New Fav Coffee Shop

Good morning, friends!

I know it is for all of us Austinites that enjoyed yesterdays and todays raining. 70-80 degrees in July? We'll take it!

When I got off work yesterday, Scott was needing to stop by target for some new trimmers (his went out right as he got shaving ONE side of his face - before work hah! sorry boo. it was funny hehe) and also next door to get his hair cut. So getting drenched in the rain going from store to store was fun, and I ALMOST bought this adorb coin purse I found while browsing in Target... Sorry but I couldn't justify spending $7(!?!?!) on this little thing. Maybe when it goes on clearance for 75% off, yes?

Last night was very relaxing and just what I needed! Scott was super sweet and rented us some red box movies and cleaned up around the house leaving me with only having to cook us dinner :-) I was a happy girl after a long Monday! We rented 21 Jumpstreet and The Grey. Both were pretty good, Jumpstreet was funny, and I ALMOST made it through the whole movie of the Grey before conkin' out.

I made one of my fav meals to cook, Salmon and Asperagus...

While waiting for this delicious meal to cook, I went ahead and got everything from my giveaway ready to ship. Shipping a Starbucks card to New York and this cute tote to Dallas!

Huxley wanted in the action :-). We laid around the rest of the evening and I started prepping today's crockpot meal! This morning all I had to do was throw some thangs in the crockpot and set on low - ready to be eaten tonight when we get off work! I am making my mom's incredibly delicious Roast Rice and Gravy :-)

We were out of milk this morning so I couldn't make my coffee, and when I got to work I walked over on SoCo to this little Dominican Coffee Shop called Cup-O-Jo's... and I think I fell in love...

I ordered a Low-Fat FroJo Mocha (kinda like a light mocha frapp from Starbucks), and it was REALLY good! They also serve TacoDeli Breakfast Tacos and those are my fav! I ordered the Jess Special which is just a cobination of Egg, Monterey Jack Cheese, Avocado, Red Peppers, and Jalapenos. So good! The pricing was pretty similar to Starbucks, but the inside was fun - kind of urban looking. I will be going back!

Now I'm off to jumpstart on some marketing projects at work, but I also wanted to let y'all know that I am part of a nice big group giveaway over on Ruthie's blog - you can enter to win giftcards, ad spaces, etc by just going here below.

Ruthie's Group Giveaway!

Chicken Teryaki Stir Fry

I feel like this week has been so short due to having off on the 4th for the first time!! I am still so glad it is Friday! We don't really have plans as of yet, but I know some book reading and relaxin by the pool with a marg is in my agenda!

Last night, my brother Chris was over and he and Scottie were playin NBA 2K12 (is any other girl's man obsessed w/ this game?! Scott raps to the songs... lol), and I decided to make something new in the kitchen!

I had bought a frozen bag of stir fry veggies about a week ago and I knew I wanted to use them but I didn't know much what for. The veggies included broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, red peppers, water chestnuts, green bell peppers, and onions. So I pulled out two chicken breasts, thawed them, cut them into little diced pieces, and marinated them in a low sodium teryaki sauce for about an hour while I cleaned up around the house etc.

When I was ready to cook, I drained most of the teryaki sauce in the sink and with some oil heated over med-high on the stove, I cooked up the chicken - it already smelled delicious!

Once the chicken was cooked, I added in that frozen bag of veggies, a little more oil to cover, and a little more teryaki sauce and cooked on high heat for abuot 5 minutes...

Quick and AMAZING. I definitely recommend this! If you think about it, the teryaki sauce bottle I got from HEB was only about 1.25, the veggies were 1.15, and two chicken breasts... very inexpensive and I topped this mixture over whole grain rice!

The boys LOVED it! It was veggie-full, filling, flavorful, just great! I will be making this again for sure!

The rest of last night we just relaxed and I started reading a new book that Helen let me borrow. Huxley's favorite place to cuddle up is right next to his mama.

So does anyone have any plans this weekend!!?? I'm posting Mondays giveaway in this post to be easy to get to - 2 days left!! Monday morning  I will announce *8* winners!!

100 Follower Group Giveaway!!

Last month, I reached my first milestone in this bloggin' world, and like I promised I wanted to do a FUN and huge giveaway for y'all as my thanks for being so supportive, loving, and welcoming to me since I started this blog several months ago.

I have some amazing ladies on the blog today that are so gracious to participate, so have SO much fun with this awesome giveaway and hopefully we will all meet some new fabulous people along the way!! Enjoy!

100 Follower Group Giveaway!!

Check out all of these great prizes from these amazing women! I have attached their blog links below their ads, but you will find ALL Social Media links in the Rafflecopter giveaway below!!

Moi (Amanda) from Maggiano takes Austin
twitter // bloglovin // instagram

Ruthie from The Chronicles of Ruthie Hart

twitter // bloglovin // instagram

Heather from Finding Beauty in the Ordinary

twitter // facebook // bloglovin

Ashley from Luce Blog

twitter // bloglovin // shop

Ashlyn from Let it be Beautiful Designs

twitter // facebook // bloglovin

Mallorie from Home is with You

twitter // facebook // bloglovin

Jenni from Story of My Life

twitter // facebook // bloglovin

Megan from and here's to you, Mrs. Robinson

twitter // facebook // bloglovin

These girls are not only fabulous bloggers of fashion, life, shops, faith, kids, and photography - but are also the ladies that I've become so close with through blogging alone, and have become great friends of mine. Thank you girls for always supporting me and being so amazing!

Now let's give some stuff away!!

You have almost 50 ways to enter this giveaway, people!!

8 winners will be chosen in ONE week! (July 9th 12:00am CT)

Are you feeling lucky!?!?!