Mark and Meagan Wedding

This past Saturday my little brother got married.  It was beautiful and he married a gorgeous and sweet girl, Meagan.  I even got to sing in the wedding, a solo!  I was freaked out, but really glad I got to participate that way.  People told me it was good, so I'll take it.  Hopefully, someone somewhere got photos of me singing, but I don't have any right now.  I got a lot of pictures with my iPhone, but some are grainy.  We had a great time.

If you can't see the slideshow, click here for the album:  ALBUM

Guest Room Progress

I was in Target the other day picking up some prescriptions and they told me to give them 15 minutes.  So I wandered around looking at things.  And added things to my cart.  They're smart, aren't they?  Well, I ended up in the clearance furniture/decor section.  A dangerous place to be.  Blake and I have been keeping our eye out for night stands for our Guest room.  It didn't have any, so we needed some.  We'd been looking at antique stores and on Craigslist and hadn't found anything I really liked.  But I found some in the clearance aisle in Target!!  One was 50% off, and the other one was damaged (but I could hide the damaged part) so I got it for 80% off.  Crazy, right?

Here's our new night stands.  Now I need to work on a piece of art for the headboard area.

Fitness Blog Site

2 of my most favorite people in the world, are married and are both personal trainers. They know SO much stuff!  They have a blog with their recommendations and fitness tips and meal suggestions.  It's pretty awesome. 

Check it out: http://www.bobayfitness.com/

Beef Stew and Press-On Nails

This beef stew was awesome. I tweaked the original recipe, of course, to accommodate for what I had onhand.

Crockpot Beef Stew

• 1-2lbs beef stew meat
• 1/2 onion, diced
• 4-6 new potatoes, quartered (or can used canned potatoes)
• carrots, about a cup
• green beans (1 can)
• 2 cans beef broth (or 28 oz)
• 1 tsp salt
• 3/4 tsp black pepper (if you don't like spice, only use 1/2 tsp)
• 1 tsp seasoning blend (whatever you have on hand for bbqing, stir-frying, etc. I used "Garlic and Herb" last night)
• 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 cup flour (to coat beef chunks in)

The Directions:
--wash and chop all of your vegetables.
--plop them into your biggest crockpot.
--put the flour in a bowl, and toss your meat in it to fully coat.
--put the meat into the crock (throw away the rest of the flour. don't add it in.)
--add dry seasoning and worcestershire sauce.
--pour in the beef broth.
--cover and cook on low for 8-10 hours.

What's even more exciting than fantastic beef stew?  My press-on nails I just bought.  Yep.  My brother's wedding is coming up and all my life I've bitten my nails.  They are awful.  So, I thought getting some fake nails might prevent me from biting them until the wedding so they can heal!  To my excitement, the nails actually look really good.  They stick on with super glue, so hopefully they last a few days.  The box said a maximum of 7 days, so we'll see.  I'm just really excited to have nails that aren't so ugly for a while. :) Who knows, this may be a new way of life for me!  Buying press-on nails each week.  Can't beat it for $6 and you get 2 sets!  But maybe I can just break my habit and have my real nails look good.

This first round was definitely practice.  I got the glue all over the nails because I used too much glue. And you can see the glue bubbles underneath if you look really closely.  But, I'll do better the next time!