Lemon Garlic Spaghetti

Oh How PINTEREST! of me!


Found this recipe on - pinterest and figured it was time to complete yet another pinterest project.




So this is the website I originally followed.
http://www.inomthings.com/?p=1756

So HERE we go!


4 oz dry spaghetti
1/4 cup grated parmesan
2 tsp olive oil
1 clove garlic
1/2 lemon
5-6 basil leaves
Grilled Chicken


I switched it up, because I don't love pine nuts and also I wanted to add meat so thats why I added the grilled chicken to the recipe although the original recipe didn't include it. 


So first I slices and diced my garlic clove, also I have NO idea was a clove is, so I used two pieces of the Garlic clove, I believe...

This took awhile, you combine olive oil and the diced garlic cloves and then let sit on low heat until they are a golden brown 

After that you wip up some spaghetti I also want try different types of pasta.

I grilled a little chicken up, and added along with the garlic chives, parmesan cheese basil leaves and lemon.

I also added a little bit of butter Juuust in case ;) 

Here it is, complete with flowers from Caleb :) Garlic Bread, Mozzarella sticks, and some Pillsbury Hors d'œuvre. 

Because Nice Matters.

Today I sat on my bedroom floor listening to my voice mails, after being informed that my voice box was filled and that I had to delete old messages to make room for "new" ones. 

what I doubt Verizon will ever understand, is that those very messages i refuse to delete are the messages that still bring tears to my eyes, make me laugh maybe both at the same time. 

See. I can't always answer my phone but my mother can leave my a tear filled message telling me she misses me, as many times as she wants and I will never delete that. 

I once told someone I was ashamed of the actress I played in my own life. 

The reality that sometimes, we just want to break down and cry...isn't truly as accepted as many think it is. 

I watched an old school teacher today at work simply buy a little mood ring for one of her old students, and tears filled my eyes, because this woman knew nothing about this woman's life knew not a single think about what she was going through, but just the kind jester of getting her a little thing free of attachment free of guilt. A gift. 

I wish I could say that I never once lost my cool with a stranger, and that everyone I came in contact with I was nice too, simply because I don't KNOW what they are up against I don't know what they are fighting. 

But there are days when I am fighting and they are fighting and are battles, start fighting one another. 

I am far from perfect. But today I want to hug a stranger because they need it. 

No heat Curls - THAT CURL.

Gotta Love Pinterest.
Gotta Love completing a PIN!

Project # 2.

No heat Curls...But no they curl?

This was what I followed! 

This was my hair the night before! All Wound up!

THIS was my curl hair in the morning I even got compliments all day from customers at work, that my hair looked wonderful, and if it was natural :) 

I used mousse the night before and my hair was lightly damp, I sprayed it that night with hair spray and also in the morning ran some mousse and hair spray through out my hair to keep it a little controlled. 

I wanna see if I do little twist if the curls will be smaller, so stay tuned! 

How Pinterest of you...

I have over a hundred pins on pinterest, now some of them are the "good to know"
But other's are - I should, I NEED I gotta do this! 
So I have dedicated this summer not only to working, working, working, BUT also a lot of little DIY!! 


So here is my first one! 


Supplies - 
Glow Sticks 
Ballons 
Christmas Lights 
Glitter
***BUG SPRAY!

We blew up 60 balloons and filled them with glow sticks, it was easiest to bend the glow sticks in half and then put the balloon over it and then blew up the balloon. 

Also! Buy the clearest balloons that you can find, I grabbed mine from the yankee dollar. Also make sure to not make the balloons to small or to large the larger the less the balloons glow and two small the glow stick pushes through the side. 

We also streamed christmas lights all over her play ground and also anything really else we could get the lights too. 

Second I made my mason jar fairy catcher — we cut open the glow sticks and then added glitter — then shake shake shake!

The best part was definitely the photos with a long exposure and throwing the glow sticks in the air it created this amazing effect!

Birthday girl : ) 

"If you Love me..."

2 Timothy 2:15 - (KJV)

¹⁵ Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Galatians 5:22-23

King James Version 

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

For just a little while, I decided to study the Fruits of the Spirit. Something so very popular, so often spoke about but a topic I never really broke down for myself. 

