Oreo Creme Pie

Okay, I'm breaking my rules. I usually save Saturdays for a food post. But people. This pie was so dang delicious that I just couldn't wait til Saturday to share. Below is the recipe. I kid you not... IT'S SO GOOD! That is, if you're an Oreo loving freak like me.

36 Oreo cookies, divided

1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted

1 pkg. (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened

1/3 cup sugar

2 cups thawed cool whip 

 

CRUSH 24 cookies to form fine crumbs; mix with butter until blended. Press onto bottom and up side of 9-inch pie plate. Refrigerate while preparing filling.

CHOP 8 of the remaining cookies. Beat cream cheese and sugar in medium bowl with mixer until light and fluffy. Add chopped cookies and cool whip; stir gently until blended. Spoon into crust.

REFRIGERATE 2 hours or until firm. Halve remaining 4 cookies; insert, cut-edges down, into top of pie.

Again, people, it's so good! Hunter and I devoured half of the pie in no time #noshame. I've included the link to the recipe as well.     

Girl, look at that bed

 

 

 

The past couple of weekends, Hunter and I have yanked and pulled and dug out our front bed. With the harsh winter we had, I just didn't even bother trying to resurrect my front bed until now. Yes, all you Northerners laugh.... Our winter doesn't compare to what ya'll have experienced- thank God. But for Florida, this was a harsh winter for us.

 

Now that we have stripped the beds with as many weeds as possible, and pulled out the awful "big bush" as I like to call it, we're trying to figure out what to do next.

 

Okay, side note- I had been sweating and yelling at little itty bitty weeds for being a pain in the rear to get out of the ground. I was telling Hunter how I wanted to cut the "big bush" back because it's so annoying and in the way. Well big boy steps up and yanks "big bush" straight out of the ground without breaking a sweat. Roots and all. God bless that man.

 

If I had a picture to show ya'll what "big bush" looked like, I would absolutely share it. However, I turned my back for 1 day and somebody felt like they wanted "big bush" and took him from my yard... Weird folks in this world I tell ya.

 

Now that I've got that story out of the way... What should we do?! I need suggestions on a couple of things:

• Mulch, pinestraw, or rocks?
• I've done mulch in the past and it worked fine. I just don't know if I want to change it up.
• What should we line the beds with? Bricks? Wood?
• Does that black stuff really work in keeping weeds out? I know I'm vague by saying that "black stuff" but I really have no idea what it's called. Weed keeper-outer?!

So as you can see, we've got most of the hard work done. Now it's just putting the final touches on the bed to make it look purrddy purddyy.... Pretty pretty for you people that can't speak south. Duh...

I made this up... It's a new thing...

The other night for dinner, I was trying to think of a side to a soy sauce chicken I make (that'll be next week's recipe- easy peezy lemon squeazy I tell ya!). Have you ever opened your mouth to talk, and your mother came out?

 

I'm having that problem all the time. Love you mommy (if you're reading this-ha)!

 

My mother always cooked our dinners. Every night, we sat down as a family, at a table, and ate as a family. It didn't matter who was there... You were family for the night. My mother also always said that you have to have at least one fruit or veggie on your plate. No if's, and's, or but's. Woman meant business.

 

So I've carried that philosophy with me into my kitchen.

 

Back to the story... I was looking for a side dish. And I decided to get crafty. I grabbed a bag of frozen (yes frozen-OMG it's a sin!) stew vegetables. Tossed the entire bag into a skillet with some water to prevent the boogers from sticking to the pan. I let those cook for about 5 minutes (basically to knock the "freeze" off of them) and then added a can of tomato sauce.

 

Once the tomato sauce had been added, I cooked it on low-medium heat for about 20 minutes or so. It was delish!! I'm sure this dish is already out there, but it was new to me. And that's all that matters.

 

**Note: The tomato sauce does thicken up a little and makes it somewhat creamy. So make sure you have a big enough skillet or pan.

 

I'm a horrible blogger... I didn't take a picture because honestly we ate it in one quick motion. Ooopsies.... But take my word for it... Yum!

Tis a lovely Friday isn't it?

Happy Friday friends! It's another pretty day today in Tallahassee, FL. This past week has been a great week that consisted of youth, Zumba, and family time. However, I want to focus my HFFF on one thing today, as opposed to five.

 

Tomorrow, the Junior Women's Club of Tallahassee will be setting up and selling baked goods in our downtown area. The funds we raise will benefit the No Kid Hungry foundation and I'm uber excited to be helping out with this! It'll take all I have to not buy and eat every baked good we sell...

