Monday's Meals

Its Monday again, which means, Monday's Meals from A Love Worth Waiting For! I have a meal and dessert for you today.  I am very excited about this dessert! It is SOOOO yummy and SOOO easy!

Mozzarella Chicken:
Ingredients:
4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1/2 - 3/4 cup of mozzarella cheese
1/2 - 3/4 cup of bread crumbs
melted butter


Directions:
Mix the cheese and bread crumbs into a bowl. Dip each chicken breast in the melted butter and then into the bread crumbs/cheese mixture. Coat thoroughly. Place chicken breasts on baking sheet or in a baking pan. Sprinkle leftover butter and crumbs/cheese mixture over the top. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Turn oven off and leave in oven for another 10 minutes.

I don't have a picture but this is yummy! I made corn on the cob with it when I made it a couple of weeks ago for Ty and I!


Oreo Balls Dessert:
Ingredients:
1 package of Oreos (yes, the whole package)
1 8oz tub of cream cheese
1 package of Vanilla Almond Bark

Directions: (this is a messy dessert to make so get the kids in on the fun!)
Place all Oreos into a double bagged ziploc and start crushing until the oreos are finely crushed. Ty's mom has this handy dandy food crusher so when we make them at her house, we use that (I don't know what the real name of it is...ha).

Anyways, after your oreos are finely crushes, pour them into a big bowl and dump the cream cheese on top. Mix the oreos and cream cheese together with your hands until all the cream cheese and oreos are all mixed together (this is almost impossible to do with a spoon so don't even try!).

Roll oreo mixture into balls (as big as you want) and place them on a cookie sheet covered in wax paper. Put in the fridge for 20 minutes. Heat Vanilla Almond Bark in a microwavable bowl until melted (you can burn this so make sure you don't put it in the microwave too long...it should only take a few minutes). Place each oreo ball into the Vanilla Almond Bark that is melted and cover each ball and place it back on the cookie sheet. After all balls are covered in the Vanilla Almond Bark, place back in the fridge for a few minutes. Enjoy!!!!

weekend!

Well, the weekend is over - sigh. But I am ready for another week! 5 more weeks til Thanksgiving Break! :) I'm a countdown kinda girl, so I always have to have a countdown to something! I am also constantly counting down to graduation for Ty. Poor thing has had such a rough semester. I think they're trying to make him drop out during his last semester...haha. He only has 7 more weeks before he is done! He has worked so hard, I am so proud of him!!!

Back to the weekend....It was great! Friday night Ty and I went to dinner and had a nice little date night! :)  Saturday BAMA had a late (8:10) game so I slept in and Casey and I headed to the quad around 2:30. It was homecoming so we walked around and looked at all the lawn decorations at the sorority houses. I always like picking my favorite and wondering why that house didn't win! ha! We also walked around the vendors and got some Christmas presents (yes, I know, its only October). I am obsessed with the gift I got my dad, I cannot wait to give it to him! He is going to flip out!!!! We watched the game at the tailgate with my aunt. We had 3 chairs for our footrests, were cuddled up in blankets, had a huge candy bowl in the middle of us, and were drinking hot chocolate and apple cider! It was perfect!! The game was a little boring but We won - YAY! I don't know what I would have done if I went to the game because when we sang rammer jammer, who would we have sang it to??? the rebels? the black bears??? Anyone else heard of this insane change of mascots with Ole Miss?? Are they the rebels or black bears? So confusing. They are just as confused as our across the state rivals, Auburn. Eagles? Tigers? Who knows! On ESPN - they were still the Rebels so I guess the black bears thing hasn't kicked in yet? Very Interesting.


Today I had a VERY productive day!!! I slept in, went to buy Ty some groceries (yes, I just said that), graded papers, cleaned my bathroom, did laundry, and went to get dinner for Ty and I! I accomplished alot today! Only thing I missed was running...OOPS! I'll save that for tomorrow. :) (by the way, I am up to 34 minutes, just a little over 3 miles!!!!!!!!)


I hope everyone has a great week! Tomorrow I am posting a YUMMY dessert to link up for Monday's Meals with A Love Worth Waiting For so STAY TUNED!!! Its a yummy one that I promise you'll want to try! :)


"God's never taken His eye off of you. Not for a millisecond. He's always near. He lives to hear your heartbeat. He loves to hear your prayers." - Max Lucado

This Made My Day....

Look at that precious face. She is so sweet! Christen sent me this picture this morning while I was teaching and it totally made my day!!!! Love my sweet sassy pants, Aubrey!

Whoever THINKS....

that teaching is a 7-3 job is beyond wrong.....I would love to hear the meaning behind that lie while I'm sitting here at 7:41 writing lesson plans....oh and that is after I stayed at school til 5, then went to the store to get stuff for my classroom. Only to come home at 5:30 to start writing my lesson plans and grade papers at 6.....

sigh.


