I know husband missed me when...

I come home to a CLEEEEAN home.

My favorite treat and a freshly baked pie is waiting for me (it's the only pie I like, to be honest)

What can I say? I'm easy to please ;)
 

He snuggles and loves on me as much as we can stand. Haha, what? It's the truth!

Probably an awkward kissy picture... but whatev!
 

He takes me on a hot date to our new favorite game. Hockey!

 And after the game.... we got to ice skate!

 And he is currently making me a delicious smelling breakfast!
 

I could chalk this up to a little sucking up because of an argument the night before... but nope! I think I'm just incredibly lucky to be married to a man that loves me and misses me after a week or working out of town! And apparently he forgave me for the face mask picture ;)

time for a recipe!

My friend, Nicole shared the yummiest recipe with me! It's a BBQ Chicken recipe that is meant for sandwich's and we LOVE it! But the first time I tried it, it reminded me of Pier 49's BBQ Chicken pizza so we tried it that way and LOVED it. Isn't it the best to get multiple meals out of one recipe? You MUST try this!

BBQ Shredded Chicken
6 med boneless chicken breasts
1 med bottle favorite BBQ sauce
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp mustard
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 cup ketchup or 1 can tomato sauce
pepper to taste

place chicken in crock pot. combine all remaining ingredients and pour over chicken. cook on low for 4-6 hours. one hour before serving, shred chicken. (This recipe freezes well!)
Sandwich Style: Broil hoagie bun for about 1 minute. Serve chicken on the buns with provolone cheese and sliced red onion.
Pizza Style: (I was lazy this time around, next time I'll be making pizza dough from scratch) Take Pilsbury biscuits (grands) and flatten them as much as you want. Place on greased cookie sheet; top with chicken, red onions, and mozzerella cheese. Bake at 375 for 10-15 minutes or until crust is golden.

Enjoy!

(my lazy pizza style)

sorry, Eric :)

I found some picture of me and Eric when we were dating on my parent's computer (my computer crashed and I lost most of our dating/engaged/newlywed photos) and decided to have a little bit of fun with them since I've been a bit gloomy with my past couple posts. Here are some reasons that I love my Eric SO much....

The man puts up with my craziness like a champ! Thank goodness ;)

He's an amazzzzing dancer ;)

 He humors me and participates in my silly ideas :) I bet he never thought this picture of face masks would come back to haunt him.. haha!

What a lucky girl I am! He loves me know matter what...
Just kidding! Let's be real here... it's a good thing I'm working out of town this week. He'd kill me for posting that last picture if he could :)

weekend randoms

What a weekend!  I am still trying to recuperate... I'm feeling very physically and emotionally drained. We went to Colorado to my Grandad's funeral. It finally hit me that he's gone, and I sure do miss him. He truly was the center of our family, and held us together the way any grandpa should. It was so sweet to hear every one's memories of him. I hope to be as loving as he was!
While the funeral was heart breaking; it was SO great to see my family! I have missed some of my cousins so much! We have a huge family... my grandparents had 6 kids, 22 grand kids, 44(ish?) great grand kids, and 4 great great grand kids. Wowzas!
The best part about the weekend for me was spending so much time with Trevor and Alycia (my brother and sister in law) I'm pretty sure that our husbands loved that we never stopped talking. Eric told me that we made his ears sore.. hahaha! I'm so grateful that I have the best sisters in law (including Eric's sisters) to make up for my sisterless child hood haha :)

beautiful Colorado sunset

 

because I can't NOT have a picture of me and the hubs.. haha!

If you're ever outside of Moab and spot this rock with a hole... don't stop to see it. Complete waste of time.

if only my eyes were open... and Trevor didn't look like a creeper. I must be so out of it to be posting this amazing picture for the whole internet to see :)

don't judge my repeat shirt and the comfy clothes :)

See what I mean? What a weekend :)

in all things, give thanks

With the timing of my Grandad's passing and the month of November, I figured there could not be a better time to share some things that I'm incredibly thankful for...

- My wonderful family. I am really excited to see everyone this weekend, I'm just sad we are all coming together for a funeral :(
- My Eric. I was so worried when we were dating that he was just too good to be true. The crazy thing is, he just keeps getting better and better! I love that man!
- My healthy body.
- All of my friends, and the friends I continue to make. I was so nervous to move a year ago, but I make new friends each week and feel so at home! I am such a people person so this is such a blessing to me!
- My job. I love doing hair, and it makes me feel SO good when people love how they look :)
- Babies. There has to be a reason God makes babies so sweet! Would we want have kids if they weren't so sweet? :)
- Music. Somehow I got sucked into playing a solo around Christmas time in church and I'm so nervous about it! (Haha, Totally teasing about the sucked into part, Elisa!) After not touching the piano keys for over a year it has been so wonderful to lose myself in the music! Now if only I could play as well as I used to....
- The gospel. I love being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! What a comfort it is to know that I will be with my family for eternity!
- Blogging. Yes, I just said that :) I can't believe how amazing the blogging community is, I feel so loved! I am so thankful for the friendships I've built through blog land!

It is so important to be aware of how many things we have in our life to be thankful for. Not just during November, not just during hard times, but all of the time.

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