 

There will be other vendors there as well and I encourage all my local folks to come out Saturday to Klemen Plaza to support a great cause. Wear green because St. Patty's Day will be just around the corner. I hope to see many familiar faces there munching on some homemade cookies and drinking green beer.

 

If you aren't able to make it to this fun event, but would like to still help out, feel free to visit the No Kid Hungry website and donate.

 



Look what we made!!

 

 

Summertime Week #1

This week I focused on getting my diet right. If you're just now tuning in on this series, allow me to fill you in. I'm striving to be healthier about myself. I want to eat healthier and exercise to gain weight the right way... Not lose weight.

 

I'm sure some of you are saying, "Oh be quiet and be happy with your tiny self." Never said I wasn't happy with myself, just want to be healthier about myself. Get it? Got it? Good :)

 

So where was I? Oh yes, getting the diet down. Now when I say diet, I don't mean cutting out food. I'm actually adding more food to my diet, but healthier foods. Instead of 10 Oreo's and a huge glass of milk, I'm reaching for fruits, veggies, and protein bars. I need the calories to stick, and sugars that are found in Oreo's go straight through my digestive system.

 

The Lord says our bodies are our temples. We should treat them accordingly... So I'm trying my very best to keep that in mind!

 

I will say this... I haven't totally cut sweets out. I'm sorry, I have a sweet tooth like nobody's business. So I have enjoyed a couple cookies here and there, maybe some ice cream on a date. No biggie folks.

 

 

Tonight, I'll be Zumba'ing {is that a word?!} with my friend, Ashley, and I'm beyond excited to be geting healthy in a fun way. The weather this week has been beautiful and warm so I've been able to get out and take walks with Jep after work also.

 

This next photo is from the "photo shoot" I did this past weekend for my blog picture. I'm not quite ready to show ya'll my "fine", pale body in workout clothes. Therefore, you will be seeing me dressed but I can still show ya'll the areas I want to add muscle to.

 

Basically I want to go from little muscles in the arms and legs:

 

 

To Jillian Michaels muscles:

 

 

I know I can do it... It'll just take determination and will power on my end. Do ya'll think I can do it??

 

 

 

 



 

Who doesn't love a good yard sale?

This past weekend, Hunter and I helped his aunt and uncle with a yard sale going on at their house. It took all I had to not shop for some things... Like the pigs seen below. Here's a few snaps of how the day went:

Aren't these pigs the cutest things ever?!

This was just one side of clothes

Hunter's always making friends

All the money they raised was used for a trip for them to be able to fly out to Idaho to see their daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter. I'm sooo glad we were able to help them make that trip a possibility!



Introducing...

As ya'll can see, this here blog has gotten a makeoverrrr!!

 

I just love it- it's fun, southern, and just the right amount of "me" involved. I hope ya'll love it as much as I do.

 

Now I have to give credit where it's due. My girl, Ashley, is the brains and designer behind this new and improved. Isn't she talented?! She did a fabulous job keeping in tune with what I liked, keeping me posted along the way, and letting me see things as they were produced to decide if I wanted to tweak anything. Honestly, the girl knows me so well that I hardly had to tweak anything!

 

If you're looking for a full-on makeover, or even just a spritz of life in a certain area of your blog, she's the lady to call! Check her blog out, if you haven't already, and check out her design area too.

 

On that note, I want to encourage all of my readers and "fans" {Ha! Let me pop that big head and bring my happy butt back down to earth} to support Ashley, and anybody else who is trying to start a new project, in their endeavours. We all have dreams, goals, aspirations to be something in this life. Even God has called us to be something:

 

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2

 

We are each called to different things in our lives. Whether it is designing blog pages for friends and other bloggers, sharing God's love through our social media outlets, volunteering in our communities-whatever it is, God has called each of us for a purpose. When someone we know is trying to live out that purpose, for the love of God, do not shoot down their so very delicate efforts.

 

I joined this blogging world to have a place to share my life. To share my life song. And most importantly, to share the love of my God who has made my life so much richer. I have found that becoming a blogger, I want to lift up every single blogger around me in everything that they do with their lives. We are a tight-knit community and should hold our fellow bloggers to the highest accountability of achieving all that they can in their life because GOD called them to that purpose.

 

In essence, thank you to those who have visited this lovely site with hopes to get something out of it. I hope you have. It's my goal to share a piece of my heart with you, and in turn sharing God's heart. Ashley's way of sharing part of her heart (other than blogging) is to create blog designs. Let's uplift her in her new endeavours.  

 

To all of my readers, bloggers, family, friends- do what God has called you to do. Not what others have called you to do. By doing what God has called you to do, your life will be so much richer.

**Check back next week for the continued tour of my house. Had to make a pit stop this week :)