All over the place.

I seriously feel all over the place right now! I am super homesick, and missing my family so so much. I am hoping we get to go visit them soon into the New Year; all of my vacation time has been used already because of our awesome wedding!

I had my first “exam” at the lady doctor today and that was weird. Last weekend we went and visited my sister and brother in law at their apartment in Westland, MI. It was a blast! We ate grapes, crackers, and Brie, and then had really awesome ice-cream on Friday. Saturday consisted of puppies, mall shopping, sushi, and a fun water park!  Then Sunday we visited their church with them, got suh-weeet Chinese food, and watched the new Sherlock Holmes movie, and then headed home. Hello good times!

Hubbs got a keyboard last night so now he can practice at home! It is really nice and he knew the person that sold it to him so it was not expensive at all! He really feels like God is telling him to play, that is his talent and he needs to use it not hide it.

I am so happy!

He has a gift with music and sounds so beautiful on piano.

I am looking forward to the nights that I can walk through our house and hear him play and sing. I feel Gods presence so much greater when listening to Aaron play and sing instead of just listening to a CD or Pandora. He recently learned Lisa Gungors song Wrap Me In Your Arms.

Here is the link if you haven’t heard it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR09SJDeu-8 

Seriously. Amazing.

I have been feeling so brought down by the world and all of its downfalls. The devil has really been pushing against me. Were in a war, and Gods people need to be strong and stand for whats right, and I feel like a lot of people have not been standing and have been conforming (including me in many instances). We’re not to conform to this world or the worldly views of the people in it. I am living for one thing, Jesus. We can’t live halfway in the world and think everything is fine. We need to give everything to God and glorify Him at all times. There is so much more that I could be doing for Him. I fall short so often, but I know His unending Love and Grace are there to pick me up every time and bring me back into His awesome presence.

Speaking of His awesome presence, our Sign Team is on fire! Right now I am looking for a song for the Adult Sign Team that I can incorporate the Children’s Sign team into. Maybe Kirk Franklin’s He Reign’s song? The children could do the “Our God is an awesome God, he reigns from Heaven above” verse and the adults could do the other verses. I really want to get the children involved in it; some of them have showed a big interest. I really feel like God has big plans for this ministry!

Well I think this post is long enough, my goodness!

Hil-dawg and I have an “us” night planned including pizza, movies, and I am sure lots of chocolate.

Have a good weekend!!

<3 Brittany.

Softball at 3 a.m.

I hope everyone had a great Independence Day here in the USA! I am thankful for our free country and for all of the men and women who are fighting and who have previously fought to keep it that way! My dad was a marine, love you dad! :)

We spent the day with Aaron’s family, swimming and eating grilled hot dogs. Yum! After this we went to a minor league baseball game (Tincaps represent!) that had fireworks after the game. I just love the fireworks! I feel that fireworks needs to be a much larger word because, well, fireworks are just awesome.

Something else awesome was at the game. It was a dog bat boy.

SO CUTE!
He also took the umpires water bottles in a basket. It was almost better than the upcoming fireworks.

Last weekend the hubbs had an all night softball tournament. Yep. The plan was to play softball. All. Night. Long.

This is an event that happens every summer during church softball season. The games start at about 9:00 Friday night and continue until mid morning Saturday. They are usually a lot of fun, but seriously when four in the morning hits those bleachers get awfully uncomfortable. Due to the freak storms that went through Indiana the power was knocked out at the ballpark. Actually like 40,000 people were without power in Fort Wayne from Friday to Wednesday because of it. Anyways, the park manager pushed the games that were supposed to start at nine back to begin at midnight when they could get generators to power up the fields. The park got the lights on early so games began at 11:00 p.m. After a few games the weather started to go down hill again, and the radar turned red. The players kept playing until we watched a police officer come tell the park owner everyone had to at least go get in there cars because another storm was coming, and fast. We all felt it! Sadly, shortly after this occurred we got a phone call saying the rest of the tournament was cancelled. :(

We had fun while it lasted!!

This weekend Aaron and I are driving up to MI to see me sister and her hubby! I am pumped to see her and not just because there is an IKEA five minutes from her house. I will be sad to miss my wonderful church, but we will be visiting Bridgett’s with them on Sunday!

Lots of pictures soon to come :)

<3 Brittany.

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

My Carrot Is Getting Really Thin

Helloooo,

I figured I should update you on the past couple of days! I had my friend Hil-Dawg over to help me make “Skinny buffalo chicken lettuce wraps” which I think are disgusting (see end of post to hear about what my sister did to me to cause this) but she and the hubbs loved it. Hil-Dawg asked if she could help with anything so I gave her a whole carrot and a veggie peeler and said she could peel the carrot for me so I could chop it. Simple enough, right? I need to learn not to assume things. I turned around to do something else and we were chatting away when she says “This carrot is getting really thin!” I turn back around to see this.

She had never peeled a carrot before! So she just kept peeling and peeling and peeling. After almost dying from laughing so much I told her what peeling a carrot meant and that I shouldn’t have assumed she knew! 

That made my night. :)    

Saturday was my father-in-law’s 50th birthday party at their house. Look at his giant cake!

We had a lot of fun visiting (and eating) with family. Hubb’s brother and soon to be sister in law came from Illinois for it so he was extra excited.

