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Welcome back to the Vlog it’s a day later from when I filmed my last video so last video was all about um our new house and announcing that Rudy and I bought a house if you haven’t seen that video please go back and watch it um
This video is just going to be a vlog just going to be what we get up to um today and this weekend today is Thursday we have some fun stuff going on so I thought I’d bring you along maybe dabble in some house content here and there too
Cuz it’s so exciting we plan on going there um a few times just to meet with um an engineer and things like that right now I just did a really small grocery shop and I thought I’d show you what I got this is just from Harris teer
I was really craving some fun drinks so I got some Tazo teas these are actually not too bad ingredient wise Rudy and I love sparkling water some whole milk um from grass-fed cows favorite cottage cheese to snack on um some grass-fed butter pablano pepper and chili pepper
These are for a chili I’m making tonight Persian cucumbers and strawberries something so fun that I’ve been doing lately with strawberries is making homemade whipped cream with just some heavy whipping cream and then I add powed sugar and I just whip that together and then eat it with strawberries and that’s been a
Really good dessert um this is my favorite rice brand it’s kind of on the more expensive side but I really taste a difference hi Mal um this is also for the chili tonight some kidney beans for the chili limes to go with the sparkling cider it’s a magic combo bananas
Potatoes for a different recipe and then an onion um and that’s it but I find it really interesting to see what people buy and what people kind of snack on in normal life not like a day in the life where I’m showing you everything I eat and it’s kind of like
Pre-planned so yeah I’m about to make a chili I think I’m going to slow cook it cuz it’s 1:00 now if you’re new to the channel these are my cats this is Malu and she’s a sweetie pie and then this is our new kitten he is about 5 months old
Just under 5 months old um and his name is Fisher hi fish what is she doing to you anyway they are seriously the cutest kittens and look at them they get along so well it just really warms my heart I thought I’d show you what I’m wearing today this is just a normal
Outfit for me uh but it’s some of my favorite pieces so these are the Levis 50501 um 90s style jeans so they’re like a lower rise and baggier through the leg they are my comfy jeans like if I don’t want to feel restricted at all these are
The jeans I put on on I have them in two different colors but I love the light wash um this shirt I’m wearing I mentioned in a previous video but I also mentioned I have it in like eight different colors so this is one of the
Other ones this is from Gap and it’s their modern crew neck long sleeve t-shirt it’s nice and long um sleeves for all my tall girls out there I’m like 5’7 and2 and then this jacket is kind of edgy for me if you can see it has like a
Bedazzled skull I don’t know how I feel about that but it is so comfortable and it’s from this really nice brand I got this at TJ Maxx but I’ve seen them sell it on the real reel and stuff like that zadic and voler and it is just like the
Most comfy cotton hi guys we are starting on dinner now um I’m going to start by chopping up start by chopping up my onion product I want to shout out is a cutting board this cutting board is seriously the easiest to clean it’s also just the most
Durable cutting board I’ve had this for several years now it’s this brand called epicurian not sure if it’s pronounced that way but epicurian I initially saw it at World Market but have since then bought several on Amazon and I will link these down below but it is seriously so
Good and this is such a big size and I love that because I just like to chop chop chop and then move my stuff over to the side and kind of be able to chop like multiple items on one board and not have to wash so many cutting boards Okay now I’m just adding this lightly cooked onion garlic Pano pepper jalapeno um to my slow cooker and I know this is counterintuitive like the slow cooker could have done this I’m going to use my slow cooker more so as like a warmer I’m just going to put it on the
Absolute lowest temperature just so it keeps warm until dinner here is what it’s looking like I added the beans the crushed tomatoes and one of these little things of chicken broth and then to go with the chili is the make or break ingredient if you are a fellow Southerner
Or maybe a skier then you know that biscuits have to go with chili you have to have biscuits with chili okay chili looks so good and I’m so hungry yes Rudy’s here yep taste test for me babe tell me how much you like it it’s really hot looks
Good I’ve made chili so many times so if it’s a 10 that’s like really saying something that’s really good I refine this is angled I refine my um recipe every time this time it’s a little spicier I added more that’s what I like yeah M no it’s really good hi guys so
