Happy Easter/Leaving on a Jet Plane

First off, we just wanted to wish everyone a Blessed Easter. We are so thankful for Jesus and his gift of showing his extreme love for us. Happy Easter!

The house is clean, the sheets are changed, and we are all packed and ready to hit the road runway to Germany! We are so excited to see Tasha and meet our new niece Chloe! Stay tuned for more blog posts of our trip. I'll try to make an update daily depending on where we are and if we can connect to the internet.

We are going to really miss this girl, but we know she will be having a great time with her BFF, Lilee, at Granny & Gramps'. When we go on vacation, Sydney gets endless play dates!

Learning from Pinterest

For quite awhile I refused to get involved with Pinterest. I had an account, but rarely used it because I didn't want to become an addict. I stumbled across a blog called Pinterest Told Me To, where this gal will make Pinterest inspired outfits out of her wardrobe. So I decided to get on Pinterest to look for new inspiration with my clothing. Not only have I changed up the outfits I wear out of my closet, I've found new ideas for food, decorating, art projects, and a couple things that were "science experiments" for me because I didn't believe they were true until I tried them. Here are my "science experiments".

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Reuse your green onion roots to grown more green onions!

These babies have grown 1 inch in 4 days. Believe me, I thought I would have killed them by now........I am not good with any live plant/vegetable. (I can care for a cactus, as seen next to the green onions)

This one is my favorite, that I tried out last night. I love Hard Boiled Eggs, but I hardly ever make them because they never turn out the best and our house smells like eggs.

Now thanks to Pinterest, I've learned that you can BAKE your eggs! I'm happy to say this "Science Experiment" turned out and the house doesn't smell like eggs.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees, place eggs on center rack of oven for 30 minutes. Place a cooking sheet underneath in case an egg breaks (I wouldn't want to have to find a Pin for cleaning the oven out from exploding eggs). Then place the eggs in ICE COLD water for 10 mins. These eggs came out perfect! They are creamy yellow in the inside and no green!

Now instead of the Easter Bunny boiling his eggs, maybe he'll use an oven instead!

What are some of the things you've learned from Pinterest that have made your life better?

BTW, you can now call me a Pinterest Addict!

Happy St. Patty's Day

Today was a day full of green since it was St. Patrick's day. Here is how I incorporated green into my day.

We had our coffee in mugs that were green.

I wore a green top that I literally save just to wear it on St. Patrick's day every year. (I think I might wear it more often now, it's cute for Spring)

I had a shamrock party in my boots.

I made a tasty treat. Lemon sugar cookies that I added green food coloring to.

And this is our pup, Sydney, I am a bad mom and didn't get her a St. Patty's day scarf. But she is always wearing a scarf and she happened to have her Oregon Duck scarf on today.

Funny story about this picture of Sydney. She looovvves this bush she is laying on. She sniffs it all the time, pees on it, and now she likes to lay on it to chew her bone! Actually, I think it's the bush that's next to this one that she pees on, but still, she has a thing for these bushes!

So what did you do for St. Patty's day to incorporate your green, so you wouldn't be pinched? Did you find your pot of gold?