road trip.

we are leaving bright and early tomorrow morning to begin our massive trip for fall conference and thanksgiving.

our trip includes
1. conference in orlando, fl for southeast region staff of crusade. flying--praise the Lord.
2. road trip to richmond, va to visit with justin's family.
3. stopping by pittsboro, nc to spend the night with justin's aunt and uncle. this will be millie's fav part of the trip...tons of land and other animals to play with.
4. back to atl for thanksgiving with my family. plus lots of baking, hanging with justin's dad and of course shopping.

please pray for our travels and safety. and sanity while traveling with a puppy.

thanks for your patience in reading my boring updated :)

tuscaloosa trees

the best part of our neighborhood is that since it is an older area, we have beautiful trees near us. i took a couple pics on a walk with millie. their fall colors are so vibrant. love it.

that little guy was just too strange to pass up.

hope you enjoy our neighborhood :)

amanda + joseph.

on sunday, i drove to athens for a wedding shower for my college friend amanda and her soon-to-be hubby joseph. they are such a cute couple and i know they are so excited to be married!!

my friends courtney and kristin threw the shower and it was so much fun catching up with friends. i haven't seen some of them since we graduated, i know im a bad friend. everyone is doing different things and i am so glad i got to spend sweet time seeing everyone.

pretty pretty friends.

i'm back.

sorry for being away for the past week. we had a great week.

we drove to louisville, ky to visit a seminary. (don't worry, we aren't leaving alabama)

i went to atlanta to visit my parents.

then on to athens for a shower to celebrate amanda and joseph's upcoming wedding and see lots of friends.

so fun. but im too rushed to post it all now.

GLUTEN-FREE peanut butter cookies

It was our co-worker Allison's birthday this weekend! She has recently discovered needs to eliminate gluten from her diet for health reasons...and to be honest I am fairly clueless on what that actually means :) But I searched the good ole internet to find a recipe for birthday cookies! I found a recipe for peanut butter cookies. And they were pretty good if I say so myself. 

The original recipe was found on All Recipes, I doubled the recipe and added chocolate chips. Please don't correct me or inform Allison if chocolate has gluten. 

I'm not sure why the picture quality isn't great...ignore that ;)

Yes, this is seriously all that was in the cookies.

2 cups sugar.

2 cups peanut butter (which was almost the entire container).

2 eggs.

1/2 cup chocolate chips.

Mix the ingredients. Then drop on cookie sheet (I usually line mine with parchment paper so they don't brown). I flattened them with a fork...to make them cute.

Bake for 8-9 minutes. This recipe made us about 3 dozen cookies!

Happy Birthday Allison!!!