Fall is Here....

I can't even begin to describe how busy we have been lately. Between school and work we both have been so swamped. But I wanted to post a little update of our lives.

(The Adirondacks in the Fall - you couldn't even imagine the colors that we saw, it was stunning.)

A few things that we've been doing.

We......

1. Bought a new car - there will be pictures and a post about it tomorrow. : ) Jack Johnson would be proud.

2. Went apple picking (at a very bare apple orchard, I might add) made my first homemade apple pie, and apple crisp - now I have so many apples I don't even know what to do with them - Any suggestions??

3. Got to watch all 4 sessions of General Conference. It was so amazing and I always feel refreshed after such a spiritual experience.

4.Visited some of my family this past weekend. You will never experience a Fall like the North Country. We got to go out with a married couple.... FINALLY, right?! Also it's funny how all you wanted growing up, was your parents to stop talking but now you could just sit and listen to them all night and marvel at their stories.

And that's really about it...... I know, we have no lives. But I don't see you asking us to hang out!

Things coming up....

1. We have a few reveals coming up in the near future. :)

2. My Mom is coming to visit for the weekend, which I am SO excited about!!! (I hope the picture over the guest bed doesn't freak her out too much : )

Hope you're having a great October!

Cathy

Кухня по Скейнкому

So when asked to come up with a recipe for the blog my mind started swimming with ideas. Should I do a soup? Should I do a sandwich? Should it be breakfast, lunch or dinner? Well I thought and thought and decided to use one of my favorite open face sandwich recipes.

To be honest this was a little tough for me since I rarely use a recipe myself. I usually just throw in a little of this and a little of that but for the most part it always works out and tastes good. So this time was a little different in that I actually had to pay attention and measure out what I was putting in this concoction.

I find the biggest key to cooking and making things work is not your skill level, or the freshness of the ingredients but rather the music you are playing while you are in the kitchen. So for example I’m not going to listen to Metallica while making Борщ (Borsch) or Mozart while making Tacos.

Side note though, Jack Johnson is good for any type of cooking. Try to listen to something that makes you relax and enjoy the art of creating a culinary masterpiece. :)

Total cook time: 30-45 min.

Ingredients:

Rolls/French Bread

Chicken Breast (one breast makes about 2 sandwichs)

Cheese (Provolone or Swiss) 1 ½ slices per sandwich

1 Jar Roasted Red Peppers

1 Tbs. Pesto for every 3 Tbs. Mayo

How to done do this here sandwich: :)

Preheat oven to 375

Spray cookie sheet with Pam. Place chicken on sheet and bake for 20-30 min or until done.

Toast rolls/bread.

Slice the chicken into thin slices when it is cooked. Take 3 strips and place roasted red peppers on top.

Then place 1 ½ slices of cheese on that.

Broil this until cheese is fully melted.

In a small bowl mix 1 Tbs. Pesto for every 3 Tbs. Mayo.

Assembly: Put a generous amount of pesto mayo on the top half of the toasted bread. Then using a spatula place the chicken on the bottom half.

Aaaaaand you're done.

Приятного аппетита!

I hope you enjoy :)

P.s. Cathy made some Strawberry Jelly yesterday. And wanted me to share a picture.

Ross

Aunt Jamima

I wanted to show off our amazing basil plant. We had these as our favors for the wedding. We spray painted them, did the tags and ribbon, put soil in them and planted the basil (thanks Rinn!) It actually wasn't that hard, and we didn't have that many but we loved them! We kept one for ourselves and it's grown great. :)

I just wanted to start off the blog with this to lead into our next project. Hopefully we'll be using the basil!

I really wanted to include Ross in some of these blogs, so randomly he's just going to make something special and different, post the pictures and the recipe to share. He liked this idea because he loves to cook and make the food look all fancy, so he's exited and that makes me excited.

I think the first one will be this weekend sometime. Hope you enjoy!

Have a great night!!

Cathy

Reveal!

