deliciousness

i made this little beauty for dinner...

it's a great pasta dish wish oregano and basil flavored chicken, grape tomatoes, an olive oil sauce and a dash of parmesan cheese on a bed of whole wheat pasta!

i found the recipe here {my new fav recipe website, thanks myra!} and it was only 5 points for a cup and half serving {btw, i'm on weight watchers now!}

can't wait to try out some new recipes this weekend.

good eats!

summer toes {and fingers}

i love a good pedicure {and manicure}. pretty toes, to me, means summer time and i'm so excited that not only is it getting to be more like summer outside but also that my mama took me to get a pedi/mani when i was home last week. now i'm ready to get my summer on!

here are some of my fav summer colors:

the two above are from opi

the two above essie

this stuff is amazing. it will turn any nail polish into matte, which is super hot right now!

birthdays

tomorrow is sweet olivia's third birthday.

so in honor of her {and her ginormous wish list!} i've put together a list of pretty cool baby/kids items.

awesome car here

cool puzzle here *green toy alert*

i would love this

a great doll house here

pottery barn kids has the cutest plush animal toys right now

olivia is getting one of these from her parentals!!!

this is what she's getting from me. she loves max and ruby {on nick jr.}!

dallas

let me start by saying this was one of the best trips home ever!

we started off the trip driving to louisville early tuesday morning.

typical: me on the computer at the airport, duh.

josh eating a giant cookie at 10 am, what's new!

we got to dallas around 1pm and thus began our amazing vacay!

so excited we've landed and can't wait to see mama!

mom was sooooo excited, can't you tell?! :)

we wasted no time going to lunch at bj's and shopping (i finally introduced mom to the wonderful world of homegoods and we hit the outlet mall for sure!)

then we got our gangsta faces on in the car while jamming.

mom's was more of a gangsta claw {feel free to make fun of her claw!}

josh's was pretty legit.

and then he conveniently ruined mine by making me laugh!

greg was working the first night we were there so we had dinner and hung out, nice and relaxing evening.

we def had to take brinks' gangsta pic, and being the badass gangsta he is, he wasn't all too thrilled!

josh is so weird.

mom doing mom {or is it mafia wars?!}

movie of the night {and by far one of my top ten of all times!}

wednesday greg was off work so all four of us went to the movies and shopping some more and out for drinks and ate at my fav.........MI COCINA!

date night was hilarious and i'm so glad we saw it. plus there was a little part in there that really made me think about letting the small things go and allowing your partner to help you out. funny and thoughtful!

mom and i right when the lights went down.

we had drinks at this pub {can't remember the name} that was really cool.

mom and greg

josh and i

best meal ever. seriously, if i were on death row and they asked what i wanted my last meal to be it would be sunset fajitas from mi cocina with extra guac and salsa and extra spicy!

oh by the way apparently i love guacamole. who knew?

best/hottest salsa on the face of the planet. period. don't argue.

josh stuffing his face. don't worry i was too but there's no physical proof :)

thursday was mostly mom and i during the day. josh and greg went golfing {as men do} and mom and i went to get her hair done and shopped more {really? yes.} we went to bj's again and i had the spiciest pasta i've ever had and it was delicious but i could hardly eat it. then it was cheesecake factory for dessert.

friday josh and i hung out and we tried this place greg's daughter, reggie suggested purple kiwi. it's a self serve fro yo place with lots of yummy/healthy toppings.

again with the face stuffing.

my concoction. chocolate with strawberries, birthday cake with oreos and strawberry with cheesecake bites. the bday cake wasn't really that great but everything else was and i would eat there everyday if i could! thinking of starting up one here in lex, who wants to be my investor?!

later friday night we met greg's kids for the first time and played a very intense, very fun game of catchphrase. then it was off to bed to get some beauty sleep before the big day!

saturday was wedding day. they were sooooo calm, cool and collective! :) it was a beautiful ceremony and we had a great time celebrating at dinner and drinks afterwards.

how cute?

we did so much throughout the week that we were really ready to go home sunday. i know mom and greg were ready for their honeymoon and it was time to get back to reality {work...boo, dallas and travis...yay!}

back in the ky!

big thanks to mom and greg for having us. we had a blast and couldn't be more happy for the two of you!

today

today was the first day of my {paid} vacation.

i spent most of the day running errands and getting ready to leave for dallas.

thank goodness i have the best boyfriend in the whooooooooooole world because i needed my laundry done in order to pack for the trip and he did ALL of it! :)

i also got to have lunch with barclay. such a rare thing but it was great!

so this is random but whenever i open the sunroof my hair stands straight up. it's crazy!

after i ran my errands i came home and unloaded the back of my car. dallas came out and thought he was going somewhere. he literally sat that way until i finished bringing everything in and then i had to break it to him that we were just going inside. he took it pretty bad, if you can't tell in the photo!

tomorrow i'm off to dallas with schwab and we are going to have soooooo much fun. can't wait to see my mama and i always love me some dallas time! i'll try to blog while i'm there but you never know. but don't worry, i'll take lots of pics! :)

Lexington Legends

one of my fav pics of us

had a great time out tonight at the legends game. it started raining {or should i say pouring!} right after we sat down so we didn't stay too long but we still had a great time! :)

i also bought a great iphone app {recommended by mi hermana} and had to show my pics off!

i love this! i think it looks so professional :)

my love

Hoot n' Nanny

i gave the girls their shirts today...

obviously liv loved it and lilly was indifferent! liv said "thank you achely, i love it!". she then grabbed her shirt and said "hello mr. owl. hoot, hoot mr owl." she was so cute and so appreciate. like i've said before she's one of the most polite little girls i've ever met!

we did a lot of playing outside today and liv loves being outside. her favorite is swinging.

"i say cheese!"

olivia also has a bad habit of twisting her hair when she sleeps. it's kind of a pain but it's so funny when she gets up and says "uh oh, i have a knot." so i get it out and fix her hair up all cute, mostly in piggy tales!

here's a look at her hair do today...

lilly is getting so close to rolling over, we can taste it! i'm going to have my video on my phone ready every day! today i took some video of her and she got so close but no cigar yet :)

on a side note...a quick dal update.

i got out of bed last night to use the restroom and this is what i found when i came back!

round 2

today's round started with a trip to the fabric store {again!}. i went to hancock fabrics and bought some solid colors. i also bought a couple colored onesies and toddler tees.

here's the final products from today...

olivia's owl

lilly's new owl {i made a new pattern for my owls, i love this one so much more. if you notice on the one above i added wings and on this one i added feet!}

kalli's poodle pup

choo choooooo! i love this train and the buttons just made the whole thing!

i also changed my tag up. i don't think this is my final tag but it's getting better. i'm going to try to dress it up next weekend!

take a look...

up close

finished product

i'm so excited about this and i'll be putting my etsy store up soon so keep an eye out for that.