Olympics So Far...

{My Thoughts on the Opening Ceremony}

Am I the only one who had tears glistening throughout various parts of the Opening Ceremony?!?
So amazing!!
So unique and quintessential Great Britain!
I love the torch!! And how it was lit!
Favorite Parts had to be JK Rowling & Paul McCartiney with Hey Jude
(the song John sings to me all the time!)
I love when the world comes together for these games!

{Various thoughts about random aspects of the games so far} 

Did y'all see Michelle Obama give the USA Mens Basketball team hugs after they beat France?
Talk about some sweaty hugs. (I love it when I have a thought or say something
when watching TV, then the announcers say the exact same thing after!)

Zimbio

Lots of people are bummed that Michael Phelps isn't doing as well in these Olympic Games.
I honestly think it's kind of awesome that his unfortunate lack of gold metals allows us to see some other awesome athletes... like Ryan Lochte!


... Notice how I said "various" thoughts like I had many... well the issue is I do have thoughts, but then I can't remember what they were. I've always wondered what I would talk about on Twitter if I actually used my account... now I know.
Follow me! @RebekahLewis

Dream Cake

This post isn't nearly as random as it seems...

Brooke over at The Little Delights in Life is having a contest.

We submit our pictures of our dream cake, she will select 3 of all the entries to create a tutorial for

then the readers will select which of those three she should blog about!

(how awesome is that to be so talented at your craft to be able to say "give me a task... I can do it and teach you too!" ?!?)

I'm putting my picture here and linking to it because the picture of the cake I would like her to do a tutorial on is on The Knot. 

(when you link to the knot all you see is their main page images... pretty useless for this purpose)

This is the beautiful cake I would love to see Brooke do! 

Link

I found it when I was searching for the perfect wedding cake.

I choose to go with a different design, but when I think romantic and food in the same thought...

...this cake comes to mind!

My 5 Little Delights this Week

I'm linking up to The Little Delights in Life for this weeks post of My 5 Little Delights this Week!

 

1. I am LOVING my new couch! 

Hey it was free (a post about how I got my fabulous free couch soon) and it actually matches (ish) our existing couch!

2. Our living room is almost cleaned out!! It will be finished this weekend!

Yes you heard me, only things that belong to the Hubbs and I remain! 

We finished ripping out the carpet in the office, living room will be finished today so now all there is left to do is pick a color and paint those ugly white walls!!

3. We got a gym membership!!

I have finally accepted that it is going to take establishing an actual routine to get the weight

of a small child off my body. Diet is going great...but I'm just not seeing the results quickly enough for my satisfaction.

4.I am going to bake this weekend! I haven't gotten a chance to recently and since we're having guests over Saturday I will get a chance to use the oven again!

5. The Olympics begin tomorrow!! So unbelievably excited!!

"It's Okay" Thursdays

       It's amazing how much fun I seem to miss out in the blogging world!!  Bestie linked up to "It's Okay Thursday", I thought 'oh, how cool!'... then looked at the rest of the posts from blogs I follow on Blog Lovin' and realized that apparently half the world does it too...

... so like they're all jumping off a bridge... here I go too!

 

It's Okay...

To have guests coming over on Saturday and have no idea what you're going to serve them...

To refuse to eat lunch for going on 3 days now because nothing sounds good...

To have filled your DVR with Olympic events because you're soo excited that it starts tomorrow!

To spend wayy too much time reading blogs each day

To eat the cookies that you bought from the cute little girl wanting to go to summer camp and not count the calories.

To be excited about such a cool link-up!

Blog Lovin'

       Do you use Blog lovin'?  My bestie, Lauren posted a week-ish ago about Blog Lovin' and I honestly had no idea what it was! Then I stumbled across several other bloggers talking about it and I decided I had to check it out! 

       Turns out it is pretty cool! You should check it out and follow me there too! : )

Olympics!!

 

The Olympic games have been a summer (or winter as the case may be) pass-time for my family for as long as I can remember! 

The first games I remember were the 1996 Olympic games hosted in Georgia.  My parents exposed us to all the coverage about the games (not so much about the terrorist attack).  I still have trading pins from the games!

I stayed up in the middle of the night to watch Live events in the Bejing Olympics (2008)
(it helped that I was a nanny so my day job requirements were limited)

Attending a Summer Olympic Games is on my bucket list! John thinks it would be great to work for the IOC... I'm not so convinced, but how cool would it have been to live in London for four years leading up to the events (London because I can speak English!)?!?

I'm anticipating that this will be the best Olympics in many years!

I'm excited that they're in England!
I've had English fever for a while and can't get enough gossip about Princess Kate and her handsome Prince. I'm sure that there will be various sitings of the royals throughout the games.

This will probably be the only year I take an interest in Field Hockey... apparently it's Kate's sport of preference.

Photo Courtesy of NBC Olympic Coverage

What are you looking forward to the most about this years Summer Olympics?

Will you be watching the Opening Ceremony? (Friday evening on NBC)

Balsamic Vinegar Saucy Chicken

       I am so excited to share this recipe!  John actually said it was the best thing that I have made!  I don't quite agree with him, I have some recipes I prefer more so than this one; but it really was good!!

       I don't exactly know where this recipe came from, if it's yours - let me know! I got it from a co-worker, Stephanie. It's amazing how much we discuss food, swap recipes and talk about upcoming meals, restaurants and desserts at work. It probably has something to do with the fact that everyone in the office is always dieting! 

This is what it looked like all put together before it was cooked.

       I would say that the angel hair pasta is a must. We used whole-wheat linguine because it was what I had around... the texture left something to be desired (not because of the whole wheat, just the size of the noodles). John isn't the only one that gave this recipe a thumbs up by the way... if you haven't already, check out my disastrous Monday that gave my entire office the opportunity to smell this delicious dish cooking!


       On another note, my dear friend Lianne has just announced her engagement to her darling fiance Josh!  I couldn't be happier for them! They are a cute couple and are a great example of a real relationship, one that takes work and mutual respect! They are high school sweethearts and have had to grow, and grow up together and fight the ever evolving relationship challenges that come with age differences, family life, distance . I'm so proud!