The Coggins: January 2009

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Recipe of the week

Kevin and I enjoy eating soups a lot in the wintertime. Here is one I tried this week that we both loved. It is a Southern Living recipe. Delicious!

Mexican Chicken-Corn Chowder

3 tbsp butter or margarine
4 chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
1 small onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 cups half and half
2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
2 (14 3/4 oz) can cream-style corn
1 (4.5 oz) can chopped green chiles, undrained
1/2 tsp hot sauce
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 to 1 tsp ground cumin
2 tbsp chopped fresh cilantro
Garnishes: chopped fresh cilantro, sour cream

Melt butter in a dutch over medium high heat, add chicken, onion and garlic and saute for 10 minutes. Stir in next 7 ingredients; cook over low heat, stirring often, 15 minutes. Stir in 2 tbsp cilantro. Garnish if desired.

**When I made it I used 1% milk instead of half and half to cut down on calories/fat. I also did not add the hot sauce in it because I did not have any and Kevin and I don't like things to spicy.

Enjoy!
Hope everyone has a good week

8 months old

Addison is now 8 months old and has started crawling and pulling up on everything. I have become amazed of how fast she can get from one place to another. For instance, I put her in the kitchen with the groceries like I always do, I go down stairs to bring up the last load and I find her looking at me at the top of the stairs. Scary, I know! She loves to pull up on everything in site. Addison has always been such a good sleeper and so easy to get to sleep at night. She usually does not like to rock or anything. She just wants to have her bath, eat, and go straight down in her bed. This week has been a little more challenging. Now we have to relax her, then put her in her bed and she usually cries for 10-15 minutes. She does not want to miss out on anything.

This is Addison's big girl chair that she got for Christmas from Momma and Pappa J. She loves to pull up on it and also likes to figure out how to get out of it. She is so curious.

This is Addison's new car she got for Christmas from Uncle Mark and Aunt Janna. She loves riding it all over the house. She looks so cute on it and smiles the whole time. It just wears mommy and daddy out pushing her all over the house.

Addison standing up at the bathtub. She is getting to be such a big girl.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year

We had a great time over the Holidays visiting with family and friends. We finally made it back home to Auburn today after being gone for about 10 days. We went to Birmingham and stayed until Christmas morning with Kevin's family, and then flew to Texas to be with my family until the 30th. We had to get Addison up at 5am so she was very sleepy. Our flight left on Chistmas morning at 7am. We also celebrated Kevin's 30th birthday last night (New Year's Eve) and my 29th birthday on Dec 29th. We had a wonderful time and everyone enjoyed Addison. She is turning into a little wiggle worm. She did great on the flight and enjoyed opening most of her presents (She got tired and did not make it through all of them). Thanks everyone for such a great time. Here are a bunch of pictures of our time over the Christmas holiday.