A little somethin' somethin' healthy

It has been awhile since my last post, but I am now on Christmas break (yay) so I will have plenty of time for updating my blog. Sooo, the other day I was scrolling through Pinterest and found this recipe that I just had to try (I am really into Zucchini all the sudden) Thanks to my sister she got some good action shots of me making our snack!

 

 

 Here is the actual pin I got this recipe from if you want to check it out here! But here is my version of this tasty Garlic, Lemon, and Parmesan Zucchini:

 

What you will need:

3-4 medium to large zucchinis

2 tsp of olive oil

1 tsp of lemon zest

2 cloves of garlic or finely minced (I used finely minced)

3/4 cup of Parmesan cheese

salt & pepper

 

Directions:

 

 

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees & line your cooking pan with aluminum foil

 

Step 2: Cut your zucchini in halves or fourths (cut it in half & cut the half in half) 

 

Step 3: Mix together in a small bowl your lemon zest, olive oil, and garlic

 

Step 4: Brush the mixed ingredients onto the zucchini halves (or fourths like I did)

 

Step 5: Sprinkle on the parmesan cheese to the tops of the zucchini

 

 

 

Step 6: Place in the oven for 11-13 minutes, then place your pan on the top rack of the oven and put the oven to boil until the cheese on the tops of the zucchini are golden brown

 

 

And now enjoy your yummy zucchini with your family &/or guests as a snack or appetizer!

I really enjoyed making this little appetizer and my mom and sister sure loved eating it too! More to come soon..

 

Your cook (lol),

 

 

 

Sometimes you need a little pick-me-up



 

While I was scrolling through Facebook today I came across something one of my friends had shared (its not Ebola related I promise).  The title interested me so I decided to take a look. 



 

I suggest if you are a college student right now, that you go and find this article and read it. Through out the article it lists off 19 realities to our current thoughts, feelings, etc. of college, growing up, and just life.  Some of my favorites included:

1. You are not a mess-- stop apologizing for not having every little thing in your life together.  Your bed is not made? You need to do laundry? Stop stressing yourself out on having it all together cause in realty--nobody has everything together all the time.  Give yourself a break, man.

5. It's okay to let it go--stop holding on to little details of things. Let it go. It's weighing you down.  How can you expect yourself to be happy when you have 495934 things you are holding on to still for no reason? Move on. Drop it & just be happy. 

8.  Some days are unremarkable, that doesn't mean you are-- Some days you will do nothing but watch Netflix and lay in bed.  You are hungry but its 2am and all decent food places are closed.  You feel like you could fall asleep at any moment and sleep forever.  You will feel stupid for crying in your car, but you aren't stupid.  The content of your day is not the reflection of your character. 

10.  You are not responsible for their feelings--Don't let anyone make you feel miserable because they are miserable. There is a line between being there for someone & being someone's emotional punching bag.  Draw those lines.  Try to direct them to something more positive.  You and only you are responsible for your own happiness.

12. You will change and be different-- you are in college.. you are going to change a little bit.. and  your body (you're no longer a freshman in high school come on) will change too.  But don't push yourself, don't push your own personal growth.  You will make mistakes, but don't think that you need to fix your entire life all at once.  It will be okay.

19.  You are already everything you need to be-- so if you need a good cry, then cry, but after you do, get over it, and go get life.  Time doesn't stop so just keep on keepin' on, girl. 

Your feelingsy blogger,

Ending and beginning to a good week

What an eventful but tiring week it has been! From all night pomp (staying up all night to finish pomping the rest of our homecoming deck) and staying up from 7pm Thursday night to 11am Friday morning, and spending some much needed time with my mom and sister, it has been a blast. 
In case you didn't know, Oklahoma State is very well known for the homecoming celebrations every October! Thousands of people lined the streets of University Ave. Friday to check out all of the fraternities and sororities homecoming decks and to grab a snack.. or two.

Here is a shot of our homecoming deck this year.. which does not do it justice.. And here is a shot of the first place winner this year.. just to give you an idea of how outrageous our homecoming decks are:

I'm truly amazed every October when I see these decks.. so much time and effort.  Homecoming makes me love OSU even more every year.

Aside from Homecoming, yesterday my bff celebrated her 20th birthday (yeah nothing really happens at 20 but we celebrate anyway!)  Her mom made the best bunt cake!! This is a chocolate peanut butter bunt cake with peanut butter frosting and chocolate sprinkles.  My bff's favorite is this bunt cake from the store Nothing Bunt Cakes in Norman, but they were all out of this flavor for the month--soo her mom made a nice spin off of it and wow it was tasty!!

