Wanna Know A Secret?

I wanna go to:

Yes that is right! All the way up in:

I wanna Meet:

Michael, Angie & Jesse...

Oh I almost forgot I also wanna see:

The Flaunt Ladies!

Now you know one of my little secrets! Will I ever go? Teehee most likely no! Why? Well you see it goes a little like this... Its freezing cold there & they have tons of snow so between those two alone It is not my cup of tea sadly :(

Coupon Book

I enjoy love coupon booklets or vouchers depending on what you are choosing to call it. Last year I seen a few of my blog ladies do this for their men on Valentines Day. I am joining the bandwagon this year too. I wanted so badly to do this last year with those ladies however time permitting it was not gonna happen sadly. But this year it has done been planned & thought out :) 

I have narrowed it down to two websites. Datevitation & Coupons For My Lover! I am having a hard time deciding as to which one I want to go with... Both are so very different but both are so adorable at the same time. Decisions decisions, which do I choose?

Five

I seen this on Designer In Teal & I thought it was such a cute little idea. I needed to play too of course! I did not wanna miss out... I will be listing 5 things for each category. That is why the title is Five!

5 Things You Will Find In My Purse:

1. Perfume

2. Make Up

3. Wallet

4. Lotion

5. Deodorant

5 Things You Will Find In The Bedroom:

1. Candles

2. Comfy Cozy Bed

3. Full Body Mirror

4. Television

5. Soft Pillows

5 Things I Have Always Wanted To Do:

1. Become A Wedding Coordinator

2. Design Own Home With The Mr Of Course

3. Go Deep Sea Fishing

4. Be A Travel Nurse

5. Go To Every Theme Park

5 Things I Am Currently Loving:

1. New Bedroom Color That Has Been Chosen

2. My New Target Planner

3. My New North Face Jacket Arriving Soon

4. Deception Series

5. Wedding Letter Series

Life Full Of Laughter

One of my ladies sent me this video via Facebook the other day. I laughed from the very beginning to the very end. It was too funny not too! Afterwards I wanted to see more of their videos & let me just say that they did not disappoint! The others was just as good as this one. I think its safe to say I am a tad bit amused with these boys teehee! They funny boys... Thanks Sayrah loo for hooking me! 

The name for them are Emmanuel & Phillip Hudson..

Sweet Letters

I am linking up with sweet Ash! I know that she calls these Friday Letters but I wanted something that was also a touch of me since it was my blog & I love that I call them Sweet Letters! That way its a little of me & a little of her too :)

Dear weather: You have been raining for way too many straight days! Are you not tired yet? I know I am tired of you to some extent! 

Dear Sun: You are missed greatly. I am tired of gloomy grey clouds some rays of you would be nice! So please come soon...

Dear 4 AM: I am so glad that you are finally over! You ended Wednesday thankfully. I love being a nurse but I am not that early of a morning person! Not even one little bit.

Dear 22 Hour Shift: I go in & start you tonight at 10 PM & I do not finish you until tomorrow night at 8 PM. I think its safe to say that by the time you are over I will have several amounts of hair pulled out & be more then ready for some rest & relaxation. Oh & sleep too of course! 

Dear Aunt Joyce: I am ready to spend some quality time with you for a bit on Sunday when we go watch Mama! I love scary movies & I am glad you do as well. I love you always. 

Online Goodies Lately

Nearly every person who owns a computer has bought something on the internet at least once. Online shopping is making things much easier in terms of time. The only thing you have to do is go on the internet page, choose the product you want to buy & buy it. After that you have to wait for the delivery then within a few short days you will have it at your front door. The only thing left after that is too open boxes & there you have it. I think another good thing when online shopping is that you can compare prices way easier this way verses going to the store & having to right down prices & such.

It has been raining here now for the past 7 days. The sky has been covered in grey gloomy clouds for too long now. I miss the rays of sun & the warm weather. This rain has brought in cold weather & strong winds. I have complained bad enough that I have had to get out in this mess every day for work at 4 AM. There has been several items that I have needed to go buy but yet decided not to thanks to this not so fun weather. But do not get me wrong I do love this weather for a few things such as: I love how it is great cuddle weather. I love being able to have extra cuddle time :)

One of my friends little boy Spencer is turning 1. His birthday party is next weekend & I have been needing to find the Lion King movie for him. That was what they wanted me to get him so I said I would try my hardest to find it. I had looked at several stores with no luck & knew that I needed to look more but since all the rain I just have not been in the mood to get in & out of vehicles/stores. I do not wanna be sick! I decided that I would try looking online & to my surprise I found it online! I did a happy dance a certain Mr thought I had gone cray cray. But I am still loved so all is good there. I ordered it with my card & now I am just awaiting the arrival. I hope it gets here in time!

