December update

December is always my favorite month of the year! It always passes by way to quickly!

I had my birthday and Christmas to celebrate. Here are some of the pictures from this month.

Charlie Decorated my door, made me a funny face pancake, gave me flowers, took me to see the bodies museum, dialogue in the dark, and walked me through centennial park where we found my families bricks that were place there during the 1996 olympics here in Atlanta on my birthday:)

We had steak and potatoes with asparagus for my birthday with my parents the following night. 

We found our christmas tree, had christmas with my parents dog, Abu, and had our first christmas together. Abu destroyed the toys in his stocking as quickly as possible, Charlie got a cowboys hat and a team coco shirt that is beyond hilarious...and etc. I got the earring that I have wanted for forever, and the coolest pair of red corduroy pants with an awesome braves jersey... and etc. December was swell!

Update

I apologize for taking so long to repost! I have been super busy with working and training for this half marathon! I can't believe that it will be next week! So insane! Anyways, here is a quick little update:

1. my new coasters from anthropologie. 2. the pumpkin we started out with. 3. our free handed conan o'brien pumpkin/ phil dumphy from modern family(whichever you see more). 4. mummy pizzas that my lovely husband made for us for halloween. 5. 7 layer dip with an attempted spider web of sour cream. 

We are doing absolutely amazing, and are very excited for the holidays coming up! I will do my best to keep up with the blog! Y'all have a great Thursday!

kitchen love

I am in love with my glass canisters found here. I got these super cute adhesive chalkboard labels from this cute etsy store...  They are incredible! LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!!

Pintrests Loves

Holy cow y'all! How amazing is Christian Siriano's Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear  collection. For all y'all who don't recognize this designer, maybe one word will remind you of him: Feirce! That is right... this is the same Christian who captured my heart as winner of Project Runway Season 4. 

                                                                                 Source: style.com via Lyndsey on Pinterest

                                                                        Source: stylebistro.com via Lyndsey on Pinterest

our weekend

This past weekend has been great! We started the weekend early by going to the North Georgia State Fair on Thursday night. It was a lot of fun! We were able to see a alligator show, look at cute animals, hear The Band Perry perform, eat corn dogs, and enjoy people watching. I absolutely love fairs. Both of the fairs I have been to this year have been so much fun! 

This was the crazy man who stuck his hand inside the alligators mouth!!

cutest volunteer boy holding a baby albino alligator

I want one!!! 

                                

      The Band Perry Performing "You Lie" live

After Charlie got done with work of Friday, we went down to my parents place to watch the BYU football game. They were able to beat Utah State... barely. Saturday and Sunday we watched conference with my parents. I loved all the talks given by our leaders! It was a swell weekend! 

The easiest and fastest way to make cookies

I cannot remember exactly which one of my roommates introduced me to these in college, but I am forever grateful! They are super delicious, and they are the quickest and easiest things to make. Oh and the cookie dough tastes wonderful too... Guess what, you only need 3 things to make them!!! 

 one box of Pilsbury's funfetti cake mix

2 eggs

1/3 cup of oil

Mix all these ingredients up until it looks like the picture below...

Now all you have to do is scoop cookie dough into little 1 inch balls and place on an ungreased cookie sheet as so... 

Bake at 375 degrees for 6 to 8 minutes and wa la! You just made yummy delicious funfetti cookies. Be ya didn't know you could make cookies out of cake mix. Oh, and this recipe is on the side of the funfetti box for your convenience. Enjoy!

FYI: today was one of my long runs. I ran 5 miles, and it was not nearly as bad as I was expecting it to be. Check out the running calendar here: half marathon training schedule

I now work at...

Guess what?! I now work here...

 If you haven't already guessed it..... I guess I will have to tell you... 

I am now a sales associate at...

I am beyond excited! It has always been one of my favorite stores. I can't wait to start! 

YUMMY

I have found my favorite chocolate chip cookies recipe and thought I would share it with you! 

Chocolate Chip Cookies 

(adapted from Sheena)

2 sticks of butter (room temp.)

1/2 cup of white sugar

1 3/4 cup of brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp of vanilla

3 cups of all purpose flour

1 1/2 tsp of baking soda

3/4 tsp of salt

1 bag of semi-sweet chocolate chunks

Cream butter and sugars. Add one egg at a time(making sure that they are fully incorporated before adding the next egg). Add vanilla. The next part is adding all the dry goods. I like to break it down into 3's so you don't have a flour overload that goes spilling out the bowl. Add 1 cup of flour, 1/4 tsp of salt, and 1/2 tsp of baking soda. Mix until fully incorporated. Repeat this step 2 more times so that you have the total amount of flour, salt, and baking soda needed in the recipe. 

