I found this printable through the (In)Courage blog right at the beginning of February and I LOVED it. I love the soft Scripture printed in the background and the bright red message...perfect. I printed it out and it stayed in our frame for the month!
Buffalo Chicken and Buffalo Mac n Cheese
Well, due to my contracting "the crud" during the weekend of the Super Bowl, Ryan and I elected not to attend any of the parties we'd been invited to, and instead, we stayed home and had our own party. {One in which I was in the fetal position before the end of the night in actual tears because I felt so awful.} We didn't let staying home keep us from enjoying food, though! We used the two recipes above as springboards to make our own meal! Ryan found a bag of frozen skinless boneless chicken bites and he put them in a crock pot with buffalo sauce and let them cook all day - on high until we came home from church and then on low/warm until dinner. So good and so easy! And while I someday want to try the mac n cheese recipe above with the chicken in it as it calls for - we omitted the chicken this time since we were having it in the crock pot. We just did regular buffalo mac n cheese. I do believe this is on Ryan's new fave list and we'll be making it many times over!
Valentine's Gifts
I used several ideas from Pinterest to give Ryan his countdown to Valentine's Day presents. You can go here to see my versions of these, but here were my original inspirations:
I used this one for the Riesens only...and I wrote my own note...didn't use the printable.
I used the kisses inspiration to leave him a gift about how much I love his kisses...but I wrote my own note.
This was another of my gift ideas for Ryan - made my own note.
Another of my inspirations!!! Just handwrote my note.
I used black Sharpie fine point pens instead of a pencil, because Ryan loves pens!
I didn't roll the message around the Rolos, but otherwise I followed this one pretty exactly!
The "I chews you..." and the "I heart you" and the "I love you more than chocolate were all inspired by ideas from this pin...if you click back to the original source.
Valentine Chutes and Ladders
I needed one more gift idea for Ryan for Valentine's Day, when I saw this one. It's the married folks' version of Chutes and Ladders. You just buy the game and then add some fun to the unused squares. :) Loved it!!!
Counter space at our house is at a bit of a premium...so I'm always looking for creative ways to store things without using the counter. Ryan and I eat a lot of apples and bananas, and they'd been taking up residence in a too-small mixing bowl. Then I saw this pin. I didn't want to go buy a magazine rack, but I had a really similar looking wire wall basket that I bought years ago at a Homemaker's Idea party. I wasn't using it for anything - so it was just taking up floor space in a spare room. We hung it up in the kitchen and it is PERFECT for our apples and bananas!
I made these for our Valentine's Day meal and OH MY WORD. They are absolutely heavenly. I would make these again and again and again. It starts with a standard brownie mix {prepared according to directions} on the bottom and then there's a super creamy peanut butter layer in the middle and a soft chocolate top. Heavenly. MAKE THESE. And then prepare to work out a lot! :)
I will admit....I was skeptical about this one! I saw this pin that said you could use your Kitchen Aid to shred chicken. REALLY!?!?!?!? So one night, when Ryan and I were making chicken quesadillas, we decided to give it a shot. Y'all, IT COMPLETELY WORKS. Toss your warm chicken (we boiled ours to cook it) in there with that paddle attachment...and BINGO. Shredded. Sign. Me. Up.
6 comments:
loved ALL of these ideas, Bekah! i love your creativity and just overall sweetness as you do things for your man. LOVE IT!
have fun today on BLT! I'll be a listening! :)
XOXO
Oops oldest was reading over my shoulder when I was looking at the chutes and ladders game. All of a sudden I hear,"score? HOMERUN?" Then the questions began. I went with" are you ready for school? Teeth brushed shoes on? Okay you can watch a little tv before bus gets here." yep that explanation can wait and he didn't read to many more.
Polly - Thank you so much!!! I love doing fun things for him and I love it that he puts up with them!! :O) Looking forward to BLT today too!!
Shawn - That is too funny!!!!! I would feel bad...but I kind of don't...you judging me yet??? Ryan's going to think that one is very funny, I have a feeling!
I will never judge you two. First off it wouldn't be right and secondly I look up to you guys way to much. That game could have lasted a long time. But I would say by the end there was no loser.
Awwwww thanks. :) Yes I'm thinking there's never a loser to that version of the game. :)
I just realized we might follow another similar blogger. Robin Dance(http://www.pensieve.me/) does a lot with (in)courage. I'm not familiar with the (in)courage community, but you might know or read her stuff. Small world!!!
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