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Kelly & Brett’s Engagement Party Pics

Just realized that I hadn’t posted pictures from the party at our house. I added a few of the food to the post below. But I thought I’d add some fun pictures of us & our friends from the night as well. The bride & groom-to-be! The crowd spread out in our kitchen/den/dining room as well as our back deck. Here’s my college friends & I outside.
Melon/peach must be the color of the season~ its the color of my new dress as well as 8 other ladies!!! It was great to meet &/or spend more time with Kelly & Brett’s friends and fellow wedding party members. The three of us were recreating a end-of-the-party picture that we’d taken at Jason & I’s similar party. Good times. 😛

Can’t wait to their couples shower on 10/3 to continue the celebration!

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Food

Banana Cupcakes/Muffins

When Jason started to have stomach problems a couple of weeks back, he found this recipe under a heart-burn free diet recipes on about.com. I had all the ingredients on hand so I made them that same night and I think 3 times since. The below recipe made right around 12 or 13 cupcakes for us.
We don’t love A LOT of icing on our cupcakes. I made the icing as the below recipe says and only used half for a batch. The I froze it only to thaw it a week or so later when we made another batch.

Banana Cupcakes Ingredients:
1 c flour
1/2 teaspoon baking salt
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 granulated sugar
1/4 c butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 c mashed ripe bananas (I used a little more the second time around and they were more moist)
4 large egg whites
1/4 c fat free sour cream

Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 12 cup muffin tin with nonstick spray. In small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, salt & cinnamon until well blended. In a large bowl, cream together the butter & sugar. Add vanilla and bananas to the butter/sugar mixture and beat thoroughly. Stir in half the flour mixture and the sour cream. Add the remaining flour mixture and stir until just combined. Spoon the batter into the muffin cups. Bake for 25-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in a cupcake is clean. Cool for 15 mins before removing from pan and icing.

Cream Cheese Icing
1 1/2 c powdered sugar
8 oz fat free cream cheese, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Beat all the frosting ingredients together in a medium bowl until creamy. Spread frosting thinly over the cupcakes using knife or spatula. Enjoy!

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Everything Else

Moe + Jacks

I think Moe loves my Jack Rogers sandals almost as much as I do! I took them off tonight after work and this is what I saw when I was on my way to the gym! Just wanted to share. I’m enjoying the start of the fall weather, but will be sad when I have to put my flops away for the winter.

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Travel

Cheryl’s shower & batchelorette night!

Two weekends ago a group of us from college headed down to Greenville, SC to throw a shower for our friend/sorority sister/old roommate Cheryl. We did a wine themed shower: we served three different types of wine with cheese pairing, grapes, more cheese & crackers, chicken salad sliders, pasta salad, hummus & veggies & ranch dip. All of the hostesses were from out of town and most of us had a slumber party at Cheryl’s house Friday & Saturday night. Instead of booking a restaurant that we didn’t know about, we took over Cheryl’s house as the shower location. Saturday morning we ran around like crazy kids putting it all together, but everything came together and the shower was a success! The guests were a good mix of college & grad school friends, his family, & her mom (who flew in as a surprise!). Our friend Carrie made the cutest wine tags as favors.

We relaxed at her house for a few hours before getting ready for the night out! We started with dinner at Smoke on the Water. Our next stop was Soby where Cheryl’s first shots of the evening took place. Then we walked up & down the main downtown street in Greenville~ we chatted at this sushi places & Carrie & Brehon did sake bombs! Then we hit up more college age bars which made us feel old but we still had fun! The last place of the night had a great bartender who gave us shots on fire! Yay for occasions to get together & have a girl’s night out with great friends!
Downtown Greenville was really cool. I’m looking forward to heading back down there for Cheryl & Brian’s wedding at the end of October. More good times for sure!

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Everything Else

Book Club

I tried my best (kinda) to finish the recent books for the Nestie book club and I’ve failed! I didn’t finish Revolutionary Road (and after hearing the discussion don’t plan to). This month’s selection was A Freewheelin’ Time. It was a memoir about the author Suze Roloto who dated Bob Dylan in the 60s. I probably read half of it but I lost interest and just started flipping through the pages. My copy was large print and that was annoying me too. It was way over due at the library (sorry whoever wanted it weeks ago!) so I just gave up and returned it. I’m interested to see what everyone else thinks of it at our meeting Wed night (I think the only thing I liked was her name!).
I’ve moved on to more fun books for the end of the summer. I just finished Rebecca Wells newest, The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, which I really enjoyed. This is the same author of the Ya-ya books which made me laugh & cry just like Calla did. It was a great beach read while I was at the beach on Saturday.
Next up is Toni McGee Causey’s Bobbie Faye’s Family Jewels. I loved the first book about Bobbie Faye which I read on our honeymoon and this one looks equally as funny. I must be in a LA book mood because it’s the setting for both my most current reads!
I’m also looking forward to next month when we’re reading Julie & Julia (if I can ever get it from the library!!). Happy reading to me.