And to end my wonderful week I got the opportunity to baptize one of my Switch girls yesterday.  Wow. This picture I feel is such a great capture of this serious and joyful moment in which we were celebrating.  At my church, Lifechurch Stillwater, we had over 80 people get baptized yesterday.  It was such an honor to have been apart of this sweet girl's big day!

On a more personal note, now that homecoming is over I now have enough time on my hands to do things I have been doing but want to do more of.. aka working out, eating healthier, and reading.  I borrowed this book from on of my close friends and have heard manyyy people rave about it! I started it (finally yeah I know Tori) and am already 50 pages in.  It is definitely an eye opener.  It talks about how we live in a society that practices "religion" but doesn't practice a relationship with God.  Today, many people believe that just by "acting" like Christians that they are true Christians. I could go on and on about this book, but you should just read it for yourself!

Your (finally) back for good blogger,

Birthday fun for the roomie & weekend update

As promised, I was going to update you guys on a great past week! It included my roommates' 21st birthday, room change at theta, and the beginnings of homecoming week! 

Here is a pic of me and my old roommates! So sad that I had to leave these babes. Rachel (the girl on the far left in her sassy blue dress) celebrated her 21st birthday this past weekend and we made her a little book of memories and pictures from all of her friends! 

Here's the page I made for Rachel! I loved the cupcake scrapbook paper from hobby lobby and just knew this was the perfect time to use it! My other roommate and I also gave her a sweet little birthday card that we thought suited her and this occasion: 

We had so much fun eating together and helping to celebrate her 21st! Love you Rach! 

This weekend also included a room change for all of the girls living in house. Imagine 96 girls and all their stuff (we have a lot) moving rooms. It was pretty crazy but I now live with more roommates and am getting used to my top bunk bed. 

This weekend we also kick started our homecoming week off at OSU with football frenzy! Aka flag football with sororities and fraternities on campus. Homecoming is OSU's biggest tradition and is unlike any other celebration in the nation. This upcoming week (lol I know it's Tuesday so it's happening now) will be filled with pomping over 24+ hours, late night snacks, and sleepy eyes in class.  But also it will be filled with laughter, homecoming hoops, and house decorations. Love being here and can't wait to share more. 

Your sappy card loving blogger, 

Gettin' a little crafty

Hello friends! I hope everyone is having a good week! This past week (well two weeks) my roommates and I have been getting very crafty! We figured why not take a break from studying & life and do something fun!
Soo here are a couple of the crafts we have been working on/finished for initiation!

 

Some of mine and my roommates Mom/dot (big/little) crafts! I made the box for my dotter and mod-pogued it.  I forgot how much I enjoy mod poging (is that a word?)!

 

USA KAO letters that are so adorable. 

Gotta go celebrate my friend's 21st b-day! I'll take some pictures of our fun night planned.
Your crafty wafty blogger,  (lol idk)

I'm so glad I live in a world with Octobers

October is here! (It has been for a little while I know) October, November, and December are probably my favorite months because of the weather, the holidays and time relaxing and with the family. I feel everyone is getting into the spirit of fall! 

In front of my sorority house the gardeners put out new flowers and pumpkins- they look so good with our cozy brick house. 

A couple of girls carved some pumpkins the other night and I just had to take a picture. I love the way our house looks in the fall. 

P.s. These photos are all featuring Claire-she really wanted to make my blog she said. Lol 

Yesterday, I drove down to see my sister and we decided to go pumpkin picking at a pumpkin patch in Norman. It was so cute seeing all of the little kids so excited to get their own pumpkins. 

My sister and I posing by a hay barrel made to look like a pumpkin. So cute

So many to choose from! We ended up buying thee mini pumpkins (so I could put them in my room) and one big pumpkin we plan to carve today! 

I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful October.

Your pumpkin loving blogger, 

Sick as a dog

Hello again! Wow I can't believe it's been so long since I've lasted posted. My life has been hectic, to say the least.  

Currently I am writing to you as I'm sick in bed. I went to the doctor today (waited 4 hours) and found out I have some type of virus. Soooo since I'm supposed to be resting, I feel like this is a good time to blog! 

Here's what I have been up to lately: 

A couple weeks ago we had Dad's day and was so happy that my dad could come! (Hi dad I know you're reading!) Thankful that he puts up with coming to my sorority events when it's def not his first thing he'd like to do on his agenda for the day. Love you dad. 

Here's another part of my last three weeks! Pomping! Yay! Oklahoma State has the BEST homecoming celebration. To say that we go big in celebrating it is an understatement. 

