Good morning!

I am a self proclaimed foodie. I'm no 'five star chef' but I love to cook and experiment with new recipes. Sweet, savory, I love it all. Lately I've been having this reoccurring dream where I have this HUGE kitchen and I cook all day long and then at night 'tiny kitchen fairies' come along and clean up all of the mess...hey, a girl can dream right?! Now that my favorite time of the year is drawing near I'm so ready to break out all of my rich & creamy soup recipes along with apple and pumpkin spice everything! 

Ava starts 3K Preschool next month and the both of us couldn't be more excited. Her "kitty cat" backpack (found here) came in the mail last week and she went bananas! So speaking of bananas I've been on the Pinterest hunt for easy 'toddler' breakfast options for our Tuesday and Thursday mornings. She's down for cereal any day at any time but I want her little belly to be full. So that is when I discovered these waffles at our local country store! They come in blueberry which is Charlottes favorite fruit. I served them with fresh banana and blueberries and the girls scarfed them right down and the nutritional values make me feel good about serving these to them! Score! 

Also I discovered an aweseome 'dipping plate' through our Citrus Lane box a few months back and we love it! It's perfect for any (all) meals that require dipping! 

It's the JJ rabbit plate and you can find it here. 

Now, as for me I am not a breakfast person.. unless it brunch. I'm usually not ready to eat until lunch time because I prefer lunch foods to breakfast foods and that is a very BAD habit. So though out all of the Pinterest surfing I came across Overnight Oats. I know I am probably very late to the Overnight Oats party because they seem to really be a thing now with about a thousand variations to choose from but...Oh. My. Goodness!! They are so good and sooo filling. Its like eating cold, thick (healthy) pudding for breakfast. I use the steel cut oats because they take longer to break down in your body so that helps with my low blood sugar issues. Here is the link to my favorite OO recipes, Raspberry Nutella anyone? Yeah, seriously amazing! 

And lastly, I am a shameless Starbucks addict so when I found this on the shelves of my local target my heart was happy! Yes it is ridiculously expensive for the size and I do plan to come up with an at home recipe. But in the meantime I plan to hide it in the back of the fridge and sip it sparingly with a splash of lemonade. 

Happy Foodie Friday!

Enjoy your last weekend of August (summer)! 

I say that because in my mind once we hit September it's officially fall over here! 

So excited to break out the pumpkin candles Tuesday morning!

 -Tiffany

Happy Monday!

Who wishes it was still the weekend?! My hand is raised way up high as I sit here nursing my new favorite cup of coffee: a 'donut shop' kcup with a splash of half & half and a drizzle of caramel coffee syrup, I have officially said adios to store bought coffee creamers and it tastes so good!

Reflecting on the weekend is how I make it though the first few hours on a Monday morning, this was the first weekend that we were around in a while and Ava's finally cast came off on Friday morning so we had some things to celebrate. First we celebrated by throwing on our suits and breaking out the splash mat, she was so excited.




I also wanted to take full advantage of all of the yummy local sweet corn and peaches that will sadly soon be coming to an end. So on Thursday my mom and I put up 10 dozen ears of corn in the freezer and I bought two baskets of Red Haven peaches to slice and freeze for smoothies and frozen yogurt this winter. I also made a peach puree and froze it in ice cube trays to make Wine Slushies!
They were SO refreshing and yummy.

>>Recipe can be found here. <<

..And then I starting craving tacos. But not just any tacos, tacos from my Chicago trip like brunch Tacos from El Mariachi and lunch tacos from Velvet Taco.
So I got all inspired and whipped up a Corn Salsa to spice up our weekly taco night.
Its so good that I could eat it with a spoon and the girls loved it also, bonus!



We ended our weekend with a small cookout with friends, we noshed on burgers, chopped taco salad topped with leftover corn salsa and washed it all down with some wine slushes while the kids played on the splash pad and jumped on the trampoline.
It was the perfect late summer Sunday afternoon spent at home!


I hope everyone else enjoyed their weekends as well.
-Tiffany