Wedding Wednesday: Food Tasting

We went to taste the food for our venue yesterday and it was a lot of fun. My fiance and I brought my mom since she is so generously paying for the reception. I love going to my venue because it always makes me even more excited for the big day. We are down to 30 DAYS!!! 

Food tasting was what my fiance was looking forward to the most in the whole wedding planning process. He was able to get half of the day off to join my mom and I. They brought the food our family style so we could all try everything, here's what we had! 

 Carved tri-tip with au jus and roasted potatoes.

Chicken with a honey dijon glaze and mixed vegetables. 

Classic Caesar Salad

 Some fancy salad that I didn't try because there was too much stuff I couldn't identify. haha.  

I didn't get pictures of the appetizers but we will be having BBQ meatballs, chicken skewers, and bruschetta. Plus for dessert, cupcake and a cookie bar. For some reason I don't think anyone will be going home hungry. 

What were you or your fiance looking forward to the most?

Linking up! 

Weekending: Baby Love

My weekend started off with me being stressed and dreading a camping trip I had to take students on, but when i saw this sunrise on my way to school, it made things a little better.

After school on Friday me and four students headed to a FFA district camping trip (120 total kids, 7 different schools from our area). It was homecoming so not many students from my school wanted to go but we had a couple. Due to things that I didn't control, I was volunteered to be in charge of this when I've never been there before nor did I have any idea what I was doing. A student officer team ran most of it but there were a lot of awkward power struggles and it was overwhelming. Needless to say I was happy when I got home.

My fiance went away for the weekend so I had a sleepover at my moms. She made the most delicious dessert, see below. It consists of brownies, cool whip, chocolate pudding, and reeses. SO GOOD. 

We went to visit a family friend who just had a baby. I had some quality baby snuggles and loved it. Isn't he the cutest? I can't wait for my friends to start having babies. 

This morning I went to church and then headed to my mom's house for brunch with my brother, aunt, and granded. She made a ton of yummy food and we just relaxed for a couple of hours and watched football. 

I headed home in the afternoon to wait for my fiance to get home and worked on grad school assignments. We watched a bunch of football and then our favorite shows in the evening, Revenge and Once Upon a Time! :) 

It was a busy weekend and I wish it wasn't already over!

Linking up with Meghan!  

Weekending: Labor Day Edition

With Labor Day behind us, it appears that summer really is over. I'm glad I was able to have such a busy weekend and take advantage of the last moments of freedom.

We went to a BBQ at our friend's apartment on Friday night. We were celebrating her getting a job at a physical therapists office (she just graduated from PT school in June). We got lost on the way there and were kinda late but it was nice to enjoy the evening and hang out with friends.

Saturday we went to another friend's house for our fantasy football draft. We spent way too many hours watching college football and then doing our draft. It was my first year and these boys I am playing with are INTENSE! I was definitely intimidated and I'm not sure how well I did but it was fun.

Sunday we went to church and then I went to my friends apartment to make some freezer meals. At first I was just going to hang out with her but I decided to make a few myself as well. I ended up making BBQ Pork, chicken teryaki, and creamy ranch chicken. They all looked good and I'm pretty excited to try them this week! It was only about $30 for 5 meals and it's almost guaranteed we will have leftovers from each. I think it might become a regular activity. 

I went shopping later Sunday afternoon and got some new clothes for school! I have a shopping problem, but at least there were great sales! Two shirts (coral/grey patterned & purple) new dark skinny jeans, grey checked dress slacks, a chambray shirt, and a blue and green patterned maxi dress.

We spent the extra day of the weekend with our friends at the horse track. This is one of our favorite summer activities and it was a blast! My fiance ended up coming out even and I only lost about $15, not too bad for a day of betting. 

Overall, it was an awesome 3 day weekend! 

Linking up :) 

Weekending: Roadtrip!

