Travels

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Homemade McGriddles

So seriously...who doesn't love McGriddles? The part no one wants to think about is how absolutely terrible they are for you. Packed full of calories! So I searched Pintrest and someone had the same idea as me. Why not make homemade ones?! Anyway this is how I make Marrying Prince Charming's version! Her version is even healthier than this one.

Homemade McGriddles

https://sites.google.com/site/apogueslife/mcgriddles?tmpl=%2Fsystem%2Fapp%2Ftemplates%2Fprint%2F&showPrintDialog=1

Ingredients:

For Sausage:
  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon black ground pepper
  • 1/4 generous cup syrup
For Eggs:
  • 12 eggs
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • Sprinkle of salt
  • Sprinkle of pepper 
For Pancakes:
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons vanilla
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoons melted butter
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 4 cups flour
  • Milk

 Instructions:

  1. For the sausage, In a medium bowl mix spices together, then add ground beef, combine.
  2. Next add maple syrup, working it into the spiced meat.
  3. Shape into 12 equal rounds and cook in a skillet until done.  
  4. For the eggs, with a whisk in a large bowl whip eggs, milk, salt and pepper together.
  5. Bake at 350 in a greased large muffin tray for about 20 minutes, or until cooked all the way through.
  6. For the pancakes, mix together dry ingredients in one bowl, and wet ingredients in another (excluding the milk).
  7. Combine wet and dry, then pour in enough milk to make the mixture look like warm runny peanut butter.
  8. Cook 24 equal sized pancakes on the stove, or on a griddle.

Now you can use sausage, but this tastes delicious. Plus sausage is full of fats and this is a great way to cut those out. I'm not sure if Curt even knows that it isn't sausage. haha

So this will fill up your muffin tins. Later on you'll see that I cut my eggs in half to make them smaller and also I get egg in every bite that way.

Oh don't those just look delicious!

If you don't want to make your own pancakes, feel free to use a premix! I just had all of the ingredients so I said..heck I'll try them.


This is what your eggs will look like when they are done!

I just throw each item on their own plate and then everyone can make their sandwich however they want! Feel free to add cheese too!


Don't forget to dip this in syrup before every bite!

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Birthday Party!!

On Valentine's Day we headed over to Kev and Bonnie's to celebrate a few birthdays! We celebrated Jasper, Carter & Bonnie's birthdays. :) Its always fun to see your nephews and nieces!!

Cupcake time!

If you don't know by now Carter loves food. :)


He didn't waste much time!

The moms get the little kid table while the kids eat at the normal table. haha


Present Time!

They definitely are spoiled. :)


Because what kid doesn't like bouncy balls?!


We didn't realize that the goldfish crackers would be a hit with Carter. He was shaking his hands in excitement.


Jasper's all time favorite gift...Monster trucks!





We can't forget Sophie!

She likes Monster trucks too!

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Valentine's Day

We kept Valentine's Day pretty low key this year. Its kind of like...what do you get each other? haha I decided on doing a special treat every evening for him and I got something completely awesome!

Day 1

 Chocolate Cinnamon Cookies

Day 2

Carmel Corn - because its delicious

Day 3

Chocolate Mousse - soooo delicious and actually really easy to make at home!


Day 4

Chocolate Covered Chips - super awesome

Day 5

 Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Day 6

Chocolate Chocolate White Chocolate Chip Cookies - Holy crap these are YUMMY!

Day 7

Ok I did not take this picture.  I had to borrow it from The Pioneer Women because this is her chocolate pie. I didn't get a picture because I was soooo excited to try it! It was definitely worth the 7 day wait to make this!


MY GIFT!

My gift was by M&M's!!
Super cute bear! This guys fur reminds me of Walter. haha

It came with personalized M&M's!! How cute are those. My name has never been on a candy before. :) He is always thinking of cute things to do. I'm so lucky and seriously who thinks of something this awesome?!

What did your significant other do for you?!

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Florida Vaca - The end

Yeah I love It Works and our products so much I took wraps and saran wrap to Florida. hahaha I can't help it. I use at least five products daily. I have tried 17 of our products and have loved EVERY ONE! I'm working on expanding my Skincare line. I dream of the day they are all sitting on my counter.


It Works decided to break a world record too! Most consecutive high fives and I am a part of it! :)

Our company is so awesome they doubled all the current bonuses (now $20,000-$150,000 bonuses) AND added a new $500 Ruby bonus. Super easy and its an average of $600/month. BOOM!



I loved hanging out with that guy in the background. We always have so much fun on vacations and exploring new places!!

Oh yeah...I of course took Fat Fighters too. How could I not? I mean vacation normally means gaining weight....NOT THIS TIME!

This is everyone under Skylar, my Presidential Diamond, that made it to Conference. I cannot wait till one day I have a huge group of people going with me. She gets to look at us and see how many people she has helped. How lucky is she?!

Can we go back??

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Florida Vaca - Day 2

The second day was pretty much just conference stuff, but it was still a blast!

This is Casey, Kelly, and I. Those two are our Alabama friends. They rock and now every time we see an Alabama license plate we wish it was them! :)

 



They had Quest Crew come just for the fun of it. They even performed at the blacklite party!

 I'm freaking out about this product!!! I just want it to be released already!!

 It was so gorgeous there. The crazy thing is people mow the yard in January. I don't know if I would get used to that...but I'll gladly try!

BLACKLITE PARTY!


They had free ENERGY for all of us at the party. It is seriously delicious and works great. Normally I'm old and want to be in bed by like 10 or earlier. I drank this about 9pm and at 1am I was still up and had plenty of energy left - no crash with this product!!


They had stuff going on during the party too. They had a slow motion camera that they played the next day, glow in the dark tattoo people, and photo booths!

 This is our friend from Australia that we met! It was so much fun to meet all these new people. :)