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 ...
How to Plan a DIY Candy Buffet for Your Party
This post does include some affiliate links, so you can set up your candy buffet without leaving your house, and I get a little credit for helping you out. (I'd call that a win-win!) Candy Buffets (or Candy Bars, I avoid the term Candy Bar as everyone thinks I'm referring to chocolate bars) have become a very popular trend at weddings and parties. Personally, I love candy ...
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 ...
Banana Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
Today I'm sharing one of my all-time favorite family recipes. Banana Bars with cream cheese frosting. I can't count how many times I've eaten this at family gatherings or at my Aunt's house when I would spend the night. My weekly sleepovers at my Aunt's house are most likely the reason why I love to bake. She's always been amazing at baking cookies, but now she's into baking ...
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 ...
Easy Frosted Cupcakes with Kool-Aid
The first time I made cupcakes with Cherry flavored Kool-Aid frosting I was in college and we had all the guys over to play video games all night long. Playing video games for that long takes stamina so I had to make some delightfully sweet cupcakes. Even if our kitchen was the size of a shoebox and I had to use the dining room table (a small bistro patio set) for most of the ...
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 ...
Double Chocolate Strawberry Muffins
AJ is on the road for 4 days out of the week, so when he finally gets home I love to surprise him with new treats. This last week I had fresh strawberries in the house, so I decided to make muffins. Instead of making my standard strawberry muffin recipe I decided to take it up a notch and make double chocolate strawberry muffins. It was perfect, because AJ is completely ...
Breakfast Fried Rice
Our daughter loves rice, it is one of her favorite things and she likes to eat it plain, just a bowl of rice, a spoon, and she is a happy girl. She also loves fried rice and rice in basically any form so we asked her one morning what she wanted for breakfast and she said rice. Brittany and I laughed a little bit and then she looked at me with the "I have an idea look" and said ...