Verse of the Week

Hello my wonderful readers. This week's verse is Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through him who strengthens me."  This verse means a lot to me, no matter what happens I can do anything as long as I believe in The Lord. This verse is especially important to me right now because we are moving, I'm moving to a new store and I'm pregnant all at the same time. It's a lot to take on all at once so I am going to be praying a lot and looking at this verse. Just believe in Him and you can do anything. Loves. 

Outfit of the Day - March 28, 2014

Hello my fabulous readers! So today's outfit of the day was for my cousins wedding. It was March 21st and it was an outdoor wedding. I thought this dress was very spring like with the sandals. This is a mint green dress from Dress Barn, it has little cap sleeves and a cut out in the back. I wore just mint green sandals, hair up, makeup natural and rose gold/gold jewelry. 

Here is one of me and Aaron at the wedding having fun. 

Hope you enjoy this cute spring outfit as much as I do. Loves. 

Wednesday Recipe - Classic Bean Dip

Hello my hungry readers. Today I am going to share with you something that I have been craving a lot lately, and that is bean dip and chips. Not the healthiest thing but it is so good. 

Ingredients: any kind of refried beans you prefer, enchilada sauce, grated cheese of your choice, tortilla chips

Directions:

1. On a plate put as much refried beans from the can as desired

2. Pour enchilada sauce over them, it should be about a 1/4 of the amount of the beans you used

3. Grate you cheese over the top to lightly cover it

4. Microwave for about a minute and half or until the beans are warm and the cheese is melted

5. Mix all together

6. Enjoy with tortilla chips,  I love Toastitos thin and crispy 

Hope you enjoy this delicious snack as much as I do. Loves. 

Post #1 - What I Should Name This Exciting Series

Hello my wonderful amazing readers!! I have some wonderful news to share with you today! We Are Expecting!!!! Baby Thorsen #1 is on the way! We found out about a week before our 6 month anniversary. We haven't got to have our first Prenatal appointment yet but we are this week. As of right now before the doctor checking out the baby we are due November 6, 2014. We are very happy and excited about this. The only thing is we are moving in about a month so moving while pregnant will be a challenge but we will make it work. Hope your as happy for us as we are happy about our new addition on the the way. Loves!

Verse of the Week

Hello wonderful readers. Today's verse of the week is from Proverbs 22:6, "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." This verse is important to me because me and Aaron have had multiple conversations about how we are going to raise our children and what we will teach them. I do believe this verse, what you teach your children will stick with them for the rest of their lives. Give your children lots of love for sure, I think that is one of the most important things to give them. Loves. 

Outfit of the Day - March 21, 2014

Hello my fabulous readers. This outfit was the one I wore to work on St. Patrick's Day on Monday. I have on my knee high faux leather boots that have the buckles on the back, hair is up and a little green eyeshadow on my eyes. I also have on navy blue leggings, a white perfect tank, and a mint green shirt with grey hearts (all three are from Old Navy). 

I hope you love this simple work outfit as much as I do. Loves. 

Wednesday Recipe - Blue Moon Cupcakes

Hello my hungry readers. Today's recipe is Blue Moon Beer cupcakes with vanilla orange frosting and fresh orange slice on top. This was the very first thing I ever made for my husband, Aaron, when we were dating. 

Ingredients: 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened, 1 3/4 cup sugar, 2 1/2 cup flour, 2 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, 3 eggs, room temperature, 1/2 tsp orange zest, 1 cup Blue Moon beer, 1/4 cup milk

Directions: 

                                               1. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. 

2. In a small bowl, mix beer and milk. 

3. In another bowl, beat butter and add sugar a little bit at a time, beat it reaaaal good. 

4. Add one egg at a time, beating after each time. 

5. Add vanilla, food color and orange zest. 

6. Alternate pouring the flour mixture and beer mixture into the butter mixture. Beer, flour, mix, beer, flour, mix (make sure you end with flour). 

7. Bake at 375 degrees for 18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

8. For the frosting I just buy Vanilla frosting in the jar and add a little bit of orange extract, real orange juice and orange zest. All of it is to taste. 

Hope you love this as much as my husband does! Loves.

Spending a Wonderful Weekend Together

Hello my amazing readers. A couple weekends ago me and my husband both had three days in a row off, which is a surprise, and we also had no commitments of any kind, which is more of a surprise. So we spent the whole weekend together just hanging out. Friday we had a romantic dinner at home. Saturday we drove to the place where we think we are going to move to and looked a places to live. Sunday we did absolutely nothing and sat on the couch and watched the Olympics and movies all day. Monday we went to a couple places shopping and then went to one of my favorite wineries in the area, Crooked Vine/Stoney Ridge Winery in Livermore. 

Overall the weekend was the best weekend we have had together alone since our honeymoon about 5 months ago, and it was something we needed. Hope all of your lives are going amazing. Loves. 