Can ya tell I'm ready for the weekend? :)

On the bright side, I get to wear jeans with a pink shirt tomorrow (only after paying $5) to support breast cancer. My school only does casual (jeans) Friday on the last Friday of every month and you HAVE to wear a shirt with our school name on it. Well, the shirts we ordered back in August just came in, so therefore I have not worn jeans to school yet. Last year we had casual Friday every Friday, and it was something I looked forward to every week! So, this is a big deal to me. Oh, and I'm supporting an AMAZING cause. What a horrible disease. :(

Happy Friday Eve everyone!

I'll leave you with a cute picture from last weekend when we went to the Corn Maize with Melissa and Matt....

I love him! And I love Fall!!!

Oh yes, and of course....Roll Tide Roll~! I still love my tide even though we were defeated last weekend! This weekend is homecoming so it should be fun!! :) RTR

Giveaway/Mondays Meals/Ben

Thank you SOO much Lyndsie from LyndsieGivesAway for hosting this giveaway for me!!!!! Head over to her blog to enter to win a personalized canvas from me! Get all the details over at her blog! Thank you again to Lyndsie!!!!
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On Lyndsie's personal blog, she has started a "Monday's Meals" where we can link up meals every Monday. I think this is a great idea! I don't have a family to cook for yet but I cook alot for Ty and I! And I always am looking for new meals! So, join her link up and post a recipe every Monday!

Here is my recipe for today:

My mom's Chili

Ingredients

1 small onion, grated

2 cloves minced garlic (1/4 teaspoon dried minced garlic)

1 lb ground beef

1 lb sausage (mild)

2 Tablespoons flour

1 1/2 Tablespoons Chili powder

1 teaspoon ground cumin

 1/2 teaspoon oregano

1/2 teaspoon basil

2 teaspoons salt

dash of pepper

1/2 teaspoon sugar

1 16-oz can diced tomatoes

1 8-oz can tomato sauce

2 cups hot water

1 16-oz can pork n beans

Directions:

- Brown ground beef and sausage with onion & garlic

- Drain meat

- Pour meat back into pan and add all other ingredients except beans

- Cover & Simmer for at least 2 hours

- Add beans the last 30 minutes

I'm sorry I don't have a picture (boring I know) - but you should try it!!!!! It is sooooo good!!! :)

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Update on Ben - If you prayed for Ben, THANK YOU!!! He is out of the ICU and in a Rehab room now. He is talking a little (from what I hear) but not much. He is responding well and all of this is such an answer to prayers! Please keep praying for a quick recovery and NO brain damage!!!!!!

people watching!

So Rachel  challenged her readers to a photo scavenger hunt for the football game on Saturday. If you're like me, you love tailgating. The food, the friends, the family, the LOVE of football and everything that comes along with football season. But there's just something about people watching while you're tailgating that is quite amusing. I just LOVE seeing the stuff people are wearing. I always wonder to myself if some people own a mirror, much less look in the mirror before they walk out the door. And if for some UNKNOWN reason, they DON'T own a mirror (which I find that hard to believe), don't they have friends, family, a husband (or wife), or anyone who cares what they look like? I mean if my best friend walked out the door like some of the people I see every week, I wouldn't care if I hurt her feelings. I'd spare her the harassment and the giggles from people and tell her to go change.

Back to the scavenger hunt, we were challenged to find the following:

• A Houndstooth bow bigger than your head. These can usually be found on dresses, but you get an extra point if you spot one engulfing some poor child’s head. 

• A kid in a cheerleading outfit that is WAY too old to be in a cheerleading outfit.
  
• A girl trying to walk the whole campus in stiletto heels taller than Bear Bryant himself. One extra point if it’s a rainy or muddy day.
  
• At least 5 sorority girls all together and ALL wearing UGG boots – not dependent on the weather.
• Someone ELSE taking photos of all of the crazy fashion. Ten extra points if it’s me. :)
  
• Houndstooth Rainboots. On a non-rainy day.
  
• An Alabama Tattoo. Bonus points for each consecutive Alabama tattoo on the same person
• A man wearing a Kilt (see above – 100 bonus points if you actually find THAT guy – he’s not hard to spot).
  
• A girl wearing a skirt shorter than her purse.
• A fan wearing a random non-related-to-the-game-school shirt – extra points for the complete randomness of the school, such as the Maryland Terrapins.
  
• Two different houndstooth prints on the same person. 
• An Auburn fan.
  
• A shirt that is about Alabama Football AND drinking.
  
• Houndstooth pants. Full length. On a man.
• An Outfit that makes you dizzy. Extra points if you’re still able to photograph it despite your dizzy state.
• A Wardrobe Malfunction.
• Someone that looks totally unaware that they’re even at a football game of any sort.
• An opposing team’s fan that makes all Alabama fans look sane. (These are most easily found when Alabama plays LSU.)
• A man’s khaki pants with some sort of embroidering on them. Elephants, Alabama A’s, etc. (Men + Pants + Embroidering = Only happens at football games. An ironic combination of the femininity of embroidering and the masculinity of football…one I’ll never understand.)
• Someone in a unrelated-to-football bizarre costume of some sort.
• A Houndstooth Print that is so large it looks like somebody put their dress in a copy machine and punched in “Enlarge 8000%”
  
• Someone so bizarre that no one would believe you if you DIDN’T photograph it

Sorry About the bullets, I don't know how to fix that. Anyways, there were many things that I saw, but did not get the chance to photograph so I'll share what I got a picture of, and then share what I saw....

