Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope y'all had a wonderful thanksgiving! We have had a busy week, but it was so nice to visit and spend some quality time with family. Now that thanksgiving is over, it is officially Christmas season! My christmas season started a long time ago, but now one can make fun of me for all my Christmas stuff!

The beginning of last week, Mitch and I both had to work Monday and Tuesday, then we were off for the week! Wednesday, I had to make a trip to Tulsa that morning to get some stuff done and later that night we celebrated Mitch's dads birthday/thanksgiving with his family.
I also officially finished up decorating our house. Well at least with all the decor I have. I am alway looking for more.. you can never have enough Christmas decorations!

My mantel 

I got new stocking holders this year and I really like them!

This is a horrible picture, but we got an Arkansas tree and it really looks a lot better in person. Now I just have to do my OSU one! 

Last weekend when we went to Tulsa, we helped my mom decorate her house and she got all new stuff for her mantel this year and I am in love with it. I think I may have to do this next year! Hobby Lobby always has great Christmas sales after Christmas, so I am going to have to go stock up!

It has a lodge feel and I love that! My dream house is to live in a lodge/log cabin one day! I just love the feel of it and how homey it is! I actually found this idea on pinterest and it turned out pretty good in my parents house! 

On Wednesday night, we started to cook our stuff for thanksgiving. 

We were suppose to bring mashed potatoes (which I will have to give you the recipe, they were amazing), broccoli-rice casserole, rolls, and salad. Mitch also wanted to make a pecan pie, we had never made one before so we were a little nervous, but it turned out so good! 

I found this recipe off pinterest as well. It didn't turn out very pretty, but it sure tasted good!

All day Thursday, we went to my aunts house here in Bentonville and I never get to see the family that comes in but once a year on thanksgiving, so I always look forward to seeing them.

Mitch was scheduled to work thanksgiving day, but a girl wanted to switch with him, so he got the day off! I was so excited. He also went in Friday morning, but got sent home right when he got there! We were so happy! So we spent all day back at my aunts house before everyone had to leave. We also watched the game, which was so sad! I was really hoping for a win! 

Saturday Mitch actually had to work, and since we had been so busy the past few days I was exhausted. Bella and I stayed in all day and watched movies. It was a much needed lazy day! That night when Mitch got home, we had his dad come over and take some Christmas pics of us to hopefully go on our Christmas card.  I haven't seen them yet, but I am hoping Bella did okay. She was a mess last night. Here  is a preview of her before we stared the pics.

She is the sweetest dog!

We even managed to get her bows in her hair for a few of the pics! I hope they turned out good! 

After our pics, Mitch took me out to Dinner. He surprised me and took me to Copelands! It was so good!! 

Today, he is working and I am once again having a lazy day. It is freezing outside, so we will most likely stay in and watch more movies. Last day to relax before work tomorrow :(

Have a great Sunday! 

Weekend update

We hope y'all had a good weekend, I am not ready for it to end! We didn't do much this weekend and it was pretty nice. I was suppose to be on a business trip to Dallas and last minute found out I didn't have to go! I was so excited!!

I didn't have to work Friday, but since Mitch was working, I went ahead and went in just for a few hours. It was nice to get some stuff done while no one else was there. I came home around 1:30 and started not to feel good. I have been really tired lately and I had a sore throat, so I went straight to bed and didn't get up until 4 ha! Luckily Bella was really tired too and she slept that whole time!

That night Mitch surprised me and took me on a date. He took me to Red Lobster.. He knows I am obsessed with their lobster bisque soup and thought it would feel good on my throat, which it did! 

I didn't do much of anything Saturday. I went to crossfit in the morning, then came home and relaxed. I still wasn't feeling 100%. I watched the OSU game, which was awesome and laid on the couch all day! Sounds exciting.. I know! I also am officially hooked to pinterest. I have had my invitation setting in my inbox since this summer and just never had the time and didn't really know what it was. Well with Mitch working all day I decided to look at it. Anyways, long story short, I am addicted! I could do it all day. I have gotten sooooo many fun new recipes to try. I can't wait to have something to make them for! I am trying some of them out for thanksgiving.They have such cute recipe ideas and are very unique.

I also got new craft ideas. I could probably make a craft every day and not have enough time to make them all! I tried my first one out yesterday and it turned out pretty good.

It is a dry erase board made out of a picture frame. Last year Michelle and I made these with chalkboards but the chalkboard didn't last long, so when I saw this same idea but with dry erase I was so excited! You just take scrapbook paper and out it behind the glass, then write on it with a dry erase marker! I want to make another one for our kitchen and put meals for the week on it! 

Today, Mitch was suppose to work, but got called off!! I was so excited! He was scheduled to work, but got a call at 5am saying he didn't need to come in. Then he got another call about 7am saying they were going to need him. So he got up and headed to work. He wasn't gone 5 minutes and he said they called him back and said they didn't think they would need him anymore! So we spend the day putting up Christmas decorations. I only got about half done with stuff around the house, but I did get my tree up and decorated!

I just love Christmas trees! They make the whole room look better :) I didn't have time to do the mantel yet.. that usually takes awhile so I will finish that this week! 

Thats it for now! Hope you have a great week! 

New recipe and Razorback football!

Happy Wednesday!

I hope y'alls week is going good! Today I left work at noon and we had some errands to go run- I picked up my new glasses! Hopefully my headaches will finally go away now.

Mitch and I also took an hour and a half nap today! We have been so busy lately and we don't get much time to just relax, so today we took advantage of it, then headed to crossfit!

