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Friday Favorites!

Yay for Friday!  I’ve got lots of favorites today and one of them is the fact that we are out of school on Monday!!!!!  It’s a weather day that we haven’t had to take (thankfully) and so I’m loving the fact that I get an extended weekend 🙂

Speaking of this weekend, I am excited to finally get to celebrate Valentine’s Day with my husband.  Last year, for our first married Valentine’s Day we went to a wedding in Nashville. This year we’ve got reservations on Saturday night at Texas de Brazil (that I’m kind of nervous about….I hate feeling full and I know this is an all you can eat kind of place).

Here we are last year at the Hard Rock for the reception!
I surprised my FAVORITE Valentine ever with a package of sugar free pecan pies from Priester’s.  This is a place in south Alabama that we always stop at whenever we go to the beach.  The first year Dustin and I were dating, I had stopped there with my family and wandered over to their sugar free section–and I had no idea they even had that.  They had these sugar free mini pecan pies, so I bought him a ton.  After that, it’s been a Valentine tradition of mine to order a package for him.  Can you tell he was excited?
And apparently the one pecan pie he ate made him sleepy 🙂  But in all seriousness, anytime he sits in that chair, he falls asleep.  Our furniture is so comfortable that it’s always a FAVORITE!
Manly things are so attractive to me–so this is a FAVORITE sight!  He’s checking out something going on with my car.  He tried to explain it to me while we were driving, and it’s like I heard what he was saying but it just didn’t register.  Sorry Dustin!
Spontaneous little date nights are a FAVORITE
And taking pictures with my forever boyfriend are a definite FAVORITE….even when he’s tired of pictures haha!  Another FAVORITE is that I worked hard this week to get all of my assignments done yesterday, so yesterday around 4:30 I went outside to walk and walked for almost an hour!!!  It was so nice to be able to do that!
Mom and I are making another trip to Sephora right after school today….which means an Anthro trip, too.  Only because it’s my FAVORITE store in the whole wide world!

White Chocolate Strawberry Trifle

I’ve had this recipe scheduled to post multiple times and each time something else came up for me to post.  I’m so excited to be sharing this recipe with y’all right before Valentine’s Day because OH MY GOSH YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT RIGHT NOW!

I made this back in January to test it out and I literally wanted to eat the entire container.  It contains two of my favorite flavors ever–strawberry and white chocolate.  I mean, my mouth is watering just typing all of this!


White Chocolate Strawberry Trifle 

1 strawberry cake, baked and cut up into small squares
2 white chocolate pudding boxes
2 8 oz cool whip 
4 cups of milk

1. You should already have baked a strawberry cake and let it cool before cutting it into small squares–about 1 inch each.  Layer half of your cake on the bottom of any bowl–I used a pasta bowl because I don’t have a trifle stand.
2. Prepare 1 pudding pouch according to directions in a large bowl (mix 2 cups of cold milk with 1 packet of pudding for 2 minutes).  After you mix the pudding, mix one cool whip container with your whisk into the pudding mix.  This may take a while and you want your cool whip to be softened before you mix it.
3. Pour that bowl of pudding/cool whip mix onto your cake squares.
4. Repeat steps 1 and 2, and place in fridge for 4 hours before eating.  (Or overnight)
5. You’ll notice that I threw some Valentine M&Ms on top of mine–don’t do it!  I did that for the picture and then put this in the fridge.  When I went to take it out, the color of the M&Ms had stained the white mixture and it wasn’t pretty.  Learn from my mistake!

Y’all are going to love this and you can make this with any flavor cake mix and any flavor pudding!  White chocolate and strawberry just scream Valentine’s Day 🙂

Weekend Recap!

Happy Monday, y’all!  I spent all last week getting hours for my internship at a local elementary school library, and this week I’m back to my normal job!  I missed the junior high and I’m glad to be going back today 🙂

I have zero pictures to document Friday because I’m pretty sure I went to sleep as soon as school was over.  I have no idea why I was so exhausted last week–I’m thinking it was because I was just out of my normal routine, but I literally went to sleep Friday night and slept for over 10 hours.  #sotired

Saturday morning I woke up early and did my last assignment for the week and turned it in.  I did a little laundry while working on my homework and waited for Rachel to get done with Upward so I could run with her to eat lunch and do errands.

This is me with dirty hair and no make up, and my beautiful sister with her gorgeous make up on.
After spending time with her, I went to a local store downtown that sells antiques by the booth.  I could have wandered around all afternoon.
I told my mom she needs this painting!
And I really thought about buying this pink depression glass.  
After I left that store, I went to meet my dad at the park to play disc golf.  I was having a horrible game and even got my disc stuck in a tree (insert hand over eyes emoji)–who does that?  My dad did great and got to play with the new disc we got him.
Sunday was church, hanging curtains, and “watching” the Super Bowl.  As in, Dustin watched it and I looked at the TV during commercials and halftime. 

I’m ready for a good week back at school!

Linking up with Biana today!