Trick or Treat time!

I prefer treats over tricks anytime ;)

I haven't blogged in a super long time because things have gotten super busy with work and then coming home to workout then make dinner. By day's end I'm wiped out. I definitely don't have any trouble falling asleep hehe.

Lots of new and exciting things going on around the Doyle household. To start with we are on the hunt for our first home!!!!! We're hoping for something like this:

Pfff kidding! We would never want something so enormous that we could lose each other. With that money we would not be in NC!

Our apartment lease ends in January so we have a couple months to find our perfect home. I kinda found mine but Justin wants to keep looking. We went this past Friday and it was the first home we saw. I fell in love! Homes up here are not as affordable as they should be. It's crazy how great of a house you can get in FL compared to here.

We're just praying hard on what to do because we're careful with our finances and we don't want to make any mistakes.

Other news....we're going home for Christmas!! We'll be heading down mid-Dec. Luna will finally meet her grandparents too, lol. We have not been home since our wedding so it's going to be surreal. Of course we'll  be celebrating one year of wedded bliss as well.

FSU is doing amazing in football! We had a stupid loss to Oklahoma early on but we haven't lost since. Justin and I got together with his cousins and one of their girlfriends for the FSUvsMiami game a couple weeks ago. FUN NIGHT!!

Tomorrow we play NC state hollaa! I love this time of the year! It has been a lot warmer than last year.

I cannot believe that a year ago this month my bests were down here for my bachelorette and bridal shower!!

Ok this post is getting more and more random. Here are some goodies I've made:

Cinnamon bread

Vegan of course :)

Moroccan Chickpea Stew

plus butternut squash and spinach!

heavenly!

Justin's request

BLT...he LOVED

Justin bought me this wine and it was divine!

Well, Halloween is this weekend and right now we have no plans, boo. Hopefully, that'll change. For now, I'm signing off and going to go watch Modern Family.

Welcome Fall

Happy first day of Fall!!!!! Fall is such a BEAUTIFUL time of the year and I enjoy it even more because we get to experience it here in North Carolina. As much as I miss the beach in Florida, there's nothing like the weather becoming cooler and seeing the leaves change.

I hope this Fall is one of the best yet!


Here are pictures from Luna's sleepover. One of our neighbors has a Yorki-Poo named Tess. She is adorable! Our neighbor had her stepson over for the weekend and he's terrified of dogs. So, she asked us to take Tess for the night.

Little did I know Luna and Tess were going to make our living room their personal race track! All you heard that night was running and panting from two pint size monsters! hahaha...Justin was not happy :)

Here they are running! Check out Luna's ears!!

innocent faces

Tess wants her food bowl

The next day Justin and I went to a place here in Mooresville called Lazy 5 ranch. We paid $20 for our entry and a bucket of feed. They gave us a list of animals we could not feed (zebras, bulls, and giraffe) and a map. No list of names of the animals we would see. I think they should probably do that to help people out.

right on my lap! Food went everywhere!

something I could feed :)

water buffalo

cows

sweet lovebird

After driving through we parked and got out to walk around the petting area. We met this parrot that told us hello and goodbye. It was so funny! My car looked terribly dirty and we were both a little grossed out. It was definitely fun, but I'm not going back until we have to, LOL.

This weekend, Justin and his dad are supposed to be racing. I had a t-shirt made for the occasion, but unfortunately, I don't think I'll have it in time to wear. Bummer!

Anyway, I'm off to relax and catch up on some reading! Goodnight!

My weekend of baking

I just love the weekends! Who doesn't? You get to do fun stuff and really anything you want. I love to do several things on the weekends. On Saturdays I love to do something with Justin and usually something out. We've started to try out new things every Saturday.

I'll do another post for our Saturday fun day.

But Sundays are another thing. We go to church and then do relaxing things. We didn't go today because the pastor was out and we decided to play hooky.

We usually do our own thing and mine is to BAKE AND COOK! Especially lately that I've found so many amazing recipes.

Today I made a few things that I've been dying to try out.

I made my first attempt at making Lara bars and the Rustic Peach Galette from chef Chloe. You can check out hers here.

First, my Lara bars...

Only 5 ingredients!

first bite

The ingredients: dates, cashews, chocolate chips, cinnamon, and pure vanilla extract!! I put everything in the food processor. Then rolled it into a ball, halved it, placed each between two sheets of saran wrap and formed into a bar.

Here's what a Lara bar looks like

I made mine thinner. After you shape them, they're refrigerated. They were sooo good!

Next my Peach Galette.

Utterly amazing! Unfortunately, I was so full from dinner that I only could fit two bites. I'll have dessert for tomorrow!

Chef Chloe is fantastic and I can't wait to make more of her stuff. You can read more about her at her blog, and she's only 22!


As for the Lara bars, that recipe comes from another blog I love, Oh She Glows. I'll be making the other flavors of Lara bars also from her site. Up next banana!

Fashion Week: Monique Lhuillier

First, let me say I had no idea fashion week was even going on in NY, but for one of my blogs that posted these pictures. I usually just scroll through it but when I saw these dresses I instantly stopped.

They are so jaw dropping beautiful!

The original link to the pictures is here

I want every.single.one.of.them. I looove the colors and the sweetheart necklines. When I see these gowns I just want to find a dress identical but for much less expensive. Apparently, this designer's collections are known to be romantic and sweet.

Well, a girl can dream :)