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

Festive Nails

I've been obsessing over some of these fun nail designs lately....wish I was better at painting my nails.  I might have to try the polka dots this weekend....so festive!

Holiday Bucket List

1. Make a gingerbread house

2. Bake Christmas cookies

3. Drive around and look at Christmas lights

4. Go to a play

5. Play in snow

6. Watch Elf & Love Actually (my favs!)

7. Do a Christmas craft

8. Volunteer

9. Get my hands on the Biebs' new Christmas album (yep...)

10. Master a signature holiday cocktail

11. Ice skating

12. Go in an outdoor hot tub

13. See the Festival of Trees

14. See the Sheraton Seattle's Gingerbread Village

15. Go to Snowflake Lane

Holly Jolly-ness

I rang in the holiday season this weekend with a girl's night out at the Nutcracker on Friday after work (thanks Chris!), the annual Edmonds Tree Lighting on Saturday and decorating the Christmas tree on Sunday.  In between there was a lot of shopping, Fireball, holiday movie watching and eating.  I love the holidays!

Edmonds Tree Lighting

Miss Kitty was in town!

My Peacock Christmas Tree

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