homemade frozen dog treats

recently we adopted miss gracie & as any new dog owner, i wanted to shower her with as much love as i could. i'm italian..so in my family, when you love someone, you feed them. ok? ok.

i love the idea of frozen "pupsicles"- here's a recipe i found and tweaked. the upside to this is that i know exactly what is going into my dog, and if i used all natural peanut butter, it would have been even more simple. the other upside is that gracie LOVES these and i get the cyootest photos which brings me to the one downside: i need a better camera to capture the quickness of the treat loving. 

brain freeze?

see it? 

oh. it's good. 

homemade frozen pupsicles: (makes 3-4 ice cube trays full. you can use paper cups or egg cartons, too!

ingredients:

1.  20 oz. plain yogurt.

1. 1 mashed, ripe banana

1. 2 tbsp. peanut butter (we're a skippy household)

1. 2 tbsp. honey  

directions: 
1.  mix all ingredients with a blender and freeze in icecube trays.

yes, that's it. i swear. you can also play with fruit, mix your yogurt with chicken broth..and you can also sub bananas for a jar of baby food.

and, because i give credit where credit is due, here is the site i found the recipe from: brettwinn.hubpages.com/hub/homemade-frozen-dog-treats

enjoy!

Spring Cleaning!

Yesterday Chad and I had the morning off together. We've been talking about where we want to go, where we want to be, etcetera, etcetera.
We've made the decision to stay in our apartment another year. With any luck, I'll have a full time job and we'll be able to put money away for our (dun dun dun!) house that we'll buy at some point in the near future. So...as embarrassing as it might be to say, we decided to finally do all the finishing touches of unpacking and making our apartment home. I cleaned my closet and unpacked my last two boxes. He cleaned his office. And. Let. Me. Tell. You. It looks GREAT! Next step is to grab a sofa table to put in the living room for my laptop so I can have a little "desk." Then I need a bookshelf. And a spice rack. And...curtains for two rooms.

Yes. Two of our rooms are lacking curtains.

We've had this philosophy that "we're not staying here, so why spend money on the place?" But...our new thought is (and I can safely say "our" because he suggested it!) is that no matter where we go, as long as we're both there...it's home.

And that makes me feel warm and fuzzy. And loved. And...at home.

So we spent our morning drinking coffee, talking about tomorrow's, then getting down to business. Opening windows. Laundry. Dishes. Sweeping. Vacuuming. Sorting.
We've got a lovely pile for goodwill. I'm happy about that. One person's trash is another's treasure.

Happy Monday! What's on your list for Spring Cleaning?