Baked Pears

This is so easy and so yummy.  All you need is...

• 2 pears
• 2 tbs butter, melted
• 1 tbs brown sugar
• pinch of cinnamon
• juice from half a lemon
• lemon zest from half a lemon

Preheat oven to 350.  Cut pears in half and core them with a melon baller.  Put them cut side up in a baking pan.  I used a loaf pan because it was the perfect size for just 2 pears.  Melt butter and combine with sugar, cinnamon, and lemon juice and pour over pears.  Sprinkle lemon zest on top.

Bake in oven uncovered for 25-30 minutes and then serve with vanilla bean ice cream :)

Book Interrupted

Sorry sweet book about two women rekindling an old childhood friendship and all of their crazy adventures...Christian Grey has slipped into your slot. (pun intended)

I had a total impulse purchase moment at Costco the other day and ended up with the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy in my basket.  I immediately put down the book I was reading (which wasn't that hard to do anyway) and started 50 Shades, just to see what all this fuss is about ;)

It has my attention so far.  Not quite as shocking as some people are making it out to be.  I guess I'm not very sensitive to that kind of thing.  I mean, I'm not saying I would recommend this book to my grandma or anything but it's nothing I haven't heard before.

How's this for a set up?  All in all this was a very successful Costco run.

Living In Paradise

I have to remind myself sometimes that I live in a place that other people go to on vacations.  It's easy to get wrapped up in the stresses of everyday life and wish you could take a trip somewhere sunny and beautiful but then I realize I'm already there.

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Frosty Paws

For those of us born and raised in southern California, extreme temperatures are not something well tolerated.  Basically we are total wimps.  I'm the first to admit it.  But in our defense, because the weather is supposed to be so mild here all of the time, we are ill equipped for things like heat waves and hail storms. These past 2 weeks (felt like months) have been extremely hot and humid.  I'm talking 90 at the beach.  Our houses at the beach do not have AC.  If you are unfortunate enough to have your bedroom upstairs, like us, you toss and turn all night with a fan blowing in your face.

Now Kyle and I are one thing, but my baby boy with all that fur.....well I had times where I thought he was going to die.  I seriously was checking to see if he was breathing.  Extreme? Yes.  Overprotective? Absolutely.  Cody is my first dog; I'm a little paranoid.

He just did this.  All day and all night. :(

But I discovered something that brightened his day, just a little.  Frosty Paws.  Doggie Ice Cream.  It's not too unhealthy for them and he LOVES it.  Bonus- shockingly it doesn't make him throw up, like basically everything else Cody eats besides his regular dog food.

Perfect Pics

PicMonkey, oh how I love you.  You make me and my nearest and dearest look absolutely flawless.  I have become obsessed with photo editing now that I discovered Pic Monkey and all of its "Photo Shop for Dummies" editing tools.  I'm sure I'm overdoing it.  My teeth are just a little too white and my skin a little too smooth but I can't help it; I'm a kid with a new toy.

 Before:

After:

Can you see the difference (besides the obvious crop)?  Our eyes were all red and glassy (because it was the end of the night and we had a little too much fun a.k.a. Jameson) so I brightened them.  I tried to whiten our teeth but that was over the top fake looking.

I airbrushed our skin which just kind of blurs it out but I think it makes it look softer.  My nose was a little red (again, the booze) and that always bothers me in pictures.


Another example-

I just joined LinkedIn and I needed a profile picture.  It can't hurt to look your best right?

 Before:

After: Ok this one might be too much ;)

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Attention anyone who's reading this.  All 5 of you ;)  I added a "Follow Me" button.  So go ahead, follow me :)