• Cookies,  Cooking Light,  Dessert,  Food

    Peanut Butter Cookies {Gluten Free}

    I am sharing a Peanut Butter Cookie today. Do I have your attention? If you are anything like me, I definitely do. I love Peanut Butter more than I could possibly say. Literally, I think I could eat it out of the jar with a spoon…every.single.day. and be completely happy. When I was younger, my Mom used to babysit as her profession so she always got those huge 5lb drums of Peter Pan peanut butter that you get at Sams, BJs or Costco, because she was always feeding 10 kids peanut butter. Because, let’s be honest…most kids are picky but they love peanut butter. I used to take those huge…

  • Cookies,  Healthy,  Sweet

    No Bake Peanut Butter Oat Cookies

    Β Happy Friday! Here are a few snapshots of my birthday: It was lovely and I had so much fun. A new Apron from my Girlfriend Tam – How perfect is that? All dolled up for my dinner Chocolate Mouse with Raspberry Sauce and Toasted Hazlenuts :: swoon:: Simon Pearce glass blower My FT4 wishing me a happy birthday <3 Snow on my birthday in Vermont #win Waterfall at Simon Pearce Totally indulgent breakfast with Patrick in Vermont Overall I cannot complain. I had a lovely birthday and I know it is almost a week after at this point, but I just wanted to share it with some of you that…

  • Food,  Fun,  Healthy,  Vegetables

    “Cookie Dough” Bites

    Good Morning! πŸ™‚ Happy Monday morning to you all. This has been a busy month so far, whew! It isn’t slowing down at all! Patrick’s parents were just here for a visit for a few days, so we did a lot of sight seeing and trying to entertain them and keep them happy. I am glad that Patrick got to see his parents πŸ™‚ This week are our engagement photos! So nervous. I know that our photographer is going to be amazing and her pictures are outstanding I have just never had a photo shoot that was primarily based around me and one other person. Certainly going to be interesting!…

  • Dessert,  Food,  Healthy

    Dark Chocolate Oat Clusters

    Hey Everybody! Thanks so much for all your support with my choppin’ off my locks for Pantene Beautiful Lengths. I am just now getting used to the new do. I love how little time it takes me to actually get it ready. I mean going from 15 minutes to 5 minutes to do your hair is phenomenal! The show for Eclipse was this weekend! Everything went pretty well. I think the girls and I danced our hearts out and that is what really matters πŸ™‚ We had some technical difficulties with the individuals who ran the theater, but I think that I our dancing made up for their screw ups.…

  • Cookies,  Dessert,  Food

    Mini Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cookies

    Yay Patrick! Look at you go, your Whole Wheat Waffles made the Top 9! Thanks everyone for the Top 9, I know Patrick is really excited about it. You should have seen his face when I showed him the notification on my phone this morning at 6:30am haha. Too cute! I am so excited that Turkey day is tomorrow. I think I am more excited about not having to go to work than anything else haha. Sometimes you just need a break you know? It will be nice to just spend some time with the family cooking and telling stories and then napping once we stuff ourselves with turkey hehe…

  • Food,  Fruit,  Healthy

    Fruit and Oat Bars

    I am off and running to Virginia and West Virginia this rainy week for work. Lots of customers to see and try to sell things to haha. It was soooooo nice to have a long weekend! I had a great time relaxing and visiting with friends. Thanks Nicole for the great Petro Labor Day Party! We missed you Mich! πŸ™ Always good to have a long weekend, but it always feels like they go faster than the normal weekends. AmIRight? I am already looking forward to this weekend where I am going to Penn State to visit with Tamara and show Patrick around. Getting more and more excited about it…

  • Cookies,  Dessert,  Food

    Swag Bars

    Don’t holiday weekends always seem to fly by quicker than regular weekends? I swear every time there is a holiday week I feel like the time just FLIES by. I had a fabulous holiday weekend! I hung out with friends and had family friends from Kansas City come to visit. It was a weekend full of food, drinks, love, and sun! Couldn’t have asked for a better weekend if I had tried. I will make sure to post some pictures from the visit from the Ellenburger’s! It was SO great to see you guys! We miss you like crazy! πŸ™‚ Now I call these Swag Bars because, well look at…

  • Cookies,  Dessert,  Food,  Fun

    Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Blondies

    Don’t forget Becky’s Bake Sale is coming up soon!! May 2nd! I am still so excited to be a part of her bake sale! There are so many incredible people participating with some really amazing looking recipes. The recipe that I wanted to share with you all today is the bake sale item that I will submitting for Becky’s bake sale. Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Blondies…mmmm mmmm! You are going to be amazed how how easy these are and what fantastic results you will get with so few ingredients. Ingredients for Chocolate Chip Peanut butter Blondies: 1 cup butter 2 cups white sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup…

  • Food,  Healthy,  Muffins

    PB&J Filled Muffins

    Hi everyone! Another weekend has come and gone. Amazing how fast it goes! If I could just get one more day of being able to sleep in I think I would be happy haha. First off, Happy Birthday Becci! Hope you have a fabulous birthday and thanks for letting me have one of the strawberries off your cupcakes since I can’t have the actual cupcake πŸ˜‰ Second off, great job this weekend T! You did so great in the alumni hockey game! Your goal was awesome! I hope I didn’t embarrass you too much with my loud cheering, hehe πŸ˜€ Thirdly, its peanut butter jelly time…..Consider these like a breakfast…

  • Chicken,  Food,  Pasta,  Vegetables

    Sesame Noodles with Chicken

    It’s Friday!! What a week this has been! I think that being gone to California really put a dent in my workload at work. I just cannot seem to get ahead of the game. Needless to say I am pretty happy about it being Friday not only because it means I don’t have to work tomorrow and I get to sleep in, BUT one my girlfriends at work went on a “HOT DATE” last night and I can’t wait to hear about it!! πŸ˜‰ Last night I wanted to try and make something a little different (and healthy) for myself. I am always looking to try new recipes but sometimes…

  • Dessert,  Food,  Fruit

    Nutella Banana Turnovers

    I made it! 14 days on the detox and I made it. WHEW! What an experience that was! Thanks again to all of you out there that supported me the whole time. It was so very much appreciated, I cannot even express my gratitude. Although the detox is over there are some things that I learned from it that I really feel like I am going to keep with me. The eating small meals every few hours I think I am going to stick with. That really helped my body stay alert and full of energy, which I really liked. Another thing I want to keep doing is eating breakfast!…

  • Food,  Sandwiches/Wraps

    Got PB?

    Hello! I am back from Detroit! UGH, what a trip that was! Literally the day I left it was snowing once again in CT haha. What a winter we have had! They were canceling flights left and right at Bradley Airport, but for some reason the only flight that seemed to still be leaving was my Delta flight to Detroit, haha. Once I got to Detroit the weather wasn’t that bad at all. I was really surprised. Normally Detroit has much more snow than us by this time. They maybe had 6″ on the ground? and that was at most 6″…but not for long! While I was there, Detroit got…