Here it is:

My Dad had given Ross and I an old beaten up mirror a little while back and I thought I could make it into something. I wish I would have taken a before picture, it was literally falling apart. We spray painted it about two months ago and never got around to finishing it up. I got the cork board and chalk board paint at Micheal's and it all just came together.

We love how it turned out. The wall in our Kitchen was pretty bare.

If you want to know anything else about our DIY project, let us know.

Off to take a lazy Sunday nap :)

Happy Sunday!

Cathy

SNEAK PEAK

Here's a sneak peak of our next home project, that we'll be unveiling this weekend sometime.

:)

Oh the excitement!!

Talk with you soon.

Cathy

Puerto Rican Patterns

I've been meaning to blog about our honeymoon since I made the blog but haven't gotten around to it. To be honest, we took ALOT of pictures while we were there and I just couldn't bare to pick my favorites to put up here.

I love them all!

But I figured I would buckle down and just do it! So we left for Puerto Rico the day after we got married on a very early flight. And arrived there around 4ish and we were all set to stay until the following Friday. For us full time workers - that is a GOOD feeling :) We loved...

Our hotel -

The FOOD -

Yea we ate alot, what of it? Don't judge, we were in Puerto Freakin Rico!

Note: During this trip I ate, for the first time, at Fuddruckers and Pizza Uno. Sad that I've never been to either of those in the US. They also had chocolate lucky charms, which we ate for breakfast pretty much everyday. We haven't found them since being home. :( Anyways, continuing........

And the Weather -

It was HOTTTT there. I would say it like a million times a day. Ross would count everytime I did, like- there's one, there's two....but whatever, it was scorching and we loved it. It was sunny for most of the day and rained every afternoon around lunch time. Like RAINED and there was lightning and thunder and wind. It was great! We'd go get lunch and then go back to the beach or just walk around and explore.

We got to go to an Art Museum -

And to Old San Juan.

And we went snorkeling one day, which we both loved. Saw a stingray which was really scary. All and all it was a great week and we have many memories from it.

What I really wanted to Blog for, not only to share some photos from our special time there, but to show off the amazing iron and pattern work that exists there. I think I seriously died of amazment everytime I saw a different house and I'm sure Ross was getting sick of me asking for him to take pictures of them.

It was beautiful, I was in awe from it. We took so many pictures, it's been hard to choose. Here are our favorites:

Ross':

Mine:

Both taken by him :) This is my camera skill:

We had an amazing time. And would love to go back...........tomorrow. :)

Have a great weekend everyone!

Cathy

C-O-R you going to the Mall today?

So we've been CRAZY busy this week. My job I don't think could get more crazy, time consuming, or annoying (I'm sure I'll blog about my job later) and I've been trying to set up stuff for school, which starts next week. Ross started this week, so he's been trying to get settled in. I wanted to start singing the Billy Madison "Back to School" song to him on his first day but he had never seen the movie. We rented it last night so I could recite lines from it when I see fit.

Putting our Сумасшедший (Russian word for crazy - thought I was using the word too much but it really does describe right now) lives aside, we wanted to blog about our new couch (hence the title).

Ross and I had been looking for a new couch for a little while now, this is what was at the

apartment for a few months. (so sad)

We had one in mind that we were going to buy but I saw this the other day while shopping with my sister Michelle. She had gone to Taft Furniture to pay off some of her living room set and I was looking around for the fun of it. (We weren't planning on buying anything new until we paid off a few other things) but I saw this couch that I knew Ross would love and it was over 50% percent off! I loved it. And when Ross saw it that same afternoon he loved it too. Enough to buy and pick it up the next day. Here's a few pictures of how it looks in our living room. :)

A special thanks to Ross' dad, who helped us move it in and to our craiglist buyer for taking our old couch. I'm starting to LOVE that website! (different blog, different day though)

We've been having fun putting little details together. Let us know what you think so far! Now off to make some dinner :)

(I heard snoring and I couldn't resist :)

Have a great long weekend, I know we will.

Cathy