{Wild Heart}

Lets talk about my friend, old co worker & bridesmaid! She is fabulous! We worked together back in 07 and hit it off right away. Which to be honest was strange to me because i usually don't really get along with people i work with. But this girl is awesome, i loved working the teller line at my old job with her we had so much fun. I loved working there it was easy and fun!

Even thought i no longer work there we have manage to stay close and stay good friends. Even though i didn't see her for seriously 6 months due to our schedules always conflicting. It sucked but i went on a  few lunch dates with her here lately so we are back on track!!! This girl cracks me up! She is super sweet and has been through a rough 2 years, it seems like. she just bought a house so Congrats love! Not only that but she also started her own blog so look her up and start following her on her journey in this world! HINT : the name of her blog is the name of this blog!

Anyways she has taugh me alot and kept me sain everyday at work through email little did she know! I'm super happy that GOD brought her into my Life 3 years ago & i truly believe she is  a life long friend! So here is to you Kristen happy Thursday love!

~Now You Know!

{On The Menu}

So lately i have been swamped with work and school and of course planning the biggest day of my life "My Wedding"!!!!! I haven't had anytime to do stuff that i like to do so tomorrow I'm taking a vacation day off work. I will be spending the morning portion in doctors appointments that i have putting off for way to long not only for myself but for the little person.

I decided sense i have also been lacking in my cooking i will make something Yummy for dinner! So looking through menus and recipes today has been relaxing and fun, but wait aren't i supposed to be doing something else......... oh yeah work! But for now this is whats for dinner tomorrow night.

                                 Lemon Chicken & Green Bean Casserole

This is what is supposed to look like! We will see how mine comes out, my mother used to make this for me when i was younger and i loved it ever sense. Here is the recipe for all of you that will like to try it is very good:

-6 chicken breast
-2 cups of sour cream
-¼ cup of lemon juice
-4 tsp Worchester sauce
-2 tsp of celery salt
-2 tsp of paprika
-½ of tbsp. of garlic powder
-1 ¾ cup of bread crumbs
-¾ cup of butter

*Combine everything but bread crumb and butter
*Let stand overnight in the fridge on a Ziploc bag.
*Next day roll the chicken on the crumbs and arrange on a single layer on a cooking sheet or (something shallow)
*Melt the butter
*Spoon some of the butter over the chicken
*Bake uncovered for 45 minutes @ 375 degrees.
*Add the rest of the butter put it on top of the chicken and bake for additional 10-15minutes longer.

I promise to post some pictures this weekend of the finish product! Happy THURSDAY everyone!

***Don't forget to sign up for my 1st giveaway***

~Now You Know!

{1st Give Away}

So i thought about this for a while and came to the conclusion that sense Valentines Day is just around the corner i will do a Valentine's Day Giveaway!!!! If you love Victoria Secrets as much as i do you will love this give away! Especially for Valentines Day or maybe summer clothes sense they are already out!

So i will be giving away a $50.00 gift card to a lucky winner! All you have to do is :

1: Be a Follower to my blog!
2:Tell me your favorite Valentines Day memory!

I will choose a random winner on February 9th 2011 that will give everyone plenty of time to go pick something for V-Day at your closest Victoria Secret!!!!

HAPPY TUESDAY!!! ENTER NOW

~NOW YOU KNOW

{Sisterhood}

"If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life."
— Eugene Peterson

Happy Monday everyone!!!! Hope everyone had a great weekend. This weekend was alot of fun i met up with a few of my girlfriends and catch up on things and had some yummy food of course! It all started with Kristen on Saturday :)

I finally took her to my favorite cup cake place Cuppies & Joe's!!!! It was delish! I think she actually really enjoy it which is great because that means i can go more often, no not really especially with the wedding just around the corner. After our girl talk and decorating talks i went and met up with Erica, Jennifer and Jessica fir sushi!

I never been a sushi eater so i had crab cakes and they were YUMMO! We talked everything from wedding to going to the dentist i love these girls we always have a lot of fun together! Jessica is getting married in May so its always fun to talk wedding with her i can't wait for her BIG day!

