Pinned it and tried it {avocado salads}

Another reason I love summer is because I can always find ripe avocados.  I'm always pinning recipes that involve avocado and this weekend I had the chance to try out two different avocado salads.  They were both amazingly easy, light and fresh.  Check out these tasty recipes

Avocado, tomato, mozzarella salad found here

Quinoa, avocado, blt salad found here

* I added grilled corn to this recipe for some extra crunch!

A few of my favorite {summertime} things

Today is the official first day of Summer. But here in the South, it has felt like Summer since mid March.  I love Summer; warm weather, longer days, sleepy boys worn out from playing in the pool.  Its the best!  Happy heat!

Fridge Style

If you could design your dream kitchen and put any type of refrigerator in it, what would you pick?  The most popular refrigerator in America is this stainless side by side model shown below.  No question, its attractive and gets the job done.

But what if you had no budget?  How would you deck out your kitchen?  I think stainless for sure.  It's so sleek and it looks good with everything, but what about all the other options?  Is there a fridge that can really keep a running grocery list for me?  Here are some options to get the wheels turning.

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Check out this Italian design

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How about something completely custom?

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I think I have a thing for glass door refrigerators.  It would force me to keep my fridge organized and everyone would be able to see my super stylish Fridge Coasters (shameless plug, sorry :)

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This fridge might be smarter than me.  It looks intimidating.

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This is what I'm talking about.  This might be enough room for all the food my growing boys are consuming.

Would love to hear your thoughts on your dream fridge. 

Getting back on track {kitchens}

Oh ya, remember that weekly post I used to do entitled "kitchen of the week"?  Lets get back to that because I LOVE looking at kitchen design, I hope you do too.

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no time for words.....

Just "pins".  Here are all the images that made me smile this week.  Happy weekend, so glad its finally here!!

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