After crossfit we made dinner and I just have to share it with you! I was a little skeptical about it at first, but it was so good!! 

It was Chicken Thai Wraps... Click Here to get the recipe! 

Well last Saturday we went to the Razorback game and it was a blast. I always like going to the games and we actually had really good seats. We were up in the top section so we thought we were going to be way up there, but we were on the first row of the section and we both couldn't believe how good the seats were!

And not to mention we won!!! It was a fun night!

Thats about all thats going on here. We have a pretty relaxing week and Mitch goes back to work Friday. He has been off forever! He has to work all weekend, but I am putting all the Christmas decorations up!!! I usually do it Thanksgiving weekend, but we are super busy until then and I feel like we have so much stuff I want to enjoy it for more than a month! And not to mention, I LOVE Christmas :) So, yes I may be a little early, but our house will be nice and decorated so we can enjoy it! 

Oh and I meant to share this with y'all last week, but I completely forgot. Mitch watched this and showed it to me and we laughed so hard! I know it has been floating around FB and twitter, but if you haven't seen it I hope you find it as funny as we did!

Have a great rest of the week! 

Updates, recipes and Tulsa trip!

Happy Saturday! We made a quick trip to Tulsa yesterday, but now are back and getting ready for the game tonight!!

Here are some highlights from this past week...

I mentioned last week I had to get reading glasses, well this is a horrible picture, but I finally got them picked out and will have them Monday. I am not a fan of glasses, but I came across these Kate Spade ones and actually really like them! 

This isn't really a highlight, but we took Bella to the vet and found out she has a yeast infection in her ears :( So we have been having to put drops in her ears and it seems to be helping! She also got weighed... she is now 40lbs at only 6 months! They think she might double by the time she gets to a year! They said they do not know how big she will get. They did say average golden doodles that were bread with a golden retriever (standard size) and a standard poodle- get anywhere between 45-100 lbs! Bella was a large puppy, so they are thinking she might be on the bigger side! But you never know, she may be about fully grown?

And the last highlight, I have a really good recipe to share with you. And not only is it really good,  but super easy! It is garlic crockpot chicken and it was DELICIOUS! We will be making it again this week!!

Here is the recipe: 

1 large free range chicken ~4 lbs
3 stalks of celery
35 cloves of garlic, unpeeled
2 Tbsp rosemary
2 Tbsp parsley
2 Tbsp thyme
salt and pepper

Rinse chicken a pat dry. Place celery stalks in the bottom of the crock pot. Place 1 tbsp of each of the herbs inside the chicken cavity. Place chicken on top of celery and sprinkle remaining herbs on top. Place unpeeled garlic around and on top of chicken. Cook in crockpot for 8-10 hours on low. Yum!

This is a picture of ours and it turned out so good! Don't be alarmed by how much garlic, you don't even have to peel it, just throw it in and after it cooks, they are soft and you can squeeze it out on the chicken. When we took the chicken out it just fell apart! 

So now here is a recap on our weekend...

Yesterday I thought I was going to have to work for a little but, but ended up not having to! So we left for Tulsa around 11. We were able to spend some time my my mom and my grandma was in town so that was nice. My dad has been in California with one of his good friends for the past week on a golf trip. I am so jealous! They are traveling up california and playing new courses every day! 

We made the trip to Tulsa because we had tickets t the musical Memphis! Well all of you know I LOVE musicals, and ever since last year when I was watching the Tony awards, I have been dying to see Memphis. So when my dad called and told me it was in the next round of shows coming to Tulsa I have been so excited!!

We went and ate at Cheesecake Factory for dinner and yes I know, that is not paleo ha! We had Friday and Saturday be our cheat days this week, and its funny because I thought I would really look forward to those days, but actually I don't. I have found out I feel awful after I eat anything not paleo. I am always look forward to getting back home to eat better.  Mitch and I split my favorite pasta then got cheesecake! And the whole night we felt horrible. 

Mitch got a all chocolate Hershey's cheesecake and I was planning on splitting it with him, but I am not a chocolate fan so I decided to get my own. I am obsessed with all things pumpkin, and since they only have it a couple months out of the year thats what I got. You can't ever go wrong with pumpkin cheesecake :)

After dinner we headed to the PAC and the play was amazing!!! 

Definitely one of my top favorites.. I am already on the lookout for when its coming again or playing somewhere close. It's only in Tulsa for a few more days, but if you have time, get tickets and go!! You will love it! I am getting ready to purchase the soundtrack, it was so good!

It didn't get over until late and when we got home we all went to bed. Well about 2:15, as most of you prob know, there was an earthquake! I have never been in one, and when people talk about them it doesn't seem that scary. Oh my gosh.... hands down one of the scariest things I have ever experienced!! I don't think I have ever felt my heart pound that hard and I was literally shaking after it was over. I think it was worse since we were woken up by it. I had no idea what was happening and I was still trying to wake up. I woke up to our whole house shaking and when I say shaking it wasn't just a little rumble, our floors, pictures, ceiling fan, everything was shaking. And not to mention it was loud! I was only awake for about 10 seconds of it, but that was the scariest 10 seconds of my life. I really can't even describe it.

We got up this morning and came home. We have been relaxing and watching football all afternoon. We didn't get much sleep last night with the earthquake.

We are getting ready to head to Fayetteville... we are going to dinner at Whole Hog yummm!! The game starts at 6 and it is going to be a cold one, but I am still so excited!

Have a wonderful weekend and I know its going to be a tough game, but lets cheer o the Hogs tonight against South Carolina!