Verse of the Week

Today's verse of the week is Matthew 15:28. The verse is "Then Jesus answered, "Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted." And her daughter was healed from that very hour." This weeks verse is on faith. A woman had great faith in Jesus and her prayers were answered. If we have great faith in Jesus ourselves He will answer our prayers. But you also have to always keep in mind He only answers the prayers that are His will, if there is something you want that is not in His plan for you, He might not answer it because He most likely has bigger and better things for you. Just always keep that in mind when you are praying for things from Him. But always remember to have great faith in Him always. Loves. 

Outfit of the Day - March 14, 2014

Hello my fabulous readers. This is a new shirt I wore this outfit to work one day. It is a light blue striped 3/4 sleeve shirt from Lane Bryant for $14.99 and I have my regular Gap jeans on with my tennis shoes. 

 I have on light blue eye shadow with black and blue eyeliner. I have silver bow earrings and my silver watch on. and hair just up in a pony tail.

Hope you enjoyed my new shirt and this simple outfit. Loves. 

My 200th Post!!!!

Hello my amazing, lovely, fabulous readers!!! I can't believe you have all been so amazing and got me to my 200th post! This started as just venting place for me but has turned into a consistent commitment in my life that I look forward to working on each week. I'm not sure how many people actually read this blog or not but thank you if you do! I hope you enjoy the series I have going on and if you want anything else just comment and tell me, I am open to any and every suggestion. I love each and every one of you out there and thank you for traveling on my journey with me through life and the things I love. Loves for the 200th time! <3

Wednesday Recipe - Potato Wedges

Hello my hungry readers. Lately we have been addicted to and craving potato wedges so I put about a cup of canola oil in a small iron skillet, heated it up. I cut up a potato to our desired size of wedges and when the oil was hot enough (dip the potato in the oil and if it starts to bubble its ready), I just dropped (carefully!) the wedges in. I let them cook about 3-4 minutes on each side until brown, then I put them on a plate with a paper towel to catch some extra grease. When they have cooled a little bit I put salt and pepper on them. They are delicious and we have had them for breakfast, lunch or with dinner or a snack. 

Hope you love these yummy treats as much as we do. Loves. 

DIY - Candle Covers

Hello wonderful readers. So I thought I would share another DIY I did for Valentine's Day but I think I will use them all year because they are so cute. I just had some pillar candles hanging around so I decided to get some of my fabric I had around with hearts on it and make a cover for each candle that covers about 3/4 of the candle. I honestly just eye balled the amount of fabric I needed and just made sure it was even. I also eyeballed the the heart I put on the front of the big candle. I put some buttons on the heart and wrapped the heart around the cover with burlap twine. On the small candle I eyeballed the fabric and made sure it was even and just sewed a little jewel button on the front of it. 

Hope you love these cute little heart candle covers as much as I do. Loves. 

Verse of the Week

Hello my wonderful readers. Today's verse of the week is Proverbs 2:6 "For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding." Today's verse is on how you speak around others. You should try to pray everyday for good words out of your mouth. We are only human so we are going to slip with bad words in general or to others every once in awhile but if you pray for God to give you good words in your mouth you will be better off because he will use you to speak knowledge and understanding to others. Loves. 

Outfit of the Day - March 7, 2014

Hello fabulous readers. This outfit of the day was to go to dinner with my parents. I have on just plain brown flats from Payless Shoesource, navy blue and red plaid skinny pants from Gap, a tan tank from Old Navy and a red 3/4 sleeve shirt from Kohl's (I think). 

 I have on pretty neutral makeup, braid in my hair, my teardrop red silver earrings, and my heart silver necklace that matches all my bridesmaids from my wedding.  

Hope you love this outfit of the day. Loves. 

Wednesday Recipe - S mores Dip

Hello my hungry readers. I hope you enjoy this s mores dip recipe it was so delicious.

Ingredients: 1 cup of chocolate chips, 8 large marshmallows, graham crackers 

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees

2. In a small iron skillet, pour the cup of chocolate chips (here I used a whole package of chocolate chips)

3. I used large pink and white heart marshmallows and cut each one in half and made a pretty design

4. Used a package of graham crackers and broke them up in fourths for easy dipping 

5. Bake it for 7-9 minutes until it golden delicious brown on top 

I hope you enjoy this delicious sweet dip! We did for the Super Bowl :-). Loves.

Makeup Look :-)

Hello my wonderful readers. I thought I would share a makeup look with you today for my Monday post. I used my Naked 3 palette and Naked Basics palette to do this look, plus my Maybelline Master Precise liquid eye liner pen. 

So to start out I used e.l.f. eyeshadow primer on my eye lids and Maybelline Eraser for under eye dark circles under my eyes, I blended those in. Then I used Mugshot from the Naked 3 palette on my eye lids and then blended Dust from Naked 3 over it and above the eye lid. I then put my liquid black eye liner on my upper lid. To brighten my eyes up a little I used Venus from the Naked Basics palette on my inner eyes. Then I used black Maybelline The Rocket on my eyelashes. 

I hope you like this look. Loves. 

Verse of the Week

Hello my wonderful readers. Today's verse of the day is Proverbs 1:33 "but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm." This is a verse on listening to The Lord. If you listen to him and follow his commands and what he has to tell you to do you will be taken care of by him and will not have to fear harm. He will take care of you if you follow at all times. Loves.