Rylans 2nd Birthday Party :)

Momma Tip

If you want to clean your carpets and dont have time to go get a carpet cleaner and then let them dry this will be your new best friend.
Whenever i deep clean which is 4 times a year, but i actually do this once a month.
If you take resolve carpet cleaner (the spray, not foam) and mist it all over carpet then get your box of baking soda and scatter it all over the carpet. Let it sit for up to an hour. Then the vacuum and vacuum it all up. The baking soda will pull any smell or stain color out of the carpet. I love doing this before i switch out my scentys, it makes them stronger, at least to me anyways. Also when you move your furniture off the carpet to do this and there are indents in the carpet, put an ice cube there and it will make it go back to normal. :) Thanks momma!

Nie Nie <3

I <3 this blog and this woman and her family. I don't know if you'll ever read this. But you changed my life and i don't know you but i love you.

This is from one of her posts. and i thought it was beautiful.

There are moments in my life when I feel like my spirit is tapping my heart to remind me just why I still mortally exist.

Isn't that so true! I love that.

Bakerella

Monday, December 10, 2007

Brownie Candy Cups
You just can’t beat chocolate and peanut butter. These are some treats I made for work. Hope they like them… I did!

Brownie Candy Cups

1 package Duncan Hines Chocolate Lovers Double Fudge Brownie Mix
2 eggs
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup vegetable oil
30 mini Reeses cups unwrapped
1 Box Reynolds 2-inch aluminum foil mini cups for muffins

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Place 30 foil liners on baking sheet
3. Combine brownie mix, contents from fudge packet in mix, eggs, water and oil.
4. Stir with spoon until well blended. (about 50 strokes)
5. Fill each liner with 2 tablespoons of batter
6. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes and remove from oven
7. Push 1 Reeses in center of each “brownie cupcake” until even with surface of the batter.
8. Bake 5-7 minutes longer.
9. Cool 5-10 minutes in pan and then move to cooling rack to cool completely.

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Portabella!!!

Last night i made a delicious portabella mushroom burger. For all the vegetarians out there that are veggies because of health reasons but miss the taste of meat, this is an awesome substitute well........for now anyway.
This whole 2 weeks i have been doing really good. I can actually already see and feel a difference in my body. It's pretty incredible actually. I have also come to quite enjoy rice milk, but i won't lie i still use 1% milk for my homemade hot chocolate and baking. I am actually craving healthier foods, like fruit and veggies, i like it. :) Hopefully this will last, and i will keep enjoying it as much as i have been. Happy Fall. :)

Short, OVERLY packed Weekend!!!

This weekend....Friday night i had my first vegetarian cafe experience. I was quite pleased. It was a quaint little spot in SLC called Sage Cafe. I wont lie i'm still going to miss a big huge juicy cheeseburger, but my heart thinks otherwise. ha. Saturday, i picked my momma up and miss rylan and picked up all her stuff for her birthday party. I can't believe she is already 2. She was completely convinced that we were celebrating elmos birthday. ha. I will have pictures up later today of her bday. Sunday was the big birthday day. We had some slight draw backs, because my grandma nor my brother had a car at the moment so i had to play taxi cab, but i didnt mind. While everyone feasted on my mommas famous chilli, i had my sweet awesome steamed broccoli and baked potato. thanks mom :). OHHHH not to mention, on friday all day, i fall cleaned my house (still in the works). But i made a big no no. I have a couple scentys around my house and one of them sits on my kitchen counter. So i moved the scentsy to the corner of the wall so i could wipe down the counter and move the microwave. I placed it SECURLY in the corner and moved on to cleaning. As i unplug the microwave to move it off the counter, it gets tangled with the scentsy plug and what goes flying, none other than my scentsy ALL OVER my walls, tile floor and everywhere you can imagine. That was the biggest mess ever to clean up. Wax is the crappiest, hardest stuff to clean up. GAHHHH! Anyways my house it squeeky clean and thats all that really matters right? i guess. have a GREAT MONDAY!!!