Oh you guys! I have been meaning to share this recipe with you all for weeks now, and I am finally getting around to it! I would have to say that chocolate chip cookies are my favorite, and these are a good spin on a classic.

I found the original recipe over on A Beautiful Mess (those girls are just amazing, but you probably already knew that, because we all read their blog right? Right??), and with my dietary restrictions, I knew these were just up my alley.

I did, however, make a few adjustments to make them more to my taste, and to cut back on the sugar, and they turned out so good! The batter almost tastes like nutella, and everybody knows that it doesn't get much better than that.


FLOURLESS CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES: makes 20-22

1/2 c. almond butter
1/2 c. hazelnut butter
1/4 c. Splenda brown sugar blend (or your own blend/mix)
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 c. sugar free chocolate chips
Sea salt to sprinkle on top (optional)

Mix all together in a medium bowl, and drop spoonfuls onto your baking sheet. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes, and voila! You will have a delicious, gooey treat that goes perfectly with a glass of milk.

You just may want to wait a few minutes to let them cool though, you know, so you don't scorch all of your taste buds off ;) you will definitely want your tongue to be at full tasting capacity!


I like to buy my almond butter in bulk at Winco, so it saves me some money, and I also make my own hazelnut butter using a food processor. It's so simple, you just throw them in and grind until it's a nut butter consistency! The hazelnut butter mixed with the chocolate chips is what gives it that really good nutella-like flavor.

If you don't want to go the sugar substitute route, or you want to try different nut butters, check out the original recipe here. Trust me, even if you are an avid, bread-loving, carb-eater, you will not miss the flour in these cookies!

I hope you'll try these out, and that you enjoy them as much as I do (seriously, I can't stop making them!). Thanks for stopping by, and have a great weekend!

It's my birthday! Today I am officially half way through my twenties, and that feels super weird!

I know that some people stop getting excited about their birthdays as they get older, but that isn't the case yet for me. Maybe it's just the narcissist in me, but I LOVE my birthday, and I usually end up celebrating birth-week instead ;)

I'm thinking this year about coming up with some sort of 26 before 26 list, and if I do, I will definitely share. It might be a good way to knock some goals off of my list!

I had planned on being done with my new blog and card designs by now, and doing something big for you all in celebration and thanks, but life gets busy and I'm not quite prepared. But I will say that I have something in store, and I can't wait to share it all with you!

For now though, I am off to go celebrate with my friends and family. My mom is treating me to a birthday brunch (she knows how much I love brunch!) and tonight my parents are taking the whole family out to the rodeo. It's going to be a good day, and hopefully a good year as well!

Thanks for stopping by :)

This has been one of those weeks that simultaneously seems to be flying by, but also going really slowly. I know that doesn't make much sense, but I can't be the only one who has those weeks, right?

My husband's brother and his wife (my most FAVORITE sis-in-law in the whole world, in case you're reading this Emily ;) ) are in town, and we've seen them several times in the last couple weeks. On Monday I got to take my sisters and meet them at the water park for the day, which was a lot of fun! Again though, I am the worst blogger and I took no pictures...

This weekend we have even more family coming into town for the 4th of July, so it will be a busy one to say the least. My family has an annual reunion/potluck that I always look forward to, even if the weather is supposed to be blazing hot!

I've still been working on my branding and new logo lately, and I wrapped up a baby shower invite this week too! More to come on that later :)

One thing I plan on doing a lot more of is water color, so I've been playing around with that, and also "brushing up" on my brush lettering! Haha, see what I did there? I know, I know, I'm a riot ;)




On another note, can we all just agree that Rifle Paper Co. is just the best ever? They paired up with Tattly to come out with these adorable temporary tattoos that I am in love with!


I had to go ahead and order myself some of the ones pictured! I would love a real tattoo, but I probably won't ever get one. These should satisfy any tattoo fever I'll ever get!

On another, also unrelated, but awesome note, Dane got his diploma in the mail today! He's now completely and officially a BAS grad! And I couldn't be more proud of him :)

That is what's going on around here lately. Do you have any fun plans for this holiday weekend? Let me know below! And thanks for stopping by!

I wish I could be popping in with another update post on the house this week, but...there hasn't been a ton of progress made.

Actually, I am almost finished painting Dane's office that I shared in the previous post, but painting drives me crazy! When I think I should be done, I end up with lots of little touch ups to do, and that is where I am now. I am not very good at cutting in!

I'm also super slow. Almost everything I do takes me forever, and I already want this house to be done! So I either need to get over this funk, and/or (even better) start moving faster. It's hard to be living where you are working though, so furniture and other things have to be shuffled around any time I start working on another space. So Dane's office will be wrapped up this week, all of his stuff (which currently resides in my office) will be moved in. It's a process!

So while our house feels like a disaster, and it feels like we are the total white trash house on the street (!), I needed a pick me up. I decided to share some pictures of a few of the pretty plants I have in my garden!

I don't know the names of any of the shrubs or plants, but I do know that I have a birch tree! Which is one of my absolute favorite trees (basic white girls, holla!). There are a lot of things I will be tearing out and our whole backyard has to be sterilized and re-planted (morning glory!), but these guys here are keepers.

As I said before, I don't know what any of these are, so if you know any of the names, feel free to let me know! Hopefully next week I will have a little more in the way of progress to share, and maybe some updates on the shop as well!

Thanks for stopping by!