Another little item on my list that I have been wanting was a new North Face jacket. I wanted a white osito one to add to my collection. I had been to several stores & still have not been able to find one in my size. All that I had seen was way too big for me to wear sadly. I got lucky enough & had a manager explain to me that extra ones would be found on the website & to try that. He said that I would have more luck with ordering it online so since I was done online ordering things for Spencer's 1st birthday I decided to go ahead & try to find my size of jacket too! To my surprise I did find it in my size. I was so excited so you bet I did not think twice & I then ordered it online. It should arrive by Saturday or Monday. I can honestly say I am glad I decided to do a little online shopping :) I even decided that since for Valentines  Day I get to add another new North Face Jacket to my collection that I will be ordering it online too! I will be getting the new osito daffodil. I guess I am a bit spoiled I know! I always have been! But I just love how warm these jackets are! & let's just be honest its hard to find cute & warm both so I love that I found that in them.

Chobani Bites

I have grown up my whole life never really being a fan of yogurt. I have always been one who has been a super picky eater you see. I most likely can tell you the things I love way easier & faster then to tell you those in which I do not love & hate. Now do not get me wrong their is a few yogurts that I do like such as the twix yogurt the ones with the little rabbit on them. I love the banana ones! Those are my favorite but one day I was at Target & I found yogurt called Chobani Bites. I decided I wanted to give them a try. Well let me just say that I have fallen in love with them now as well. 

Here are the ones I love from Chobani Bites:

I love that for me I found something that is super easy for on the go that I can take & eat on the way to work. With me being a nurse I already have to wake up early enough as it is so any little bit of extra sleep I can get of a morning is a blessing to me. 

Thoughtful Little Proposal

So I was on Facebook last night when I noticed one of my friends had liked a post. I seen how it was a cute little proposal so I decided to read it as well. I am so glad that I read it because too me it was so very sweet. Its even nicer that it was done so close to home so I knew exactly where they was talking about in their post. So I decided to share it with you sweet ladies on the blog :) So enjoy!

My fiance proposed September 22nd, the first day of Fall. My parents had flown into the Knoxville airport for a wedding the following day. His mother came up to visit us for my fiance's birthday. We picked up my parents from the airport & then went back to Chattanooga where we live to have dinner with his mother & my parents. My fiance had been on his phone all day & kept stressing about how we needed to get back to Chattanooga ( my parents flight was delayed). When we returned back to Chattanooga we went to go change clothes at my house. I walked out in sweats & a jacket & he said, "you are wearing that? now I feel under dressed". So I went back into my room to put on an outfit that was more dressy. We started our drive downtown where we had reservations at our favorite restaurant. On the way downtown my fiance asked me if we could meet his mom at the downtown walking bridge to go for a walk since we had some time to kill before our reservation. We parked & started walking up to the walking bridge. I saw his mom & she was standing on the bridge with 3 roses & our friend was standing beside her with a camera. My fiances mom handed me a rose & said "Happy Fall". My parents then turned around & handed me their roses & said "Happy Fall". By this point I knew something was about to happen, but was in complete shock. My fiance pulled my hand & told me to keep walking. I kept asking him what's going on & he just said let's just keep walking. As we started walking I saw his mother's friend standing with a rose when we walked up to her she gave me a hug & said " Happy Fall". I continued walking & began to see our friends spread down the bridge. As we walked each one of our friends would give me a rose, a hug & say "Happy Fall". We got in the middle of the bridge where one of my best friends stood with her husband. This was the point where her husband & my fiance passed off the rings. He guided me over to the side of the bridge. At this point the sun was beginning to set. He got down on one knee told me a lot of sweet things I can't even remember then pointed to the other bridge. I then could see 12 black umbrellas with white letters (painted by my fiance) that spelled out "Will You Marry Me)? The umbrellas was being held by 12 of our friends. I said YES! We was surrounded by our friends & family for that special moment. We then had dinner to celebrate at our favorite restaurant where on the table was big letters cut out  I <3 You. The I was cut out with pictures of my fiance. on the <3 (heart shape) pictures was of the two of us together. Then on the you there was pictures of just me. & he caught the whole thing on Camera.

Ayy Ladies

All fun. No stress. & more importantly, no men! That is what a ladies weekend is sorry to our men. With that in mind it was time to unwind for us ladies!

