Frozen Banana Bites!

Sometimes I just get an itch to do a few projects! I always think that it will take forever and that I wont have the time or the supplies, little do I know? Most of the supplies are things that I have in my house 24/7.  Once again the recipe for the Frozen Banana Bites, which I then turned into Banana Ice cream.
Now lets begin!!

I misread what I was suppose to do, so my bananas were frozen, they don't need to be! I was just crazy!


Which in turn made cutting them a little hard! I tried to peal them and that was just insane, so I ended up just cutting the bananas frozen.  Its ok to laugh at this, TRUST ME, I laughed at myself the whole time that I was doing it!






I then mixed together the Peanut Butter, Greek yogurt and 2 mashed bananas. ( Another hard thing to do with a frozen banana) I added more peanut butter because I really wanted a strong Peanut butter flavor.




I then had the fun time of putting the cut pieces onto a cookie sheet and then put the creamy mixture on top
followed by a piece of bananas on top of that. Which took some time and patience, and not any form of measurement! I just guessed it all!

I made these and loved them! Thought after a few days I realized that they really didn't have a shelf life! So? I decided to blend it all together once the banana were soft and make banana ice cream! It was also a recipe that I had seen online as well as something that my friend Kaity had made before. All I did was toss them in the blender and wait till it was smooth! I liked it a lot,
I suggest making the ice cream if you have a lot of left overs.


Recipe for Frozen Bites are below!!

Enjoy!!



Link to recipe
http://www.fitsugar.com/Frozen-Banana-Peanut-Butter-Recipe-24047720

Spinach, Egg, Cheese, Sausage, and cheese cups! AKA Mini Quiche!

I recently have been able to get back to doing my DIY, baking and cooking that I get from Pinterest. Which always makes me excited!

I changed some ingredients due to the fact that my bf is picky about certain foods. (silly boys) I must say though that they turned out AMAZING! I love them and I am hoping to find the rigth container to make a huge one of them! ( great for a brunch party or something) 

For the sausage I got the basic one that I always pick up at Grocery Outlet. I cut it into really small pieces because I wanted to make sure that it would fit into the cups! I just put a little bit of oil down just to make sure that nothing stuck to the bottom of the pan.  Due to the small size it cooked up real quick! Once it was done I put it into the larger bowl that everything was going to be mixed into.









The spinach was really easy, I just bought the first cheap package of spinach that I saw at the store. I knew that any left over Zack would eat. I put 3 handfuls into the pot ( very exact measuring I assure you) then
poured in some water. Basically until it stopped making the boiling noise of oil and water. I mixed the spinach up for awhile until it was wilted and it looked cooked through. I then also placed it in with the sausage.










The rest of this recipe is very simple! Just put everything together! I did a little bit of cheese and a splash of milk, with some salt and pepper for my spices! Below is how everything look! OH! Temp of the oven was 375 and I cooked them for 21 minutes!!

Feel free to contact me with questions!!!

Enjoy!!

DIY Pinterest make your own coffee Mug

I have been wanting to get stuff done off my long term To Do list lately. I decided that I should start with something simple. I looked at my list and this was the easiest one!

I liked the idea of being able to have funny sayings on my coffee cups, also I thought that if it worked that it would be a great personalized Christmas gift!

I got my cups from the dollar store, simply because I didn't know if it was going to work. I also got white ones because that was the color of mug that they had used in the Pinterest page. 

It took me awhile to figure out what I wanted to put on the cups, so I looked online and found some funny quotes. I really liked the one where Well Done was on the bottom of a coffee cup. Like a reward for finishing your coffee. 

I found a black sharpie and then wrote my quotes out, I know it isn't the best hand writing  But it was my first time and figured that it wouldn't be perfect. ( As much as I try I am not Martha Stewart)









I would LOVE to know if anyone else trys this and what they put on the cup! I had a blast doing this and I am sure I am going to do it again! Maybe with colored sharpies!

Being healthy.. One year ago everything changed...

It was a year ago this month that I decided to get healthy. I was moved by the book eat pray love and it made me want to do yoga and improve myself.
There was a living social deal a few months before that I had bought with my friend. We both said we wanted to try hot yoga, so? Why not! Granted we always joked how it was going to kill us!
We had decided to use it in April, when I started all of this my goal was to loose weight but that was it. I never had I gained the life change it would put on me and even with my boyfriend.

My first hot yoga class was intense! We did a 90 min class bikram style. We barely knew what to do, and with my belly or my knee? I was laying down a lot! After I got home I had a horrible headache. That I later found out was from lack of water. It was amazing though, I came out feeling relaxed, I had a feeling of peace that I had never felt before and I already knew that I was going to be be an addicting feeling.
That day started my health journey. I started to count my calories, drink more water and just be more aware of what I was eating and doing with my body. Which made the weight start to come off. Zack was changing how he ate as well and he also started to loose weight. ( of course being a boy he lost more weight)

I have been on this journey for a year now and I have lost 34 pounds, I went from a size 16 clothes to a size 10. I am still being healthy and enjoy life! I plan on finding a new way to work out soon at home so I can do it with my dogs. But I am still on this journey, and I cant wait to see where it will take me.

The pictures that you see are some of my before and after pictures from being healthy
 :)

Making time....for the ones you love

Working 15 hour days, going to bed at 8pm or even 630pm if I was ble to! Was truly making a diffidence in my relationship. Days off together became days that I would sleep in and that would be it!

