** 4 Years **

Just a fun little piece of info...

Yesterday was Ty and I's 4 year Anniversary of dating. :)

February 25th, 2006, he was visiting me in Murray and we were hanging out in my dorm room just talking and he came out and asked me if I wanted to be his girlfriend. (insert Awwwwww's here.)

(One of our first pictures together...)

And now 4 years later, I'm his fiance. Yay!!

(The day we got engaged)

And in less than a year and half, I'll be his WIFE!!!! Ah!!!! So exciting!!

(I assume we'll look something like this on the BIG day) :)

...And the concensus is...

...SUCCESS!!!!

the cake balls are AH-MAZING!

(photo courtesy of Moi. :))

I brought them to work yesterday, and so many people tried them, loved them, came back for more, asked for the recipe. They loved them!

And I love that they did. :)

They were totally worth the two days of making. Next time I'm doing them on the weekend though.

And next time I think I'm going to do confetti cake with white icing and white chocolate. Doesn't that sound like heaven??? I think it does.

Happy Friday everyone!!

Not Quite Done...

...with the cake balls. Ugh.

These suckers take FOREVER!

On the recipe it said that you need to "chill for several hours" before you cover with chocolate, but I thought that was a little exaggeration.

Not so much.

They really need to chill that long.

(Oh and this is after you have to bake for 35-40 mins, let cool COMPLETELY, crumble into a bowl, mix in the icing, and roll into balls.) Oh yeah, LOOOOONNNNGGGG process. But I have a feeling they are going to be well worth it.

I made a few last night, but I used regular melting chocolate and not almond bark and that was a mistake. It's just too thin. I used white chocolate and it was speckled red. Not the pretty clean look I was going for.

So right now, I have about 60 (Yep. 6-0, definitely plenty to go around. I can ship them if you'd like. haha) red velvet cake balls sitting on a cookie sheet in my refrigerator waiting to be dipped in chocolate.

I'm going to go to Wally World tonight after work and get chocolate bark, or chocolate almond bark or whatever it is and finish these things off.

For REALS!

...So, tomorrow I'll have an update for sure. Promise. Cross my heart. :)

I'm making THESE tonight...

(Photo courtesy of Lovely Little Cakes)

(Photo courtesy of Bakerella)

RED VELVET CAKE BALLS!!

Oh, I think I'm drooling already.

I found this recipe a while ago on the Bakerella website.

I love me some red velvet cake and what's better than red velvet cake and chocolate in bite sizes?? I'm going to say...NOTHING!

I'll post again tomorrow and let you all know how they turned out. Try not to drool all over yourself while you wait. :)

Food Post

Something I love to do is look at food blogs and get dinner ideas or yummy dessert ideas. So I found this super easy chicken recipe (because we love chicken and always have it in the house). So I decided to try it last night.

I wish I could remember where I found the recipe, but I can't. So whoever I stole it from (sorry I don't remember who you are)...but, thank you for the recipe. It was very good! And easy!

Here it is:

Spinach Chicken Ring

(Please ignore my disgusting cookie sheet. Sorry.)

1 can (10 oz.) chunk white chicken, drained and flaked

1/2 cup red bell pepperchopped

1 pkg (10 oz.) frozen chop spinach, thawed & well drained

1 cup shredded cheddar cheese

1/3 cup mayonnaise

1 tsp. lemon zest (I don't have this so I used a little lemon juice)

1/2 tsp. salt

1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg (and skipped this part too)

2 pkg. refrigerated crescent rolls

Flake or shred chicken. Add chopped bell pepper, spinach, cheese and mayo, lemon zest, salt and nutmeg.

Unroll crescent dough; separate into triangles. Arrange triangles in a circle with wide ends overlapping in the center and points toward the outside. Scoop chicken mixture evenly onto widest end of each triangle. Bring outside points of triangles up over filling and tuck under wide ends of dough at center. Filling WILL NOT be completely covered.

Bake in a preheated 375F oven for 20-25 min. or until golden brown.

Then enjoy the yummy goodness of it while sitting on your couch with a blanket watching American Idol and having your cat sit on the floor BEGGING for you to drop something...or however you please. :) That just seems to be the norm in my household.

**So I just realized reading back the recipe that I only used 1 can of crescent rolls instead of 2. Whoops. Well it still worked. Just imagine in the picture above a little more breading on there. My bad. **

Yes, I made ANOTHER wreath.

This is my other obsession. I swear. I'm in love with wreaths! I don't know what my deal is. I want a wreath for every season, every holiday, for everyday really. And most of all, I like to make them. Not sure if it's neccessarily cheaper, but it's fun and gives me something to do.

So, when I found the felt wreath, I also found this wreath and HAD to have it for my door for Valentine's Day. Well at the bottom of that post, she linked to another blogger who did something similar to the acorn wreath, but with lima beans.

I figured it would be WAY easier to find lima beans right now, then it would acorns, so that's what I decided to go with and this is how it turned out.

What do you think??

I bought Big lima beans, when I should've bought baby ones, but oh well, I think it turned out okay. The more I look at it in this picture, the more imperfections I see. Anyway, it was my first try at it. Can't be perfect all the time, right?

And here's what it looks like on my front door.

I might get a little red wooden heart or "Love" something to put in the middle so you know it's Valentine's. And then after February is over, I'm going to put like a mint green ribbon around it and then it'll be my Spring wreath! yay! Versatility! I love it!

This one cost me about $20 to make. I bought the styrofoam wreath, hot glue gun, glue sticks and the spray paint at Hobby Lobby, then got the lima beans at Walmart.

Super easy to make and super cute too, in my opinion. :)