Pan-Roasted Chicken with Beans & Potatoes

Last night was another Pinterest recipe kind of night. I went over to Jeff's house, and made us this yummy meal! It was super easy, didn't include many ingredients, and tasted pretty good. (I will make changes next time, so look for those tips/suggestions at the end of the post...) So, HERE is the link to the original recipe from Real Simple, and I'm also going to lay it all on here too...

Progress Report

Yesterday marked three months left until my 25th birthday in January, so I just wanted to write a quick update post about my Pledge of 25 Before 25... So here's a quick Progress Report on where I stand with some of the goals in my list of things to accomplish before I turn a quarter of a century old...




Here's some of my biggest news so far, last night while I was sleeping, my little

Panhandle to South Florida

This weekend I went to Tampa with my amazing girlfriends, and obviously we had an awesome time!! I took the day off work on Friday, and started out the day at breakfast with Jeff. Then I went home, finished packing, and my friend Nicole (who lives in Pensacola) picked me up around 10:45 on her way through town. We got down to Tampa around 3:30, and were so excited to see our other friends who

Patch of Pumpkins

Last Friday night, Jeff and I went to the pumpkin patch for a quick date night activity before supper time. We didn't go last year for some silly reason, so I'm glad we got to go together this year! We planned it so we were there right around dusk/sunset, and it was so pretty then! Glad we worked it out that way :) Lots of pretty colors, and sun beams streaming through creating all sorts of

Pom-Pom Days

For some reason the other day, I ended up spending some time taking a walk down memory lane looking through some old pictures on my laptop. I decided I wanted to share some of course, so they'll come in waves over the next couple of weeks or so, grouped by activities, events or categories! 



This first one is some of my old cheerleading pictures! I didn't have my own digital camera then, so

PB & J Burger and Pitch Perfect

Last night we had another date night, because both of us are going out of town this weekend separately, so we needed to fit in some special time during the busy week. This time, it was my turn to plan the entire date, and I had fun getting to doing so :) I picked a restaurant I knew he wanted to try, his favorite dessert, and a movie that I figured both of us would enjoy. (Although I definitely

Pedaling All Over Town

Remember in yesterday's post when I said I would write a post specifically about our Alley Cat Bike Race from over the weekend? Well this is that post! I'm going to try to keep this pretty short and sweet (because I know I tend to talk too much), but really I can't promise anything...

First, let me explain what an Alley Cat is... it's kind of like The Amazing Race, but done on a bicycle. We have

Posh Spice, Pumpkin Patch & Pasta

Friday
Accidentally matched Jeff all day, without even knowing it...
Bought my first pair of cycling shorts (they have a padded booty!!) and they are amazing!
Went to the pumpkin patch with Jeff and took lots of pretty pictures, which I will share all of on another day
Then Jeff treated us to a nice dinner at Olive Garden, 'cause we had a gift card :)
We had salad & bread sticks, and shared an

Poison & Wine

Hello for the second time today my friends! I'm just so pumped right now, I absolutely had to write a blog post about why... Even though I hardly ever do two posts in one day, but who cares...



Photo found HERE


THE CIVIL WARS WILL BE PLAYING IN TALLAHASSEE!! They are seriously one of my favoritest bands, and I just love them so much. Their album has been listened to countless times since I

Potential to Prove Problematic

Dear Pay Day Friday: I'm so glad you're here! And you come bearing a Fall Luncheon at work today, which promises to be a delicious feast of yummies. (For which I made my Mama made chili!!)




Dear Blog: We've been doing so great lately! We're growing and making new friends, and it's so fun and exciting! Also, we're doing great towards our goals -- this is post #187 of the goal of 200, and at the

Paid My Debt

"Higher than the mountains that I face



Stronger than the power of the grave


Constant through the trial and the change

One thing remains, one things remains



Your love never fails, It never gives up, It never runs out on me



On and on and on and on it goes

It overwhelms and satisfies my soul

And I never ever have to be afraid

One thing remains



In death, in life, I'm confident

Preserving Memories

Remember a couple of weeks ago (like almost a month ago now actually...) when I went to St. Augustine to hang out with my bestest girlfriends? Well I was finally able to get a hold of Jenni's amazing photographs, and so I finally get to share them with you lovelies!



So, my friend Jenni and her awesome roomie/bestie, Alyssa, own their own photography business (Studio No. 9), so if you're in

Popeye's Pizza

Last night, Jeff and I went over to my friend Lacey's house for some dinner and games and hang out time. Lacey made up this pizza recipe about a year ago, and we make it what seems like once a month or so, because we just love it and it's so stinking good. So good in fact, I decided I needed to blog it so you lovelies can try it out! (Seems like I'm becoming quite the foodie blogger lately, huh?!