I would never see him! Except maybe a few hours in bed... I was starting to miss my boyfriend and more fights were happening... I has no love life, I only had a work life that would be working two jobs and crashing as soon as I got home.

After a few fights about absolutely nothing, I realized that I needed to make a difference in my world. I did not want to loose my boyfriend to working!

So? I made a choice to make it better! I started to plan dinner together. Have us make breakfast together, do things that would be fun or just good for us to do together! I also made sure that my love life came back!

Doing all of these things cut back on the fights and made me reminded me of how much I love him. How he is my back bone and he is the one that holds me together. Calms me down when I am stressed out or have had a bad day. We may not agree on everything but I don't know a couple that does!

Don't get me wrong, everything isn't perfect now, but I do think of things differently now. My best advice for everyone is to remember that you love them and they love you. So why not make time for them?

:)

Revlon Just Bitten Lip Stain Review

Since I had to wear lipstick for 10 plus hours a day I decided to look into lip stains. I was told a few different ones but the one that stuck out of the Just bitten by Revlon. I knew that a co worker of mine had used it and she loved it.

I decided to do some research, So I went onto YouTube and found a few reviews that were very hopeful. Told me to exfoliate my lips before I put it on my lips, also told me to be wary of the chap stick because it was fragile and broke easily. I found these both simple things that I could deal with so I decided I would try it out. On a random trip to Bartell's I picked one up. It was the color Gothic ( as you see to the right)

The next morning before worked I tried it out. I did as the video said  and I scrubbed my lips with my tooth brush. Since I wanted fresh nice looking lips not gross flakey lips. I then colored in my lips with the tip of the stain and let it try, during this time I blew on my lips cause I have no patience. I then very carefully put the chap stick on and was done!

I loves that I could talk, drink with a straw and basically drink anything and this lipstick stayed on my lips. The only time that it really came off was when I was eating a salad with balsamic vinaigrette. Which is understandable! With the oils and such that are in it. I really do like it!

Pro's
Long Lasting (as in 10 hours)
color stays true
Has chap stick and color together

Con's
Chap stick does break easy (both of the 2 I have the chap stick broke off)
Can dry out if not store right


Overall I highly recommend this product to other people! It is a great way to wear your lipstick all day when you have to for work or when you don't wanna have to think about re applying all the time.

If you try it let me know what you think of it!

One Job?? Leaving Sbux?!?

I decided that I should have a little more detail to how and what happened. To explain why I cried on my last day and why it was so hard for me to leave Starbucks.

In the beginning Starbucks was hard, I struggled learning to do everything. Going from a job where I knew what I was doing to becoming the new guy. I had my share of anxiety attacks and freak out moments. Thinking I was not doing it right to messing everything up. I would talk to my supervisor and friend Linda all the time asking what I could do and all she was able to tell me is that it would "click". That one day all of your training and all of your hours here would finally come together and you would come together. After 4 months? It happened! I would go to work, know what I would have to do and would know how to help others when needed. Going to work became fun and a great time. Learning the customers named and their drinks, making friends with them.. Starbucks was also the first job where I could leave work at work! I was able to leave and what I had just done for the past 4 hours would stay there.  I was at the happy part of my job and I loved it!!

There had been brief conversations with me about having me doing event coordinator tasks which I liked. The idea of using my degree was always something I liked the idea of. (I mean who wouldn't?) I knew that it would just be an every once in awhile thing and I liked it.

 It was a normal Friday. I just got to the salon. I had just bought concert tickets and put my stuff down when the new director of the company came up and asked if I could spare 5 minutes of my time. I went outside in the hallway and found out that he wanted me to start working full time at the schools front desk(which I had already been doing 2 days a week) and to help marketing with events, pr, career fair and a few other things. I was instantly shocked, surprised, and flattered. I said yes and it was that easy. When I went back to the office I was happy but I didn't want to tell everyone that I was leaving..I also had to figure out what my schedule would be so I can tell Starbucks. Because in my mind? I was staying at Starbucks for a year. I needed to get some bills caught up and taken care of so I figured there was no question.

Once I was given my new schedule I realized that I couldn't stay at Starbucks... I tried every way possible but it was not an options..I then realized that this was my chance at work life balance. It was my chance to start working out again, train for my 5k in September...a chance for me to see Zack and to not always be so tired. Along with using my college degree, which had been something I had been really wanting to do in a past few months.

I was invited to be apart of styling for an upcoming event with Mario's in downtown Seattle for an upcoming event. I was thrilled! I found the best clothes I had and went! I put input in and I loved it! It was a moment where I was like... this is my degree, not so bad!!! (haha) Afterwards I felt moved and excited about my new position!! Due to a vacation falling through I was able to go help with the event and I act like a production assistant or just the personal assistant to everyone. Holding phones, and touch up make up and anything else that was needed in my little handbag. Being told that I made the night easier and that a was making things amazing was a good feeling. I was tired when I was done but I was on cloud 9. This is what it was all about!!

My last day at Starbucks had come and I was so sad, and happy! I had a great time working with the people that I loved. Linda, Adam and Melissa were so much fun and great to be around. As I walked into the back of the store I felt myself start to tear up. This had become a part of who I was!!! This store was amazing and the place that I will go back to time and time again. I LOVE the people at 3rd and Pike Sbux..

As I left there that day I knew that I was going in a wonderful direction in my life and that I had become a better employee, person and smart about myself because of them.