Saturday we had lunch together & was able to enjoy our lunch outside where we had warmer weather. It was so nice not to have to eat inside. After lunch we started getting ready to go out for dinner/bar/club. Not gonna lie by the time us ladies had finished trying on a thousand different outfits, jewelry combos & shoes it had gotten quite a bit chillier outside & super windy. We did frown faces needless to say. We had dinner at Demos & decided we needed a dessert so of course we shared one :) That makes it better right? & not so bad for us? After we was stuffed we then headed to the club. That was a bit challenging. You see little miss Sayrah decided not to check to make sure she had her license which just so happened to be in the mister's wallet & not hers. Therefore Cheri decided that since she had both her normal license plus her army license she could try & use it. That left me to laugh out loud very hard. Because Sayrah has dark hair like me & Cheri has Blonde hair therefore I had to be like Cheri she has a better chance with my license lol except the only problem with that was the fact that I needed my license to get in. By this point we had no clue what to do except bat our eyes & hope to god that they let her in without an ID. Lucky for us we are some pretty sweet girls so it worked ;) Wahoo we loved that bouncer needless to say. He made our night better by allowing us in with little miss aka I don't got my license with me. We had tons of drinks throughout the night & really had tons of fun with just us girls. Not gonna lie we was sending text messages to our men whom we missed but we needed this weekend for only us ladies. We had so much fun together. I love my ladies to the moon & back. We finally ended our night around 3 AM exhausted & ready to pass out.

Here are some of the photos we took :)
















Sunday we had brunch at 11 AM. We had a pizza buffet, & it was very yummy! Our hangovers however was not so heartfelt.  After brunch we went to see Cheri's mamma & Cheri's hubby's parents/sister. It was nice getting to see everyone. While at mamma's we seen the peacock & I had to take pictures. I wish peacock would have spread its pretty feathers though. After all the visiting was over it was time for girls weekend to end. It was now gonna be some hours spend with the mister's :) It was a great way to end the night. Plus it was raining & thundering outside so that meant great cuddle time which was even better always!

Here is Peacock...

Baked Parmesan Paprika Chicken

Cooking to me has been special for years. What makes it special was not the food itself persay but the fact that I enjoyed whom taught me how too cook with love. Granny Dimple was such a southern lady whom cooked all kinds of food from appetizers, main courses, to desserts.

 I always loved how the aromas sprinkled the air & tickled noses of those whom was in the kitchen at Granny Dimple's home. It always brought me a sense of warmth & safety to sit on the kitchen island counter & watch her cook as well as help. It kinda was a safety blanket for me I guess one could say. 

I am so blessed to have had a granny whom was so patient with me as she learned me too cook with love over the years. I would never trade those years for nothing. Once she passed away I remember she looked at me & said such sweet heartfelt words. I will never forget those words which was: please never stop cooking! You have so much heart when you cook sweet girl... Remember that you will mess some dishes up but you will get so many more right. You have a passion for this & you learned from the best granny whom did it out of love. I hope someday I look down & see you teaching your kids how to cook with love & passion as I did you when you was growing up. Please never stop just because I am now gone because I will always be with you please know that!

To hear those words broke my heart into pieces but for her I have never stopped. I enjoy it just as much now at the age of 24 as I did when I was a sweet tiny thing. I hope she really does look down & see how much love & passion I still have for cooking & I hope someday she can as well see me teach my children how great cooking can be when it is done with passion & love!

Baked Parmesan Paprika Chicken

Ingredients:

1/4 Cup All Purpose Flour

1/2 Cup Grated Parmesan Cheese

2 Teaspoon Paprika

1/2 Teaspoon Salt

1/2 Teaspoon Black Pepper

1 Egg, Beaten

2 Tablespoon Milk

4 Skinless, Boneless Chicken Breast Halves

1/4 Cup Butter Melted

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a shallow baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.

2. Combine flour, parmesan, paprika, salt, & pepper in a bowl. In a seperate bowl, whisk together the egg & milk. Dip the chicken into the egg mixture, then dredge in the flour mixture. Place in the baking dish, & pour the melted butter evenly over the chicken.

3. Bake for about 1 hour the chicken may be done before that so just check to see!

If I had to rate the chicken with 5 stars being the best, I would rate this a 4. I loved how it turned out. It had great flavors & very tender! I do not know that I would ever rate much a 5 because I do not think one thing will ever be truly too perfect too eat :) So if you ladies decide to make this I promise you will enjoy it! Then you can thank me later for sharing this great recipe with you lovely ladies!