All moved in and some Fried Tacos too!!

I've had some crazy moving-days before in my life but this one will go down in history as the worse one every! For so, so many reasons, but thats an entire other blog post! 

I wanted to share some pictures of my new home, pretend you don't see the boxes and clutter.

I'm making progress, most the rooms are done or coming along. We downsized by over 50% of space, which I love, and we will be empty nesters in under a year now so we needed a smaller home.

 We've been here a couple of weeks now, my only regrets is that I didn't do this 6 years ago when we moved in our other home!! I can't tell you or express enough that the 3 of us living all on one level in under 2,000 square feet is glorious!! We could actually take away a few 100 feet off each side of the house and still be fine. Henry comes in our room more and since he's just down the hall, we cross paths all the time. He's not upstairs and us down, we are all together, which makes me a bit sad that the last 6 yrs we spent in a huge home all lost and not having the closeness we should have. That's my one big regret, so if you are a family thinking you need a big house with more space just remember that the space is nice but the distances from your kids... not so much! Just my two cents worth of info. 

Here is my front entryway!

It's so bright, with huge windows!

As you can see the pups love it too! They've never had an all glass

door before so its a whole new world for them! Especial Bella, because

she's so small she can't see out the windows so this is great for her!!

Our bedroom, I bought new bedding and floor rug from Target,

and I love the new colors! (again ignore the boxes)!!

This is a wood burning fireplace in our bedroom, which will be so cozy this winter! 

We've not had a fireplace in the bedroom before, makes me excited for winter now!

These next 2 pictures are taken from the front door when you

walk into our home. You walk into a living room,

and if you head straight, thru the little doorway you go into the kitchen.

If you turn right you have a hallway to the bedrooms and this

sweet little built-in china cabinet, that I love!

It holds my grandparents china perfectly! 

That's all the pictures I have have for now, more to come once I get

a bit more organized... one day soon hopefully!

As most of you know, I love to cook and if you follow me on Facebook you see all my

cooking creations, the good, the bad and the ugly! I've had a chance to "break-in" my new kitchen

and trying to getting use to no gas stove anymore, and it isn't as bad as I thought, actually not bad at all!  Now the less counter space is a bit more trying as well as no center island but its doable, we get spoiled in these huge kitchens. This house was built in 1947, with all the same character and charm from the 40's, that's what I fell in-love with, but with that comes no counter space. Then I remember that families were raised here and those women made it work, so lord knows I can too!  

Here are a couple of my favorites cooked just last week...

My Gmas's Fried Tacos!!

These are the best!! 

I try to pre-chop everything before I get started so that I don't run out 

of time when it comes to putting them all together! 

One tip my g-ma shared with me is not to by the leanest meat b/c a little fat in taco makes the 

flavor pop, so I buy about 80% lean. Also along with the taco seasoning, add one small can of tomato sauce to the meat and seasoning, yes, tomato sauce will rock a taco like you won't believe, makes it moist and juicy! 

I use to shred all my cheeses b/c I think it taste better and fresher if grated right before 

used on a taco, but if short on time I buy a bag of cheese... it is a lot easier!!

My secret sauce...

"Mexican Villa's Sweet Sauce"

Its a local, VERY nontraditional mexican restaurant here in Springfield, but its 

also a local favorite, you'll hate it if you weren't raised on it! They have a sweet sauce that

 you poor over your tacos right before you eat them that is killer!! 

Sorry, you can only get it here in Springfield but you can order it on their website, I think! 

With homemade guacamole on top of the deep fried taco makes it

mouth watering!! I'll always think of my g-ma when making these!!

Well, you can't "break-in" a kitchen without homemade chocolate chip cookies, right!!

Hope you enjoyed todays post and that I didn't make you too hungry! 

Have a great day!!