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Twitter Blog Hop: Wedding

There’s a twitter wedding themed blog hop going on today & I decided to join.

I started this blog fairly recently after our wedding so instead of reposting some of the same pictures, I’ll just link you to my two posts about our wedding!
This link take you to a quick post of prewedding, one wedding & a few pre-reception on the beach photos.
This is the post about our wedding reception~ I loved everything except how quick it went by!
I’ll add a few here too~ we danced to the electric slide (I love how into it my friend Cheryl’s now husband was!!)
I double fisted with friends & family fixed my bussle.
Husband & I slow dance while my up-do fell out, but I didn’t care at that point~ remember I was MARRIED & had been double-fisting bud lights all night. 🙂


Hope you enjoyed our wedding! 🙂

Now go crash other awesome chics weddings using this:

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Trying To Conceive

e.p.t. coupon

For my coupon loving TTC friends, coupons.com has a coupon this week for $3 off any e.p.t product.

HPTs (home pregnancy tests) are more expensive than I’d imagined. Until we started TTC, I’d never noticed how much they were or bought one before. Now I’ve gotten a few pretty cheap ones from the dollar store & the walmart brand, I will be picking up a few e.p.t ones with this coupon. I figured I’d test first with the cheap ones then hope to confirm a BFP (big fat positive) with a name brand one. I promise to let ya’ll know when that happens!

FYI, I was able to print it a couple of times at work and now a few times here at home.

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Food

Creamy Chicken Enchiladas

One of my coworkers has been making this recipe for a few months. She gave it to another coworker & after seeing them eat the leftovers, I had to try it. It was fairly easy, made with on hand ingredients, made great leftovers for work & the hubby loves it!

Ingredients
1/2 stick butter
8 oz cream cheese (I used 1/3 less fat)
1 onion, finely chopped (they used yellow; I used small Vidalia)
2 small cans chopped green chilies
approximate 1.5 lbs chicken breasts, cooked & shredded (I boiled; one coworker George Forman’d hers)
1/2 cup shredded cheddar
approximate 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream (Walmart I went to was out so I used about 2/3 c half & half)
medium sized tortilla (I used 7)

Directions
Saute butter, onion, & green chilies on a medium to large sauce pan until soft (about 10 minutes).
While that was cooking, I shredded my boiled chicken breasts. Preheat oven to 350. Add cream cheese, stir & cook until mixed in. Add chicken and stir until combined. Spoon mixture into tortillas. Eileen & I like to close up one end burrito style. Kim likes open ended. Either way, you’re good. I filled up a 9×13 baking dish with 6 then squished one on the side to use up the last of the chicken mixture.
Sprinkle cheese on top~ I probably used a little more than a 1/2 cup. Pour cream on top.

Here’s what mine looked like before baking.
Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake for additional 15 minutes.

Here’s what it looked like once cooked ~ minus the two I put on my plate. You could serve with rice, but it’s pretty heavy. I ate two and nothing else & was stuffed. I took one for lunch today with a small salad & that was good too. Enjoy!

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Food

Scratch Blueberry Muffins

I was planning to make these blueberry muffins on Saturday morning, but I realized when I went into the pantry that we did not have the necessary pudding mix. After a little internet searching, I found a recipe on recipzaar where we had all the ingredients on hand. It seemed easy & pretty quick & yet tasty!Jason doesn’t love toppings on muffins, so we omitted those. They weren’t quite as sweet without it, so I added sprinkles of sugar on top then microwaved when I ate leftovers on Sunday.


Ingredients
1 stick butter, softened
1 c sugar
2 eggs
1 t vanilla
2 t baking powder
1/4 t salt
2.5 c blueberries (I might reduce to 2 c next time~ they were really blueberry filled)
2 c flour
1/2 c milk

Directions
Preheat oven to 350. Mix butter until creamy. Add sugar & beat until fluffy. (I used our KitchenAid mixer, but hand mixer would’ve worked.) Add eggs one at a time, beating after each. Beat in vanilla, baking powder & salt. With spoon, fold in half the flour & then half the milk. Repeat.
Fold in the berries. Spoon into greased muffin pans. Bake for 20-30 minutes. My dark pan took around 25; the silicone pan a little less than 30.

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Everything Else

Show Us Your Life…

China Patterns. I saw Kelly’s Korners SUYL post today and knew I had to participate.
I might have mentioned our three patterns in the Twitter Home Tour Post, but if not here’s the scoop. We have three patterns. Our formal one is blue & silver that my Dad’s mom gave us as a wedding gift (its their wedding formal china & so pretty). I don’t know the name and we’ve only used it on our first married Valentine’s Day when we cooked at home. Here’s a photo of it in our china cabinet from the Home Tour Post.

We registered for Crate & Barrel’s Madison as our everyday pattern. I love that its white & you can do whatever tablesetting and it’ll look good. We didn’t realize until we received our first setting that it is not evenly lipped~ but now we like that about it!

Our third pattern might be my favorite. It’s our Christmas china! It’s Lenox’s Holiday Gatherings. I love that we actually have four different patterns within Holiday Gatherings ~ its so cute that they coordinate. The plaid is my favorite, but it was retired right after we registered. I was only able to find four of the below salad plates. Sometimes we’ll use all of one type and others just whatever comes out of te cabinet first. I love when November rolling around because it means we can bring it out soon!

I’m at work so these photos are all from the internet (thanks Crate & Barrel & Amazon!).