Sunday i spent sometime at home with my boys and went to lunch with Brittany. We went to my FAVORITE Italian Restaurant "PRIMOS". I love love love that place, i cannot have it enough i swear. I like it so much i asked the manager for a catering menu for the wedding reception! She was a little under the weather bless her heart so i gave her orders to go home and sleep! Hope your feeling better Britt!

Then i went home and cooked Sunday super for my family and watch some good TV. I love my little family GOD has truly blessed me with amazing boys!

That was my weekend what did you guys do anything fun? Try any new recipes???

~Now You Know!

{ My boys}

I'm at work today as you all know. And the future hubby got to stay home with our pride and joy :) I miss them. i hate working while they are at home. So i decided to post a little blog about them just so they can read it and see mami is missing them !

Jeremiah found my heels last night while we watch American Idol and walked around in them i love this picture! Plus you all know it will come in Handy when hes a teenager and wanting to date ha ha ha :) i love his shirt too it says " I color outside the lines"

Potty training this weekend went great! And i love how cute he looks in his little underwear :) If any mommies out there have any potty training tips let me know!

This is what they were both doing while i cooked Monday night's dinner. Anything daddy did Jeremiah would do it was too cute to put in words!

Jeremiah found the box that the Save The Dates came in and of course daddy couldn't help himself and made a robot out of it. He played with that box all night!!! I love how much fun we have with him and how much he learns each day. Miss you guys I'll be home early today!

{Who We Are}

This morning i woke up to ice and snow on my walk to the car, only to notice the tire that i took the day before to get fix is flat. I mean really flat to the point there is no way you can drive it without the rim getting ruin. So the future hubby decided to stay home and let me drive his car to work. As i drove down the roads cover with ice i noticed so many cars flip over, crashed into ditches, and left on the side of the road. All i wanted to do HONESTLY was pulled over and help, i couldn't because:

1:I don't have a tow truck to pull them out.
2: I don't know how to get someones car running if it turned off on it's own.
3: Really what can i do other than say do you need any help???

So i kept driving i didn't go passed 30 miles per hour because it was very slick and i didn't want to end up just like the cars i kept seeing. It took me an hour to get to work which normally only takes me about 20 minutes so you can do the math and get the picture on how bad the roads were. When i finally made it downtown i fell in love. Seriously i love how the city seem so quite and peaceful, everyone was taking their time nobody was trying to cut you off or seem angry. The roads were white and it look like we were the only ones out there trying to get to our destination.

It made me wish life was like this. You know not crazy and stressful just relaxing and peaceful. Everyone taking their time taking their hits but not letting them get them down. Just taking the days one by one, and though the times are hard everyone knows where they belong. Choosing the life they live and living it as they can possibly do. I think that is part of it all, we all want more we can never settle on what we have we always think there is better out there. I'm guilty of this i will admit that but for now I'll choose the life i live and I'll choose to take my hits because at the end of the day all we have is who we are. That is more than you think.

I don't know a person who is not struggling in this economy, or in there relationships is part of life. Simple is that. Nothing is easy you have to work at everything but working at it and still being who you were meant to be is the ultimate goal. I am very blessed with amazing girlfriends i don't have many i can count them all with my hands i love them all individually because they are everything that I'm not. But they are Who they are meant to be and not trying to be something they are not....

Something to think about....

~Now you know

{ I Like You & You & You}

So i have a lot of things going on at the moment and lately i have found myself in love with some really awesome stuff so i thought i would share!

1: The reason that i have gain some weight lately is Cuppies & Joes! I used to live really close to this cute coffee shop with killer cup cakes but then i moved away so you ask why have you gain weight then? Right? Ohh well the thing is that i have secretly been stopping by on the way home from work!!! i haven't gone everyday I'm not that bad plus they are closed Mondays lol but i seriously have started to go way to much but they are SOOOOO Good! i can't help it. I need a cupcake innervation any volunteers?

