{Insta Love} January

How have I gone almost a week without posting?  It's been hectic over here with more snow days, Miss Middle School's weekend musical performance and College Girl coming home for a short break.

To add to the craziness,we hosted a birthday brunch on Sunday!

I hope you are all keeping warm and are you counting the days until Spring like I am? 

Until then here is our January in Iphone photos.

Sweeping up the Christmas confetti.

 Trying to catch the tree's reflection in a snowy window.

 Breakfast time! Emergen-C and veggie egg white scramble.

 Our New Year's fortunes.

 Trying some Troeg's Mad Elf beer.

 What the fox say?

 Such a good book! I can't wait for the movie!!

 Triple teaming my cold.

When ALL of the books I requested come in at the same time!

 Love that asparagus!

 Working on a project....

 Starting to think about Valentine's Day.

 Loving my new camera strap that I got for Christmas from College Girl.

 I kept this up all month!

Admiring my mani.

 Our book club spread.

 Running into this little one at the mall.

 Oh look, more snow!

 I've been doing a lot of this!

 Favorite candle of the moment, a nice fresh change from the Fall and Christmas scents.

 Car pick up line at school.

 Miss Middle School baked these yummy peanut butter muffins.

 Did I mention we've had a lot of snow?

 Salty Starbucks floor.

 Valentine chalk art.

 Lunch at Panera.

 French toast for dinn-ah!

 Stripey sunsets.

 Tea and blanket by the fire.

Working on the my Valentine Argyle Wreath and hitting a bit of a snag.

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{Recipe} Crock Pot Spaghetti Squash & Meatballs

My love affair with spaghetti squash continues...I'm not kidding..I'm obsessed!

I love this stuff!

I also love my crock pot so when I saw this recipe on Pinterest, I knew I had to try it!

You only need 3 ingredients to make this easy dish.

Ingredients:

1 large spaghetti squash

1 bag of frozen meatballs of your choice (I used Nate's meatless-Classic Style)

1 jar of spaghetti sauce 

Wash and dry off the spaghetti squash.  Cut in half and remove seeds and mebranes.

Put the squash, cut side down into the crock pot. Add sauce and meatballs. Cover and cook on low for 5 hours or high for 3 hours until the spaghetti squash has softened. 

Remove the squash with tongs and use a fork to scrape out the 'noodles' from the squash. Discard the shell.   

Put some spaghetti squash noodles on your plate and top it with the sauce and meatballs. Add a little Parmesan cheese if you like. 

So easy, so good!
Linking up with:
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Valentine's Day Mantel 2014

I styled this year's mantel pretty much like last year's mantel because I liked it so much and it was easy.

I didn't buy anything new but I did add in a few new things like the floral heart wreath under the yarn Snowy Garland.  That used to hang on one of our front doors but now they've got their Popsicle Stick Snowflakes adorning them so the wreath needed a new home.

 In addition to the photo of the kids that I have in a heart shaped frame, I added an old photo of the hubby and me and I popped a rose that had fallen off of the wreath into the LOVE candle holder.  I stuck the little mailbox (meant for a roll of stamps) up there and figured it would fit in perfectly with the Valentine theme.

I found the hand print artwork in with the decorations and love how it reminds me of my kids when they were small. {sigh}

Do you do any special decorating for Valentine's Day?

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{Get Crafty}Valentine Candy Houses

I have another easy Valentine craft today that combines cuteness and candy.   I'm behind in my posts and well, Valentine's Day is on Friday so I better get this one up!! We've made graham cracker candy houses for Christmas and did fall themed houses at this party so why not for Valentine's Day?

We had my niece for the day and this was one of our planned activities to do with her.

  I hot glued the houses together this time for stability and to save time (we never eat the houses even when we use icing).  For full construction how-to's you can check out this post.

 I picked up most of the candy in the bulk section of the supermarket. I only needed a little of each so it was pretty inexpensive to do it that way. 

 I covered the table with craft paper and set everything out for decorating including a batch of royal icing for glueing the candy on.

We got to work decorating our cookie cottages and it was a lot of fun! 

The little houses always cheer me up and add to the 'sweet' decor of the season.

Linking up with:
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