I Heart You!

Valentine's Day is fast approaching and it isn't the same without something sentimental or romantical!  So, I've been searching high and low for some website or craft idea that would be worthy for the hubby, and I found this fabulous blog!!!  It is called The Dating Divas:)  I must say there are soo many neat ideas on here for your hubby or significant other for V-Day!  It even has some pretty neat ideas for date night with the hubby!  You should definitely go on over and check it out, it is pretty amazing.  This site is a must see!!!

Here are some of the many unique and fun ideas:

The Dating Divas

Superbowl Chicken Quesdilla Dip

Hey All!!  It was one busy, busy weekend for this girl!  Friday was pretty relaxed and just watched a couple movies, but Saturday did a lil shopping, and had supper a delish resturant with hubby and wonderful friend.  Then Sunday, since my lil sis is getting married in about a year, we went to a bridal show in the late morning.  She was pretty disappointed because she didn't win anything:(  Then I raced home, to get ready for our semi-superbowl party.  I say "semi" because we had a good couple friend of ours:)

The hubby made some of his yummy chili, I made chicken quesdilla dip, and they brought quite a few snacky dishes.  Needless to say, it was a terrible day for my diet!  The sad thing is that we didn't even put a dent in the food that we had...we have soo many leftovers it's crazy!!!  We just need to get rid of them because otherwise it's too much temptation or it'll go to waste...either way it's not a good situation!

So all day long, I was thinking of making something quick, fast, easy, and tasty.  So I searched the good ole' internet to see what I could find!  I found the recipe on All Recipes I changed it up a bit to make it go just that much quicker and a touch healthier.  I had 1 hour to clean the house plus make dip and that doesn't give me too much time!

What would I do without my vacations?

You may ask, vacations, didn't you JUST go on a vacation and yes I did!  I'm just super lucky to be able to go on another so soon.  We went to Sin City, Vegas baby:)   It was a short, but sweet time Las Vegas.  The hubby and I went to Vegas for his buddy's wedding, he was the best man.

This was the fabulous hotel we stayed at, The Bellagio:)

The Bellagio holds a special place in my heart because this is where the hubby proposed:)

We had a spectacular view from our room, too!  It was overlooking the fountains and the strip.  We couldn't have asked for anything better.

Inside of the Bellagio at the gardens it was quite the site:)

2012 Checklist!

Sometimes projects and myself just don't get along, unless if I make a list of some sort, so that's what I'm planning on doing!  I think by putting this on my blog then I will be more willing to completely finish or in some cases even start these projects!  I hope I'm not the only one who has this problem....  I've been thinking about my 2012 list for a while now and this is what I came up with:

1. Make my closet pretty and organized.  Right now my closet is just blah and not too organized.  I need to spruce it up a bit and here is some inspiration that I have found on other sites

Censational Girl

I Heart Organizing

I love the stripes in the first closet and the simplicity of it and the second one I love the organization of everything.  I know these aren't closets for your clothes, but I like the design aspects of them.

2.  Lose Weight.  Isn't this on everyone's to do list for 2012?

3.  Make curtains for our bedroom and our other bedroom.

4.  Make a full length mirror for our bedroom such as this one:

Love these mirrors....the one I make won't be quite this big though.

5.  Work on mini sewing projects just for fun! Especially one like this one I just finished!

Wine Cover

6.  Organize, organize, and organize with boxes and totes, or whatever will do the job!  The ones below are cute and functional:)

The City Sage

7.  This summer give some special attention to our landscaping and possibly try to grow a garden!

8. DIY Wedding Photo Canvas.  I haven't printed off any wedding photos yet and we were married in July...yikes!!!  I thought these would be perfect to try out with our wedding photos:)

What's on your list or do you have one for 2012?

Until next time!

Easy, Fast, and Yummy Casserole

I bet right now you are thinking, NO WAY!  How can all of those words be in the same phrase together, but I kid you not this recipe is all of those things;)

This weekend the hubs mom and dad came over to our place to help on the basement.  While they were doing that I was slaving over the stove all day, not really....like I said this recipe is easy, fast, yummy, and I'm going to add healthy!!!  You really can't go wrong with this recipe.

It is called Chicken Stuffing Casserole, how orginal huh?

Well, these are the ingreidents and steps that you need to take in order to have a delish dish!!!!

Ingredients:
1 10 3/4 oz can of fat free cream of mushroom soup
1 box of dressing
1 cup of milk
3  chicken breasts cooked and cubed (aka cc)
2 cups of fat free mozierella cheese
3 cups of broccoli florrets (cooked of course)

Step 1: Set your oven to 375 degrees
Step 2: Since I bought the microwave broccoli florrets in the frozen food section,  I just put them in the microwave for 5 minutes and let them cook.  This was the first time that I used this product for this recipe and I must say how much I loved it because it was so easy and quick!

Very easy and yummy:p

~Wine Cover Love~

So far this weekend, I have been keeping super busy between cleaning the house, helping in the basement, and working on my crafts.  I just had to get my craft on this weekend and I wanted to share with you all what I finished.

Anyone who knows me, knows I love sweet wine.  Now, I don't mean I drink it all the time, I just have a passion for wine.  It is definitely my alcoholic drink of choice:)  Also, anyone who knows me   will tell you I have fallen head over heals for Pinterest....sigh!!!!  I guess, really who hasn't?!?!?!?

So the other night, I was going through the P boards and I came across a gem of a tutorial for a wine cover!  I thought to myself this is perfect and pretty cute:)  Plus, I could try out my brand new Brother sewing machine for only $50 that I bought the day after Thanksgiving!

Sew Sane Jane

You can find the lovely tutorial on the link above!  You should try it because after my first one it was really cake to whip up.  You can't beat the price either, they are so cheap to make.

So, I thought I would make one for myself and if they turn out well then I would make some for my friends, just because they are so awesome:)

Yes, they are the best frans a girl could ask for:)

Organization = Pure Bliss:)

Here in Iowa we were blessed with 6 inches of white, fluffy snow:)  You know what that means, a SNOW day!!!  So, I didn't have work today and I accomplished quite a bit such as: cleaning bathroom - check, pick up bedroom, living room and kitchen - check, check, and check, help hubby in basemnet - check, and organizing the coat closet.  I must say the coat closet was looking pretty scary and I hate when things are a complete disaster!

Warning, warning....when I say disaster, that's what I truly mean.  So, please excuse the mess!!!

Please excuse the mess...

Top part of the closet