Simple meals are definitely winning here lately. In fact, when I came up with this recipe, we were about...2 minutes away from Trader Joe's and I remembered that we didn't have a meal plan. I was stumped, but I thought, uh...shrimp tacos sounds like a fun option to make at home. So one of our favorite quick to put together meals was born. Super simple shrimp tacos that everyone ...
Carne Asada Fries recipe with Trader Joe’s ingredients
Recently Aliceana declared Tuesday's at our house Taco Tuesday's. The thing is, that as a family of 3 making tacos with all of the fixings just seems annoying. Tacos is a meal that you make for a crowd, so we've been making up different meals that have taco elements. We came up with a recipe for carne asada fries using ingredients from Trader Joe's and we've been eating it ...
Homemade Biscuit recipe for breakfast sandwiches
Breakfast is probably my favorite meal of the day, I mean, unless it's a quick grab a granola bar on the way out or have a boring bowl of cereal type of day. We've been making big breakfasts at home extremely often thanks to our flexible schedule, I work from home, Aliceana is homeschooled and AJ's job often doesn't require him to leave the house before 9 or 10. We've been ...
DIY IKEA GERBY Bookshelf Hack
Last week we featured Aliceana's Avenger's themed bedroom makeover, today we're sharing our DIY IKEA GERBY Bookshelf Hack. Before Aliceana even knew we were surprising her with a ridiculously awesome bedroom she kept saying how much she wanted a nice bookshelf for all of her books. Our project was getting expensive fast and I didn't really want to splurge on an expensive ...
Avenger’s themed bedroom makeover
One thing that's clear about parenting is that your children will always grow and their interests will change. For Aliceana's birthday we really wanted to make her room into her own space that she would feel comfortable in. Being homeschooled, she spends more time at home than most kiddos, and I wanted to make sure she had a place that was as relaxing as possible. AJ and I have ...
Quick and easy triple chocolate parfaits
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #TreatYourselfToSummer #CollectiveBias Phew! We had a long weekend, my cousin had basketball tournaments all weekend long and we were there to cheer her on and endured a whole lot of icky spring weather to get to the stands. It was worth it she won the championship ...
Girl Boss Book Par-Tea! (fun brunch ideas)
We hosted a ridiculously fun Girl Boss book party...I'm sorry, did I say party? I clearly meant par-tea, because bad puns are better when used in excess. Our Girl Boss Book par-tea was held to celebrate some pretty amazing books penned by girl bosses that have dominated in their field. Originally I wanted to work with a hot pink color palette, but weirdly enough, hot pink tea ...
Movie night nostalgia and yogurt parfaits
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #anepicmovienight #spiderverse #CollectiveBias Mondays are well...Mondays, which is why our family likes to break up the mundane by settling down with a movie night. This week our movie of choice is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Aliceana has been begging to watch ...
Simple Minions Marshmallow Crispie Bar Layer Cake
We made a Minions Cake to celebrate the launch of The Minions Movie. At this point, you've probably encountered photos of every kind of minion decorated dessert that you can dream up. Unfortunately, I'm the worst ever at decorating. So I had to come up with my own minion dessert that had almost no effort required. I took my standard Marshmallow Crispie Bar Layer Cake, and ...
Keeping your pets warm and busy on snow days!
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #proplanprobiotic #CollectiveBias This week was so cold that almost every business in our state was closed for at least a day and a half, schools were closed, libraries were closed, and mail wasn't delivered. It ended up being in the negative 20's for almost 2 days, and ...
Homeschoolers Guide to Scholastic Book Club
Recently we joined the Scholastic Book Club, I'm not affiliated with the Scholastic Book Club, I just love the nostalgia it brings and it definitely takes me right back to the elementary classroom in the 90's. I think that might be where I became a frugal shopper. I can almost hear 8 year old me saying, "Look at all these books for under $3, if I get a few of those books I'll ...