Probably the simplest way to wear a hair bow!

I recently dyed my hair brown (back to my natural color because the Texas water was making my bleached hair look like a damaged disaster!) and I could not stand it so I decided I needed to "cute" it up. So I started looking EVERYWHERE for those cute little bows for girls hair and I couldn't find anything that was small enough that I liked so I went to Hobby Lobby and found some little bows that I could manage (you'll see one in the pictures!) I was trying to figure out how I could put them in my hair without being a hassle and ta-da the idea was hatched!

Step 1: Get a bobby pin and your bow

Step 2: Slide bow onto bobby pin

Step 3: Put bobby pin in hair wherever you'd like your "hair flair"

Yay! Easy peasy!

*The Hobby Lobby bows were about 75 cents I want to say and who doesn't have a million and one bobby pins laying around their house, in the couch, car, purse etc.

<3 The Air Force Wife

What bugs me about some Food Network shows

Ok so I watch a lot of Food Network. (because I always tell myself that I'll make the things that they make, yeah that never happens lol) But anyways, I was watching and I'm sitting here thinking what happens to that leftover food. For example if the chef on the tv show uses an onion they usually use like half an onion, where does the rest go? Because if you think about it they use an new onion EVERYTIME. I seriously hope they like take the unused ingredients home with them or give them to someone or something!

Number two, they ALWAYS stress don't cross contaminate but everyone does! You know the salt bowls? Yea they season their fish, chicken, pork blah blah blah whatever but usually they take the salt and season one side then TOUCH the meat and then stick their hand BACK in the salt! Um that's contaminating your whole salt dish! (and pepper sometimes!) Yes it cooks out but there are things that you season that you don't cook! The only thing I can think of right this very second is vinaigrette for salads. But I know there are other things!

And number 3, they're making these dishes on their shows for "show" but usually the staff eats them. And they sometimes stick a spoon they're mixing with in their mouth and then stick it back in the bowl! (this is usually Anne Burell) and she says all cooks do it all the time! She works in a restaurant. I mean I'm kind of afraid to go to a fancy restaurant and eat if everyone is tasting my food before I do! Yuck!

Ok I sound OCD but ahh I can't get over it lol and some of you will say "then don't watch" but I do like to watch and will continue there was just a few things I found weird!

Thanks for reading my rant! Have a nice day! And sorry it's been so long! We adopted this little cutie! And she's been quite the handful!

<3 The Air Force Wife

Dinner Tonight- Crockpot Buffalo Chicken

http://pinterest.com/pin/190840102929590897/

So I made the potato chips that I previously posted and the recipe from Pinterest there. Yum! The only thing I did differently with this was add Red Pepper Flakes cuz I like the kick! (Oh and I added the whole Ranch Packet because I didn't read the directions on that part. But I like Ranch so its ok!) 

<3 The Air Force Wife

Potatoes = My weakness

Wheeee font color fun! Ok anyways, I love potatoes. Oven roasted, mashed, chips, twice baked, skins, just give me them! So tonight I give you home made potato chips! 


Step 1- Carefully use mandolin (don't slice off your fingers that would suck) and slice your potatoes into thin slices if you don't have a mandolin and are more talented than I am about cutting thin potato slices then just use a knife, be careful with that too!


Step 2- Heat your oil. I used Vegetable Oil, well because that's all I can really get in those mondo giant bottles.


Step 3- Put potato slices in the oil until they turn golden brown. Remove from pan and put onto a plate with a paper towel or two on top (to hopefully get some of the grease)


Step 4- Season the heck out of them! I used Season All because its exceptionally tasty.


Step 5- Try not to eat all of them in two seconds! :)

<3 The Air Force Wife

Ugh Armpit Stains! Gross!

I don't know what it is about white t-shirts that I find so comforting. I have had probably at least 20 of them in the last like 5 years or so? (that number seems low) Anyways, I always throw them away because of those nasty armpit stains. I have learned to find out that they are not because of sweat but because of the reaction of your sweat and your deodorant. And you try to get rid of them but no way! Bleach doesn't work (really?! bleach?!) and your common fabric stain remover (shout for example) doesn't even come close. 


So I discovered this "miracle solution" on Pinterest and of course was skeptical but I decided to try it. I'm sure if you have Pinterest you've seen this on there as well. Here's the Pin from my Pinterest 


http://pinterest.com/pin/190840102929519817/


Anyways, in the blog this lady she posted how she added baking soda and used a scrub brush. So naturally I did the same thing. I first tried it on my Husband's Harley t-shirt that he had to wear for riding his Harley around base (it's long sleeved) but man did he wear the CRAP out of that shirt. Thing got gross fast he also wore it to work on the construction on base that I previously talked about. (We live in Texas sweating all day working on a bar, ew!) Ok I'm ranting but it worked! So I was like ok if it worked on that I'm definitely doing it to my beloved white t-shirts. Here's the results from my "experiment" 


1. Here's a picture of the stain on one of my t-shirts (inside out to scrub! p.s. I know that this doesn't really look too yellow but if you look at your own I'm sure you'll know what I mean)

2. The products that I used

3. A picture of what the solution looked like and the brush that I used

4. What the shirt looked like after a normal run through the wash

Viola! No more throwing away my white t-shirts! 

