I'm Alive!

Hello friends. Sorry for my delayed blogging. These past two weeks have been crazy!! I'm happy to say that I'm slowing feeling better each day though. I have been leaving work early everyday this week... by about 3:00, I'm exhausted. I was in bed from 3-8pm last night! I'm so ready to be back to my old self again... it sucks to be sick during summer. Anyway, I'm reeeeally hoping to come canoeing for Drew's bday tomorrow. I won't be able to drink and definitely won't be staying all night, but at least I can see you guys for awhile! :)

We need to plan a girls day. We can do our favorite things... eat and shop. If you guys want to come to Fairlawn, the mall has some new stores! We now have a Sephora, Franchescas (my absolute favorite store right now!) and Aveda. Or I'm always up for a trip to Crocker Park.

Well, I better get back to work since I'll be leaving soon! Can't wait to see you both tomorrow.

P.S. I got out of my work event for Elise's bachelorette party so I'm definitely able to come.

News

So... I've started my own solo blog.  I really have no idea why, but I did.  It's called "A Place for Everything" and that's exactly what it is.  So far posts have been about home projects, recipes and ME!  The only person I've told about it is my mom (well and Aaron of course).  But now I'm telling you guys.  Eventually I'd like to get out into the blogging community more.  Basically I need something ongoing that is my own to distract me from my job.  I like it because it gives me a reason to start different projects around the house and keeps me on the ball.

So check it out when you get some time, and let me know what you think.  Feel free to leave comments.

A Place for Everything

Don't worry, I'll still post here for all the fun stuff :)

New Purchases

Westwood Studio had an open house last night with lots of product sales.  I got two of my huge pump-bottles of shampoo and conditioner for $25 total, which is awesome because they are $30 a piece when they aren't on sale.  I got a replacement of moisturizer, which I was almost out of.  But the fun things I got were nail polish and lipstick.

OPI Mermaids Tears

I put this on last night.  It is like an antiquey turquoise color.  I think it would be cute with a white top, grey cardigan, jeans, and turquoise earrings.  I also think it's a great summer toenail color.

Youngblood Rosewater

This is the lipstick Nina used on me for the wedding.  I like it because it actually has color.  I love my blankety, but it's also fun to wear a bit of color on my lips!

So that's my latest purchase.  I miss you guys!  NEED GIRL TIME ASAP!

The Hunt for the Perfect Curling Iron.

I am on the hunt for a new curling Iron.

I really dont know much about them, but I am a huge fan of curling my hair. I have one that is metal right now, but I have heard really good things about the ceramic ones. Also I have heard that using your straightener works really well as well. I feel as thought I am not handy enough to use my hair straightener.

I am going to make a trip to Ulta to check out some new ones, I will keep you posted on what I find out.

Also I am looking for a new really good Shampoo and Conditioner, Any Suggestions?

Ally

Dinner with Hodi

We had Heidi-Ho over for dinner last night so we could try out some of our new loot from the wedding.  The menu included:

*chips/pretzels with three types of dip (french onion, roasted garlic hummus, and pimento chip dip).
*flying saucers (sloppy joes with cheese made in the triangle sandwich maker)
 * frozen peach champagne cocktail
* Nutter Butter Frozen Peanut Butter pie

It was delicious and so I'm going to share some of the recipes with you.

First the pimento chip dip.  It doesn't sound very good, but I love it and so did everyone else.  It is one of the recipes I got from my aunt at my first bridal shower.

Ingredients:

8 oz. Cream Cheese

1 jar Pimento Cheese

1 Tbsp. Minced onion

1 Tbsp. Chopped Olives

1 Tsp. Olive Juice

Mix together and enjoy!

Next up we have the Nutter Butter Frozen Peanut Butter Pie.  It was delicious and cool on such a hot day!

Ingredients:

Crust

• 24 Nutter Butter sandwich cookies
• 5 tablespoons butter, melted

Filling

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 (8 ounce) container Cool Whip, thawed, divided

1 To make crust*, crush the cookies in a zipper style plastic bag with a rolling pin, or in a food processor.

I used my new food processor and LOVED IT!

2 Mix cookie crumbs with butter.

3 Press into bottom and sides of a 9 inch pie plate.

4 Mix cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.

5 Gently stir in 1 1/2 cups whipped topping.

6 Spoon into crust.

7 Freeze 4 hours or overnight until firm.

8 Let stand 1/2 hour or until pie can be cut.

9 Garnish with remaining whipped topping and additional cookies if desired.

10 Special extra: Just before serving, drizzle chocolate flavored syrup on plates.

11 *Ifdesired, omit Nutter Butter cookie crust and use an oreo crust instead.

Yumm!

I have no pictures of the cocktail, but it was tasty enough that I'll share the recipe anyways.  We decided to make this because we wanted to use our Magic Bullet.  However, after we made our first cocktail (a test run before the guests even arrived) the Magic Bullet wouldn't work anymore.  We were so disappointed!  I don't know if we're going to return it or what.  So we had to finish the cocktails in the blender (boring).  At least they still tasted good.

Ingredients:

1/4 cup sugar, to rim glasses

1 pint peach sorbet

2 (1 1/2 fluid ounce) shots triple sec, Grand Marnier or 2 Cointreau liqueur

750 ml chilledchampagne, 1/3 bottle or 750 ml sparkling wine, to fill blender 1/3 bottle

Blend and drink up!

MAC Obsessed

Well ladies, I think its officially safe to say that I have quite the MAC addiction. So on my hunt to complete my MAC collection, I thought I would share some of my latest and greatest additions.

Latest Addition would be the MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Medium Deep






Next is paradisco eyeshadow, I have been searching and searching for the perfect coral color and here it is.










I also picked up Sunny Spot because I want to try to do something with this color.











Also found this really pretty lustre nude color, really really pretty. This is called Big Tea.

It was a little difficult trying to get the pictures to work but all in all I think its pretty good. These are just some of my new favs, of course you know there are more to come. If you get a chance to check some of these out I highly recommend that you do.

Enjoy!

I'm Baaaack!!

It's been a while, and I miss you guys!  Now that the heavy part of wedding season is over, I'm really excited about all of the non-wedding fun we can have :)  Sounds like canoeing/camping for Drew's bday.  Always a good time.  Here's hoping I don't fall all over the place this year *fingers crossed!  I also think it would be really fun sometime when we all have a long weekend to go visit Miss Kristi.  It would be such a great girl's trip!  We also need some shopping/makeup play time.  Basically it sounds like we need to get away from the boys.  I'm sure they miss having their guy time as well.

Hope you guys can check this and maybe post something if you have time.  Annie I'm sooo sorry you feel so terrible and I hope you get better ASAP.