Paleo Chicken Salad in a Jar

This was not only a delicious meal, but it was pretty too! The dressing certainly helped, since I have a bit of a sweet tooth. I made this these the day before and they were still good 24 hours later. I used enough ingredients for 2.

Ingredients:

• 1 chicken breasts
• 1/2 tomato, chopped
• 1/2 cucumber, chopped
• 1/4 red onion, sliced thin
• 2 stalks of kale
• 4 romaine lettuce leaves, torn
• 2 hard boiled eggs

Dressing Ingredients:

• 2 T honey mustard
• 1 T honey
• 1 T avocado oil
• 1/4 t salt
• 1 T lemon juice

Instructions:

1. Whisk the dressing ingredients together in a medium bowl.
2. Cook chicken until internal temp. reaches 165.
3. Transfer chicken to cutting board and cut into small cubes.
4. Pour dressing into bottom of mason jar.
5. Layer the rest of the ingredients; red onion, cucumber, tomato, egg, with lettuce and kale on top.
6. When ready to eat, pour salad out onto large plate, stir around and enjoy!

January

First thing New Years Day we went up to the mountains to go sledding in celebration of Porter's birthday! His grandparents live up there so we went sledding right next to their house. The boys were loving it and stayed out there for hours! It was a beautiful day! We then had pizza and cake which topped off the experience.

Garrett even took a turn on the sled!

Have I mentioned Garrett has been my hardest baby? January, when he was finally 8 months old, we finally turned a corner and things got a bit easier...probably because he was basically mobile by then! But we switched exclusively to formula and that seemed to really help. He started sleeping longer stretches at night, he didn't need held quite as often, and as I said he was trying to take steps so becoming very independent. I finally started to feel human again but I think I', still trying to catch up on sleep as I write this 7 month later...

We took the boys out for a night at Pojos and they loved it! I also might have enjoyed playing silly kid arcade games for tickets!

We entered Garrett into a Boise State Crawling contest at the half time of a basketball game. The week of the contest he decided crawling was for babies and started walking! I was so annoyed with Nate for encouraging him! ;) The night of the contest he was actually crawling, but took his sweet time getting started, I actually thought he won but another baby ended up being a little bit faster due to his slow start. He for sure won cutest baby though! ;)

We started painting the upstairs bathroom thinking we'd take it slow and paint one room at a time. If we had only known what was coming!

We started patching Spencer's eye in hopes of strengthening the weak eye. He was/is a good sport about it and luckily we were able to just do it after school until bedtime so he didn't have to feel uncomfortable about it.

On a nice day, Nate took Spencer fishing and I'm so glad they have that to bond over!