Typical evening in the Vaughan household

Nice relaxing night so far. Dinner is prepped. I'm making lemon pepper pork chops, ranch & Herb potato wedges and Italian green beans. Our kitchen is smelling pretty fantastic if I do say so myself =D. Hubs is playing Flappy Bird so I'm taking some time to write another blog post.

Pinterest is one of those websites I can spend hours on if I'm not careful.  I'm not the craftiest person, nor are all of my crafts professional looking. But they make me happy and Will likes the personal touch of our decor. =)

Christmas was the easiest to find ideas but here's all of my crafts/homemade decor products so far =).

These are two things I put together today. I really like the subway art, glitter and pink if you couldn't tell =)).

Hope you guys have a great night!! =) <3 p="">

Enjoying the sunshine

Today is a scheduled mental health day. Since November, almost all of my days have been jammed. Packing, driving cross-country, normal holiday activities, everything associated with a new house and place, unpacking,organizing, etc. So today, I put life on pause.

I slept in. Read the paper while I drank my coffee instead of just downing it. Watched Dr.Phil, one of my few TV guilty pleasures. Started putting together my husbands birthday present, he turns 24 on Friday =). I got him a Kingsford grill with a grill lighter, charcoal, grilling set, cleaning kit & cover. Hopefully he loves it =).

Now I'm enjoying our backyard and the fresh breeze with our dog, LuLu.

Isn't the view breath-taking?

Hope everyone is having a good week!!

Greetings from Georgia!!!!! ❤️

Major life changes since I've written last.  The huge one being we no longer live in Texas!!!! Will's orders for Benning finally went through with no more complications! =D

Will's going away party. We didn't leave behind friends, but friends who became family.

Our stuff getting ready for the big move

Kinda bittersweet leaving our first home as a married couple.

The place of our new adventures

Our new house is love. 

First snowfall

Housewarming presents =D

LuLu loves the snow too.

Couldn't be more happier. ❤️

Blogging so Randa doesn't disown me

Not much has been happening here. The weather hasn't been the greatest and I'm coming down with something. So lots of Netflix and reading time since the apartment is still clean..amazing how that happens when it's just me here ;). Yesterday was a day from Hades if there ever was one though. The past few days I noticed a rattle when I drove my car, not a good sign (and further proof Murphy's Law is real) so I took it to Firestone since I knew I needed two new tires anyways. Turns out, my shocks and struts were bad. Now, normally this is just wear and tear maintenance but before we went to Florida in December, we had those replaced. And thanks to my handy dandy app, I had proof. So it all got fixed (labor included, yay!) and when I first bought new tires for the feisty Fusion, I had bought the lifetime alignment. So I didn't have to drop $150 on that like I was worried I was going to.
My Gamma just bought me some books for my Nook and I read two out of the three she got me. Anyone remember the Sweet Valley twins? I bought a few of the adult ones and they are just as addicting. 6 hours later and there's no more rattle so I can drive safely again, which is really good because I currently have Snapshot from Progressive plugged in ( anything to save money). I had leftover homemade stir-fry for dinner and I rewatched last week's episode of Hollywood Game Night.


Moral of this post is, try to buy warranties if you can. Had I not, yesterday's ordeal would have cost us over a grand =(.

Friday Night Fun/Slow Saturday

I can joke about my ultra lame Friday night alone. But I'm actually quite pleased with my productivity. I mentioned earlier this week I wanted to put all th recipes we've tried into a cookbook format (with plastic covers to protect it from cooking incidents). Last night I finally started this project. So far I've only been able to write out 20 recipes before my carpal tunnel made me stop. But here's what it looks like so far :

Btw- NSYNC Pandora station is my jam. There was quite a few times I wrote out song lyrics instead of the directions lol. I really want to go to Hobby Lobby and get some cuisine inspired stickers to jazz up the notebook, but for now it'll do =D.


To reward myself, and because my wrist has declared war on me, it's a day of Investigation Discovery on Netflix cuddled up with my puppy.

Enjoy your weekend everyone! ❤

Dear Friday

Two of my favorite blogs, Miranda Mae and penguinspastapolkadots.blogspot.com do this thing on Friday (normally) where they address things. So here goes my first attempt =).

Dear Chipotle, you are so easy to crave. Multiple people mentioned you so I had to get some of your deliciousness in my tummy. Thank you for your steak burritos.

Dear Netflix, thank you for being a source of entertainment during this rainy week which has completely stopped all plans for productivity.

Dear comfy fuzzy pajama pants from Walmart, you have been keeping me warm and not judging me for not wearing real clothes. You're the best.

Dear technology, thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping me connected with my husband despite him being in the middle of who knows where. SnapChats like this make my day:

Dear Patriot Apartments, you're an amazing place to live. Appreciate you for lowering(!!!!!!!) our rent and not raising it when I renewed our lease yesterday. Add in the fact you let residents borrow movies & give us a bag of popcorn when we do, you're awesome. We lucked out with this place being the first home.

Dear El Paso, normally I hate you. You're overcrowded and the majority of your population is RUDE. However, the weather we had this week has me slightly in love with you. Keep up the good work 915.

Dear Hollywood Game Night, kudos on being an amazing new show. And having Matthew Morrison on last night made it even better. Jane Lynch, you're a fabulous host!

Dear Disney, release Little Mermaid from the vault sooner, pleaseeeee?!! I'm seriously obsessed with Ariel and time is dragging until October 3rd.

Dear Twitter, I love you. You keep me in touch with friends, other military significant others and blogger friends. All while making me think I'm kinda cool.

Dear weekend, seeing you makes me realize its almost one week down and another week closer to seeing Will. ❤

Currently Obsessing

Over four things in particular.


First, mason jars are my thing. They make everything taste better. And lately, it's been super hot in Texas and I tend to get dehydrated easily. So I've been slicing lemons up to add to pitchers of water, and lately, it's all I drink.

It's so cute!! And yummy =)


This morning, I contacted our leasing office about renewing our lease and got amazing news. Instead of going up $50 a month like it has in previous years....it went DOWN $50. Combined with our insurance dropping $20 a month, we decided to 'splurge' on new sheets. And I'm pretty pleased with what I bought. (And they got Will's approval also)

Lastly, I normally stick to one accent nail when I do give myself a manicure, but I was bored and had too many colors to choose from, so I ended up with this 

Forgive the polish on my fingers. Wine + polish doesn't always mix lmao.

Lastly, I don't have a photo yet. But I pin so many recipes on Pinterest, I lose some of them in the masses. So if I try a recipe and we like it, I'm going to add it to the book I'm making. Binder: $0.92 cents. Paper :$0.17 cents.  Plastic covers:$1.75. Super cheap and easy. 

Hope y'all are having a wonderful Wednesday!!