Thankful for Pinterest!

I've been saying for quite some time that I *will* make the food on my  Pinterest boards. I will. I will. I will! Well.... I finally did! AND.. I broke it out for Thanksgiving weekend.I thought I would cook enough and be done with it. Not the case! The next day we opted out of shopping and decided to stay home and cook more! No Black Friday?!?! I never thought I would see the day! Pinterest has taken over!!!!

Of course on Thanksgiving Day we have the traditional Turkey, ham, all of the fixins and more desserts than we could ever need. For Breakfast, we had a big ol southern breakfast... Quiche, sausage, apple turnovers and a Pillsbury Cream Cheese Crescent Roll Danish straight from Pinterest!

Crescent Roll Cream Cheese Danish. Want the Recipe? Check it out on my Pinterest board! 

Big 'ol Southern Style Breakfast!
Blueberry Muffins, Sausage Balls, Hasbrowns, Bacon, Cheese and Onion Quiche, Homemade Apple Turnovers, Pigs in a Blanket, Donuts and Crescent Roll Cream Cheese Danish.

 This is one of my favorite dishes...my sister-in-laws' Brussel Sprouts. She sautee's them in a tiny bit of butter, brown sugar, onion and bacon. OMG. Delicious. I could literally eat the whole pan!

 For lunch, we made some football watching food... chicken wings, turkey salad, croissant rolls and Pinterest Pizza Dip! Pizza Dip was the hit of weekend. The kids loved it but we decided that the next time we make it we will add mushrooms and the smaller pepperonis. As always in my house, we give all thanks to GOD first and are thankful for our family, health and friends! This year we celebrated the day with  Good Food, Big Family and Great Memories!!

The Pizza Dip was the hit of the weekend! My kiddos and family LOVED it! Get the recipe here.



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The Weekend of the BIG Head!

How excited was I to go to the Season Opener of the Alabama Basketball game and spot this guy??  It was like seeing a MAJOR Celeb!! He is quickly becoming the "Face" of Bama Basketball!!

Well that was Friday night. Let's move on to Saturday. Time for the Alabama vs. Texas A&M game. Huge game? Yes. Big Game? Yes.

So OMG. How excited was I to be standing outside of Bryant-Denney Stadium and see a LARGER than life Nick Saban Head coming right towards me???? OMG.  The weekend of spotting the BIG HEADS...Yeah!!!!

 

I love this Pic of me and my friend Meredith actually holding our pal Big Saban Head. I mean, would he just die if he ever saw this?? I would think he'd actually be happy and probably laugh. lol.

Saban...if you read my blog, leave a comment and Roll Tide Roll! :)

 

 

Run With It!

I happened to stumble upon the greatest little Running Store the other day when I was in Fort Walton Beach Florida. "Run With It"" is the name and it is fabulous! The folks were extremely helpful, extremely nice and gave me great insight as to what's going on in the Fort Walton running community! They even invited me to join in on their Tuesday night runs. Awesome! 

Make sure to keep up to date on all of their happenings on their Facebook Page and on Twitter! And stop in to see them the next time you hit the sunny beaches of Fort Walton Beach Florida

 No trip to the running store would be complete without a new fun gadget to bring home. I feel an entire blogpost coming on about this bad boy. Stay tuned for that!
 

 The Back Door is always open! :)

 Of course I was only passing through the area but will definitely stop back on on my next trip!

And this use to be a Pizza Hut?!?!

One of my favorite Starbucks is the Starbucks at the Silver Sands Outlet in Destin, Fl. The cutest beachiest Starbucks there is! At one time it was a Pizza Hut. I'm so happy for the change! It's 85 degrees here today in Sunny Destin... Crazy to drink a fall drink right now. But oh well. Gotta have it. And taking it straight to the beach! Happy Fall y'all!

 Fresh Paint, a little remodeling, add some palm trees...and VOILA! Goodbye Pizza Hut, Hello Starbucks!

 Gorgeous White Sandy Beaches of Destin, Florida!

 Starbucks, Destin Beaches and my Banana. Life is good!

Happy Monday... Sprinkles and all!

Most Mondays are just so blah. But not even blah... Just trying to recoup from the busy weekends. I just couldn't handle it today. I needed something happy. Something cheerful. So a homemade cake it is! Well sort of... Homemade from the box.

 Although I've pretty much kicked the dessert habit, my hubby and kiddos can gobble it up. And it's pretty to look at. ;)

Race for The Cure

Race for the Cure is always one of my favorite races of the year! So inspiring to see the Survivors, family members and everyone fighting this battle to all come together for a great cause! I don't have anyone in my family who has Breast Cancer but I hear that 1 in every 8 women will get it. Terrible news. So I'll keep on running for these great women and hope we can beat this!!

A few of my good friends showed up to run with!!

This was one of the Team Tshirts that I thought was extrememly funny!!! Really?? Angry Boobs?!?! HILARIOUS!!!!

I ran for my friend Paula. She battled Breast Cancer and her scans have come back "Cancer-Free"!! Yay Paula!! I thought about her and all of the other folks at the finish line and turned it on for a strong finish...that's what they are doing, FINISHING STRONG!!!

And Oh yeah, of course we found Eric Church's tourbus along the way!! We are honky tonkers...yeah!!

The Survivor Parade makes it all worth it! Rock on Ladies!!!! See more photos from the Birmingham Race for the Cure here

Rev up your engines!!!

So Sunday was not just your ordinary race, it was 13.1 miles around the Talladega SuperSpeedway in Talladega, Alabama. YAY for NASCAR!

I have ran this race a couple of times and it's really one of my all-time faves. For starters, we start on the track. Yep that's right. On the track! We run a couple of miles around and then we are taken out towards the parking lots where we run approximately 6 miles and then led into the grandstands!

Running through the grandstands where all of the spectators sit and watch the races gives it a whole new perspective. Supercool!

From the grandstands we are led around the track and then back onto pit row for the FINISH! We finish where the NASCAR drivers come in for pit stops! I love this race! I even spotted Olympian, Bill Rogers!

The post race party is always excellent and just what you would expect from a Bama race, live music, lots of beer and great BBQ.

As always, I had lots of friends and family to run with which makes my hobby so much more fun!
Already putting Talladega Half on my calendar for next year... It's Dega Baby!!!