It’s a few days later now I am doing some fun house errands today um we actually stopped by the house earlier I didn’t film anything but we are moving forward with refinishing the hardwood floors we weren’t sure if we wanted to refinish the hardwood floors
Just cuz it’s a big cost um but we were lucky enough the wall between the kitchen and the living room um does not need a beam in order to be taken down so it’s not like a structural wall so that’s saving us a lot of money to not
Have to buy that super big beam um so we can refinish the hardwood floors so I am stopping by Lumber Liquidators and Home Depot just to look at some red oak flooring samples I’m pretty sure we’re going to refinish Contin us directions I’m pretty sure we’re going to refinish
To continue on us7 yes thank you pretty sure we’re going to refinish in a custom color um but I’d still like to have some samples to even show uh to our hardwood guy so we’re going to go there now and I’ll take you with me
Okay so that was a bust um I just didn’t see any options I liked they were all very similar tones to the wood FL we have now which is just like kind of orange and we’re trying to get away from that so I’m just going to order some
Samples online and also look on Pinterest and see kind of what concoctions people made to make red oak look more like White Oak but now I’m going to go to Sherwin Williams I have some paint samples from a more like Boutique brand that I’m going to get color
Matched at Sherin Williams and then we’re going to test out those colors at the house the next time we go so at least we can knock out one errand successfully I think so let’s go do that back from the store um the samples look really really good that I picked up from Sheran
Williams That’s Rudy coming home please hold okay so paint samples so we have the paint figured out for majority of the house which is alabaster by Sherin Williams um but for the other rooms where I just want like a slightly different color I was still trying to
Figure that out so I took some paints from like a more Boutique company to Sherin Williams to get them to color match it so that we could just buy all from one store um so I have those samples here I’ll show you so this big square is
Alabaster that’s what’s going in most of our home it’s just a nice creamy white and then these were the samples that I um had made so these were the original colors and then I had them lighten them a bit so this is our cabinet color it’s
Like a greeny brownie gray um and that’s it 25% lighter in case we want to do that I don’t actually know if I want to do that I kind of like this but but we’ll see and then this was Rudy’s office color and maybe our bedroom color
And that’s it 50% lighter cuz it was just way too dark I did test it in the room um and then these are other office/bedroom colors I’m choosing between um if you’re interested accessible beige agreeable gray worldly gray and Repose gray all from Sherwin Williams and then this is a trim color
That we might do like on the fireplace and other areas where I want the trim to pop a little bit more it’s like ever so slightly darker from Alabaster it’s called Nuance um so those are all our paint colors it’s basically just like various shades of beige gray and
White um but it’s so much more complicated than that if you ever go to a paint store it’s like very overwhelming okay also fun to show you are our counter top samples and tile samples these are some countertop samples that I really like these two are
Caesar Stone um if you can see this one has like a little bit of veining going on and it’s a really Light Beige and then this is a matte it’s called honed white color and it has like little tiny Flex in there it’s hard to show up on
Camera but it’s really pretty and then this one has obviously the most variation this is from MSI which Caesar Stone and MSI are two really big Brands um so if you are redoing your kitchen or just interested like that’s pretty accessible and then these are the showstopper of the kitchen
Which are um these zelig clay tiles handcrafted clay tiles and these are both the same color that’s just showing the variation so it’s like kind of light and kind of dark so that’s everything we have picked out for the house right now like I said the flooring really did not
Work out today so we still have to figure that out um side note a very unhealthy snack that I just freaking love are these little Wafers but yeah house stuff is so fun but it’s so much to pick out so if you have any thoughts on anything
I showed you please comment below and help me hi guys welcome back back um or welcome to the next day it’s actually like a few days I think since I filmed my last clip but today is Super Bowl Sunday that doesn’t really mean anything to me except for good food so that’s
What I’m focusing on today um I’m going to make some meatballs and some cornbread in my sow cooker um but this is kind of one of my mom’s staple meals this isn’t her recipe per se but if she’s going to a party it is such a crowd quaser to bring anything in a
