My friend recently had a Chevron themed birthday party for her daughter’s 13th birthday. Me and a few friends pitched in and helped her to throw the party and surprise her daughter. We had a great time making the decor, setting up, and I took some pics too.
I even made some Chevron invites which I have edited to make generic for Etsy.
She ordered this awesome cake from a local cake place here, [Read more…]
I’ve finally made it to my FINAL post about our TN trip, and what a great place to end…at our final fun stop before we headed home!
This trip was a bit different for me, normally I do my ‘homework’ and research ahead of time and have each day planned out. This time we decided to have a few things in mind and ‘wing it’ while we had a great time, it was really uncomfortable for me to ‘wing it’ LOL! [Read more…]
After our horrible night’s stay here, at 3 am we found SpringHills Suites by Marriott online and thankfully they had a vacancy for the next night (actually that night since it was 3 am…) but since it was so last minute we also had to paid last minute prices, $139 for the night. This was the going rate for hotels in the area as well, but higher than what we are used to paying.
Apparently they have [Read more…]
Last month I signed up and participated in the Snail Mail Collective put on by The Nectar Collective and Lost in Travels. If your a blogger then you should too! Once a month there is a sign up and then they pair you with another blogger. You get to know each other via email & blogs and then send a small $5 gift with a postcard to them.
I got paired up with Elizabeth from Colorado, she blogs at [Read more…]
This has become one of my favorite soup recipes, although I just made it for Mr. B and he prefers the Chicken Enchilada Soup we make, which I’ll post at a later date.
Again this is a super simple and quick recipe which makes it a keeper here, well at least for me 🙂 Guess it’ll be a TDY or Deployment recipe since Mr. B is stuck on the other one.
Chicken Tortilla Soup
½ can of chicken broth
We had been told by a friend that we needed to go eat at the Applewood Farmhouse Restaurant while we were in Pigeon Forge, TN. We are always up for trying out some good eats so after checking into our new and much improved hotel we headed over to check it out.
It was almost 7 pm and we were sure the dinner rush would be gone by then but as we rolled up and seen a full parking lot and people standing [Read more…]
We were looking forward to trying out one of the breakfast places in the local area, after going some ‘research’ online we decided on The Pancake Pantry on the Parkway in Gatlingburg, TN. And yes, I do research even the places we are going to eat at sometimes ;p It was about 3/4 mile walk from the hotel that you should NOT stay in.
First off, please note the ATM Inside sign…mean anything? [Read more…]
As you may have heard, weather in the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area is super unpredictable! When we went to bed the night before Dollywood we thought we might not get to go because there was a 90% chance of rain. When we woke up at 3 am by Mr. B getting stung by a wasp, we checked and it was down to 40%. We we got up at 6 am to decide it was down to 20%, so we decided to go and risk it. It NEVER rained [Read more…]
Smothered Chicken by Taste of Home has been one of our family’s favorite recipes for years, so much so that we’ve over done it at times, LOL! We did not have it at all while Mr. B was gone for his 15 months so shortly after he arrived back we decided it was time to reintroduce it back into the meal planning.
It meets all my ‘requirements’: it’s super easy to make, quick, and can be easily [Read more…]
Our stay at the Quality Inn Creekside in Gatlinburg, TN was LESS than ideal…so much so that we checked out the next morning and stayed somewhere else! The sad part is I used another blogger’s review to decide to stay here, guess we had a completely different experience than they did!
I will preface this and say that I am a hotel snob and have been known in the past to make Mr. B check us out [Read more…]