Month: January 2016

Weekly Meal Plan / 01-18-16

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weekly meal planning meal plan for the week

Sorry I’ve been a little bit MIA the past week or so – I’ve been a little caught up in the crazy amount of work I already have this semester. (It’s seriously crazy – can’t wait to graduate in just over 3 months wahoo!) Scott was gone most of last week for a business trip, and I actually visited my mom, so we didn’t end up doing very much cooking. Although, we aren’t doing too much real cooking this week either. (It’s one of those weeks where I’m mad craving junk food, and every one of our meals this week takes less than an hour start to finish.) I’ve been working on some really fun blog posts for the next few weeks, and I have been writing a lot to make sure I can keep up when school actually gets pretty intense, so I’m excited to share some of that with you in the next weeks and months!

Meal Plan – Week of 1/18/16

  • monday – date night at chick-fil-a
  • tuesday – baked chicken + green beans + potatoes (you can even cook them all in the oven at once – I used cajun seasoning and paprika on the chicken + potatoes)
  • wednesday – sausage with pasta and peppers (recipe coming soon)
  • thursday – taquitos + rice + black beans (super easy – use lots of black beans and only a few taquitos to make it relatively healthy)
  • friday – stir fry
  • saturday – lemon chicken + broccoli
  • sunday – pizza

Parks and Rec Breakfast Prints (free!)

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Free Parks and Rec Breakfast Prints

One of my favorite shows is Parks and Rec, one of my favorite people is Amy Pohler, and one of my favorite things is breakfast food. So, it only makes sense that I would create some prints with Parks and Rec breakfast quotes to hang in my kitchen. After having these up for a few days, I figured I should share them with you all, because everyone deserves to declare their love for breakfast food!

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Lately / Favorite Holiday Photos

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Now that New Year’s has come and gone, I wanted to post a quick personal update and share some of my favorite holiday photos with you. These range from Thanksgiving to Christmas and New Year’s. I love the holiday season because, first of all, I have an obsession with coziness (and what is cozier than Christmas?), and secondly, I love how much time I get to spend with my family.

favorite holiday photos christmas

favorite holiday photos christmas

This year was a little crazy, since it’s Scott and my first year trying to figure out how to see everyone over the holidays, but I think we accomplished it pretty well. A few of our favorite traditions this year were Thanksgiving dinner at my mom’s house, working at the Christmas tree farm with Scott’s family (his uncle owns it), the Christmas game with Scott’s parents, Christmas Eve together, and Christmas breakfast at my mom’s. In case anyone is wondering, the Christmas game is played as follows: you drive around and call out certain kinds of Christmas light decorations (stars, nativities, santas, and the like). Each type of decoration is worth a different number of points, and the person with the most points wins!

favorite holiday photos christmas

 

favorite holiday photos christmas

I also loved being able to capture some reactions to Christmas gifts with a simple tripod and remote setup (whoever wasn’t opening the gift would click the remote to snap a picture) – it worked like a charm and some of the pictures are priceless! (We used this tripod and this remote, if you’re wondering.) We both did pretty well at giving gifts this year, too. My favorite gifts were some hats/headbands (for the cold winter ahead), a Kitchenaid mixer (from Scott’s parents), and an Apple Watch (I’ve been having fun tracking my activity). Scott’s favorite gift was an RC helicopter, which he got a ton of use out of (there was a lot of helicopter flying going on in our apartment). It recently broke, and we spent several hours trying to fix it, to no avail (RIP helicopter).

 

favorite holiday photos christmas

(We attempted to take a picture on new year’s at midnight, and I did not angle the camera well, so we will just pretend it was an artistic decision.) As we move into 2016, Scott and I are very excited to spend our first whole year together as a married couple. We have some exciting things coming up – a new job (hopefully) for me, some traveling, and possibly even a move!