A fan wearing a random non-related-to-the-game-school shirt - This is an Ohio State Buckeye Shirt

Had to put this one in here - how awesome is this?????? :) And yes, that is a GATOR! RTR

Two different houndstooth prints on the same person. 

This wasn't in the scavenger hunt but I had to put it in here because I personally can't stand this new "trend" - You are not 5 years old so stop putting 5 yr old bows in your hair!!!!!!!!

An opposing team’s fan that makes all Alabama fans look sane. (These are most easily found when Alabama plays LSU.)

A man’s khaki pants with some sort of embroidering on them. Elephants, Alabama A’s, etc. (Men + Pants + Embroidering = Only happens at football games. An ironic combination of the femininity of embroidering and the masculinity of football…one I’ll never understand.)

A Houndstooth bow bigger than your head. These can usually be found on dresses, but you get an extra point if you spot one engulfing some poor child’s head. 

A man’s khaki pants with some sort of embroidering on them. Elephants, Alabama A’s, etc. (Men + Pants + Embroidering = Only happens at football games. An ironic combination of the femininity of embroidering and the masculinity of football…one I’ll never understand.)

A man’s khaki pants with some sort of embroidering on them. Elephants, Alabama A’s, etc. (Men + Pants + Embroidering = Only happens at football games. An ironic combination of the femininity of embroidering and the masculinity of football…one I’ll never understand.)

A Houndstooth bow bigger than your head. These can usually be found on dresses, but you get an extra point if you spot one engulfing some poor child’s head.

Can this also count as ---A Houndstooth Print that is so large it looks like somebody put their dress in a copy machine and punched in “Enlarge 8000%”  --Check out the shirt behind the girl with the giant bow.....

Someone so bizarre that no one would believe you if you DIDN’T photograph it

 

Someone so bizarre that no one would believe you if you DIDN’T photograph it - We had to get in on the picture!!!

Okay, now I am thoroughly disappointed in myself that I did not get a picture of the following items because I did see them ALL on Saturday:

• A kid in a cheerleading outfit that is WAY too old to be in a cheerleading outfit. 
  
  
• A girl trying to walk the whole campus in stiletto heels taller than Bear Bryant himself. One extra point if it’s a rainy or muddy day. 
• A girl wearing a skirt shorter than her purse (numerous times)
• An Auburn Fan - I had 5 at my tailgate (roommate, boyfriend, cousin, sister, mom) And my roommate and sister were even wearing Auburn Shirts and I didn't get pictures....
• Houndstooth pants. Full length. On a man. (there was one sitting in our section at the game! everytime he would walk down to get food or a drink I kept thinking, "i need to get a picture! then i kept forgetting!)
• Someone that looks totally unaware that they’re even at a football game of any sort. (a florida fan in front of us that kept giving us dirty looks....and a VERY confused "fan" sitting next to us who had a bama shirt on, then put on a florida sweatshirt....seriously? and she was asking her Bama fan boyfriend what all those numbers meant on the scoreboard....UGHHHH)

Alright Rachel, how'd I do? I think I did pretty swell. I would have done WAYYY better if I would have capture those other items. Now every other game I go to, I'm going to be searching for these other items. I have seen the guy in the kilt with all the tattoos and the BAMA Superman guy who wears all the football pads! Anyone seen some guys walking around with spandex covering their faces? Don't know what thats about. Also, has anyone seen the "Alabama Pimp" who hangs out in front of McClure Library??? He's pretty sweet. I'll have to capture his picture next home game.

Anyone who attends any other college football games, What is the craziest thing you have seen? You should try this at your next tailgate! Very amusing.

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST!!!!

I was going to post a meal for Lyndsie's Monday Meals from A Love Worth Waiting For- She is doing "Monday Meals" where you can link up and share a meal every Monday, which is such a fabulous idea...but mom just called and told me some very sad news...

Ryan's (my brother in law) cousin was hit in the head (in his temple) with a baseball today at practice and they took him to the hospital and he started having convulsions so they life-flighted him to Scottish-Rite in Atlanta. Last I heard he was in surgery. Please please pray for him. He has grown up in my home church and I have known him, his parents, and his 2 precious sisters my entire life. He is only a freshman in high school. Prayer is so powerful and so I'm BEGGING you to pray for him and his sweet family. His parents (Ryan's Aunt and Uncle) are the ones who set Ryan and Christen (my sister) up on their first blind date. I am asking you to pray for him and his family and his doctors. I know God can heal him! Please stop right now and say a quick prayer for him. My sister and brother in law are on their way from Birmingham to Atlanta so hopefully I will know more soon. My dad also went up to the hospital so I will update as I know more.

Here is a picture of him so you can put his face with his name.

Thank you.