Here is my father-in-law being "Over the Hill"

Also, I purchased my first sewing machine! I am SO stoked! I started my first project, a tote bag. I love the material!

I successfully am doing terrible with it though, and have made quite a few errors. I took sewing in high school but that was a while ago. Oh well, no better way to get better than to jump right in and go, right? Its still a work in progress.

Last but not least, the story of why I get nauseous even smelling hot sauce. Let me tell you about my twin sister Bridgett...

When I was about 12 or so we were home alone, just doing our own thing. She comes to me carrying a large spoon of something and says “Here I made this, try it.” Every time before that she had given me a spoonful of something it had been brownie batter or something else that I would have voluntarily put in my mouth. So naturally I open up and she shoves it in my mouth. At first I think “Wow, this tastes terrible.” Then came the horrible horrible burn. She had given me a tablespoon of Tabasco sauce. Why? I have no idea. That, my friend, is why I am scarred for life. Well played, Bridgett, well played.

<3 Brittany.    

Sixty Calorie Banana Muffins Actually Taste Good?

Hi All!

(not hi yall)

Saturday I tried a modified recipe for healthy banana muffins.  

Let’s be real here.

 

I thought they were going to taste terrible.

While making it they didn’t look very appetizing, but I had already mashed the banana so there was no turning back! When they came out of the over the smelled quite good, and after eating one I must admit it was rather tasty! By no means was indulging in a giant double chocolate with chocolate chips muffin (YES PLEASE), but for a guilt free breakfast (at around 60 calories per muffin) they were actually really good!  

This is how I made them.

1 cup instant oatmeal (I used the BetterOats maple and brown sugar)
3/4 cup flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
1 cup mashed bananas
1/2 cup applesauce
2 egg whites
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Here we go!

First preheat your oven to 350 degrees, and then grease your muffin pan. 

Then combine flour, oatmeal, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt into a bowl. Mix this well.

In another bowl, use a mixer to beat the banana, egg whites, and vanilla.

Thank the Lord for my Emersion Blender!

 Then stir in the apple sauce.
After this stir all of the ingredients together.

Mix it, mix it, mix it

Once mixed, pour mixture into muffin tins (about 3/4 of the way full), and bake em 15-20 minutes.

 You can tell when muffins are done by inserting a toothpick into the center of a muffin and it comes out clean.

This makes 12 muffins. Hubbs loved them, and said “They even look healthy.” I wasn’t really sure if that was a good thing or not… Good is what I am going with. J I am pretty sure I will be making these again!

<3 Brittany.

Two Months Say Whaaaat!?

Hiya!

So yesterday was my hubbs and my TWO MONTH anniversary.

Wow! It really has flown by.

I honestly expected that after the wedding things were going to settle down for us and we wouldn’t be so busy. It was all great in my head: lots of awesome fancy dinners that I made for him when he got home from work, long Saturdays sleeping in, spending time together just doing nothing.

NOPE.

Man was I really wrong.

Now that were married we have people to see, places to go to, and people to shoot.

JK guys they are just targets, calm down. :)

Don’t get me wrong we do spend some time together and it is great when we do, but were both working and in school and have very active lives.

ANYWAYS, back to the point of this post.

Yesterday was two months of being married. We both had long days at work and a long night at our classes. I get out of class and hubbs meets me at my car with a “Happy two months” and a kiss to help me inside. I thought “Oh my goodness, that is sweet he missed me while I was in class!”

Then we get up to our apartment and he has me close my eyes before I go in. He leads me to our room and has comfy clothes laid out for me to change out of my work clothes, then has me come in the living room where he has Psych (the best TV Show ever) ready to play and sparkling blueberry juice. On my way to the couch I see a display he has set up for me, two vases with one red rose in each (for two months of being married), a Victoria Secret gift card, a Starbucks gift card, and four gourmet chocolate/ truffle bars.

(sorry for the not so awesome picture, my phone is not a camera as you can see)

I died and went to two month anniversary heaven.

He is the sweetest thing and God has beyond blessed me with him!

I am so thankful for everything I have in my life, and I really couldn’t ask for more!

Welp, that’s what’s happenin’ with me.

Tonight I am obviously spending my gift cards and hope to make a healthy version of banana muffins. Tomorrow I am checking out a Farmers Market (I have yet to find a good farmers market in this big city) and going to make some kind of a strawberry angel food cake dessert. We will see how they turn out!

Happy weekend!

<3 Brittany.

“Whats this all about?”

Hello!

I just updated my “Whats this all about?” tab with a little info on me.

Check me out.

I am one cool cat.

No joke. :)

<3 Brittany.

The Blog Thing

Hello, my name is Brittany, and I have decided to blog.

"Why?" you ask? Well, I just want to. I am not really sure what this blog is going to be all about. Even if I did know, it would probably change about thirty times. My life can be very random at times.

Let’s say I am doing this to hopefully inspire people (whether it’s through God or DIY projects), to spread Gods light, to keep my across the country family up to date with pictures, to be expressive and creative, to have accountability, to have fun, and well frankly to keep track everything going on in my own life! I know people are always busy busy busy, and I most certainly fall under that category. I think it would be nice to be able to have a place to look back through everything that I have experienced, created, and learned. I will give a full introduction on my happy life soon. Now let’s see how this thing turns out!  

 (My wonderful husband Aaron and I)

<3 Brittany