Chicken Bombs!

I've realized that one of my favorite parts about getting married is cooking dinner. 

And really it's one of the only times that I feel semi grown up. 

Talking with Reed through out the day about thawing out chicken or what we should pick up from the store is lame but its a fun reminder that I get to come home to him each night. 

Usually I cook, unless its something Reed has "harvested" or involves the grill. 

But, for this recipe Reed got it from a friend and was ready before I got home. 

They sounded interesting so I thought I would share with you :)

Ready or not, here is the 

CHICKEN BOMB

recipe! 

All you need is a few 

Chicken breasts

 bacon

 cream cheese

 shredded cheese

and jalapeños.

Yep, Reed is very comfortable in the Kitchen. 

He cooks for me all the time, my favorite is when he cooks breakfast. 

mmm mmm good! 

Step 1: Slice and de-seed the jalapeños peppers. 

On a side note, this is how Tepe helps in the kitchen. 

She always has to be touching someone, so since I was standing still taking pictures I became her seat. 

Step 2: Mix the cream cheese & shredded cheese

Step 3: Spoon the cheese mix in to the jalapeño slices. 

Step 4: Slice the chicken breasts and place the jalapeños in the center and recover.

Step 5: Wrap the chicken breasts with BACON  and season to taste. 

Step 6: smother in your fav. BBQ sauce. 

This step and step 5 are kinda optional, just do it as you wish :)  

And I made veggies for  the sides :) 

What you will need is:

Red potatoes

yellow squash 

zucchini 

olive oil 

seasoing

Step 1: Slice each veggie up  

Step 2: Place the veggie slices on a baking sheet  and cover in olive oil then sprinkle with your favorite seasoning.

 The one we use the most around the teeny tiny house is CAVENDERS. 

When I was slicing the veggies one fell on the floor and Tepe tried to eat it. 

This was her response. 

We decided she must not like vegetables. 

The final step for each:

Bake the veggies for about 20- 30 minutes at 350. You can flip them half way if you like. 

And for the chicken put them on the grill until cooked fully through! 

I think it took Reed about 15 minutes? 

(I could be totally wrong about that, I never grill)

And here is the juicy inside of the fabulous 

Chicken bomb! 

This was SUCH a fabulous dinner. 

Like I said earlier, I love cooking for Reed. It is one of my favorite parts about being married. 

We eat a lot of chicken, and casseroles. 

But I'm learning and love going through our recipes from family and friends to find something new to impress my man with :) 

Hope y'all try these and like them as much as we did!! 

Long time no see!

Hey friends!

Sorry I have been off the grid for a week or two. 

Things have just gotten so busy and whatever free time I've had between school and other projects I just wanted to spend cuddling with the Tepster and Reed :) 

I have so much to catch up on for you guys. 

Lots of school projects that I think you'll like and even a few tangents of my own thoughts. 

But I've gotta take small steps to getting caught up cause I don't wanna miss anything! 

First I figured I would go back to the week of Valentines day. 

I did a few projects for customers of my Etsy shop that week and never had the chance to share. 

First was for some good friends and returning customers :) 

I have done 3 or 4 things for them in the past and so I was able to have a little more fun than normal with this piece. I was working on it for a while but I am so happy with how it turned out. 

Lots of fun trying to figure out a way to do the typical "house divided USC vs. Clemson" sign with a little more artistic flare. 

The second project was for a new friend and customer that saw one of my pallet paintings and wanted one for her boyfriend. She chose a quote that he knew well and let me kind of illustrate it as I saw fit. 

It took a while to do the script but we are both really happy with how it turned out. 

Finally. I've shared these pictures before but wanted to make more of a comment on them.

The weekend after Valentines day I did the photography for a friends small intimate wedding. 

( I'm still working on editing. I don't know how professional photographers do it!) 

But not only did I have the chance to try my hand at photography but I also got to do some of my favorite crafts :) 

This was the main decoration for the wedding and was seen as soon as you walked in the door. 

The theme for the wedding was "Love Is" going off of the verse  1 Corinthians 13:4-8. 

Instead of writing out the entire verse I went through and picked out some of the more predominant words/ phrases and wrote them on the pallet in different fonts. 

Once I finished this project I didn't want to send it away! 

I love it so much!

But it fit better on their mantel than it would have anywhere in our itsy bitsy house. 

Another kind of last minute contribution to the wedding was their "guest book". 

Lindsey & Rhett wanted something they cold keep in their house and asked me to come up with something they could frame later on. 

I've seen many of these thumb print guest trees and decided to go with that and just personalize it. 

Going with the theme "love is" I wrote out the verse, date, and their names beneath the tree that their closest friends and family would fill out with their thumb prints. 

It was so fun to be apart of a wedding and getting a chance to just make pretty things. 

And it was even better because it was for a family that I love. 

Now that I've caught yall up on my "fun" projects I can say I've checked one thing off my  list!

Now I've gotta catch you up on the Thankful Project, 5 week Review, New York, school and a fabulous dinner that Reed made me :)