Get Your Sparkle On

Happy Friday!!

Is it just me, or has this week seriously lasted forever? I'm just glad OSU plays tomorrow, I get to be in Stillwater (and that OU lost last night...#SorryImNotSorry).

Anyway, a few of my favorite things from the last week (ahem, or month).

1. I've got a new jam, ya'll. Thanks to a coworker's 4 year old daughter loving Barbie music, I was introduced to Get Your Sparkle On. Since then, I've made Matt listen to it several times (sorry about that...) and of course I play it every morning before cheer practice! It's positive and clean and talks about sparkles, so what's not to love?
   
    
   
   
2. My mom, ladies and gentlemen, made some DELICIOUS dinner last night. I had a bit of popcorn at the JH game but that was NOT about to cut it, so when I got home I heated up "some chicken thing mom had cooking in the crockpot all day," as my dad put it. It ended up being the Hawaiian Chicken I put together for her Freezer Club Meal Swap two weeks ago! She does this super cool swap with 3 other ladies and we get 4 delicious meals in our freezer to heat up through the week. When you want to eat a meal, you follow their instructions for cooking, but it's all already put together so there's practically no work for you other than turning on the crock pot or oven. These ladies are geniuses, I'm telling you.
   Here's what you need to make this delicious creation:
   1/2 bag frozen chicken tenders (like the big bags you get from the grocery store...sorry this isn't exactly precise)
   1 15oz. can of crushed pineapple (don't drain it!)
   1/2t ground ginger
   1T minced garlic
   1/4c soy sauce
   Put all of that into a crock pot liner and stick it in your crockpot on low heat all day. Serve over brown rice and with some steamed veggies. I didn't have the rice or veggies last night (I wasn't going to eat a whole meal after the game!), but the chicken and pineapple with those other flavors were so delicious.
3. Herbalife Pumpkin Spice Latte. Um, hello. I ordered some last night (finally, yes I know Wacey) and I can't wait to get it in. Twice this week I stopped by New U Nutrition because I was running late in the morning and too lazy to make my shakes the night before. Kim made me the most delicious shakes and I was SOLD on the special limited edition flavor. Now if it'll just hurry and get here!
   
   
   
   
4. Doing Herbalife with my family. It's so much easier to make & drink shakes twice a day when I'm not the only one in the house doing it. Dad is getting creative and making up recipes. Mom is doing shakes. I'm thankful to my family for making the commitment to getting healthy with me. So THANKS FAMIlY! :) 
5. Red River Ski Area pictures. They have snow and it makes me insanely happy! We're going there in December and I'm counting down! Now, I just need to get new ski pants and find everything else I need for the week, so I'm not actually totally ready, but I just can't wait. And looking at pictures of beautiful snow on that fun mountain just makes me want to leave tomorrow (even though skiing doesn't start for 19 more days. Countdown, much?).
   
   

Have a happy weekend, ya'll! Now go get your sparkle on! :)

Linking up with Whitney @ I Wore Yoga Pants

Slow Cooker Sweet BBQ Meatballs - Easy Recipe!

For Christmas Eve, my Aunt Pam made delicious Sweet BBQ Meatballs. I loved them and set out on a mission to find the recipe (you know, because asking for it was too easy). Thanks to Pinterest I found it and decided it looked so easy I could do it!

The recipe from Food.com called for
1 32oz. bag of frozen meatballs
1 9oz jar of grape jelly
1 18oz bottle of spicy barbecue sauce (I used regular BBQ sauce instead of spicy, because I don't like things to be too spicy, and it worked perfectly.)

Clearly I took a picture of all my ingredients. #not But I found them all at Walmart easily. I could only find a 12oz jar of jelly, so I just didn't use all of it, and I couldn't find a 32 oz. bag of meatballs - I used 26oz. It's okay, they will just be extra saucy. Also, if it's available, use Head Country Bar-B-Q Sauce. It's the best, I promise.

Oh, you'll also need a slow cooker/Crock Pot. I bought a cute one at Walmart yesterday for $20!

Put the BBQ sauce and jelly in the crock pot and mix them up, then dump your meatballs in. Set the slow cooker on high and your timer for two and a half hours. Then grab a toothpick and stick it in a meatball to sample. Savor the taste. Share with everyone around you. Done! :) 

Note: this filled up the slow cooker about 1/3 or so of the way. you can definitely double/triple if you're serving more people, like if you're tailgating or something! Happy eating!