Peanut Butter Eclair Cake

This is another yummy dessert that I found on Pinterest! I made this for a dessert for my Grandma's house for Christmas dinner. It turned out really good and I can't wait to make it again! 

Ingredients:

• 1 box chocolate graham crackers (there will be a few leftover)
• (3 ¼ oz) boxes vanilla instant pudding
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 3 ½ cups milk
• 1 (8 oz) container cool whip, thawed
• 1 can chocolate frosting

Directions

1. Spray bottom of a 9x13 pan with cooking spray.
2. Line bottom of pan with whole graham crackers.
3. In electric stand mixer, mix pudding with milk and peanut butter; beat at medium speed for 2 mins. Fold in whipped topping.
4. Pour half the pudding mixture over graham crackers.
5. Place another layer of whole graham crackers on top of pudding layer.
6. Pour remaining half of pudding mixture and cover with another layer of graham crackers.
7. Heat container of prepared frosting, uncovered in the microwave for 1 min.
8. Pour over the top of the cake
9. Refrigerate for at least 12 hours. 

Happy Birthday Brandon!!

It totally passed my mind that I didn't wish my brother a Happy Birthday on my blog this year. 

Don't worry I did remember his birthday the day it came. :)

My brother turned the big 20 on Thursday January 10th. We all went out on Sunday the 13th to celebrate with him. We went to dinner at Margarita's his favorite place. We did gifts and cupcakes there as well. 

It was a nice dinner with the family!

Opening gifts, my brother lost all his socks and for some strange reason he hasn't went and got more. 

So, this year our Grandma, Shane and I all got him a packages of socks! LOL. 

 Shane and I also got him a couple of long sleeve shirts.

 These are the cupcakes Shane and I made for his birthday. The cake and the frosting are all made from scratch. They turned out super yummy! Recipe to come shortly.

Hopefully my brother had a good birthday this year! :)

Snow Snow Snow

How did everyone like the snow to bring in the new year?! I actually wanted a big snow this year just so I could see our new home all white and in the snow. The first time that it snowed I didn't get to capture any pictures sadly but I wasn't very happy about the snow that time. I woke up and it was everywhere and I had to go to work. I don't like snow very much if I have to get out and the roads are messy. As we left for work that morning it took us 2 hrs to get to work and mind you we only live about 15 mins or so from work. So yeah that wasn't a fun way to start off the day. Then to make that day even better I started coming down with a cold and felt like crap so I had to leave work and go home early. But the way home but a much better drive then to work (think goodness I would have had a melt down or killed someone, LOL). 

So, now we have had our 2nd snow of the winter and I was good with that snow. I was a little worried when I woke up and seen all the snow b/c I had plans to go see a handsome little baby. But once I got out on the roads they weren't bad at all. I was also good with this snow too b/c if needed I could have stayed home and not got out if it was super bad. 

Isn't our house cute in the snow with the Christmas lights on! 

 This was taken out back. 

That's all the pictures so far I have gotten of our house in the snow. Who knows if we will have more but if we do let's hope I can stay home and not drive to work for 2 hrs or I should say sit on the on ramp exit for 2 hrs. Blah! 

Philly Cheese-Steak

Last month I found this Philly Cheese steak recipe on Pinterest. It sounded so yummy and I was craving a good philly and instead of going out to my favorite philly place we decided to make them at home. I will say I'm really shocked that these came out so yummy and it actually made my craving go away (well at for a few weeks LOL).  I did add some more seasonings to the recipe then what it called for but I love all my stuff seasoned now! Instead of buying store hoagie's for the phillies Shane made them homemade and it turned out to be super yummy! We are going to have to make these again soon!

 

Ingredients:

• 1 (12 oz) flank steak, trimmed (We used 2 thin Rib Eye steaks)
•  ½  tsp Kosher salt
• 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
• 2 (5in) Portobello mushrooms caps
•   2 tsp extra-virgin olive oil, divided
• 1 cup thinly sliced onions
• 1 ½ cups thinly sliced green pepper
• 2 tsp minced garlic
•  ½ tsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 tsp lower-sodium soy sauce
• Cayenne Pepper, to taste
• Paprika, to taste
• Jalapeno Pepper, to taste
• Hoagie Rolls

Directions

1. Place beef in freezer for 15 minutes. Cut beef across the grain into thin slices. Remove brown gills from the undersides of mushroom caps using a spoon; discard gills. Remove stems; discard. Thinly slice mushroom caps; cut slices in half crosswise.
2. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add 1 teaspoon oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add beef to pan and season while cooking with minced garlic, cayenne, jalapeno pepper and paprika; sauté 2 minutes or until beef loses its pink color, stirring constantly. Remove beef from pan. Add remaining 1 teaspoon oil to pan. Add onion; sauté 3 minutes. Add mushrooms, bell pepper, and garlic; sauté 6 minutes. Return beef to pan; sauté 1 minute or until thoroughly heated and vegetables are tender. Remove from heat. Stir in Worcestershire and soy sauce; keep warm.
3. Add meat and veggies to hoagie and cheese and enjoy.

 

Our new toy!!!

I told Shane a few months back that I think we should get a tablet. I love my laptop don't get me wrong but it's such a hassle sometimes when we need to look something up and we don't want/can't on our phone. So, I thought having a little tablet for the living room would be great. :) He agreed so we decided that would be something for Christmas to get along with our stand mixer we wanted. We ended up getting the stand mixer sometime in November and I told him after the first of the year we would work on getting the tablet. 

Christmas has come and gone and we got our new Nexus 7 tablet!!! Thanks to my mom and grandpa for the Christmas money we ended up only have to spend a little of our own money for this new toy! 

It was a pain trying to find this tablet anywhere, it was something everyone wanted! We were going to get the 16GB tablet but this was sold out everywhere and no one knew when more were coming in....so finally I said let's just get the 32GB and spend some of our money to get it. So that's what we did, Shane got on his phone while we were out at dinner and found our tablet right next door and after dinner we went and got it! 

I was so happy and couldn't wait to play with it! I love it! I love that I can sit on the couch and watch a show if I'm not interested in what the hubby is watching. It's so little and so easy to work! I think this is going to be a great investment for us! 

Book: The Vampire Diaries (The Awakening)

I'm starting off 2013 with a new book series The Vampire Diaries. I love the show so I thought it was time to read the books. Hopefully I enjoy the books as much as I do the show, guess we shall see once I start reading! Lol.

I hope to read lot as of good books this year. Last year I read a ton of books that's I really enjoyed!

The first book I'm this series is called The Awakening.

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

I hope everyone had a great time bringing in the new year!!

Let 2013 start out as a great year and I hope everyone had a great 2012!!