Puppy says, "Go Cats!"

Rocking a UK hat signed by the current UK basketball team. Even the pup is a fan of the cats!

Attempts in the Kitchen

Since we got married and have gotten so many awesome gadgets and things for the kitchen I have been trying to cook more often. Here are a few things I have done lately that turned out:

Peanut Butter Cup Brownies

Recipe:

• Regular Box of Brownie Mix (I prefer Ghirardelli) and ingredients required for that
• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• chocolate chips
  
• peanut butter chips

1. Preheat oven to 350 and spray cupcake pan with cooking spray.
   
2. Prepare brownie batter using directions on brownie box. Mix in 1/2 bag of chocolate chips.
3. Fill the cupcake cups halfway.
4. Cook for 15-20 minutes, or until the brownies are almost done (crisp sides but are not solid in the middle)
5. Meanwhile beat together powdered sugar, peanut butter and vanilla until smooth. Place in a ziplock bag and cut a corner off to make a pastry bag.
   
6. Collapse the middle of the brownies with a spoon and pipe in a generous amount of the peanut butter mixture into each brownie. push the mixture down with the spoonso that the brownie mix goes over the peanut butter.
7. Cook for another 5 minutes.
   
8. Top with regular chocolate chips and regular chocolate chips.
   
9. Let cool.
   

Makes 12 cupcakes.

Wheat Beer Bread

So Cam initially made fun of this and said it looked like meatloaf, but it tasted great, was very simple to make, and kept for a while in the breadbox.

Recipe:

• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
• 4 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
• 1 12 oz bottle of beer (I used Sam Adams Octoberfest)
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted

1. Preheat oven to 350 and spray loaf pan with cooking spray.
2. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, garlic powder, and cheese and stir to combine.
   
3. slowly add in beer, mixing to combine.
   
4. Knead dough until well mixed.
   
5. Pour batter into the prepared pan and pour melted butter over the top.
   
6. Bake 50-60 minutes (until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean)
   

Creamy Three Potato Soup

This recipe, as written, was far to long to put in here, but is a crock pot recipe so its not hard. Basically, its just cutting up yukon gold, baking, and sweet potatoes with two onions and a clove of garlic. Then add four cups of vegetable stock and 2 cups of water. Add a bit of olive oil and rosemary. Season to taste. Turn the crockpot on high for 2 hours or low for 4 hours. They suggested using an immersion blender but Cam and I felt like it turned the soup into pureed baby food. Instead, I would just eat it as is.

Halloween Taters

Happy Halloween! Cam and I carved pumpkins and went to a legendary law school halloween party. I had spent the entire week before making our costumes, but I'm happy with how they came out!

Cam carved a scary face and I carved a blackbird sitting in a tree.

Hers and his.

Mr and Mrs.

Here is the funny superbowl ad:


And here is the original Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head commercial. I think it is absolutely precious and hilarious!

Liz's Wedding

Jason and Liz had a beautiful fall wedding in Cincinnati. I was truly blessed to have Liz as my random roommate in college and then in the Theta house--I could not have been paired with a better person! I am so happy for you two.

Jason proposed to her in a pumpkin patch so these super cute pumpkins at the entrance were very fitting.

Their reception site was an old catholic church that had been de-sanctified (is that a word?). They had hundreds of candles throughout the reception and all over walls, it was beautiful.

The other side of the reception site (what would be the choir loft).

The tall centerpieces.

The smaller centerpiece with the table marker (they had a fall theme).

Long table centerpieces.

So I stole this off facebook, it was just too cute of a picture of them!

Theta Nation!

Theta love:)

Julie, I love you!

Cute pic of the newlyweds (jealous of your honeymoon tan!)

One of my favorite all time pictures of Joe. Clearly getting serious about his dancing.

Ahhh mazing...

Just wanted to share this GORGEOUS picture of Red River Gorge and Natural Bridge that my wedding photographer took this past weekend.

I have spent a lot of time this week just in awe of how beautiful the trees look as they change and this picture truly captures that. Thanks Frank:)

Where the Buffalo Roam...

Cam's dad and stepmom came up last weekend from TN. We had a great time--we went out to eat one night, went to Buffalo Trace distillery the next day and cooked a big dinner and enjoyed the fire pit (and made s'mores with strawberries=best thing ever), and then went to Alfalfa's for breakfast the next morning. It was great to see them! Here are a few pictures from our Buffalo Trace visit. I still think Woodford is my favorite distillery to tour (gosh it is beautiful), but I loved BT's version of bourbon bailey's and didn't realize they made Sky vodka and Blantons.

The barrels are stored on every floor of the warehouse. Apparently the middle floors produce the best bourbon.

A view from inside the barrel storage warehouse...

The grounds.

They are such a cute family.

Cam and his brother Drew with the carved, wooden buffalo from the 1800s.

Julie and Felix's Wedding

Julie and Felix are so good for each other and this day was a long time coming. The big day was beautiful! Julie was such a gorgeous bride and the church and the Boone Center set a wonderful atmosphere. We are so happy for them and hope they had a wonderful time in Hawaii!

The gorgeous couple.

They had a pianist/singer. He was fabulous!

I had no idea the Boone Center was so nice and had such a gorgeous courtyard.

The table settings and colors were perfect for the Boone Center and the fall. She also had pictures of the two of them as the table numbers: it was so cute and personal.

A picture of a longer table. Each table had slightly different centerpieces tied together by the colors. It was really beautiful and gave each table its own look.

Her cake was deelish!

Theta nation:)

Cam, Felix, and Joe.

They were so classy and clean with the fork feeding of cake.

Theta Love