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!