It is hot hot!

Agh! I am terrible at keeping up with this! I hope this finds you doing well, in spite of the endless heat of this summer. I have been wedding planning...which can be fun, if I don't allow myself to become overwhelmed. I am the most indecisive person that I know, so sometimes answering 5000 questions is way too much for me. I think I am handling it pretty well, though! Other than wedding planning, I have been spending time with my family which I always love. My sister is very ready to have her baby...it could be any day now! I am almost finished knitting my soon to be born nephew's blanket (that should be my goal for tomorrow) and will have it done by the time he is born! I will, I tell you!

Lately, I have been wanting to find new recipes to cook. I would love to have more vegetarian options other than pasta and bean tacos. Eric and I have been trying to keep the pasta cooking down to one night a week, because we were going pasta crazy for a while there. The local trader joe's has a lot to offer, but I feel like I have tried all of their put together meals now. I want to branch way out and come up with yummy meals that are healthy and light. I will share my favorites with you if you share your's with me! For now, I will share a great pasta recipe (I can't stay away from pasta...I told you haha!) this is one of my absolute favorite meals, which a family friend shared with my family:

Rotini pasta (angel hair pasta is also good with it)
Olive oil
A lot of basil (one cup)
Half cup sun dried tomatoes
Half cup of diced tomatoes
Little bit of salt and pepper (I'll fill in the exact amounts at a later time)
Crumbled feta cheese

Cook up the olive oil with basil, both tomato types, salt, pepper in a skillet until the tomatoes and basil wilt somewhat. Cook the pasta at the same time so they will both be ready together. After draining pasta, add all ingredients from the skillet and then add the feta cheese.

It is super easy to cook and very very delicious...the left overs are even better than the first serving! Feel free to share some of your favorites!

I'm back!

Well, it seems that my blogging crave did not last very long. I apologize. However, it is summer time (for school teachers woot woot!) and I am already bored out of my mind. This means that I should be blogging a little bit more! I might as well do something productive with my time. I am going to try to figure out how to make this thing fancy with pictures and videos and what not because at this point, all I know how to do is type.

To start off this blog...I have a lovely update to share. Eric and I are engaged :) :) I will share pictures from our photo-sesh this weekend if I can figure out how to do that. We are both so very excited and I LOOOVE my beautiful ring! I was thinking about making this a wedding-planning themed blog site, but it probably won't happen...I'm never very good at sticking to one thing for very long, as you can tell already, I'm sure.

OO! I figured it out! That was not very difficult! Okay, well here are some more :)

 

 There are some of the pictures...we took many, many more and I can not wait to see the rest! My sister had her maternity pictures taken by the same person (capturedbykendall.com) so I contacted her and asked if she could take our engagement pictures and walla! 

Other than this, I don't have much else to update you on. As I said, I am done with school for this year. The school system I work for is on their last week, but the teacher I was subbing for came back for the last two weeks, so I'm done. I am going to visit my class on Wednesday for the Kindergarten "graduation" and I am so excited about it! I miss those little things. 

So far this summer, I have:   1. been very lazy

                                              2. been obsessively watching random YouTube videos about make up for some reason (I don't know why but I love watching people do make up...is that weird?)

                                              3. been watching netflix movies and old t.v. shows (Cosby show mostly)

                                              4. gotten sick twice (I am currently sick, but I feel a little better today)

                                              5. been driving Eric crazy--I found this really old video of him rapping to DMX that I really wanted to post on here, but he doesn't want me to so I'll be nice and respect that. Ohhh but it's so funny and makes me fall in love with him all over again :)

Basically, I need a job or I need my friends to stop working so that they can entertain me. OR, I need to get a life. Probably the third one. Hmm, maybe I can make this blog site be about how to entertain yourself when you are trying not to spend any money. There's a good one! Feel free to share ideas! I know I can paint, read, write, go on walks, go outside, and other obvious choices...but if you have anything creative, let me know!

I live extremely close to the greenway, which I love, so I will be walking pretty frequently. I really want to go to my parents' house and pick up my bike, but until that happens I can walk/try to get into running again.

I am going to start reading the Harry Potter book series. I read the first three when I was in 6th grade, but stopped somewhere along the way. Nicole (my future sis-in-law) has all of the books, so I am going to dive into that soon. She is not working this summer, and neither is my best friend, so maybe we can all come up with things to do this summer to keep us entertained. 

Anywho, if you have any creative ideas...leave a comment! I would love to hear what you have to say!