life with the blair's

Today I'm linking up with Nicole and her Thursday 5!!

Outstanding

Refreshing

Cheerful

Memorable

Cool

I think it is Outstanding that there is a "National Margarita Day."  So in honor of this day, we celebrated!!  Marshall even let us use his beloved Patron.  I also made a taco pizza to finish the day off right!  Delicious!  If you have never made one before its super easy...  Make your dough... spread a thin layer of pizza sauce on top.  Taco meat.  Cheese.  Bake it...  When it's finished, add your toppings:  lettuce, tomato, onion, more cheese...whatever.  Then top it off  with taco sauce!   

It is so Refreshing to FINALLY have found a banana bread recipe that I really like.  Growing up, my mom always made the most delicious banana bread.  The top had this like goey kind of banana-y top.  If you know what I mean.  And neither my sister or myself have been able to make it.  My mom thinks it weird that we use the same recipe but cannot for the life of us duplicate it.  Anyways, we have been on a hunt for awhile for a new recipe and I think I found one.  Its from this site and uses twice as many bananas as usual.  

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

Marshall loves nuts so I threw in some walnuts too.  It came out amazing!  The amount of bananas is like 6-7 so plan on having that many if you want to make this recipe.  I definitely recommend it!!

So my momma sent me a gift card to Express for my birthday.  I'm so stinkin excited!!  When I started browsing their site, I came across these Cheerful earrings.  Aren't they so awesome?!  I'm definitely getting them.  Oh, and since they are buy one get one 1/2 off... I definitely need to get the same pair in coral and purple! :)

The other day it was absolutely beautiful out, so Marshall and I decided to go for a walk around our neighborhood.  Walking and talking is always so Memorable for me, and the view wasn't too bad either!  I'm going to post tomorrow some pictures of the awesome houses around us!  It's crazy what you miss when you are driving a car!

 I'm so in love with this girl.  My sister sent me this picture the other day of my niece Carrie in her Cool, new hat.  She is just the most precious, tender-hearted little princess.  I'm dying to get home and snuzz her little face!  Love you CarrieGirl!

It's almost Friday!!  XOXO