                                              This is my new love :)
2: Looking at Wedding Pictures from different photographers and writing down a list of what pictures i want my photographer to do! I can't show you a picture of that because then i will be in trouble.

3:Skinny Dip! Get your minds out of the gutter people it's the name of the wine that I'm totally addicted to right at the moment! I got it at Put A Cork In it, its a winery downtown and i love it.

Those are my top 3 things! Haven't really had much of a life lately and its just going to get worst now that i have school starting! But hey wedding is 3 months away YAY

~Now You Know

{Snowflakes}

Hope everyone had a great weekend! I finally got to see my friend Kristen this weekend Woo hoo! We went to have lunch at a Mexican restaurant along with Stephanie and Blair! It was fun to finally see one another and talk about wedding stuff.

Stephanie is also one of my bridesmaid and she just cracks me up! She is one of the sweetest girl i know and i love how she has such a free spirit to her! She travels alot sense she works for Southwest Airlines lucky her right??? While at lunch her and Kristen just talked about all the trips that they are taking this year. I admit i was a bit jealous that i cant just pick up and go with them, but hey that's what being a Mommy is all about. Giving up all the fun stuff for amazing stuff! I love it & wouldn't trade it for the world!!!!

Is so much fun to see the girls especially when you haven't seen them in forever! The rest of the weekend i spend it at home with my boys snuggle up because YES it's freezing and snowing.

Cant wait for summer weather :)

Have a blessed Monday everyone!

~Now You Know !!!!

{My NEW Obsession}

Okay so I'm totally obsess now with headbands. I blame it on Taylor Swift, Gossip Girl, Lauren Conrad  and my friend Erica. They have the cutest ones! I love wearing them but i do have to admit they give me a headache maybe that's a sign that my head is too BIG.

I decided i wanted to wear one for the wedding. My dress is strapless and I'm wanting a bird cage veil so in order to pull that off my hair will be up. Not sure yet how i want it done. I want something soft and simple that i can later take down for the reception. Any ideas? My colors are Deep Red and Plum so i think if i was to wear a red or purple flower it could work!

I  found this picture of a previous bride that had a purple flower in her hair and i just love it.

                      ( I found this picture in Etsy, at the BC Girls page)

They have the cutest headbands for weddings along with bridal Sashes just in case you need to add a little sparkle to your dress. I'm seriously thinking about getting one of their sashes along with a BIG flower for my hair on my wedding day.

This is one of the sashes that i really like! I think i would change the sash color to like a deep plum or whatever flower color i end up wearing that way they match. But isnt this just awesome! I love the Sparkle and HELLO you can totally use it again maybe on a cute cocktail dress im just saying.....

If you guys have any ideas on hair duo's help a girl out! Have a blessed weekend everyone!

~Now You Know

{ Purple Soul}

YAY for almost being Friday!!!! Today i wanted to shine some little on one of my dear friends! She is truly amazing to say the least. We went to Junior high and High School together. We weren't really friends those days but we knew one another. We became close about 2 years ago and now she is one of my best friends and bridesmaids! This girl has conquered so much in her life. I know most of you would think she only 25 (her bday is next month) so I'm a little early on the 25 but really you would think oh she young nothing that she has experience can be that bad. Well you are WRONG!

she lost both of her parents to a terrible car accident at age 16.  I will never forget walking into school that morning and seeing her with Justin (her now hubby) walking in. She seem a little off so i said morning girl! She just said morning and as we walk side by side not once would i have ever thought she lost her parents the night before. It breaks my heart just to think about it, but i know that she has 2 guardian angels just looking down to her and smiling at what an amazing daughter they were both blessed with.

She seriously shines! She the one person you can count on for sushi dates, dinner at yummy Italian restaurants, to be honest and give you great advised, to cheer you up when life has truly knock you down to your knees, the one that is not afraid to tell you "Girl that does not look good"! I just love her. I'm truly blessed to have her as a friend. She is truly amazing and she inspires me to be a better person without knowing.

