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This was one kick butt movie! Jason Statham is a beast...has he done a movie where he isn't kicking someones butt every 5 minutes?!?! Love it! The little girl in this movie holds her own as well. I especially loved her at the end...you go girl!

The beginning was a little to "skippy" for me, but I can see why they did it that way. Jason Statham and the little girl don't know each other in the beginning, but with one look he's instantly bonded to her and feels a need to save her now.

Overall, if you like anything Jason Statham has done go see this movie. It may not have been in the top 5 in it's debut weekend, but it's worth seeing.

Quick Biscuits

Last Sunday, I tried my hand at home-made biscuits! So yummy! A while ago, I had seen this recipe on Ramshackle Glam and remembered how easy it looked and thought to myself..."self you can do that."

I knew I had all the ingredients, but I just didn't know how much of them I had. Turns out I only had one cup of flour so I had to half everything and ended up only making 3 and a half biscuits. That, however, was the perfect amount since I only had 4 turkey sausage patties. I know 3.5 and 4 don't equal each other, but I made it work...sometimes you gotta be creative ;)

These were super easy and super quick. I will definitely be making them again...I just have to buy more flour first (I know...what kind of baker am I that I ran out of flour!?!?)

Hope everyone has a great weekend! 

p.s. If you're wondering how I made my collage...I did it in a new program called picmonkey.com It's free (for now) woo hoo!

Carrie got a BooBoo

Who's Carrie? Well she's my 4 month old Car Baby (I figure if people can have fur babies, I can have a car baby...ha ha...and yes I name all my cars and if you haven't named yours I'll be happy to help). Last week she got hit by a rock that left this mark...

It's about the size of a quarter and kind of looks like a flower, no?!?! Well if you know me, then you know that this would drive me crazy left untreated. So over the weekend I had it fixed and now Carrie has a little scar or as I like to say a battle wound...ha ha.

Do you get a little peeved when your vehicle gets a scratch, ding or crack? I do...some might even say I have a bit of road rage...I don't know what they're talking about...ha ha. I mean is it so wrong to get angry when someone leaves a grocery cart out in the parking lot and you come out to find it has now found your car and has left a scratch?!?! Especially when you are still paying your sweet little car baby off?!?! ha ha...ok enough ranting...

Hope everyone is having a great Wednesday!

Tangy Fruit Salad and Angel Food Cake

Lately I have been obsessed with Angel Food cake with some sort of fruit mixture on top or beside it. I got tired of fruit with no juice to be soaked up so I was bad and added strawberries soaked in sugar water. Now let me tell ya that was deeeeelish, but so original that I still wanted to try something else. To add a little kick to a normal fruit salad I mixed honey, lime and a tiny bit of sugar together and ta-da I have an awesome (healthier than normal) dessert.

Here's what I used:

1/2 a carton of strawberries
1/2 a carton of blue berries
1/2 a bag of green grapes
1/4 cup of honey
2 large limes (juice only)
1 1/2 teaspoons of sugar

What I did:

Wash and cut all fruit and place in mixing bowl or plastic container. Combine honey and lime juice and mix well then pour over your fruit. Sprinkle sugar all over fruit and then toss to coat everything. Stick in fridge for at least an hour before serving. Serve over Angel Food cake, yogurt, or eat by itself.

This made a lot of juice for the amount of fruit I used, but I like a lot of juice. It's also a bit tangy, kind of like a strawberry limeade...mmmm (now I want to go get a strawberry or cherry limeade from Sonic). If you don't like a lot of tang or juice, I would only use one large lime (or two small limes).

Enjoy!

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This movie is from 2003 and when I think 2003 I think "oh it's fairly new", but in reality it's 9 years old! I'm still in the mind frame of when someone says 10 years ago I automatically think the 90's...anyone else with me on that?!?!

This was a good movie. Colin Farrell actually looks healthy in this movie. It's another movie about the government, but this time it's all about what it is like getting into the CIA. It also has it's mind games, personal issues and a little bit of romance. Overall, if you are into conspiracy theory type movies I would suggest renting it or recording off of the TV.

April Meal - Chicken Teriyaki

My first ever crock pot meal! This was very rich and very delicious! I found this recipe over at Just Get Off Your Butt and Bake (click HERE for the recipe). As you can see I put the chicken over steamed white rice and added a side of garlic pepper green beans for my veggie (these are my favorite green beans ever!).

