Impressed!

Last night Ben went grocery shopping for a surprise Sunday dinner he was going to make for us. NICE! last night he began some of the preparations and then when we got home from church yesterday the chef got to work. He told me I COULD NOT look in the kitchen, so I laid on the couch and listened to him cook away. It was hilarious listening to all the noises. I loved it. It took a while so I knew it had to be something pretty impressive. WELL...he made Chille relleno's, lime chicken, and grilled cheesy potato wedges! The really impressive part was the chile relleno's. They were so good! He also bought Sangria, one of my favorite drinks. I think I want Ben to cook every Sunday. It was the best treat ever. Here's his beautiful plate displays...and yes there is avocado slices on the chille relleno's and a swirley lime slice for decoration...amazing.

Just because she's so cute...

I stole some of my favorite pictures of my little niece Brooklynn from my sister-in-laws facebook :) She's just SO CUTE! I need to be in California soon and see my niece and my nephew Aiden!

Valentines Shrine

I made a little conglomeration of all our Valentine's stuff. My mom sent Ben and I cute cards, delicious mint chocolate cookies for Ben, and chocolates for me. She's great. I bought Ben some under-armour briefs that he wears for the gym(I was bad at washing the two pairs he had over and over again so I decided he needed another pair). I also got roses from Ben and we exchanged our Valentine cards :)

So I thought we were celebrating Valentine' day on the Saturday before so I gave him my present that night because I didn't want to wait until Monday. We just went out to dinner with a group of friends which was fun, but it didn't really feel like Valentines Day...maybe because it wasn't! So Monday rolls around and I get a text from Ben asking me if I wanted to go to dinner with him that night. Of course I said yes because I never turn down eating out and then I realized he could only be doing this if it was for Valentines Day. So...I had decided to make snicker-doodles for Ben, but didn't end up doing it on Saturday because I was too busy, so I rushed and made them on my 15 min break since V-day was back on! Haha. Then I wrote in the card I bought for him and ended up getting off work early which was perfect because I was a mess and still needed to get ready. ANYWHO...Ben gets home with a bouquet of roses and a card. I was so surprised because he had just said a few weeks earlier he wasn't going to get me flowers on V-day because their a rip off(how romantic haha, but I agreed it was a rip off) Well I guess Costco has good deals on flowers! Haha. He made me so happy and I was so surprised. I asked him what happened to celebrating V-day on Saturday and he said he thought I seemed sad we weren't doing anything on the real v-day. Haha so cute. We went to dinner and I was so happy and thankful for the sweet hunk I married :) Love him to death.

I am obsessed...

With these two ingredients: Spinach and Artichoke.

If Ben and I go out to eat and something on the menu has these two ingredients...DONE. Decision made. I'm getting it.

Today me, Paige and Shelly went to have lunch at one of my favorite places called Zupas.

They have a DELICIOUS turkey, spinach and artichoke panini and an AMAZING wisconsin cauliflower soup that I get every time I go.(sometimes just one or the other because the place is kindof a rip off) Since I can't eat at Zupas everyday I decided I needed to make the Panini at home for a lot cheaper.

I got the idea to use my fat free spinach dip that I made for the Super Bowl as the spread for the sandwich. It works perfect. I use wheat bread and a layer of spinach dip spread on each slice, a sprinkle of basil, some slices of canned artichoke hearts, tomatoe slices, and turkey. Then I stick in on our little grill thingy to get all toasty and viola!! SO GOOD! I've have literally eaten one every single day this week. (Had to make a trip to the store twice because we ran out of bread and turkey haha)

I know this is probably a REALLY dumb thing to blog about, but hey, maybe someone out there will make one and have it change their life forever, like spinach and artichoke has for me. Haha!