Puppets On Our Fingers

Happy Monday Morning all my bloggy friends and real life friends and family! I'm surprisingly chipper right now, even though I'm actually quite exhausted and also real hungry because I didn't eat breakfast today. But, I'm chipper because I had such a great weekend, it so still makes me happy!

I went down to Orlando for my friend Jenni's housewarming party! Three of our friends from St. Augustine

Porridge, & Other Stuff's

Friday's Letters -- Round 2 -- here we go!!

Dear Boyfriend: You are in Alabama camping and mountain bike riding for the whole weekend, and I really miss you already! Please have fun up there, but also please be safe! And try to come back home all in one piece, with only minor scrapes, bumps and bruises.

Dear I-10/I-75/I-4: Please don't be too crazy and congested with tons of traffic today as I

Presence

"Seek the Lord and His strength; seek his presence continually!" --1 Chronicles 16:11








Seek his presence continually.... sounds like kind of a hard thing to do right? It does to me at least. I mean sometimes I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I don't know where to begin... I think though, that the easiest way to seek his presence, is to spend time with him in prayer and reading his

Parmesan-Crusted Date Night

Last night my sweet boyfriend Jeff took me on a mystery date! He picked me up at my house, and when we got in the car, he told me, "We're going on a little trip!" How exciting! I love little surprise road trips! But who doesn't, am I right?! We sat in traffic for a tiny bit, and a chance to snap a quick picture of course :)



I apologize for the quality of the front-facing iPhone camera

Pinning My Workout

The last week or so of September, I really started thinking about my eating and exercise habits from the past couple of months. And it wasn't pretty. I was still being active and exercising at least once a week, but it's not like that one workout could make up for all the crap I was still eating. So things were getting a bit out of control. I then decided that this month was going to "Healthy

Pictures Galore

I hope y'all are in the mood for lots of pictures, and not a lot of reading. Because I have a ton of pictures from this weekend, and I don't feel like writing too much, so let's just jump straight to it, shall we?!

Friday night = dinner at Pepper's with some friends, followed by bowling, which was a blast, even if I came in dead last place... but what was weird was that we were the only ones

Popular Letters

A popular blog post and link-up every Friday in the blogosphere is always "Friday's Letters." A couple of the blogs I follow all participate in this, and I like reading them, I've just never done it myself... But I'm changing that today. So here goes my first round of Friday's Letters, hopefully I do this right :)

Dear Friday: Thank you for finally arriving, now I just really need you to speed

Provision

God's Provision is sometimes unexpected, and usually not the way we would have done things ourselves; but it is always the best option. Let's look at Abraham and when God told him he was going to have to sacrifice his only son, from Genesis 22...




So back in the day, Abraham and his wife Sarah had no children, and they were very sad. But let's fast forward to when God granted him and his wife

Pasta: Greek Style

Last night my Grandparents took my parents and I out to dinner. We went to a nice place up in Thomasville, Georgia, The Plaza Restaurant, and all had a lovely dinner together. All four of them got fried chicken meals for dinner, but I was trying to find a "healthier" option, so I went with pasta instead of fried food... does that count as "healthier?" Whatever, I don't care - because it was

Plateful of Yummy

Guys, I'm on a roll lately with recipes and cooking and what-not. Like for real, and I've been loving it! Last night Jeff's Mama was a bit under the weather, and so I volunteered to go over and cook for their family. I made a delicious meal, in fact a Plateful of Yummy, and so I of course wanted to share it with you lovely people!

SIDE NOTE: There are now 50 of you lovely people! I remember just

Pinstagram of September

Disclaimer - this was "scheduled" to automatically post on Saturday afternoon at 12:30 p.m., but for whatever reason I appear to not know how to actually do such "scheduling." So this was supposed to be the end-cap to September, but since I'm sometimes blogging inadequate, we'll just throw this out as the second post for the day because there are some pictures in here I didn't want to be left "

Plum Polish, Pinterest Recipes & More!

Guys. It's OCTOBER! That kind of snuck up on us and came out of nowhere! Am I right?! At least I ended the month of September with a pretty great weekend. :) So here's a few of the things that made up my weekend.... although it seems like the only things I took pictures of was food, so that kind of stinks :( But I assure you - I did actually do more than just eat all weekend, even though that's