January Favorites

The month of January is 31 days but every year it feels like 300.  It’s cold and dreary in IA and I am dying to have a full day of sun and warm weather.   I spent part of the month sick with the flu or cold or some form of plague that kept me in bed for 3 days and a...

The Best Chicken Picatta

  One of my very first meals I ever learned how to cook when I first found my love of cooking was Chicken Picatta. I remember someone making it on a cooking show I was watching, immediately printed it out and made it the next day.  That was several years ago and...

Our Local Iowa City Area Favorites

Caleb and I have been trying all of the local Iowa City area restaurants over the winter on our date nights.  We have found some that we just keep going back to, each for different reasons.  I decided to make a post with all of our favorites incase you are needing new...

Spring Break Staycation

Last week was spring break in our area and we didn’t do any exciting trips or anything of that nature for a few reasons. 1.) They are 6 and 3 we have plenty of time for big spring break trips, we want to take them to Disney but want to wait a few years to have a...

Thin Mint Cheesecake

It’s that wonderful time of year again, those cute little girls are running around with their world famous cookies! Caleb and I love Thin Mints we bought several boxes this year just like any year and they might be almost gone, ha!  We were talking about the...