Love these!

Here are a few of the things I've been admiring this month. I can't keep myself away! I've looked at these more than just a few times.

My very good friend, Lee, has the cutest etsy shop. I really love her photography and note cards. Here is one of my favorites. Click the link to see her whole shop. You'll be glad you did.

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6574572

My favorite dress this year! I'm getting the pink one. Boden has the cutest clothes! http://www.boden.co.uk/

Some of you may know that I love my Southern Living magazine! There are always great recipes I want to try, gardening tips I wish I could use, and pictures of my dream home. A few years back I actually visited one of the houses in South Carolina. Anyways, here is a frosting recipe I want to try. They had about 10 different kinds but I love rasberries.

Prep: 10 min. If you love lots of frosting, double the recipe.
This recipe goes with Basic Layer Cake, Vanilla Cupcakes
Yield
Makes about 2 1/2 cups
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup fresh raspberries
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 (16-oz.) package powdered sugar
Preparation
1. Beat first 4 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
2. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating at low speed until blended and smooth after each addition.
Note: Be sure to wash and thoroughly dry raspberries before adding to frosting.

A few weeks ago, my friend Danielle posted that she was looking at this crockpot blog. I like to use the crockpot. I checked it out. Love it. Soooo many recipes. I've already tried one and looking forward to trying many more. http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/

This is the recipe I'm planning on trying next. http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/05/lemon-and-herb-crockpot-roasted-chicken.html

Birthday/Valentine's Day

So as many of you already know....I am the big 25 now...yikes. So I know that I've been in denial about this day but I didn't know Ronnie was. But here is the proof. My birthday cake.

Well luckily Ronnie redeemed himself (haha j/k), with a HUGE suprise to go to NYC and see WICKED on Valentine's Day. We left Friday after work. We were stuck in DC traffic for a while, paid $30 in tolls and got to NYC around 11:30pm. We stayed in Queens. The next morning (Valentine's Day) we woke up early and rode the subway to catch the 9am ferry to see the statue of liberty. It was great. We met some funny people there. We chatted to a lady and her daughter from England and a man from Japan about "queueing in line" and complained about the ridicoulous security to get into the statue of liberty, which you can only climb up to the pedestal now. It was a good time. We then headed over to broadway! Wicked was amazing! The actors were great, the songs were great and was very entertaining. I can't believe I got to go! After the show we walked around NYC and walked through time square and went to FAO Shwartz. Ronnie's friend told him of a good Northern Italian restuarant to eat dinner so we thought we would try it out. Ronnie said "let's just walk there". So we started walking. About 4 miles later...we arrived at the restuarant and they said they had only taken reservations because it was Valentine's day. So I should mention that I was sick (although I was having a lot of fun so I wasn't complaining before this point). This did me over. I had just walked 4 miles in the cold and I was on the verge of passing out and my right foot felt like the ligaments were coming unattached... anways I wasn't happy. Luckily we brought our GPS and found restuarants in the area and decided to make our way back to Queens and just eat there. Well we got on the metro only to realize we were going the wrong way and a worker had to help us figure out how to get back. We got back to Queens, walked to the hotel and got the car and drove to Outback. We parked and found out that the parking closed at 11. We moved the car. Got to Outback and stood in line and then they said the wait was 2.5 hours. It was already 10 something. Ronnie had called earlier to put our name on the list (about 2 hrs before) so they let us wait only 40 minutes. We finally ate at 11pm. It was yummy but I was so exhausted. The next morning we went to see ground zero. Unfortunantly, they didn't have much there. It was just big fences around the area. You couldn't see anything. So we rode back to Queens and went to church. Then headed home. We took the no toll way. Thank you GPS. It was a great, fun filled trip. Only a few moments where I could've passed out, but what can I say, I was sick. Love you Ronnie.