Roasted Cilantro Chicken Tacos with Black Bean Salad are light and healthy with baked crunchy shells, roasted chicken, & black bean salad that stands alone! Yesterday morning I woke up to a really fun surprise!! Just kidding.

#1- You might remember that last week Chad and I chaperoned a school field trip to the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, SC. We had SUCH a great time!!! I debated on whether or not to bombard you guys with zoo pics today or just share my general let’s-try-to-get-happy-on-Monday stuff. In the end I decided that …

It’s the 20th! (Already? What in the world?) For this month’s Surprise Recipe Swap I was assigned This and That, a blog that dabbles in Canadian, American, and African cuisine. I’ve been playing with new cheesecake recipes to post for awhile now, because it’s been too long, right? Right.

While this post is landing in your inbox I am on my way to the zoo with Evan, Chad, and a gaggle of 4th graders. I made this trip a few years back when my mom and I chaperoned Andrew in the 3rd grade. Except mom and I had to ride the charter bus with …

 The Best Grilled BBQ Chicken on a delicious grilled pizza crust with fresh tomatoes, red onions, pineapple, peppers, and cilantro. This Grilled BBQ Chicken Pizza is one of my most favorite summer meals! Evan has been doing this thing lately where he looks up songs he likes on YouTube– you know how some people will post …

These cookies might just change your life. I mean… if you are some kind of freaky master of self-control then they probably won’t be life altering. Just delicious. But if you and I are anything alike… you need these cookies.

Andrew and Chad take mixed martial arts classes together 2-3 nights a week. It’s pretty cute when I think about it, though I’m sure they’d be really annoyed with me for calling that cute. So on the nights that they have class I sort of feel like dinner has to be in a rush. They …

Well. It happened. We went straight from using the heat to needing the air conditioner with like one day of transition in between which kind of sucks because all I really wanna do is leave the windows open and stop paying the power company. This must be why people live in California.

#1- I really really really hope you had amazing weather this past weekend, wherever you may be. I threw caution to the wind and planted flowers as well as getting a jump on my vegetable garden. I’ve been back and forth about a garden this year because we are hoping to move by late summer …