Drop a spoonful of cookie dough onto a greased cookie sheet, and spinkle a little bit of sea salt on the top. Delicious!! (for all you who know my sea salt addiction--- this is swell). 

Bake at 350° for 11 minutes. Get them out of the oven when they still look slightly gooey in the middle but have light golden edges. 

Enjoy! 

Ps: if you didn't think these could taste any better... add a scoup of Blue Bell's original vanilla ice cream( I guess any vanilla ice cream will work, but I am just overly addicted to Blue Bell's creaminess) in the middle of two cookies. Mind blowingly good! TRUST ME! I have references!

Also, If any of you believe that you have an even better recipe, leave it in a comment. I will test it out. However, if it worse.. I might be upset! :) 

Have a fabulous Monday!

Utahhhhhhh

We made it to Utah. We arrived Friday night to Salt Lake, where we were picked up by our amazing friend Justin. We chilled at his place for awhile and then headed to Gloria's to watch a movie (The Devil Wears Prada). We then stayed the night at my mother in law's place. The next morning my sister picked Charlie and me up so we could see her new apartment (Whit, it looks amazing!!!).  Charlie's dad picked up Charlie for the BYU vs UTAH game while we left for Cafe Rio!!! OH EM GEEEE, I love Cafe Rio!!! 1 pork burrito and tortilla soup later, we were off to the Utah State Fair. This was my 3rd year in a row going with Gloria. I still love it as much as the first time. My sister Whitney and sister in law Katie came too! We had a fun little girls night out! Frequent texts from Charlie kept me updated with the score of the game. Sorry BYU fans... there was just no way that y'all could beat Utah... mainly because of the awful way that y'all played! :) 

katie's picture on the ride above (she was a little too prepared for the photo).

Gloria's picture- very typical! Love her!

Whitney's picture :)

Can you see my face??!

Katie, Gloria, and Whitney

Katie, me, and Gloria (they ducked down so that they could be closer to my height)!

Deep fried oreo's! Yummy!

Deep fried Snickers!

The fair was a success! the next day my mother in law made us lasagna and apple pie before we left for the airport! It was absolutely delicious! Of course, I missed my first flight back to Atlanta (the worst part about flying standbye). Eventually, I made it home though! Thank you everyone who made our trip amazing! Oh, today started my "official" training for my half marathon! Look forward to my post later!

home sweet apartment

It has been a wonderful week. Glad we got a lot accomplished. We are leaving this weekend to Utah for just a couple of days. Good to know that we have this place to come home to:) Hope y'all have an incredible weekend as well!

Hello Atlanta

Charlie and I have officially made the move!!! Thank goodness my parents live close by! They honestly helped us out so much this weekend! We officially moved in on Saturday. We just got internet up and running! That was killer. Anyway, the apartment isn't up to its fully decorated self quite yet.... but we have finished our bedroom! Here are some pictures of what we have done. 

My dad and Charlie found out that this ikea funiture should be called "the hardest thing to put together furniture." My mom and I also realized that ikea isnt as fun as it looks. I used to love walking through that store. I had never bought anything from the storehouse section--- awful experience! I think it will be awhile before I go back to ikea. I was told this summer by my sister Ashley that I chose the most girly bedding in the world. Sorry Charlie, (thankfully for me, you could not care less). Hey, at least it is super comfy!

Pintrest Loves

Here are some of my favorite pins from pintrest this week. I am loving the home decor!

                                                           Source: room-galleries.myhomeideas.com via Lyndsey on Pinterest

                                                                        Source: flickr.com via Lyndsey on Pinterest

                                                              Source: fortheloveofahouse.blogspot.com via Lyndsey on Pinterest

                                                                         Source: womansday.com via Lyndsey on Pinterest

Take me out to the ball game

Yesterday, we were able to go to Turner Field with our friends to see the Braves take on the Dodgers(Charlie's favorite team). Unfortunately, my Braves did not end up taking them down like I hoped. The Dodgers beat us. LAME! However, we were able to at least end the game with some fireworks that they did. All in all, it was a fun night with our friends!

 (cute girl sitting in front of us with her stylish Braves tee)

 (Jocelyn doing the Braves tomahawk chop)

 (Please excuse our terribly lit picture)

(these were our sad faces after losing the game- pretty accurate portrayal of how we felt)

 (YAY! FIREWORKS)