 2010

Every year on Christmas Eve, Logan's parents host a Christmas Eve party for their whole family. I always love going because it's a change to see EVERYONE at the SAME TIME and the SAME PLACE. Also, the amazing food, great company, and hilarious kids certainly rock too.

Every year we rotate family names and one family will give to another family. This year we had The Losee Family. Gavin and Kyson are 3 and 1 and the most boyish boys I have ever met. They love tools, trains, trucks, dinosaurs, monsters, anything that just screams "boy." They are super easy to please, and Logan and I had so much fun searching for just the right present for them. They get so excited about everything, and we were so highly anticipating seeing their faces when they opened up their presents. We made them both twinner little coloring books that I made with family pictures that I learned how to make here. The pages were actually pictures of them, their cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and their mommy and daddy. They turned out super-dooper cute. Along with their coloring books, we gave Gavin a race car track. You can make the track whatever shape you want. It comes with bridges, gates, and two battery operated cars that speed around the track.

He was pretty excited. Brynn and Casey said they woke up to him playing with it on Christmas Morning before they went down to open their own presents.
That night at the party, they told him he had to wait until they were home to open it up. He dragged that box around with him EVERYWHERE, and even used it as a little bench while he watched the rest of the family open up their presents. It was pretty darn cute.

Kyson has been loving tools, hard hats, and anything that has to do with construction and building things. We found him this little tool belt, complete with hard hat.

He is such a tiny dude, he looked so cute playing dress up with them.

But of course, what did he really have more fun with that night?

The netted bag that the tool set came in.

Silly Boy.

Aaron gave gifts to our little family. He is a smarty pants, and gave us the perfect gift...two gift certificates to two of our favorite restaurants so we can go on dates. We are looking forward to using them very soon!! Thanks Aaron!!

The day Cailie chopped my hairs.

It's been over a month and a half, but I've been a total and complete blogging slacker. Two days before Christmas I called my friend, Cailie, and told her to come over, it was time for a change of my hairs. Cailie is a hair stylist, and she is the boss of what I can and can not do with my hairs. This is not because she is mean, this is because she loves me and because she knows that if I make drastic, sudden changes with my hair, the control freak inside of me will have an absolute conniption fit. I had talked with her for a few months about chopping my hairs, and finally, when I brought it up again, she said she thought it would actually be a good idea.

We decided to donate what we could to Locks of Love, since I've highlighted my hair, I couldn't donate anything that bleach had been used on. The top half had been processed, but not the bottome half, so that hair was good to go.

She chopped it, and chopped it good. With fourteen inches of hair sealed in a bag, and placed in a padded envelope, it was off to help make wigs for some lucky kiddo.

It was a little scary, and I'll admit to slightly hyperventilating while this picture was being taken, I've really liked having short hair for the first time in my life! I don't get sad anymore, but right after I had cut it, if I did start to get a little sentimental, if I thought about the little girl or boy that would get a wig made with some of my hair, I felt all warm and fuzzy inside.

And I would do it all over again. No regrets.

Quiche Sent From Heaven

When my friend from work, McKinley was prego with her darling boy, Zenith, she craved this quiche from the Lion House Pantry at Deseret Book. I had never eaten quiche, but with her raving about it on a daily (okay, hourly :D) basis, I decided to try some one day after she had her baby and had quit Sister Missionary Mall, and I was missing her something fierce. And wow, she was super right...quiche is awesome stuff. Flaky crust, cheesy eggy goodness, and yummy things like...well...bacon. How can you go wrong? I submit you can not. They have another quiche at Deseret Book that I love with Bacon, Mushrooms, and Spinach, and I'm gonna try making that one...hopefully later this week. I'm so excited.

Well, we have a recipe book that has a quiche recipe in it, and I played around with the fillings and made it, and it was easy, and delicious, and now I will never have to pay for an over priced slice of quiche again...I can make a whole pie for about $5 instead of paying $13!!! Fabulous. Make this quiche. You will love it and feel fancy pantsy. And I would have taken a picture, except my camera is still at the parentals. And we ate it all gone before I could even think of snapping a pic.

Quiche

Prepare a pie crust (I love Western Family's frozen crust. Deep dish would be wonderful for this, so you could fill it more and not have it spill over like mine did), and spread egg white on the inside of it. Cook it only until half done.

Filling Ingredients:

2 T. flour

1 1/2 c. grated cheese (I used cheddar, swiss would probably be great)

1/4 lb. diced bacon

1/4 lb. diced ham (we just used lunch meat stuff)

1/2 c. onion, chopped finely

2 T. butter

3 eggs

1 can evaporated milk

1/2 t. salt

1/4 t. pepper

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Mix cheese and flour and spread on bottom of half baked crust. Cook bacon/ham (or whatever ingredients you think would be yummy in it) and onions in butter and spread on top of the cheese. beat eggs, milk, and seasonings, and pour on the rest. Bake at 450 for 15 minutes, turn down to 350 and bake for 15 more minutes.

You might want to put pie pan on a cookie sheet in case it spills over. And let it cool a few minutes after you pull it out before cutting into it. So yummy. I mean, really, really delicious.

Also, happy 50th blog post to us. Ta da.

Someday...

I will post again on this blog. For reals. But after I get my camera back from my parents. I accidentally left it at their house during Christmas. And I have so many things to blog about to!! I chopped my hair all short, Christmas happened, we went to St. George, New Years, final semester of college, and further life plans.

On the bright side, I had my first Senior Capstone II rehearsal today, and I feel like it was really, really great!! For this class all the seniors choreograph a piece (or pieces for the ballroom major) and create a concert to showcase their works. It's a pretty complicated and stressful class, but I feel like I'm staying on top of things well. Which is good, because I have a feeling this semester I need to stay organized and focused or I will just slip away into a senioritis oblivion and fail every one of my classes!!

Also, I am married to this really great guy named Logan. He just never ceases to remind me of how great he really is. Man alive I love him.