Show & Tell Tuesday - Re-Intro

Hey There!

 

I'm Tiffany 
 

33 years old, born & raised in Jersey.
We live super close to the beach so that's where we spend our summers...and I couldn't imagine any other way.

 

I married the love of my life in September 2014
See that post here

 

 I work in a middle school in my town, but not for long...

 

 

We are expecting our first baby in April... 

 

And after his arrival, I will be a stay at home mama, which has always been my dream...

 

I love to cook, bake, entertain, shop and have fun! 
Click through the tab on the right to see some fun recipes!

 My husband and I have one adorable rescued dog, one  shy old snake and two crazy rescue cats! 

Jake

Tessa

Lilly

Our house is currently for sale after a year of no buyers.

We recently renovated the kitchen in hopes of bringing in more people that may want it.
Our hope is to move before the baby comes....fingers crossed.

So that's me for now, I haven't been blogging over the Christmas break, but I'm going to be back at it now...

Have a great Tuesday!

I'm personally excited for what I have planned for dinner tonight..
Burgers at my favorite place!
#preggo

~Tiffany~

 

 

 

Show & Tell Tuesday

The Best Gift I Ever Received.....

 

I mentioned this previously, but for sure, the best Christmas present I ever got was my piano. It's definitely a Christmas I'll never ever forget.

I wish I can remember exactly what year it was, but I know for sure I was younger, maybe not like 5/6 young, but like 10 ish/11 ish.

 

I had been taking lessons on a piano that my mom got from her friend who worked at a restaurant and they were getting rid of it. So it was pretty beat up and had cigarette burn holes in it. But that didn't matter to me. I was a happy girl with my own piano.

Well - the Christmas Santa brought me a piano was the Christmas my Gramma had a stroke. We were woken up to a phone call from her lifeline saying she pushed the button and wasn't responding so we all ran out of the house and down the street (3 blocks) to her house and she was ok - but lying on the floor of the bathroom. So we called 911 and were off to the hospital. I remember all my family being there and my mom saying to my aunt that we didn't get to "do" Christmas yet.... but it just didn't seem to matter... So when we finally went home, we started to open our gifts as if we had just woken up. It was probably about 2 or 3 pm at this point... And at the time our tree was directly across from the piano... I opened just about all my gifts walked past the brand new Yamaha upright with sparkly white keys more than a dozen times and never noticed. My mom had to point it out to me and I looked at it and it still too me a second....

I was SO happy! I'll never forget that. It was such a weird Christmas.

My gramma was ok and came home the next day...

But it was an awesome feeling to get that brand new piano.

I knew it was expensive. My mom was a stay at home mom and my dad was a self employed carpenter, and mind you he did very well, I still knew it was a lot.

 

 

I can't wait to move in to our new home and have it there to play and have it for my children to learn how to play. It's so special to me.

 

Now since I'm pulling from the past, I figured I'd do a recent one as well.

So my favorite gift from my husband, besides his unconditional love forever and ever and everything he's ever given me, is my Kitchenaid Stand Mixer!
I love that dang thing!

He got it for me the Christmas we were engaged.

It's amazing and I use it all the time!!

AND....it's RED! :)

Have a great day!
I'm going to be updating ya'll on our kitchen "mini" renovation...

We spent this past weekend updating our kitchen.

It's not quite done but it's much better....

Stay tuned for that

 

~Tiffany~

 

 

 

 

Wednesday - Weekend Wrap Up

Happy Hump Day!

Since I did a bumpdate post Monday,  and I slacked yesterday, today is my recap of the weekend...
My hubby left for travel on Monday morning and the poor thing was flying ALL day.
Luckily for this worried wife he had wifi on the plane so I was able to be calmer for those 12 hours! #thanksmoderntechnology

So this weekend...

 

It was super fun and low key all at the same time.

 

Friday I left work 2 hours early for a check up at my doctors - all is perfect.

 

I headed home and got a few things done before my hubby came home.

 

We had dinner plans with some old friends we haven't seen in a long time at a restaurant on Long Beach Island which was amazing.

 

It's called - The Arlington

 

 

The best part was it smelled like the ocean air so much because of the warm front....

And I guess because we were on the ocean block hah

 

 

I had a burger because....this baby wants all the beef!!

 

After 3 hours of catching up and lots of yummy food, we headed home.

 

Saturday Ted had to work so I cleaned the house and got lots of stuff done. I love a day where I really feel like I can catch up. Saturday night we went to Carabba's for dinner.

 

The only place I like mussels from....and that sauce!! Mmmm

 

We had a delicious meal complete with fabulous dessert.

 

 

That was something like....a brownie and chocolate mousse and ganache
OMG it was amazing.

I mean,  I wouldn't put it past me to order that to go for myself!

 

We came home and watched a little TV and went to bed early.

 

Sunday was business as usual...

We skipped church, which I hate, but with Ted leaving for travel Monday, we were so busy.

We ran a few errands and just spent the day hanging out together.

We ordered in Surf Taco for dinner and watched Home Alone 2

Then went to bed.

I know, I know - you're jealous of our exciting existence....

 

On Monday after he left for work travel, I headed to work late and trained my replacement.

Then went to moms and took a bike ride because it is so unseasonably warm!!
Then had dinner with mom and my brother and his family.

My mom made burgers, home-made French fries and milkshakes!

Omg it was SO good!

Then I headed home....and waited for my hubs to land in Cali - which was 9:15 our time.

Tuesday... I had to train my replacement again for the whole day... which is crazy because it makes you realize just how much you do at your job.

To me it's just second nature, but when you have to explain it to a new person, it's A LOT!

God Bless this woman because my job ain't easy!
Tuesday night Mom came over to help pack up my kitchen for the reno and we went out to eat and did a little more Christmas shopping...

 

It doesn't get much more exciting than that folks!

I haven't taken many pictures...

And I haven't done many exciting things...

 

This Sunday is my cookie swap

I will have lots to share next week about that!

To check out last years swap go here

 

Have a great day!

 

~Tiffany~