Holy Week - Good Friday

Good morning - Happy Good Friday/Happy Passover!

Passover and Good Friday fall on the same day maybe every 20 years or so - so this is rare occasion in the world of religion.

Today, Good Friday, is about the Passion of Christ.  It's about the sacrifice He made for all of us by dying on the cross.  From the hours of 12pm-3pm on Good Friday are the hours said to be when Jesus passes away.

When I was younger, and didn't have to work on Good Friday, my mom, sister, and I would take these three hours of the day to spend time with each other.  Music was off.  The TV was off.  No Reading.  You could take a nap or decorate Easter eggs.  So that is what we did during this time.

Remember to say a prayer during the hours of 12pm-3pm today.  Just as a remembrance for when Jesus dies on the cross.

How are you going to remember Jesus today?
xoxo Sarah

Homemade Chicken and Wild Rice Soup

When I was living at home in Mequon before I left for college, I hung out a lot at my best friend Michelle's house.   Kathy, her mother, would make this soup during the winter that was to die for.  It was an amazing homemade Chicken and Wild Rice Soup.

So when I finally got my first apartment in college my senior year, I asked Kathy to send it to me so I could make it for my college friends.  THEY LOVED IT!  So therefore, I have made Kathy's soup every year for my SNC girlfriends when we have our get-togethers.  The past two years, we have added Panera bread bowls to the soup to add some more fun to it!  I am very cautious about giving out the recipe so I am not going to post it on the blog quite yet - there are some secret ingredients you would never picture in soup!

BUT...I thought I would add some pictures of the soup for you to look at and drool over :)  Fun fact about this soup:  when I had my bridal shower,  my sister Kate asked Zachary questions about me for a game.  He answered that this was his favorite thing for me to cook for him!

Savor the Flavor!

xoxo Sarah

Campillo Cowls

So one of the things I love doing the most to reduce anxiety is knitting.  Four or so years ago I learned to knit from my mother-in-law in Michigan during vacation in the summer.  She bought me my first set of knitting needles and taught me how to make my first knitting stitch.  I can't thank her enough from that.

After I took a hiatus from knitting for three years, I picked it back up last year.  One of the things I fell in love with over the fall and winter were these infinity scarves, or "cowls."  It's extremely easy.  I found a pattern online and I changed it a little to my liking.  The pattern I saw called for a double stitch and a certain type of yarn.  One day at Hobby Lobby, I found Lion's Brand "Homespun" yarn, and I thought that would be perfect for just a single knitting stitch type of cowl.  So, I then took the yarn and I casted on 25 stitches and then knit until the scarf was 55 inches long.  After that, I connected the yarn together.  It created a complete circle, aka "an infinity scarf."

So I made many of these, but wanted to make sure my friends got them when I was with them the past weekend.  So here is a look at the cowls and my closest girlfriends from college modeling my cowls.  I hope you like!  I know they did :)

Happy Knitting!

xoxo Sarah

Holy Week - Holy Thursday

Good Morning!

As the most of you know, this is Easter week this week  Meaning we get together as families to go on Easter Egg Hunts, search for our Easter baskets the Easter Bunny hid, eat Lamb or Ham, eat A LOT of Chocolate, and other goodies too.

Yet, we have to remember the real reason we are celebrating Holy Week this week - The Resurrection of Jesus.  Today marks the start of Holy Week - it is Holy Thursday.  Today, we remember the Last Supper of Jesus and his apostles.

What are you doing to remember what Easter is truly about this week?  Are you taking time out of your day to just reflect a little about what is happening around you - being thankful for what you have?  That is what I plan on doing every day.  I am thankful for my family, my husband, my job, my home, food, warmth, kindness, my friends, and so much more.

Are you doing anything fun this week to celebrate Easter as well?  During this time of the year, I LOVE watching "The Ten Commandments" with Charlton Heston.  Zachary and I own the movie and I start off this week watching it - so we watched it this past Sunday!  Tonight, we are going to be decorating Easter eggs!

I can't wait to post pictures of that soon as well!!

Remember what Easter is truly about!
xoxo Sarah

Tea of the Week!

Last post for the evening!


I still have to be shown how to time my posts :)


But on Saturday morning I tried a new tea at Pam's house during girl's weekend (Pam's an amazing baker take a look at her blog: Cupcake Confessions). The tea that she gave me was called "Get Happy" tea by The Republic of Tea.  She found it at World Market but it is also in probably different locations as well!


This tea was caffeine-free and had an orange wonderful wake-up taste and scent to it.  It does not have a string to get the tea bag out of the cup when it is seeping - so you are supposed to let it seep the entire time you drink it. 


It comes in a cylindrical container - so take a look for it at the store!  I know I am going to :)


Get Happy!
xoxo Sarah

Crazy Awesome Food from Girl's Weekend!

So this past weekend with the girls, we all had our part in creating amazing snacks, drinks, meals for the weekend.

We had everything from avocado taco dip, mango salsa, fish tacos, red wine, Skinny Girl Margarita, fresh fruit, chicken and wild rice soup, key lime cheesecake - just to name a few!!!  Take a look at the pictures below!  I can't wait to try all these amazing recipes that I received from the weekend!

And this isn't even half of it :) Salud!

xoxo Sarah

Girl's Weekend 2012

Hey all!

Happy Tuesday!

This past weekend was an amazing weekend!  I was able to go back up to WI back up to SNC to get together with the bestest girls I know!  We had such an amazing time together!  All the food, drinks, laughs, recipes!  It was just a great time!

Here are some pictures from the weekend I thought I would share!!!

Yeah for friends!

xoxo Sarah