My sorority recently had a date party titled "dress like a sailor, play like a pirate" 

 Here is my showing off my best pirate impression (my hook arm/finger). My pirate costume consisted of a pleather skirt I borrowed from a friend, a scary skelton face shirt I cut and tied, a borrowed American flag bandana (pirates like the USA right?), and my white high top converse--which is all the new thing for pirates these days (lol). 

My sweet dΘtter Kelsey! In my sorority we do mΘm/dΘt instead of big/little. And now that I am a sophomore, I got my little dotter! We had a big reveal this night where we bought a pair of socks and hid them around the house and our little had to go find them and put them on. After she put them on and came outside, she looked for a sock that matched hers like so: 

We had a big curtain up between us both and then when it was time we dropped the curtain and did our reveal! So much fun. 

I'll blog more soon from our reveal and kite flight! 

Well now Im getting really tired and my head feels like it got hit by a car--soo I will have to check in more another time! 

Sorry about my absence, but Ill be back soon after homecoming settles down! 

Thank you! 

Your cough-drop popping sick girl, 

Hi I'm still here

Wow it has been so long since I have blogged and I hate that. Let me tell you, starting back to school has made me a busy busy bee. With 10 hours of pomping a week, working and junior level college courses, it has been tough my friends. (Currently blogging from work while kids are napping) But here is a little update on what's been going on in my world: 

I recently bought this underarmor work out top and I love it! I got it at Acadamy on sale for I think $14 (wow) they were having a big sale that week and I just wanted to go crazy in there. 

Also, I've been trying to keep up with my work out schedule by taking a few TRX classes, kickboxing, and just hittin the elipitcal &/or treadmill. (I need to more tho) 

Who doesn't love a good pizza with friends while watching the sun go down? God is so good. 

This past weekend my old roomie and I made a trip down to Plano, TX to watch her nephew play football-- and we had to stop at Sprinkles Cupcakes. This cupcake was chocolate covered marshmallow (tasted like a gourmet Ho Ho lol) it was awesome. 

Ya so I bought my first OSU shirt two days ago... So embarrassing lol now I want to wear it 24/7 

Me and some friends grabbing gelato as a quick study break motivation (sometimes you just have to.. Am I right?) 

I appreciate everyone who reads my blog posts and tells me about it. Y'all truely make my day. Thank you! 

 Your blogger friend that will be back soon (I promise), 

Road Trips are Necessary..right?

Last weekend my friends and I woke up on a Saturday morning and randomly decided to go to OKC and to do some spur of the moment things. Here's what we did on our little day trip:

The first thing we did was head over to 24th Street Piercings and got our ears pierced.. Yes I know we were feeling very outrageous today. All of them got their cartridge pierced, but I ended up just getting a second hole next to my first one.

Here's how mine turned out-- I really love how small and simple it is. 

While we were getting our piercings all done together, the guy (who was covered from head to toe in tattoos) said "well at least you aren't getting tattoos" haha we thought that was so funny. But yes at least we weren't being that crazy. 

After our little piercing session, we headed over to "The Wedge Pizzeria." This place was awesome. It had a great view of downtown okc as well!

We started our meal out with the garlic cheesy bread. We were so hungry and finished it all. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of our pizza, but we ordered one plain cheese pizza and one with feta cheese, chicken, spinach, and mushrooms. They were both amazing. The crust is the perfect in between thin and regular crust.

And for dessert we had some fabulous dark chocolate chip gelato. They had so many different flavors but I had to go with my all time favorite.

We then roamed about the downtown area and found some interesting little places, like this record/cd store. My friends and I are big fans of classic rock (thanks dad) and so we picked up a few things. I called my dad immediately and started searching for some of his favorite CDs and was mostly successful! They were so inexpensive too (always a plus for a college girl)

While roaming around downtown we came across numerous yard sales/thrift stores. It was so cool to look around at all of the old fashion things! (My friend actually ended up buying a guitar that was in great condition that we played on the way home from the city!)

After our long day, we headed back to Stillwater, but not for long-- later that night me and two other friends headed to  good ole Ponca City to get some snacks!

I had heard all about the famous "Dixie Dog" we just had to try it. We got a Dixie dogs and shared some pickle-os, Mac and cheese bites, and cheesy potato bites with the girls (we're in college right?!) it was so good!! We decided we were going to have to make another trip soon!

I don't know if you can really see me ok this picture, but i had to climb up and take a picture with this statue! This is the Pioneer Woman statue in Ponca!

This weekend is a long weekend for Labor Day and I'm hoping to get some more blogging time in, so check back later! 

Your adventurous (as of this year) blogger,