Gosh, I have totally been MIA this week. Sorry ya’ll...I’ve
had a crazy busy, fun week! My bff Casey surprised me on my birthday with a
trip to the Biltmore house. We’ve seriously been planning this trip for the
past 6 years. We always say we’re gonna go for our birthday’s and then never
do. So this year, she made it happen! I’ve never been and have always wanted to
go. We lined up babysitters for our kiddos and hit the road for a fun day of
food and lots of walking. It was the best.time.ever. We walked off all of our chocolate
crème brulee {holla} and the weather was absolutely perfect. I love spending
time with her and we always have fun no matter what we’re doing. Thank you,
Casey for a marvelous day! Love you!
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| The gorgeous Biltmore house. I'd like to move here. |
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| Casey having way too much fun and we just started our tour :) |
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| Sooo pretty! |
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| My best friend! Perfect day with perfect company! |
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| Our lunch at was pretty good. This hot pimento cheese was kinda strange though. More like pimento cheese soup is what we decided on. |
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| Sampler of ribs, bbq and chicken with the fixin's. Yumm! BTW...we split this. |
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| We totally forgot to capture the best part of our meal. Chocolate creme brulee with strawberry jam at the bottom. We remembered after we scarfed it down...hence this nice pic. |
I hit up the annual Switcheroo’s consignment sale yesterday and
scored some awesome stuff for my Tanner man. I love those sales. If you have
kids and haven’t been…GOOOO!!!! You’ll thank me later. It’s open to the public
today through Sunday. Me and my mom go to both of their sales every year. It’s
a new tradition for us and I just love it!
So I’ve been telling ya’ll I need to share a new recipe that
I found on Pinterest. I’ve been slacking here lately, but I’m gonna share it
today! It’s sweet and sour chicken and it’s simply ahhhhmazing! Please cook it
asap. BUT do not attempt to cook this if you have a clingy toddler attached to
your hip/leg. Thankfully this night Trevor was home and kept Tanner occupied
because there’s just too many steps {easy steps that is} but there’s no way to
concentrate when you have lil hands dangling all near you and hot grease splatterin.
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| Fryin up the chicken. If you're a very healthy eater, skip past all of these pics. I'm sorry. This meal was the bomb diggity. |
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| Flip your chicken till it's just brown on both sides. |
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| Add your sauce and stick in the oven. |
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| I made these delish noodles to go along with ours. |
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| Easy peasy to make and tastes so good! |
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| Finished meal. I also made zucchini with soy and teriyaki. You can find this recipe here. Or below. Chicken Breading: 3-5 chicken breast salt and pepper 1 cup cornstarch 2 eggs, beaten 1/3 cup canola oil 3/4 cups sugar 4 Tablespoons ketchup
1/2 cup white distilled vinegar
1 Tablespoon soy sauce1 teaspoon garlic salt |
I know this is super long. My apologies. But lastly I want
to share something so super sweet and kind that I received today. This is one
of mine and Casey’s self portraits we took Wednesday at lunch.
I posted it on Instagram/Facebook. Mainly because Casey
looks amazing {as always}…I seriously thought twice about posting it because I
look like poo. But I received a comment from a sweet high school friend today
on Facebook…she commented on this pic and said, “Magan, I remember you were
always pretty in high school, but you’ve gotten only prettier over time J.”
Seriously. Me.
What?? There are so many days when I feel skank nasty. And there are so many
days when I don’t feel like fixing my hair or putting on an ounce of makeup. I
let myself go on certain days of the week and feel so gross {and feel so sorry
that my hubby has to look at me like that}. BUT I receive one comment like that
and it just makes my day. I’m telling you all of this for a reason. When you speak
sweet words or comment on FB or send them through a text/email, you never know
how much you’re going to brighten someone’s day. Or even better, make their
crappy day 100x better. So I encourage you to just tell someone how amazing they
look today or that they’re such a wonderful friend. You get the drift.
Encouragement is an awesome thing. I plan to do my part today…try it out. I bet
you’ll be glad you did.
I’m off to catch up from everything I missed this week while
I was out having wayyyy too much fun! Enjoy your weekend! We have nothing
planned and I’m looking forward to being lazy and hangin with my boys! Until
next time…
Magan
Magan
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