Summer is coming to an end

Summer is almost over, but it's really just starting for me! School is over for 2 weeks and I am back in Melbourne! woo! I planning on going to the beach a lot, sleeping in, hanging out with my family/friends, and unfortunately I have some homework thrown in there to do! I know, homework before classes even start. It's just wrong. And how did August just creep up on me like that? This summer has flown by and I'm sure the fall will too!

I'm sad summer is coming to an end, but you know what that means? FOOTB

ALL SEASON! I loveee football season! Time for tail

gating, orange and blue clothes, lemonades at the game, and dying in the heat with 90,000 of my closest friends to cheer on our boys!

I'm also excited for away games, because I have found some really cute recipes that are football themed! haha Yes, I do think about these

things. But aren't they so cute :) But I also love making the typical football food, ya know wings, cheese dips, pigs in a blanket, pizza, grilling out, etc. Football time is just great all around!

So today's Project 31 is to post an outfit picture! So in honor of football season soon arriving, I've chosen game-day attire! :) I love wearing dresses because it is so hot out there

and dresses are so cool and comfortable! So here is one of my favorites that I will be wearing very soon and I'm thinking maybe a blue ribbon belt with it too! Ohhhh or a blue flower in the hair would be presh! I'm feeling a new craft project coming on! Making blue/orange flowers for my hair/clothes! Michaels here I come!

Baking, Goodbyes, and Woes of Womanhood

So yesterday I wrote about those smore's cookies. Yup, made them tonight. I was trying to kind of tweek them a little bit because I didn't want to put a graham cracker under the cookie. So I crunched up some graham cracker and put it in the batter. Oh and was that batter good.

Ah, I just LOVE cookie dough. I could have sat and ate that whole bowl. I did have my fair share of it. I enjoy the cookie dough so much more than the actual cookie. yummm! Ok so I was super excited because the dough was delish and they looked great. But then when I made them they kind of fell apart... :( SO I had to end up using the graham crackers on the bottom and then they turned out MUCH better :)

I am bringing them to class tomorrow and I hope the kids I tutor will like them! It's our last day tomorrow. As much as I hate going to class

and making lesson plans, I am actually going to miss those kids! Especially my 6th grader who

has started opening up to me! He actually talks to me now and laughs! And my precious 1st grader who I adore...don't want him to go either :( This is just the week of goodbyes and I don't like it one bit. My favorite little family, the Graves, are moving to Orlando on Saturday. At least I know that I will see them again and they are only an hour and a half away, but still. Where will Lindy and I watch Bachelor or Grey's Anatomy, who will I beat in Bananagrams, whose kids can I steal to love on and get a kid fix, who will we visit when we're out at Barnies, and who will I find to replace them? No one. Sarah, Kris, Reagan, Tristan, and Camden are truly one of a kind and will be greatly missed here in Gainesville. I'm also hoping that it will only be a year long separation and I will move to Orlando next year :) hehe We'll see what God has in store for me, but I know that God has great plans for the Graves family in Orlando! I love ya'll!! :)

These are the crazy, fun, adorable, silly, lovable Graves Kids I love so much :)

So today is day 12 and my challenge is to write about what wears you out as a woman. Well, humph a lot of things wear me out as a woman! Makeup, hair, clothes, emotions, hormones, weight, and just life haha Honestly it just wears me out to be a woman! I can't pinpoint any certain thing. This week alone I have probably complained about 'womanly' things 20 times or more considering it is that happy time of the month. not. (that explains the need for chocolate chip cookie dough, not that cookie dough needs any explanation) So yes, being a woman is hard and sometimes I wish we all had it as easy as the men do! But most of the time it is great to be a woman! I am a woman, hear me roar! ;)

Recipes!!

So folks, this is the day I have been waiting for since I started this thing! Day 11:Post a recipe. Or if you don't cook, try a new recipe and write about how it turned out. Pictures Please! Yes!! My specialty! I LOVE cooking, especially baking. I would bake every day if my wallet and stomach allowed me too! I really can't choose which recipes to share, SO I am going to share my all time favorite dessert and a 2 desserts that I haven't made yet, but look delicious! I will be making them soon, and maybe ya'll can too :)

So the first one is none other than my Peanut Butter Pie! If you haven't had this pie, then you are seriously missing out in life. This pie has won we not 1, or 2, but 3 bake-offs and I've even had a marriage proposal from a guy who tried it. Yes, ladies, the w

ay to a mans heart is through his stomach. Although, that hasn't proven to work out so well for me yet. But ONE DAY, my man will appreciate my skills in and out of the kitchen ;)

This pie is super easy to make and always goes over great at parties! So here's the recipe!

Ingredients:

1 Baked Pie Shell- I like graham cracker crust but you can use any pie crust you want!

1 large instant vanilla pudding

2 cups milk

1 cup confectioners sugar

½ cup peanut butter

8 oz. cool whip

Directions:

Using 2 knives cut peanut butter into sugar until well blended and crumbly. Beat pudding mix and milk together and put in refrigerator for 1 hour. Put crumbly mixture in bottom of pie shell, but save some to put on top of pie. Spoon in pudding and spread evenly. Cover completely with all of cool whip. Sprinkle the reserved crumbs on top of cool whip. Keep refrigerated until ready to serve. If you want to put in a 9 x13 pan double all ingredients.

And here it is, in all it's deliciousness :)

Ok, so that is my favorite recipe! Now onto more fun goodies! These are 2 recipes I just found earlier today that I REALLY want to make. The first is a Smore's Cake. Doesn't this just look like yummy goodness all wrapped in a nice layer of chocolate?

I found this on my new favorite site, Pintrest! Go check it out, Uh-Mazing! But anyways, here is a link to the girls blog that has this recipe on it! http://fatgirltrappedinaskinnybody.blogspot.com/2011/06/ultimate-smore-anniversary-cake.html

Going along with the smores theme because I love anything chocolate and marshmallows, are smore's cookies! These look to die for too! I think I am going to make them on Thursday for my last day with my tutee's at school! I told him I would make brownie cookie bars but these look SO much better! I also found these on pintrest and this girls blog has some really great recipes! I got like 4 other ones on here! The Cookie Dough Dip looks fantastic as well! So here is her blog and the recipe! http://fahrenheit350.blogspot.com/2009/08/rain-or-shine.html

Don't they look like ooey gooey heaven? yummm!

I hope ya'll enjoythese! I could seriously post every day about baking! How fun would that be! :) I'd love to hear about anybody else's favorite recipes or just something fun and new you tried! :) Happy Baking ya'll :)