I started with Love. 

Something I have decided may be the very most important of them all. 

The verb definition of Love is to need or require, benefit greatly from. 

We benefit from - Love. 

Love is without compensation. 

Love is God's benevolent attitude towards us. 

The fruits of the spirit are a representation of the holy ghost - and if the holy ghost is from God, then the love that we show forth, must also be, from God. 

- God's love isn't conditional to our success's or our failures meaning he doesn't love you LESS because you sin. He is disappointed in you and your relationship can be tainted but he doesn't LOVE you less. 

We must  try our thoughts with the Love of God, thinking how would Jesus love this person. 

God is simple Love. Sin robbed the world of Love, Jesus died on a cross for Love. 

John 21:16, 17 

“He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thous knowest that I love thee, He saith unto him, Feed my sheep”

“He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee, Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep”

"Then Feed my Sheep"

If you love me, when you start a church? Will you preach to the rich and the poor? 

If you love me will you FEED my people, with my word? 

“It is only when God's people stand as one body, one before God in the fellowship of love, one toward another in deep affection, one before the world in a love that the world can see—it is only then that they will have power to secure the blessing which they ask of God” - Andrew Murray

A Vessel that is Cracked into many pieces cannot be filled. 

When our churches our cracked by our flesh, we cannot be filled to the uttermost. 

I may only be speaking to myself, but I know I am convicted by the power of Love. Love can bring a church together so very much that they would be filled but when the vessel is cracked and broken and torn by word and actions, it can not be filled. 

I don't want to crack a Vessel. 

I want to feed the Sheep. 

Blessed

I'm sitting on the floor of my dorm, I haven't blogged in months and I haven't really done much of anything, or everything at all lately. 

For some reason I seemed to have think that I indeed was "busy" but the matter is that I am not busy at all but incredibly blessed. 

So I sit here with a grateful heart because I am blessed. 

Here are the reasons why. 

1- I grew up in a family that loved God with all their heart, and their heart became my heart. I truly can say that he has been to good, just simply to good to me. I don't deserve to be where I am today, but by the grace of God I am, for this I am thankful. My family instilled in me what I needed to be me, they did nothing less the challenge me to figure out who I wanted to be, they are indeed the reason I am who I am. 

2- My church, if it hadn't been for their prayers, hugs and smiles every sunday and wednesday I probably never would have made it through high school, middle school or elementary school. They put up with me when no one else would. I have them to thank for molding me first. 

3- My school, Indiana Bible College. IBC. There is nothing earthly tangible about Indiana Bible College, you won't walk away with a degree that will let you into law school, or anything like that but you will walk away with the tools to get yourself, and others into heaven. And at the end of the day if it isn't about souls, then what is it truly about?

No. I won't ever make millions of dollars, I probably won't even make hundreds, but I will value the worth of soul forevermore. 

For that I am blessed. 

When my guidance counselor in high school found out what I was doing with my life, she laughed and then said..."oh" followed up by a couple of months later asking me if I was still doing that "bible" college thing. 

Why Yes. I am, I am still doing what I consider the greatest thing on earth, I care about souls, not paychecks. My heart aches because I walk through my town and see the faces of people, I could have ministered to for years but never felt called, because I didn't feel qualified. 

But God doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies the called, it is up to the called to equipped themselves. 

So I am blessed to be at a place where I can equipped my calling. 

I have friends who care about me, not because I run track with them or we go to the same parties, but because we have a burden for one another. 

No friendship can ever compare to the ones that pray for one another diligently. 

Beyond that I have a Job, I can afford to go out to eat sometimes and I have shoes that covers my feet. 

I am blessed.

A Sunday with a Song.

I heard this song this morning getting ready for church and couldn't get the words off of my mind. 

"You are holy great and mighty
The moon and the stars declare who You are
I'm so unworthy, but still You love me
Forever my heart will sing of how great You are"

Not only do I declare who he is but rather, the whole world - the "moon and the stars" 

What got me though, "I'm so unworthy, but still you love me"

Maybe its just me, but I could sing that line over and over...and over again. 

I'm unworthy.

But still you love me.

Thats really all. I don't need details. 

I'm unworthy. But he loves me.