Cookie Dough Truffles!

For Super Bowl I made Derrick an amazing treat the was divine!

Egg free, chocolate dipped, cookie dough! Yum! 

I was able to find a pre-made cookie dough without eggs. Which was really nice but if you want to make your own you can find a recipe here ----> http://cafescrapper-scrapsoflife.blogspot.com/2011/02/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-balls-and.html

I melt chocolate with a pan of boiling water with a bowl of chocolate chips over it. I've always melted it this way. You will never burn it this way! 

 Add a heaping tbsp. of peanut butter

 Get it melted all the way 

 Roll up your cookie dough and dip it all in chocolate, use a spoon or toothpicks to get them out of the chocolate. Put them on a platter and then in the freezer for 20 minutes or so. 

 They should be ready to eat now! I added sprinkles before I put them in the freezer. Makes them cute

 Yum!

Is that good Derrick?

DIY: Marble Nails!

Thanks to my wonderful girls in cosmo, i have become obsessed with Pinterest. Just recently Derrick and I experienced a tragedy. Ever since it happened I've been super crafty and I think it's time to start posting some of the crafts, recipes, and beauty ideas I've seen and tried! The first one I got pictures of was the water marble nails. I love this! If you do it right people will ask where you get your nails done. I got this off Pinterest.

What you'll need:

1 fairly neutral color.

2 or 3 vibrant colors.

1 top coat.

Toothpicks.

A Tupperware with warm (not hot or cold) water

tape. 

 Put the soft or neutral color. It doesn't need a lot of coats because most of it will be covered.

I did a pale pink

 Tape your fingers all around! this will get messy :p

 Add quite a few drops of nail polish. Let it drip off the brush

 Mix it and make a fancy little design, avoid the edges because that area will already be dry.

You will have to add new drops every time because it will dry

 Comin' along (: 

The mess it makes

End product.

Like everything else this take practice! If you don't like it on a nail take nail polish remover and try again. Some look good on me and the others turned out like crap. Just keep trying (: 

May you remain forever Young

My wonderful boyfriends birthday is the 2nd. We celebrated today and we will tomorrow. Today it's just more of our friends and us just hanging out taking it easy (: I made homemade German chocolate cake with fondant (: It turned out pretty good for my first cake ever :D Our friends brought over some beer and we went and got Pho for dinner. It was a really nice just hanging out taking it easy <3

 Birthday cake (: 

Brielle loves her daddy Derrick <3 

He was a little surprised (: 

 Off to get some dinner! 

(:

 You are the sun to my shine <3

 Spider-Man kisses! 

 Brielle helping daddy cut his cake (: 

"mom I'm eating, get the camera outta my face!'

Nomnomnom 

Busy Body!

These past few weeks have flown by! Derrick's birthday is coming up, then Valentines day, then our one year anniversary, then the first drift event. I'm going crazy! I've got a big anatomy test tomorrow so this past week I've been a nerd and studying all week. I went shopping and thanks to all my gift cards from Christmas I got two pairs of boots, 3 shirts, a pair of jeggings, and a ring all for $3.03. There were some awesome deals going on :p

It snowed a bunch! Finally. 

New boots, and I brought out D&G purse <3 

New ring, love it! 

The sun was setting and the mountains were really pretty,  but this picture does not show either of those :p

Went to Tanglewood on Friday, and I decided that I want a Chinchilla! 

Mine and Brielle's coloring <3

 love my little girl, and she loved my spaghetti last night :p

 Cutest messy face award? Yes. 

Date night, Derrick was so cute. We went to classic with our friends Will and Lyndsey and we skated, played laser tag, and since I knew the manager we got to stay after they were closed and play on the bounce area. We had so much fun and it was so nice to feel like a kid again. <3

The cutest part and best part of the night was when Derrick won me a fake little ring and did a fake little proposal it was hilarious but adorable (: 

I love him <3 It's not real... yet (;

Lasagna!

I've been super busy lately! But I have managed to make a few good meals for my wonderful family. 

My mom gave me a fancy cooking tool, not sure of the name. It is old fashioned and my mom said it's basically an antique but everything is an antique to her :p

So I used this not so fancy tool and made a super healthy Lasagna. 

What you'll need:

1 1/2 lbs. Hamburger meat ( I prefer the 93% and 7% fat because lately I'm a health freak)

Carrots

3/4 of a whole onion

3 links of Italian Sausage. ( Not the breakfast sausage, just the regular stuff.)

A bushel of Broccoli

1 tsp. Cinnamon

1 tsp. of Cilantro, Tarragon, and pepper ( That's all I used but you can obviously add more )

1 box of lasagna noodles

and last but not least mozzarella cheese and Parmesan cheese.

Preheat oven to 400 F. Soak your noodles as your prepping the "stuffing" as I like to call it. 

This is the fancy tool. It can grind things, shred, and dice things super small! 

So shred your carrots, onion, broccoli and sausage together. I like to throw the sausage in here because it will take off the outer skin, which is really nice.

Now mush your beef in with it and mix all that up super well. What's nice is if you do your veggies small enough your kids will eat it without being grossed out by "veggies".

I got fresh cilantro because it taste better, a lot. So add as much as you want! 

Hopefully your noodles are decently soft. Spray your pan so your noodles don't stick, then make one stack of noodles across the bottom and add your meat to the next one. Keep doing that until you run out of room or run out of meat. but try to make sure you get a decent layer of your meat on top. 

In the end it should look pretty good, I like to sprinkle cheese lightly on each layer and a teeny little bit on the top layer. depending on what size pan and how thick you "stuffing" is will depend on how long to bake it for. I cooked mine for a half hour. Make sure you cover it with Tinfoil!! About 5-10 minutes before it's ready add more cheese to the top layer (: Enjoy! 

One week down

My first week of Cosmo is done! First test I took got the highest score. A 97% because I'm awesome like that. My kit weighs about 100 pounds and they expect me to carry it on my shoulder in an ugly duffel bag. This weekend I am looking for a cuter one. Derrick has been an awesome support and brought me a surprise (:

I was amazed when he walked in the door with these. (: Ten months of living together and I couldn't ask for anything or one better than him <3

It's official (:

Derrick asked me to cut his hair and I did. (: But I went the extra mile and instead of just buzzing it I did a finger length cut. ( He's looks really sad and that because he was looking at the drift event schedule and learned we only have three weeks to finish his car until the first event ): Which is no where near enough time )

Brielle is still as cute and perfect as ever. We are getting mommy daughter pictures done tomorrow! :D

Oh... and ON ACCIDENT I cut Brielle's hair ): I was trying to cut out a pony tail and I took out a pretty decent sized lock of hair out :/ Still devastated.

After my fist day of school I was so excited I surprised Derrick before he got home and made an amazing braised beef, Portabello mushroom tortellini. It was to die for and beyond wonderful.



And I made my first home made cinnamon strusell muffins. (: They were all gone in one night!

Oh and of course Pho for our date night. (:

Not to brag, but how many people can rock these aprons??

Hopefully this next week goes as smooth as last week did! (: