***Friends and family who are wanting these Ollie updates can look over to the right of this post and find a way to input your email to receive blog updates through email instead of social media or just happening upon the blog.*** Ollie’s sixth month has been a month of growing. Ollie has officially made it to… Continue reading The Monthly Ollie: Volume 6
This summer we have decided to start tackling the exterior of the house. We love the interior and spend so much time inside, but now, especially with Ollie, we are ready to get outside and make it our own. We started somewhat unexpectedly with the roof – due to some circumstances beyond our control it… Continue reading Ready to Reveal: Front Porch
May was crazy busy for our family, so the meal plan did not happen. Let me tell you, I wish I would have gone ahead and made the monthly meal plan though – it just makes things so much EASIER. We ate a lot of breakfast meals and odd combinations because I didn’t have an… Continue reading Kitchen Challenge
***Friends and family who are wanting these Ollie updates can look over to the right of this post and find a way to input your email to receive blog updates through email instead of social media or just happening upon the blog.*** Ollie’s fifth month has been a month of traveling. We have been on the road… Continue reading The Monthly Ollie: Volume 5
***Friends and family who are wanting these Ollie updates can look over to the right of this post and find a way to input your email to receive blog updates through email instead of social media or just happening upon the blog.*** Ollie’s fourth month has been a month of laughter. We finally got Ollie to laugh… Continue reading The Monthly Ollie: Volume 4
Ingredients 1 red velvet cake mix 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup butter, melted 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla white chocolate (optional) dark chocolate (optional) Instructions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine cake mix, flour, butter, eggs & vanilla in a large bowl until dough forms. Divide dough in half & shape into a 12×2… Continue reading Red Velvet Biscotti
Ingredients 3 Tbsp granulated sugar 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon 1 pinch ground nutmeg 6 large eggs 1 cup milk 1 cup half and half 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1 loaf sourdough bread cut into 1-inch slices then slices cut into 1-inch cubes 2 Tbsp melted butter, plus more butter for baking dish Powdered… Continue reading French Toast Casserole
Spaghetti squash is one of those foundations for a meal that I have to make when C.J. is not home. He isn’t a fan of anything from the squash family, but that just means more for me. I absolutely love spaghetti squash and it has become a staple for my meals since C.J. started law… Continue reading Mozzarella Chicken Spaghetti Squash
One night I was working away on some laundry and realized that I really needed something chocolate. It was the day before grocery shopping, so there was basically nothing in the kitchen. I frantically started looking for recipes that could accommodate the lack luster batch of ingredients I had to work with. Finally, I started… Continue reading Chewy Chocolate Cookies
As some of you know, my husband is in law school, which currently means that we eat dinner separately on two nights a week. This changes from semester to semester, but there is usually at least one night a week that I am eating alone. In the past it has been the night that I… Continue reading Honey Garlic Butter Salmon
