2.21 Friday Faves

February 21, 2025

Hi friends! Happy Friday! What do you have going on this weekend? Itโ€™s Rodeo Break (itโ€™s an AZ thing and I love it), so the kids are off school. Weโ€™re just enjoying some Tucson adventures, fun with friends, and enjoying this spring-like weather. Sending some sunshine to my freezing friends right now! Iโ€™m doing a…

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Birthday shrimp

โ€œBirthday shrimp Birthday shrimp Itโ€™s the best day of the year, girlโ€ Come on, you know the song ๐Ÿ˜‰ We just got back from an awesome hibachi dinner with some friends ๐Ÿ˜€ Itโ€™s my friend Jeniโ€™s birthday (whoo hoo!), so we celebrated our birthdays together since mine was last week. We went to Ichiban, which…

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Upward facing belly fulla chili

Helloooooo bloggies ๐Ÿ˜€ Happy Indian Food Wednesday! I hope some of you feel inspired to have a little Baigan Bhartha or other Indian delight for me ๐Ÿ™‚ Weโ€™re actually having sushi Wednesday but I have a feeling there will be some Indian food in my life in the near future ๐Ÿ˜‰ Iโ€™m glad yesterday is…

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Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili

Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili – 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and diced -1 small sweet onion, small diced -1 red bell pepper, seeded and diced -1 can organic black beans, rinsed and drained -1 14 oz can organic fire roasted diced tomatoes, drained -1.5 C organic veggie broth -3 garlic cloves, minced -1 T…

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I thrive on crazy

Hello! Howโ€™s your day going? Mine has been insanity (and I still have 5 hours of craziness left) so hereโ€™s the fastest blog post in the history of Gina ๐Ÿ˜‰ My own personal Edward Cullen and I finished up our tree last night: I LOVE the the new ornaments we got! SPARKLY ๐Ÿ˜€ This morning,…

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Sparkly things distract me

Hey everyone! Hope youโ€™re had a great night ๐Ÿ˜€ My blog decided to put some clothes on! Zesty sent me a copy of my header and I sent it to my internet wizard, aka Triskele, and he had it back up within 5 minutes. If you ever want to go self-hosted with your blog, I…

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