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Twitter Home Tour

A couple of awesome girls in the twitter universe came up with the idea. I love checking out other peoples homes & getting ideas, so I joined on. Our house is definitely not model home quality, but its ours and we like it.

Let’s start with our foyer. I couldn’t get a good picture of the overall, so here’s my three favorites from the area: dried flowers from my bouquet, wedding portrait, & wedding Bible quote & favorite beach wedding photo.
This room is a disaster. It was an office/junk room. Husband’s trying to turn it into a “man room”. It’ll eventually be the nursery (who knows where all the stuff will go then). Yall only get a brief glance.Next as we make our way down the hall is our guest bedroom. This is almost the exact same room as my college & right post college room. But I still love my Chi Omega owls & photos.When we moved in, this bathroom was awful! Multiple layers of wallpaper + boarder. The paint turned out brighter than I wanted, but I love how this beachy bathroom has turned out.
Now our bedroom. We’re still working on a headboard~ first couldn’t find one we like, then all too expensive. I think we found one just last week~ my Dad’s cousin offered her extra for $50!! The jewelry tree in between the windows is very special to me. My mom made it out my her mom’s costume jewelry!
Our bathroom is bad. Needs to be painted but one wall needs to be resheetrocked due to prior owners. But this is working for now. (PHOTO TO COME LATER)

Back down the hallway to the foyer. Take a left & you enter our kitchen. We redid this about a year & half ago!
The dining room & den are one big room but we have divided by couches. This is were we spend most of the time & from where I blog!
Hope you’ve enjoyed Suz’s home! Now go check out the other lovely ladies of the twitter home tour!

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New Favorite Beer

Our normal basic, always-have-it-in-the-frig beer is bud light. I even like cans best (you know, so you can use a coozie)! Blue Moon & Bud Light Lime are also spring/summer staples at our house. Jason’s on a bit of a weight loss kick (& I need to be too), so when Mom mentioned at their house that she’d heard Bud Select 55 was good, we thought we’d try it. Its becoming our new beer! It was great for a light beer on the beach last weekend & nice to have with dinner or watching TV. What else (other than water) can you drink for 55 calories?!

With that said, here’s a photo I took a few minutes ago right after I was done eating dinner & almost done with this one! If you’re looking for a new light beer, try it~ so yummy!

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Spring Planting

I certainly do not have a green thumb. It might be olive on the verge of brown, but I’m working on it!

I was inspired though after the weekend visiting my parents & I brought home some spring flowers to add color around our mailbox in between the day lilies. Here’s a phone I took from my phone right before Easter. They’re continuing to live & actually thriving! I’ll take another update photo later this week.
For Easter Nana gave me a knock out rose bush. I was nervous about roses. They sound hard! I was kinda thinking it wouldnt make it, but its survived the week so far! Tonight I replanted it into a bigger pot as per her instructions. I’ll take a photo of that soon to show my green thumb results!

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Reader?

Do yall use reader to keep up with the blogs you follow or just click from links on your blog? I always link from links if I’m at home. But I’ve realized that google reader isn’t blocked at work! It’s so nice to take a five minute escape break from work and just see what my blogging buddies are doing.
Are there any other great blogging tools or tricks I might be missing out on?!

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Jennandtonica’s Cheesy Sun Dried Tomato Bagels

The awesome Jennandtonica has made these twice for our Tacky Christmas Sweater Party. I was thought they’d be good to try with my family at the beach & she twittered me the recipe. I love the recipe~ not too many ingredients, quick & easy to make & oh so delicious!

Ingredients
3 Thomas 100% whole wheat Bagel Thins (Jenny’s used whole wheat mini bagels)
about 1 cup Italian 5 white cheese mix
about 1/2 cup light mayo
Julian Sun Dried Tomatoes sliced (Jenny uses TJ’s. We just got what Lowe’s had)

Directions
Turn on oven to broiler setting.
Split bagels & place on baking sheet.
If not precut, slice sun dried tomatoes.
Mix cheese with just enough mayo to make it stick together.
Top bagels with cheese mixture.
Add sun dried tomatoes to top of bagels.
Bake bagels until cheesy melted & bagels browned.

We quartered bagels into bite sized pieces. Everyone loved them just as I had when I’d had Jenny’s verison!
The bagels weren’t super crispy for us though. Not us if its because we sprayed the pan with pam or not cooked bagel enough. Jason suggested that we could try broiling bagel for a minute next time before topping. Might try that next time.