Crock pot because it’s warm it’s easy to transport so like the whole making something within a crock poot to bring is definitely inspired by my mom I’m just going to do meatballs cuz I feel like it’s easy it’s fast and the sauce is literally just pre-made and I’m going
To throw it in there at the end um but yeah should be good let’s get cooking You’re So I don’t know when that smudge got there but um so the meatballs are cooking I might make a whole another batch I actually do have enough ground beef cuz I originally bought ground beef to make burgers and it’s raining so we don’t want to use the grill anymore
Which is why I chose meatballs for this recipe um so I have four more burgers that I can like make a whole another bath because this made um 18 meatballs and there’s a lot of people so I might make a whole another batch which is kind
Of a lot of work but in addition to the meatballs I’m going to be making cornbread this is just like a mix but I really like this brand Red Mill they just do good stuff they do a lot of gluten-free stuff which this is gluten-free I’m not gluten-free but they
Also just have pretty good ingred no I take that back this does not have good ingredients as soon as I read it I see like it’s a preservative but whatever um their stack usually tastes good we’ll just leave it at that so in addition to the meatballs I’m make cornbread and
Honestly I think I’m going to do a whole another batch because I do have like two of these barbecue sauces H cooking’s hard you guys you know I am proud of myself because I was not a cook like for so much of my life I was not really raised in a family
Where I love my parents but like they’re not passionate Cooks you know what I mean like my husband’s my husband Rudy his parents his mom in particular is like very passionate about cooking she has so many recipes passed down from like her mom and it’s just really sweet
Like I I love how cooking is not a chore to her cooking is like a pleasure and she really really enjoys feeding her family and I strive to be that way I’d love to be that way um so I’m trying to enjoy cooking you know but I definitely
Try and fail recipes I’ve noticed since I’ve started vlogging that like I show a lot of my cooking and I feel like that could come across as I’m very confident in the kitchen or I feel like I know what I’m doing I wouldn’t say I mean I’ve gotten better over the
Years I have been trying new recipes for like since I moved out but I’m not Confident by any means and I’m still learning and I made cookies the other day and they turned into literal pancakes they still tasted good but just want I like put out there is that I
Think cooking should be fun I’m trying to find a passion for it because I just like strive to be the mom that cooks for her kids and the cooking is so good that when they’re 18 like 19 20 they still want to come home from mom’s cooking you
Know what I mean that’s the kind of mom I want to be so so hopefully this meatball recipe turns out well and I can like save it and slowly build up my recipe cards that like I’ll give to my kids one day M want some dinner beep be not on the counter baby
So yeah cooking the meatballs um and then I have nine more to cook and I might do another 18 meatballs am I doing too much just there’s going to be like so many people there so I feel like I want everyone to be able to try
Meatball if they want one you know what I mean oh oh too I got markers want to say hi to my Vlog Rudy oh did you get that huh camera I think in the background hi I’ve been vlogging the meatball process I haven’t done my hair yet
Should I only get the back of your head yeah meatballs are going well oh that’s burnt at that smell good it’s all going to be covered in sauce somewh hey bro he’s like if you don’t feed me I’m just going to start eating you like bit the back of my legs oh my
Gosh he still has some learning to do he’s a work in progress Kitty it’s okay bud it’s okay I’m in the process of getting the food my guy okay Mees are almost done I’m not making a second batch we don’t have time for that um cornbread in the oven do you have any more meat think I’m going to go
Get changed we have more meat but I just it’s taking so long it’s like okay step by step thing so I made 18 meatballs but they’re all really big [Applause] so yeah if we book our tickets cornbread looks good meatballs might not look good but they
Do look good to me they look good in person you know okay yeah we’ll let you know and I think I’m going to add some salt water H cornbread bada bing bada boom how you know where from North Carolina I know I was just telling Tim actually
That you know you’re in North Carolina when the barbecue sauce section 3 more in the grocery store is like bigger than any other sauce section the barbecue sauce section at the grocery store what grocery store any grocery store there’s like 50 barbecue sauces to choose from I was seriously overwhelmed but Tim was
Like he saw the barbecue sauce he was like that’s my favorite one yeah I happen to choose his favorite one of like all the 50 sauces Y no different one it’s in the pantry anyway sauce I’m just wearing like a really Cas outfit okay we’re going to
Go don’t judge me I’m filming my life