Gingerbread Cookies

This is the best gingerbread cookie recipe ever!  The recipe recommends baking for 8-10 minutes.  I think 10 minutes is too long.  Take them out at 8 or 9 minutes and you will have perfect chewy gingerbread men.

Pink, Pink, Pink

Hi.  My name is Erika and I'm obsessed with hot pink.

Holiday Hair

Easy Weeknight Dinner

This weeknight dinner of baked garlic parmesan chicken, blasted broccoli and roasted Yukon potatoes is super easy and really delish!  Because the potatoes and the chicken are baked at the same temperature you can cook them simultaneously and voila! Dinner is ready!

Potato Recipe

Garlic Chicken Recipe

My own Blasted Broccoli recipe (below)

Yum!

Blasted Broccoli

Ingredients:

• 2 heads of broccoli, divided and stems removed
• 2 T olive oil
• 1 T red pepper flakes
• 1 T seasoning salt

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 500 degrees
2. Toss broccoli with olive oil and put on cookie sheet
3. Sprinkle red pepper flakes and seasoning salt over broccoli
4. Bake at 500 degrees for 8 minutes (not a minute longer!) Broccoli will be slightly browned at the edges and a little crispy. 

Skamania Weekend

Our anniversary trip to Skamania was amazing...barely any traffic on Friday night, giant suite upgrade, hot tubbing, Christmas caroling, peppermint schnapps hot cocoa drinking, breakfast buffet eating, snuggling and Christmas movie watching (Elf!). 

View from our Clark Suite

Xmas Tree at Skamania

Session Fest at Full Sail Brewery in Hood River, OR

The Vista House overlooking the Columbia River Gorge

Vista House viewpoint

A Weekend Getaway

I am beyond excited to head down south to Portland tonight with Paul for a relaxing weekend.  We'll be staying in PDX tonight and then heading over to the Skamania Lodge Saturday to check out Multnomah Falls and bum around Hood Canal.  And did I mention there is an outdoor hot tub? Can't wait...

Skamania Lodge

Multnomah Falls

8 Years of Bliss

Happy Anniversary to my love!  Can't wait to celebrate this evening and all weekend! xoxo