What I changed from the recipe:

• only 3 chicken breasts
• no red pepper flakes 
• onion powder instead of an onion
• garlic powder instead of minced garlic

I ended up cooking the chicken on high for 2 hours while I sat back and watched a movie. 

I will definitely be making this again. I can't wait to eat the leftovers...yum!

Elmo Pinata

 

Isn't Elmo cute?!?! This is my third pinata and I think it just might be my favorite one! :) I made this for Erica's son's 2nd birthday. I did this one a little different from the others. First, I tied the string it hangs on in between the first and second layers. Second, I did a third layer just to be safe since all the candy will be a smaller "container". Third, I wanted to make sure Elmo looked "shaggy" so I fringed the crepe paper.

Fringe equals FUR!

He looks so happy :) Hope it makes the birthday boy happy too

Hangin' Tough...NKOTB anyone?

Green Monster Smoothie

I've been wanting to try one of these for a while and finally got around to making one over the weekend.

Mine consists of:

2 cups baby spinach
1 banana
3/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
1 spoonful of peanut butter
1 individual container of Okios greek yogurt in vanilla (I think it's 4.5 oz)

I blended everything together and ta-da green monster smoothie. The banana is really powerful so it tasted just like a banana smoothie. I think next time I will add a few strawberries and blueberries to the mix.

Have you tried one? If you have, what did you put in yours?

Thin Mint Truffles

Yummy! I can't decide if I like these or the Oreo truffles more...I guess I'll just have to try a few more to decide ;)

What you need:

1 box Girl Scout Thin Mints
4 oz cream cheese
1 pkg of vanilla candy coating
Green food coloring

What to do:

Crush/blend/food process the thin mints (works better if they are frozen). Dump crushed cookies into a mixing bowl. Mix in the cream cheese. Form small balls and place on a wax paper covered cookie sheet. Stick them in the fridge while melting the candy coating in the microwave. Place truffle balls in melted candy coating and spoon some on top to completely cover the truffles. Place truffles back on cookie sheet. Add green food coloring to remaining candy coating and place in a baggie. Cut off one bottom corner of the baggie and squeeze your design on top. Place back in fridge to set.

1 box made 27 truffles for me.

I wish I had more cookies to make another batch...guess I'll have to wait until cookie season comes back around :)

When Frogs Attack

This happened last Saturday...

Yep I got attacked by a frog!!!! A very green, very slimy frog...ewwww.

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Me likey! Ha ha. Woke up even earlier and bought tickets online just in case it was sold out again by the time we got to the theater. When we got to the theater there was hardly anyone there, but it was a full house by the start of the movie. I saw several people ask other people if they could scoot down so their group could all sit together...I've never had the guts to ask someone that...I don't like talking to strangers...ha ha...stranger danger!!

Anyways back to the movie...

I haven't read any of the books in this series yet, so I went in knowing nothing which I loved! It's nice not having to sit there and compare every little aspect of the movie to the book. I thought it was cast really well. Even Lenny Kravitz did really well in his part. And Elizabeth Banks is unrecognizable, but so good! I'm pretty sure this was the first time I've ever seen Jennifer Lawrence and she was exceptional as Katniss Everdeen.

What I don't get is why they have promoted Liam Hemsworth (or Mr. Miley Cyrus) so much. He was in it for a whole 5 minutes maybe. I'm sure he has more to do with the other books, but that was just weird to me.

I have to say I'm really excited to see the other movies now. I'm debating if I want to try and read the books first or not.

Have you seen the movie or read any of the books? Are you going to do either if you haven't?

March Meal - Honey Lemon Chicken

I cut it close again, but was able to make a new recipe last Thursday for my March meal. I found the recipe over at How Sweet It Is (her blog has some amazing recipes). I really liked this chicken. It reminded me a lot of Chickfila's chicken nuggets, but less greasy. The only complaint I have with this recipe is my own cooking. I'm always nervous that the chicken won't be done, so I let a couple of pieces get really dark :( The dark pieces don't make very pretty pictures...see below.

I will probably make this again, but I might try baking the chicken verses frying it (I'm much better at baking chicken, plus baking doesn't make my kitchen smell like oil for an entire day after cooking).

Anyone else find frying to be a little stressful and lingering?