Happy 10 Months to my beautiful baby

This is a blog gift and shout out to my much better half, my beautiful Hollie Bennett. Happy 10 month Anniversary gorgeous, I love you so very much. It seems like only yesterday when your beautiful eyes, smile, and face greeted me in my Mom's driveway for the first time in a long time, and man oh man was I hooked. My life instantly changed for the much better when those beautiful eyes entered my world. I knew from that very day, that if you would have me Hollie, I would love you forever and ever. Just think of what we have already accompolished together, we began our journey together as a long distance couple. Us starting that way didn't exactly tip the cards in our favor as far as having a long and lasting relationship, as the stress and strain of a long distance relationship, no one should have to go through. But we not only lasted, we grew closer the whole time. The minute I finally got to see your beautiful face, I knew that wherever you were at, that is where I wanted to be. I will never ever forget how hard it was to have to leave you and to see you cry everytime I had to hop on a plane back to Missouri, I can still see your eyes full of tears and your face getting red from trying not to cry and show emotions. I still tear up thinking about the sadness in my stomach and heart having to let you go and out of my arms. I vow to never let that happen again. To this day, I can't stand the Kansas City Airport and those stupid glass walls that seperates the lobby from the gates,as it always reminds me of  us watching each other tear up and cry waiting for you to leave and talking on the phone. But I also want to thank you for loving me and sticking with me through all the long distance hardships and sadness, because the good times greatly outweight the bad times. I am so glad you believed me and trusted in me, when I told you. "Baby, I am moving back to NC, it is only a matter of time". You are my world baby, and now look at us, we spend each and every day together. Those beautiful eyes that I use to lay down and dream about are now also there when I open my eyes each day. That beautiful smile that I use to see only on my computer screen, or phone, I get to see every single day. Your beautiful and sweet voice, and your amazing southern accent still makes me smile and melts my heart. Hearing you tell me you love me, and when you call me baby, still gives me chills and makes me fall in love with you all over again. We have no doubt had our share of ups and downs as most couples have, but through thick and thin, there has never been any doubt in my mind that you are my soul mate and together we can conquer the world. We have experienced some growing pains and made some adjustments with us living together and going from not seeing each other very much, to seeing each other every single day. But each day, my love for you grows even stronger, and our relationship continues to flourish and we grow closer. I don't know where I would be without you. So I want to say thanks to you Hollie Bennett. Thanks for loving me, thanks for making me a better person, thanks for pretending to like the Huskers just because you know how important they are to me. Thanks for giving me your heart, and finally lowering your walls for me to climb ;). Thank you Ms. Hollie, for being my baby, the reason I smile, and the reason I am so excited for our future and our journey.

I Love you Baby to the moon and back, Happy Anniversary, and I can't wait to see what the rest of our chapters bring.

Your mess, your baby, and your man

Kasey <3

Crock pot Beer Chicken

I am so anxious to get this post finished with and published. The recipe I'm about to share with you is by far one of my favorite things I've cooked and I must say, it's finger lickin' good!!

I am a tad bit addicted to Pinterest and finding new things to make, new ways to organize and new recipes to try. Today, I was looking forward to the recipe I found for crock pot beer chicken. At first glance, I had all the ingredients that it called for but when it came time to putting them into the crock pot, I realized I didn't. That's when I had to be creative. I set out to try a recipe I found on Pinterest and instead created my own recipe and my goodness is it delicious! The flavor in the chicken was amazing and it was probably the most tender, fall apart chicken I've ever made.

Ingredients:
6 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
1 can of your favorite beer
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp salt
1 tsp garlic salt
2 tsp lemon juice

1 tbsp lemon pepper rub

Preparation:
Combine all ingredients in crock pot and cook for 6-7 hours. Yup, that's it!

Easy enough, right? For the specific ingredients I used, the total calories for 1 chicken breast was only 120 calories, not too shabby. I served the chicken over herb and butter rice with a side of carrots and side of french style green beans. I calculated the calories in the rice, carrots and green beans separately. Take a look at some pictures I took on my phone, below..

While the chicken was in the crock pot (excuse the poor lighting).. 

An up-close view of the chicken over rice  

...prior to being gobbled up

Well, now that I've shared my new recipe I hope that your family enjoys it as much as mine did tonight. I look forward to trying more recipes and maybe coming up with some more on my own.

Thanks for reading, have a good evening!

Hollie