We spent this weekend visiting my fiance's family on the other side of the state from us. He was lucky to be able to get off work early and we headed to his hometown. The drive is about four hours long, he alternated between sleeping && drumming while I rocked out to Taylor Swift.

When we arrived we met two of his friends at the fair where we promptly ate some delicious fair food. We went and looked at the FFA animals and then headed to the rodeo! It was my first rodeo and I loved it! I just finished reading Nicholas Sparks' latest book which was about a bull rider...that makes me an expert on rodeos right? I didn't know what was going on half of the time but now I really want to go to another one!

We spent most of Saturday hanging out at C's house with his family. He watched a lot of football and I watched the National Championships for gymnastics. It's one of my favorite sports to watch and since they only compete like 3 times a year it's a special occasion for me. We went out to dinner at his favorite restaurant, Texas Roadhouse. Their rolls are the best with the most delicious cinnamon butter, yum! I always fill up on them and never can eat my dinner. 

On Sunday we spent the morning with his family then headed home around noon. We hit a ton of traffic on the way which was frustrating but eventually we made it. My car was having troubles starting all weekend so I had to take it to get looked at. Thankfully Sears Auto was open until five and we snuck in right before it closed. They replaced the connector on my battery and got it running perfectly in the half hour before they closed and it only cost me $15! I was thinking it would be hundreds and they would have to keep it overnight and I'd have to scramble for a ride to work Monday morning. So thankful! 

We celebrated the car victory with dinner at Pita Pit because we all know I'm not going to cook after being gone all weekend and then driving for five hours. 

SO GOOD.

Work officially starts for me tomorrow. Convocation in the morning with all of the teachers in my district and then building meetings all day Let the fun, begin! 

FIve on [[a fit]] Friday!

I'm linking up with Darci today for my Five on Friday!

I'm trying to eat healthy and get myself in shape at the gym so today I'm going to talk about my five foods that are my keys to eating well. If I was able to stick to eating these five foods then I probably would have a lot easier time losing weight. It's all those other pesky things that sneak ing (ice cream being the worst) that ruin it for me!

1. Apples! There is nothing like a crisp, juicy, apple. For the past couple of years I have eaten an apple almost every single day and I give that credit for why I don't get sick often *knock on wood* and generally am pretty healthy. You've all heard it, an apple a day keeps the doctor away! My personal favorites are Pink Lady and Golden Delicious.

2. Tillamook Light Yogurt. Very Vanilla! I am a weird person when it comes to yogurt and I only will eat vanilla. I don't like the little pieces of fruit in yogurt and I know that they are TINY but they still gross me out and I can't eat them. So I stick to plain old vanilla and it's delicious. I like Tillamook because it's nice and creamy and I think that they don't use aspertame, so that's always a plus. We know I get enough of that from my diet coke. :P

3. Fiber One 80 Calorie cereal...chocolate! This is a great snack for any time of the day. If I need something to satisfy my desire for chocolate this is a great go-to because I can have a whole handful for only 80 calories! I do sometimes have it with milk and then you end up with yummy chocolate milk. It's not super filling so I usually need something else with it for breakfast but it's still good.

4. Baby Carrots. Let's be honest, I don't actually like carrots. I make myself eat them because I know they have little calories and I feel like they have to be good for me...right? They have the convenience of being small and easy to eat pretty much anywhere. I heard on biggest loser once that if you aren't hungry enough to eat your vegetables then you aren't actually hungry, for me carrots are always the test for that. I save them for after school when I'm starving && then I actually eat them.

5. Luna Bars. These aren't the best and usually if I am counting calories I don't eat them as much just because they have more calories and not a lot of protein. When I'm serious I will stick to 'pure protein' bars but if I want something that tastes a little better then Luna Bars it is! I personally love the Nutz Over Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cookie. Chocolate caramel brownie is also a winner.
That's my fun down on my five favorite healthy foods. What are your go to healthy snacks? I'd love to hear some suggestions! -J