Helpful hint! After I scrubbed the shirt and I could tell that the stain had been lifted, I rinsed my shirts off with warm water. (In the blog I pinned she had let her shirts sit for an hour and they were fine without being rinsed.) 

<3 The Air Force Wife

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Last Post For Today- Soft Pretzel Bites

Yum! These are so good! We dipped them in just cream cheese. Yea I thought it sounded weird too but it really is delicious!

http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/homemade-soft-pretzel-bites/

Okay here's a few tips after making these today:

1- The dough really needs to be by a source of warmth to make it proof. It took me double the amount of time because I just set it in my kitchen and that did not work at all. Who would of thought?
2- After you boil the bites and your going to put them on the cookie sheet DON'T PANIC they are going to come out a little slimy but its ok! (Yes I had a mini panic attack eek!) Bake them as directed!

3- I used just a pinch of regular table salt on top seeing as I don't own coarse salt and I made these on a whim (as usual!) and they still turned out tasty! 

<3 The Air Force Wife

Edamame!

My taste for food has really changed over the years. When I was in high school I would have NEVER touched the stuff (vegetables are gross!) But I started eating Sushi (fish is gross!) < See where I'm going here! Haha! Anyways, this past month when I was visiting my family back in Colorado and my mom and I went on a sushi date! Yay so fun! Anyways we ordered their "Spicy Garlic Edamame" and we were HOOKED! It was amazing. Well I had to go and tell Anthony about it and immediately he says to me, "You should find some edamame and make that!" I couldn't resist. So I found this recipe and here is my review.


http://www.mygarlicloveaffair.com/2010/04/spicy-garlic-edamame.html?m=0

YUM! I made it while my husband was gone and had to force myself to stop eating it! It was so good! There is only one thing I would change about this, when you look at the picture posted there is no liquid. But when I made it (using the exact amounts listed for the sauce it came out wayyyy liquidy for me. So the only thing I would change next time would be less soy sauce and less oyster sauce. I also used Frank's Red Hot sauce instead of sriracha that was listed in the recipe. Cuz really I'm just a sucker for Frank's :)


<3 The Air Force Wife

The beginning of a legacy!

Alright here we go.
Well I've started an adventure here haven't I? I don't even know where to begin. 
How about an update of the past 6 months. 


August- I still was living in Colorado without Anthony. He had to report to base on August 1st. Not much happened this month. A lot of texts back and forth about "I miss you" (we're oh so sappy!)


September- Anthony found out we got the keys to our house on base on September 14th. Well this posed a problem. A family member was having intensive surgery that day. So my parents and I made the decision to pack up the U-haul and drive down to our (Anthony and I's) current home over Labor Day weekend and put everything in a storage unit and I stayed to visit my husband for a week before I also traveled back to Colorado for my family member's surgery. Leaving poor Anthony and one of his friends to move all of the boxes into our home on the 14th without my help at all. Poor guys! I moved in to our house 2 days after my 22nd Birthday. I think that that was my best birthday present ever. 
(The surgery went well!)


October- I think we had almost completely settled down by this point. And I think this was probably around the same time that I started feeling very "cabin feverish" about living in the town we do. After growing up in a state where everything was so close and there was always somewhere to go and something to see it was a big culture shock living here. The middle of nowhere! Literally! We had a few friends over for Halloween and I passed out so much candy I had to only give out like 2 pieces per kid. I was sad for them :(


November- We had our first visitors this month! Anthony's best friend and his girlfriend came down. It was a short visit but it was so nice to have some familiar faces around! And of course my Mom and Dad came down for Thanksgiving. It was so nice having my parents in town. We had a wonderful meal and of course watched lots of sports! (Go mom for cleaning my kitchen after our meal!)


December- Anthony had been working on the "construction team" and was just getting to the end of his project of constructing a new bar for a restaurant on base and he was so happy! Plus we were going to visit his family for Christmas and he couldn't wait to see his parents and brother again! He got me Grinch Converse (Because its my favorite movie of course!) and I got him some tools and Military history books because he digs that! It was a great first Christmas together!


January- After a short couple weeks at home we were off to Colorado because he had a month long training there. So I got to see my family for a month (which was awesome because I am such a baby!) Anthony completed his training in February...


February- Anthony completes training! Soloed and airplane for the first time ever! Go him! We've made it home and now he is waiting to begin the next stage of his Pilot training to begin in March. So proud of him!


It's going to be a long journey here but I know that I've got my friends and family to help me through everything! I've been going a little stir crazy but I'm going to try and keep myself more busy!


<3 The Air Force Wife