If you guys ever meet her you would love her just as much as we all do. She has tons of friends and i honestly can say i don't think she has any enemies. That just shows you what great person she is! Her favorite color is purple she rocks it everyday even more now that her hunny gave her a purple engagement/wedding ring! I will never forget the night she got engaged. Me and my friend Jennifer & Brittany were out at dinner and she couldn't make it because she had a date with Justin (her now hubby). We ate dinner and catch up on everything and we said "I think she going to get engaged soon, she doesn't freak out about it anymore i think she ready". We left dinner and i drove home as i was walking through the door she text me and said "I'm Engaged"!!!!! I was so happy for her i had to call her and tell her we totally JINX you we just talked about that at dinner! lol.

She amazing so here is to you love, and to many years of friendship to come! Love you Erica :)

          (This picture was at one of our many sushi dates just after having Jeremiah)
~Now you know

{A Year in Pictures}

2010 was a great year! We got to celebrate a lot of things so i have no clue how this new year is going to top it off but hey I'm getting married this year so that I'm sure will be fantastic!!!

This is how i started 2010! By going to see Taylor Swift in concert. Not only did we have amazing tickets thanks to MUAH for standing in line at 4 am to buy them but honestly she was amazing! I loved her songs and her whole entire show! She even walked through the crowd and YES i touch her hand be jealous!

Jeremiah turned 1 :) His birthday was Curious George and it was super cute! i really want to do it again this year but no repeats sorry. This cake was delicious it was strawberry with cream cheese frosting yumm!

The weather finally got good enough for us to take Jeremiah to the Zoo !!! This is daddy and him at the zoo on the picture above! It was so much fun but OMG it was a lot of walking :( I forgot how bad his little hair was we couldn't cut it for the longest time because hes soft spot wouldn't go away but when it finally did we took him to get his 1st hair cut!

Isn't he the cutest little thing ever! I know everyone thinks there kid's is the cutest kid ever but mine really is! Just saying! This was at Snip It's and its all for kids. He absolutely loved it! Look at that smile awww i love him!

These were done by Holli B Photography( i blogged about her previously). She is so talented. She took this picture in April and i love it!

After shopping one day at Target Jeremiah was so excited for a new toy that he picked out at the store that once he made it to the car and we gave it to him he fell asleep. It was too funny!

Here is one of many pictures that i took this year with Erica & Brittany! These girl are awesome and super fun to hang out with ! Love yall.

4th of July!

Driving to Quartz Mountain in May! Just a little get away with my boys! It was great to get out of the city for a few days and spend it without any phones computers games etc. Just us and the country! I love Quartz Mountain cant wait to go again this year!

And we finish the year by starting to potty train! All of you mommies out there reading this any help on how to potty train a little boy would be great! He is doing very well so far!

How was your year! Have alot of pictures you like to share????

~Now You Know

{NEW Year, NEW Goals}

Happy New Year everyone!!!!! Have you all started your new years goals yet??? This year me and the future hubby decided to share one, we are going to learn Italian! I'm super excited i have always wanted to learn Italian so this year I'm making myself do it! I started looking at some websites that have been a little helpful haven't made it to the book store just yet to buy a book. Does anyone know a good Italian teaching book? We are reading stuff off ZapItalian.com and so far i love it. I think is super easy but that's because i know Spanish and most of the words are very familiar.

Some of my other goals are as follow:

* Staying in shape! Not only for the wedding but just because i want to feel good about myself!

*Trying to stay in touch with friends. I always feel guilty leaving the little one at home or spending time away from my boys to have some much needed girl time. So this year i am making this a priority. I hate how we all get so caught up in our busy life's that we don't pick up the phone anymore and actually talk to someone we just text here and there. It sucks.

*Watching my spending. If i have cash on me i spend it i can never have any money i just have to spend it right away. So this year i will try VERY hard to watch my money.

* Study hard! Is my last year in school before i can officially teach so i need to stay focused on the books!

That's all of mine, do you have any that you will like to share??? Hope everyone had a great New Years!!!!

~Now you know!